Time: Monday November 6, 19.00hrs
Location: Karel Doormanhof 45, Rotterdam
Admission: Free

Master Fine Art presents Irene Kopelman (born 1974), an artist who holds a Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki/MaHKU, Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design, Utrecht. Originally from Argentina, Kopelman moved to the Netherlands in 2002 to participate in a residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. Recent exhibitions and projects include: ‘On Glaciers and Avalanches’, CRAC Alsace,France, 2017; ‘Campamento de Dibujo’ located at National Park Quebrada del Condorito, Córdoba, AR,2017; ‘ ‘Underwater workstation’, Diablo Rosso, Panama, 2016; ‘On Glaciers and Avalanches’, Labor Gallery, 2015; ‘Frisos’, FLORA ars+natura, Colombia, 2015; SITE Santa Fe international Biennale, 2014;‘ Vertical Landscape’ , 8th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, 2014; LARA ((Latin American Roaming Art), MAC, Peru, 2014; ‘Chiral Garden’, La Verriere Fondation D’Entrerprise Hermes, Brussels,BR;‘Entanglement’, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen , Sankt Gallen, 2013; ‘The Exact Opposite of Distance’, Motive Gallery, Brussels 2013;The Challenger’s Report, Gasworks, London, 2012;The Molyneux Problem, BAK, Utrecht, 2011; Essays on Geopoetics, 8th Mercosur Biennal, Porto Alegre, 2011; 50 Metres Distance or More, Labor Gallery, Mexico City, 2011; El Vuelo de Levy, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, 2010 and Montehermoso Art Centre, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 2009; The Malady of Writing, MACBA, Barcelona, 2009; Planet of Signs, Le Plateau, Paris, 2009; and Levity, The Drawing Center, New York, 2007.

Her practice entails collaboration with several research institutions:
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), Panama, (2012/2016 ); Manu Learning Centre, Peru (2012), Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden (The Kinabalu / Crocker Range Expedition 2012 and ‘Chiral Garden’, La Verriere Fondation D’Entrerprise Hermes, Brussels, BR, 2013); Museum Boerhaave 2012 ; World Glacier Monitoring Service, University of Zurich (2013/2014); WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, SLF, Davos (2013/2014).

In addition, Kopelman has published a number artist books including Three interventions in a space (2003) and Notes on Representation, volumes I (2006), II, III and IV (2011), V (2013), VI (2014),VII (2015).

Kopelman lives and works in Amsterdam.