Melina Peña
Interdisciplinary/Action Artist
EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2023
PERFORMANCE DUOS. Live Streaming. FEM_23. International Meeting of Women Performance Artists.
EPIGENĒS. Durational Participatory Performance. Patan Museum, Kathmandu Nepal
AORTA. Quadrophonic Sound Installation/Live Performance. Festival Inund'Art. Girona, Catalonia Spain
2021
HILUM. Live Performance. Festival Inund'Art. Girona, Catalonia Spain
LOCKDOWN DAY (16).mj. Video Performance. ART-MUTATION. Bedürfnisanstalt Gallery, Hamburg Germany.
RAINDROP DANCE 2021. Live Performance in collaboration with OCELLS AL CAP. Food: la Utopia de la Proximidad Exhibition. Bolit Contemporary Art Center, Girona, Spain.
HA LLEGAO LA HORA. Video Performance. Flying Over the Balkans Program at Video Art Miden Festival.
LOCKDOWN DAY 1#.0. Video Performance. XV Choroní International Performance Festival
2020
PERFORMANCE DUOS. Live Streaming. FEM_20. International Meeting of Women Performance Artists.
EL VACÍO DE LA NADA. Video Performance. PerfoArtNet 2020-2021
EL VACÍO DE LA NADA. Video Performance. The Agency of Failure Screening and Performance Series 2020. VBKÖ Gallery Vienna, Austria
PINK PILLS. Live Streaming. India vs Mexico Binational Performance Encounter
LOCKDOWN DAY (16).mj. Video Performance. ART-MUTATION. art-mutation.online
LOCKDOWN DIARY. Video Performance Series. INTRO 20. intro.escape.cat/exposicio
BOA MORTE. Video Performance by Nuno Veiga/Melina Peña. Act.., With or Without Expression, curated by
Margarita Stavraki. Kalamata Art Center, Greece.
EL VACÍO DE LA NADA. Video Performance. FEM4 Online Video Exhibition, Videokanava.
MELINODIUM. Video Performance. PERFOCHORONI XIV FUTURISMO 2020, Choroni Venezuela
2019
HILUM. Live Performance. Materic, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona Spain
METACUERPO. Video Performance. ¨Cuerpos Dislocados/Dislocated Bodies ¨. {\} () {\} / \ +! () {\} Tangential Unspace Art Lab, Chicago IL
ANATOMÍA METAMÓRFICA. Live Performance. T✴Danse - Danse et Technologie. Festival Internazionale de la Nuova Danza di Aosta, Italia.
METACUERPO. Video Performance. ¨Cuerpos Dislocados/Dislocated Bodies¨. La K- Zona Cultural Bogotá, Colombia.
EL VACÍO DE LA NADA. Video Performance. FEM4 Contemporary Art Exhibition. Tempere Finland.
SECRETO ENCARNADO. Site Specific Performance. Biosfera Experimental Arte de Acción. Desierto de los Leones, Mexico City.
CARTOGRAFÍA DE LA NADA. Photo-Performance. Festival de Arte Activista Latinoamericano. Montevideo Uruguay.
D-DENTRO. Live Performance. “Corpologia de la Resilencia Performativa”. Museum of Contemporary Art MACO, Oaxaca. Mexico.
CHEPICHE. Live Performance. Oreja de Elefante by La Sonora Performancera. Oaxaca Mexico.
THE EYE. Site Specific Performance. Oreja de Elefante by La Sonora Performancera. Oaxaca Mexico.
AIANDO TREE. Video Performance. Project in collaboration with Nuno Veiga. II ENCUENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE VIDEO- Umbral Espacio de Arte, CABA, Argentina
BOA MORTE. Video Performance by Nuno Veiga/Melina Peña. MOMUS Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki Greece.
TIME BOMB. Video Performance. IPêrformático Festival, MARCO (Museu de Arte Contemporânea), Campo Grande - Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.
COMPLICITATS I SINCRONIES. Live Performance with OCELLS AL CAP. Casa de la Paraula. Santa Coloma de Farners, Catalonia.
2018
OLXJALOTL. Live Performance. Brodac Gallery, Sarajevo Bosnia & Herzegovina.
BOA MORTE. Video Performance by Nuno Veiga/Melina Peña. Video Art Miden Festival, Kalamata Greece. Kinitras Choreography Lab, Athens Greece.
WE WERE WAITING FOR YOU. Oracle Live Performance with Ocells al Cap Collective. Museo de la Mediterrania, Toroella de Montgri Catalonia.
