• Museo del Riachuelo. Founded by Julieta García Vázquez and Javier Villa, Buenos Aires, 2021

    Museo del Riachuelo. Founded by Julieta García Vázquez and Javier Villa, Buenos Aires, 2021.

  • Installation view. Mónica Giron - Zonas Reflejas. Co-curated by Javier Villa and Santiago Villanueva. Barro, Buenos Aires, 2018. Photo Santiago Orti

    Installation view. Mónica Giron: Zonas Reflejas. Co-curated by Javier Villa and Santiago Villanueva. Barro, Buenos Aires, 2018. Photo Santiago Orti.

  • Instalation view. Diego Bianchi - El presente está encantador

    Instalation view. Diego Bianchi - El presente está encantador. Solo show of the artist using works of the museum’s collection. Curated by Javier Villa. Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, 2017. Photo Bruno Dubner

  • Installation view. Bola de lodo. Group show curated by Rosa Chancho collective. Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires, 2007

    Installation view. Bola de lodo. Group show curated by Rosa Chancho collective. Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires, 2007.

  • Calixto Mamani’s work, at Una historia de la imaginación en la Argentina

    Calixto Mamani’s work, at Una historia de la imaginación en la Argentina. Visiones de la pampa, el litoral y el altiplano desde el siglo XIX a la actualidad, group show curated by Javier Villa. Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, 2019. Photo Guido Limardo.

  • The Society of Secret Images. Headquarters of a secret society founded by Julieta García Vázquez and Javier Villa. Lyon Biennale, 2019

    The Society of Secret Images. Headquarters of a secret society founded by Julieta García Vázquez and Javier Villa. Lyon Biennale, 2019.

Javier Villa (Argentina) is a curator and artist whose practice focuses on the rewriting of past and present colonial histories in Latin America, by exploring the relationships between local imaginaries, politics, and territory. Experimenting with the mutability of artistic matter as a vehicle to travel through time, he creates social fictions based on image collections and archives.

During his residency at the Delfina Foundation, Javier will search for possible relations between Latin American spiritual traditions and western magic such as the image production done through mediums and channeling activities in London, from Aleister Crowley to the contemporary context.

Javier has a degree in Art History and participated in the de Appel Curatorial Programme in Amsterdam (2010/2011). Currently, he is Senior Curator at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, where he curated exhibitions such as A Tale of Two Worlds: Experimental Latin American Art in Dialogue with the MMK Collection 1940s–1980s (2017-18); A History of the Imagination in Argentina (2019); Alberto Greco: How Great You Are! (2021); and Monica Giron: Querandí Connections (2022).

Javier is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In partnership with

Anglo-Argentine Society

With the support from

Embassy of Argentina

RESIDENCY SEASON

Summer 2022

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