Ateliers
Artistic Residency Program in Bogotá
Mortero Studio
Maite Ibarreche
Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, Installation, Muralism, Video Art, Sound Art, Photography, Music
The work in this studio is experimental in nature. We have experience in various techniques for constructing and intervening with objects, though we’re also interested in experimental printmaking and other forms of expression. We don’t follow a defined craft or discipline.
We offer residents our strong connection to the neighborhood and a particular sensitivity to the urban space—elements that guide many of our creative processes. Likewise, we are open to hosting small- and medium-scale construction projects, as well as those that don’t involve building anything at all and instead revolve around ideas and immaterial explorations.
Facilities
The Mortero workshop shares its floor with other workspaces and cultural project exhibition areas in the Apartamento 26-21 space. It occupies the patio and service quarters of a 1960s apartment in the Siete de Agosto neighborhood - now known for housing various automotive workshops and auto parts stores.
The workshop is an experimental space that draws inspiration from the neighborhood's dynamics, where we're interested in reconfiguring preexisting elements to challenge ourselves to think of new possibilities. We often go out walking, observing objects, and taking photos.
Here we work with bricolage and assemblage, mold-making, and experimentation with disciplines beyond visual arts. The space has a laundry area, tiled floors suitable for painting and spray work with heavy materials, plus a clean-room area with drawing table. There's a small bathroom with good ventilation and lighting.
Schedule
Any day, from 9 a.m. to midnight.
Artists in the space
Maite Ibarreche is a visual artist, writer, and educator. She approaches artistic practice as a constellatory research method, focusing on processes and working across various mediums and formats—from writing, collage, and graphic experimentation to installation. She often combines her personal creative exercises with collaborative processes. Through an intuitive dialogue with materials, she seeks to unveil multiple layers of meaning within given contexts or elements, finding wonder in the everyday. She has been involved in self-managed spaces promoting local art, works as a project coordinator and educator, and her work has been exhibited in national and international shows.
Camilo Martínez is a visual artist. He works with an almost obsessive love for Bogotá’s vernacular architecture and everything surrounding it, revealing how people, actions, forms, and local slang compose an incredibly rich space for creative processes. He is also drawn to dioramas, scale models, digital illustration, 3D modeling, photography, and tattooing. Additionally, he has a deep interest in observing and intervening in public space. He explores three-dimensional objects through techniques like bricolage and mold-making, while also experimenting with editorial pieces such as short stories, photo books, and poetry collections.