Yolanda Gutiérrez
Yolanda Gutiérrez | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1970 (age 55–56) Mexico City, Mexico |
| Alma mater | National Autonomous University of Mexico |
| Known for | Dancer, choreographer and installation artist |
| Movement | Postcolonialism |
| Website | https://www.yolandagutierrez.de/ |
Yolanda Gutiérrez (born 1970) is a Mexican and German dancer, choreographer and installation artist.
Early life and education
Gutiérrez was born in 1970 in Mexico City, Mexico, and was raised in Cuernavaca, Mexico. She studied contemporary dance in Mexico City, achieving a degree from the National School of Visual Arts at National Autonomous University of Mexico (MUAC).[1] She also studied New Dance and Performance in Hanover, Germany. She lives in Hamburg, Germany.[2]
Career
In 1993, Gutiérrez won the Jóvenes Creadores fellowship from Mexico’s National Fund for Culture and the Arts in the category of sculpture.[1][3] She exhibited at the 5th Havana Biennial in Havana, Cuba in 1994.[3]
In 2004, Gutiérrez participated in the exhibition El Arte de América Latina en la Transición al Siglo XXI (Latin American Art in the Transition to the Twenty-First Century) in Santiago, Chile.[1]
In 2015, Gutiérrez worked on the community project “Recrea Xonacayucan,” which focused on creating ecological artworks at San Felipe Xonacayucan Park in Atlixco, Mexico, with 200 local public school children. The project was funded by the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (Fonca) of Conaculta.[4] Following this project, she was invited to exhibit an installation at the Royal Botanical Garden in Hamilton, Canada, during the 2015 Pan American Games.[1]
Gutiérrez has studied Mayan herbalism with traditional doctor Mario Euan. They collaborated in the creation of a botanical garden in Xul, Yucatan, Mexico. She also studied organic farming at the Uyiíts Kaán peasant school in Mani, Yucatan, Mexico.[3]
Gutiérrez is an artist fellow of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect.[2] She is the founder and curator of the artistic collective Bismarck Dekolonial, which invites artists from the former German colonies of Namibia, Cameroon, Togo, Rwanda and Tanzania to perform in Hamburg at historical sites linked to Germany’s colonial past.[5][6][7] She was invited to the Netherlands to create a postcolonial city walk through Amsterdam.[8] She also choreographed the Urban Bodies project in Munich, Germany, through her artistic platform Shape the Future.[9][10]
Gutiérrez's installation art works have been exhibited at Museo Universitario Contemporáneo de Arte (MUAC) in Mexico City, Mexico, the World Bank in Washington D.C., United States, and the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia in Valencia, Spain.[1][3]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Yolanda Gutiérrez/en". Enciclopedia La Red Cultural del Banco de la República (in Spanish). 21 September 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2025.
- ^ a b Ritter, Laura (11 February 2025). "Yolanda Gutiérrez". global dis:connect. Archived from the original on 14 November 2025. Retrieved 28 December 2025.
- ^ a b c d "Yolanda Gutiérrez". Simbiosis 2012 (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 December 2025.
- ^ Carrizosa, Paula (25 November 2015). "Con Recrea Xonacayucan, la artista Yolanda Gutiérrez integró arte y naturaleza - Puebla". La Jornada de Oriente (in European Spanish). Retrieved 28 December 2025.
- ^ "Decolonising Bismarck: An interview with Yolanda Gutierrez". IDEOLOGY THEORY PRACTICE. Retrieved 28 December 2025.
- ^ "Yolanda Gutiérrez: Decolonycities". Kampnagel EN. Retrieved 28 December 2025.
- ^ "Mexican-German choreographer on 'decolonising' Kandt House Museum". The New Times. 5 October 2023. Retrieved 28 December 2025.
- ^ "Julidans Extended: Urban Bodies Project". Internationaal Theater Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 25 January 2025. Retrieved 28 December 2025.
- ^ "URBAN BODIES PROJECT-MUNICH". Shape the future (in German). Archived from the original on 5 August 2025. Retrieved 28 December 2025.
- ^ "Yolanda Gutiérrez - Who we are - Kammerspiele". Muenchner-kammerspiele.de. Retrieved 28 December 2025.