Ingrid Wildi Merino
In residence: March - July 2022
Ingrid Wildi Merino (b. Santiago de Chile 1963) lives and works in Santiago de Chile. Having migrated to Switzerland in 1981 she studied at the University of Fine Arts in Zurich (Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Zurich) and received her postgraduate in Visual Arts at the University of Geneva, (Haute Ecole d’Art et Design Genève). Since 2005 she has been professor at the University of Art and Design Geneva (Haute Ecole d’Art et Design Genève), and since 2011 is professor of Master of Visual Arts at the same University. From 2007 to 2009 Wildi Merino was tutor of video, film and new media at the Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart. Also since 2009 she has been professor in Prácticas escénicas y cultura visual at the University of Alcalá de Henares in collaboration with the Centro de Estudios del Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía de Madrid, España. Currently she is a professor at three universities in Santiago, Universidad de Arte Ciencia y Comunicación UNIACC, Universidad Andrés Bello and Universidad de Chile.
As professor at the University of Geneva her work researches and explores the problems linked to migrations, memory, identity, dislocation, social and cultural movement. Since 1992 Ingrid Wildi Merino has been invited to exhibit her work internationally. In 2005 she was invited to represent Switzerland at the Swiss pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale, 2006 Telefonica Buenos Aires, 2007 L’oeil-écran ou la nouvelle image, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg 2009 7th Biennal Mercosul – Invited by Chile, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 2010 Museo de la Solaridad Salvador Allende.2011 Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Aargau, Switzerland, 2013 Centro Wilfredo Lam, La Havana, Cuba.
Ingrid Wildi Merino received the 2009 Prix Meret Oppenheim, the national art award of Switzerland. From 2007 and 2011 she has been the author and curator of the exhibition project Dislocación. For this exhibition she invited Chilean and European artists, to intervene in different museums and institutions in Santiago de Chile, touring the exhibition to the Museum of Fine Arts of Bern, Switzerland, where it received the Swiss Award Exhibition in 2011 for best exhibition of the year in this country.