Andrea Ferrero (Peru) is a visual artist whose practice explores how architectures of power shape the way we imagine and move through the world. With glimpses of mockery, irony, and mischief, she translates her fantasies into immersive installations, play infrastructures and edible banquets – weaving political history with myth, prophecy and personal memory, and combining techniques that range from aluminium casting to ironwork and chocolate making.
Extending earlier investigations into fortresses, architectures of security, and imperial gardens, Andrea will focus her research on gardens as sites of imperial storytelling. Through these sites, she will examine how access is regulated, bodies are choreographed, and authority is performed through theatricality and ornament. During the residency, Andrea also hopes to explore dollhouses, Polly Pocket worlds, and other miniature architectures of play as softened versions of defence structures. These contained environments are designed to be held and governed, where systems of guardianship, surveillance, hierarchy, and exclusion are first encountered and rehearsed at a domestic scale.
Andrea holds a BFA in Sculpture from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Lima 2009- 2015) and was a participant in the SOMA Academic Programme (Mexico City 2019-2021). Her solo exhibitions include “Nunca Supe Si Estaba Sognando” at Chez Plinio (Milan, 2025), “A veces duermo con los ojos abiertos” at PALMA Galería (Guadalajara, 2025), “All My Life I’ve Been Afraid Of Power” at Swivel Gallery (New York, 2023) and Gallery Shilla (Seoul, 2023), and “Mil maneras de olvidar” at Ginsberg Galería (Lima, 2017). Her work has been showcased in group exhibitions, including Otrxs Mundxs at Museo Tamayo (Mexico City, 2024), the Malta Biennale(Valletta, 2024), the Taoyuan Art Prize (Taiwan, 2023), and an activation at Urs Fischer’s: Lovers at Museo Jumex (Mexico City, 2022). Andrea has taken part in artist residencies such as Pivô arte e pesquisa (São Paulo, 2023), HANGAR Centro de Investigação Artística (Lisbon, 2023), Fountainhead Arts (Miami, 2023), MASS MoCA (Massachusetts, 2024), Home Not Alone (Pro Helvetia, 2020), and FLORA ars+natura (Bogotá, 2018).
Among Andrea’s upcoming projects for 2026 are solo exhibitions “You can’t stop the world from being bad” at Galería GATO in Lima and “No wolf can scare me” at FRENCH PLACE in Milan, as well as participation in “Attitude Era” at Kunstraum Niederoesterreich in Vienna and Una Boccata d’Arte, organised by the Fondazione Elpis in Piedmont, Italy.
Andrea was born in Lima, Peru, and is currently based between Lima and Mexico City.
With support from:
Artus Peru
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