MI NOMBRE ES NADIE. Live Performance. Corpología+25 #5. Bólit_Pou Rodó, Girona.
ASOR. Live Performance. Corpología+25 #4. Santa Maria de Cervelló, Catalonia.
DE-FRAGMENTOS ABSTRACTIONS AND CONNECTIONS. Conference. Mind Land Society, 16th International Conference Arquitectonics Network. Barcelona Spain
FRAGMENTOS. Quadrophonic Sound Piece. Performance Crossings 2018. Prague Czech Republic.
AIANDO. Sensorial Piece. Performance Crossings 2018. Prague Czech Republic.
METACUERPO. Video Performance. III Encuentro Perfor-ando/ Made Escena Cultural. Arequipa, Peru.
2017
ANATOMIA METAMÓRFICA. Live Performance. EMPREMTA 2017 International Performance Festival, Barcelona, Spain.
MELINODIUM. Video Performance/Group Exhibition. "Our Small Global Neighbourhood," Cultural Center Gjorce Petrov, Skopje, R.Macedonia
2016
ETERNO RETORNO. Live Performance. Corpologia 25, Subirats Cataluña.
INTÉRVALO 2. Interdisciplinary Piece. Oficina de Asuntos Necesarios, Tijuana México.
UNTITLED. Live Performance. Spread Art, Detroit Michigan.
CARTOGRAFÍA DE LA NADA. Photo-Performance. PerfoArtNet. V International Performance Biennale
PURO LIGERO. EnAct #12, The Collective, Barcelona Spain.
2015
IMPURO. Live Performance. Antic Teatre, Barcelona Spain
ALGODÓN IMPURO. Live Performance. Konvent.0, Berga Spain
2012
LAS DELICIAS EN MI JARDIN. Live Streaming PerfoArtNet 2012 International Performance Biennale
COME IN COME IN! Video Performance. [CicloNómada] [SantaEngracia] Artes Integradas, Madrid Spain.
MENGUAR. LivePerformance. Rip Off III. Barcelona, Spain.
2010 - present
2010 - present
2011
INSPIRACIÓN P. Santa Coloma Spoken Word Festival. Barcelona
MUDANZA. Encuentro Chicano-Charnego 2011, Dos Rius, Catalonia
2010
GAME OVER. Live Performance. Rip Off II. La Nau Ivanow. Barcelona
SUPER YO. Dance/Performance. Centre Cultural Les Corts, La Cova de les Cultures. Barcelona
CAMISA. Live Performance. Fantastik, Barcelona
2009
CONDITIONALITY Performer in a piece by Alex Bradley. Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
CRUSIN. Live Performance. Biennal de Cerveira. Portugal
CORPO ILÍCITO: SOCIEDAD POST-HUMANA #69 La Pochanostra. Museum del Ferrocarril, Oaxaca México
COME IN COME IN! Running into the Political Equator. Mexicali, México
UKI Project by Shu Lea Cheang. Hangar Barcelona
UNTITLED. Live Performance. Rip Off. Barcelona
CRITICAL RUN BARCELONA Barcelona
EMERGENCY ROOM PAN - Pallazo delle Arti Napoli
2008
CINCO MUJERES EN EL BORDE DEL CUERPO Y LA PALABRA La Cova de les Cultures. Barcelona
OPEN BORDERS: Improvisation Across Networks, Distance, Time zones. Actions of Transfer: Women’s Performance in the Americas presented by UCLA Center for Performance Studies & Co-sponsored by Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics.
DELOCALIZED-RELOCALIZED La Cité International des Arts. Paris, France
EMERGENCY ROOM Galerie Taïss – Paris
EL MEXORCISTA Performance by Guillermo Gomez Peña. Caja Madrid, Barcelona
CRUSIN Various Spaces in Barcelona, Spain
SETTLEMENT by Hans Van de Broeck. Impulstanz Vienna International Dance Festival
2005-2007
MUNDOS TRANSITORIOS –Paleo Project. Various Spaces in Barcelona, Spain
2004
DIES DE DANSA. XIII International Dance Festival in Urban Spaces. Barcelona
INCOMPLETO Tijuana, Mexico.
2003
CRUDO II Sushi Visual Art and Performance. San Diego, California, U.S.A
2002
SETTING THE ANGELS FREE 6th @ Penn Theatre. San Diego, California.
SECA Instituto Cultural de Baja California (ICBC). Tijuana, México/ Celebrate Dance Festival Balboa Park. San Diego, California.
CRUDO Yonke. Interdisciplinary Art Festival. Tijuana, Mexico.
