ph: Julia Knop, 2024

Buenos Aires, Argentina.
CV upon request.

Paula Bertúa is a researcher, critic, professor and curator. PhD in Literature from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and MA. in Latin American and Argentinian Art from the National University of San Martín (UNSAM). Her master’s dissertation was awarded first   prize by IDAES/UNSAM. Her research focuses on the intersection of aesthetics, politics, and technology in visual and literary arts. Her lines of research focus on the transformations of aesthetic experience in contemporary culture, criticism, artistic research, the study of literature, image and media, as well as the relationship between aesthetics and politics. 

In 2024-2025 she was a fellow conducting research at LIAS (Leuphana University Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany). She also has been a researcher and guest lecturer in the Romanisches Seminar at Zurich University (Switzerland) and at the Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), Leiden University (The Netherlands). Her teaching experience was mainly developed at the University of Buenos Aires and at the National University of Tres de Febrero, where she created and coordinates the PIPEC, Research Programme of Aesthetic Contemporary Practices [Materialities – Processes – Mediality], which brings together researchers, artists and curators related to a critical study of the arts. 

Bertúa has experience in research/creation and in curatorial work in contemporary art, especially as a senior researcher at the Center of Research in Art, Matter and Culture (IIAC/UNTREF). She is or has been member of groups such as Imagenlat (Latin American Network of Research in Practices and Media Image) and ReVLaT (Latin American Visual Studies Network) 

She has also published articles in journals such as Latin American Literary Review (Cornell University), HeLix (Heidelberg University) and Cahiers LIRICO (Laboratoire d’ Études Romanes, Université Paris 8). Bertúa has supervised and co-supervised undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students at different universities: Leiden University (The Netherlands), Ibero American University (Mexico), University of Buenos Aires, National University of Córdoba, National University of Cuyo, National University of Tres de Febrero (Argentina).

In her current research on art and visual culture in Latin America, Paula Bertúa combines questions of gender, politics and technology. Her research integrates a materialist approach with critical posthumanism, media geology, and ecopolitics to contour a new perspective on Latin American artistic and collective practices, which she understands as cosmo-aesthetics. At the intersection of aesthetic practices and theoretical discourses, Bertúa explores the interventions of contemporary Latin American techno-aesthetics in relation to global political and environmental discourses against the background of regional conditions and their interplay with transnational imaginaries.

Her projects and publications have been recognized by grants and scholarships from institutions such as Gerda Genkel Foundation (Germany), the Coimbra Group (Belgium), the Ministry of Labor and Social Politics (Italy), the Photography Centre of Montevideo (Uruguay) and the National Fund for the Arts (Argentina).

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