Ana Navas

Ana Navas was born in Quito, Ecuador in 1984 and grew up in Caracas, Venezuela. She studied Fine Arts at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe, where she continued as a Meisterschülerin (MA) with Franz Ackermann from 2010 to 2011. She was an artist in residency at De Ateliers Amsterdam (2012 - 2014), Goethe Institut Salvador de Bahía (2016), Escuela FLORA ars + natura Bogotá (2018), Fondation Fiminco Romainville (2020), among others. Her work has been awarded with the Illy SustainArt Award ARCOmadrid (2022), NN Art Award Art Rotterdam (2020), Kalinowski-Preis Stiftung Kunstfonds (2018) and has been widely exhibited in Latin America and Europe.

Navas thinks of her practice as the act of tracing an object’s genealogical tree, looking for its ancestors and its following influences. Her work questions how art can be perceived outside its own context, searching for overlaps and transformations between disciplines such as design, ‘high’ and ‘popular’ culture, and artisanal knowledge.

Ana Navas nació en Quito, Ecuador en 1984 y creció en Caracas, Venezuela. Estudió Bellas Artes en la Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste de Karlsruhe, donde continuó como Meisterschülerin (MA) con Franz Ackermann de 2010 a 2011. Ha sido artista en residencia de los programas De Ateliers Ámsterdam (2012 - 2014), Goethe Institut Salvador de Bahía (2016), Escuela FLORA ars + natura Bogotá (2018), Fondation Fiminco Romainville (2020), entre otros. Su obra ha sido galardonada con el premio Illy SustainArt Award ARCOmadrid (2022), NN Art Award Art Rotterdam (2020), Kalinowski-Preis Stiftung Kunstfonds (2018) y ampliamente expuesta en Latinoamérica y Europa.

Navas piensa en su práctica como el acto de rastrear el árbol genealógico de un objeto, buscando sus ancestros e influencias posteriores. Su trabajo cuestiona cómo el arte puede ser percibido fuera de su propio contexto, buscando superposiciones entre disciplinas como el diseño, la ‘alta’ cultura y la ‘popular’ y el conocimiento artesanal.

Events and Residencies

Friday / January 13, 2023 at 7:00 pm

EMPAC Spring 2023

Ana Navas and Mirtru Escalona-Mijares
January 7–14, 2023

EMPAC 2019–23

Residency, Commission
Ana Navas and Mirtru Escalona-Mijares
February 22–26, 2022

EMPAC 2019–23

Residency, Commission
Ana Navas and Mirtru Escalona-Mijares
Friday / November 20, 2020 at 12:30 pm

EMPAC Fall 2020

Ana Navas in conversation with Vic Brooks
March 16–20, 2020

EMPAC 2019–23

Residency, Commission
Ana Navas
August 12–16, 2019

EMPAC 2019–23

Residency, Commission
Ana Navas