SITE-SPECIFIC Celebrate Dance Festival Balboa Park / North Park Spring Festival. San Diego, California
LIVE STAGE Sushi Visual Art and Performance. San Diego, California,
FEMINA Sushi Visual Art and Performance. San Diego, California / Instituto Cultural de Baja California (ICBC). Tijuana, México
LA MUJER ANDA Sushi Visual Art and Performance, San Diego, California / Art Works. Phoenix, Arizona.
POSIBLES PRESENTES/INTÉRVALO Escenica, Galaxy Pueblo Amigo Tijuana, México.
COMMISSIONS
2016
DE-FRAGMENTOS. Interactive Performance. In collaboration with Marisa Hoz de Vila. Commissioned by Casa Entera, Barcelona Spain
2011
BIENNALIST Venice Biennale, IT (June, 2011). Project by Thierry Geoffrey. Commissioned by the Sprengel Museum Hannover.
2010
MICHAEL JACKSON The Green Room, Manchester /The Milk Bar, Bristol (Nov. 2010). Collaboration with Alex Bradley. Commissioned by the Green Room Theater.
2009
EMERGENCY ROOM PAN - Pallazo delle Arti Napoli. Commissioned by PAN.
20.03.09 Performance 1: "CORAJE"
21.03.09 Performance 2: ¨AL LIMITE¨
22.03.09 Performance 3: ¨DOMINGO¨
23.03.09 Performance 4: ¨GOOD MORNING¨
ARTIST AND RESEARCHER IN RESIDENCE
2023
EPIGĒNES. Space A for interdisciplinary Art Practice, Kathmandu Nepal.
AORTA. Nau Coclea, Camallera Catalonia & Bolit Centre Art Contemporani, Girona
2021
PLACE, PEOPLE AND TIME: Wild Ways. Online Residency curated by the Museum of Loss and Renewal & The Walking Library.
2019
FEM_19. Madremanya, Catalonia Spain
HILUM. Centre Civic Drassanes & Materic, Barcelona Spain
2018
OCELLS AL CAP. Museu de la Mediterrania, Torroella de Montgri. Catalonia
2017
DIARIES OF A SHAMAN, ECO-NO-ME, PMS. Massia Platform, Massiaru Estonia
ALEX´S BIRTHDAY, TIME BOMB/TIME BODY, MELINODIUM. Brashnar Artist in Residence, Skopye Macedonia.
FEM_17. Gresol Artist in Residence, Madremanya Spain.
2016
FRAGMENTOS. L´Estruch Fábrica de Creación de las Artes en Vivo, Sabadell Catalonia
2014
AIANDO Foundation Obras - Portugal. International Center for Arts and Science.
2012
BREVE INSTANTE Guapamacátaro Interdisciplinary Residency in Art and Ecology Michoacán, Mexico.
BARBARISMO Festival Art as Research, Ottersberg Germany.
2010
MICHAEL JACKSON Green Room, Manchester UK
2009-2010
SUPER YO Centre Civic Les Corts, Barcelona
2007-2008
CRUSIN Centre Civic Les Corts. Barcelona
2002
SECA University of Baja California. Tijuana, Mexico
TEACHING
2018
OCELLS AL CAP Improvisation Workshop for Women. Museu de la Mediterrania, Toroella de Montgri Catalonia.
2016
CUERPO LIMINAL Dance Performance Workshop, Tijuana México
2013
24 HOUR LOCKED IN-VISEU Performance Workshop, Viseu Portugal
2012
DANZA NO DANZA Dance Performance Workshop, Tijuana Mexico
2011
PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP BA Contemporary Performance, University of Winchester, UK
24 HOUR LOCKED IN The Green Room, Manchester UK
EDUCATION
2014-2015 Masters Degree in Museum Studies and Critical Theory (Independent Studies
Program) MACBA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona. Autonomous University of Barcelona UAB. Spain
2013-2014 Post Graduate Studies on Sensory Language and The Poetics of Play - Directed by
El Teatro de los Sentidos. University of Girona, Spain.
2002-2003 Translation and Interpretation Professional Certificate - University of California,
San Diego. U.S.A
2000-2001 Linguistics and Spanish (Study Abroad) - University of Barcelona, Spain
1998-2000 Bachelors of Arts in World Arts and Cultures (concentration Dance)- University of California, Los Angeles. U.S.A
1997-2001 Bachelors of Science in Linguistics and Spanish - University of California, Los
Angeles, U.S.A
OTHER
Member of the Professional Dancers of Catalonia Association
La Pocha Nostra Associate Artist