Mena Guerrero

(b.1996, Guatemala) is a transdisciplinary artist. She trained as a singer at Maastricht Conservatorium before attending the Michael Polanyi College at Francisco Marroquín University where she earned a liberal arts bachelor with a focus in transdisciplinary arts in 2024. Her work has been exhibited in Guatemala, Germany, The Netherlands and Indonesia. In 2022, she earned Beca Flotador for emerging artists from Teorética Costa Rica and the first prize for the Galería Abierta by El Centro Cultural Municipal in Guatemala City.

While painting and colour are canonical in her practice, Mena draws much inspiration from music, art therapy, philosophy and anthropology. Truly, her practice aims at developing transdisciplinary projects based on investigation and experimentation related to her personal account and environment.

Her artistic installations, paintings and performances are picturesque reelaborations of her personal experiences into emblematic worlds crafted by what she refers to as affective paraphernalia. She envisions her work as potentially becoming a self-contained universe that she activates through multisensory participatory dynamics and performance.

Education

2020 - May 2024

Liberal Arts Bachelor in Transdisciplinary Arts. Michael Polanyi College at Francisco Marroquín University, Guatemala, GT

2022 - 2023

Diploma in Anthropology of Art. Latir/Phd. Patricia Tovar, México, MX

2022

Experimental Education Protocol #4 by Angelo Plessas. Salzburg Summeracademy, Salzburg, AT
Introductory course: Expressive Arts Therapy, Trauma & Embodiment. Instituto Poiesis, Barcelona, ES

2021

Workshop: Método Varda by Ayelen Koopmann. Centro de Estudios Fotográficos (CEF), Córdoba, ARG
Group Mentoring on Artistic Processes by Renato Osoy. Procesos Artísticos, Guatemala, GT

2020

Course: Fundamentals of Expressive Arts Therapy. TAE Barcelona & European Graduate School Suiza, online

2016-2018

Jazz Vocal Propedeuse. Maastricht Conservatorium, Maastricht, NL

2016

Viewpoints Workshop by Jan Van Opstal. iARts y Toneelacademie Maastricht,
NL

Solo Exhibitions

2024

Volcanes, Mangos y Amor. LA ERRE, Espacio Cultural, Guatemala, GT

2023

La Ternura es Triste. HAE, Maastricht, NL

Solo Performance Event: Éxtasis. Centro Cultural de España, Guatemala, GT

2022

Lírica Femenina. Espacio Libélula, Antigua Guatemala, GT

2021

[Inserte su Tītulo Aquī]. Espacio de Creación La Fábrica, Guatemala, GT

Collective Exhibitions

2024
Del Arte, la Naturaleza y las Mujeres: Miradas Ecofeministas desde Guatemala. Curated by Rossina Cazali. Centro Cultural de España. Guatemala. GT

Sensorium: experimentos para tocar. Curated by Josselin Pinto. Centro Cultural Municipal. Guatemala, GT

2023

Cicatrices del Fuego, Collective Exhibition and Contest. Fundación Defensores de la Naturaleza, Ixchel Museum, Guatemala, Gt
Screening: Éxtasis. Festival Ícaro, Guatemala, GT
La Casita, Gracia. Antigua Guatemala, GT

2022

Plural Collective. Espacio Libélula, Antigua Guatemala, GT
El Sobrante Collective. Antigua Tipografía Sánchez y De Guise, Guatemala, GT
La Imagen Quema: Perspectiva del Videoarte en Guatemala. Centro Cultural de España, Guatemala, GT
Aksara: Prologue. Taman Ismail Marzuki, Yakarta, IN

2021

Galería Abierta. Municipalidad de Guatemala, Guatemala, GT

Artist Residencies

2024-2025
Fabrique: Fondation Fiminco. Paris, FR

2023

Entropía 001. Cantí Plantacalle, Barcelona, ES

Espacio en Movimiento. Centro Cultural de España, Guatemala, GT
Proyecto Entrópico. Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, CR

2021

El Cuarto de Pintura. Alianza Francesa, Antigua Guatemala, GT

Teaching Experience

2024
Facilitator. Workshop. Ecopoiesis: Arte, Naturaleza y Cuerpo. Centro Cultural de España. Guatemala. GT

Facilitator. Workshop: Cartografías Vitales. La Nueva Fábrica, Antigua Guatemala, GT

2023

Facilitator. Workshop: Cartografías Vitales: Voice, Body & Spirituality. ICEFAS / Dennis Leder, Mixco, GT

2022

Facilitator. Participatory Arts Workshop: Invitations, Encounters and Meditations. Salzburg Summeracademy, Salzburg, AT
Facilitator, Artistic Process Workshop: “Cuerpo en el Espacio”, para artistas residentes. Alianza Francesa, Antigua Guatemala, GT