Multidisciplinary artist who develops work that oscillates between the performing and visual arts. She explores themes like documenting movement and time’s passage, the body’s performative presence and its projection in architecture. She studied visual arts at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México’s national school for the plastic arts and holds an MFA from DasArts in Amsterdam. The artist’s drawing and movement laboratory—presented at numerous universities and art spaces in Mexico and the United States—is a fundamental part of her practice. She has exhibited work at Mexican venues such as Arte Abierto, Casa Wabi, the Hospicio Cabañas, the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, the Museo Jumex, the Museo Tamayo, the Museo Universitario del Chopo, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros and Teatro de Danza. Collective exhibition spaces outside Mexico have included Assembly, in New York; the Center for the Arts and Communication at Art Basel, Miami; Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst; the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis; and YYZ in Toronto; among others. The McKnight Foundation chose Eibenschutz as its choreographer and she also formed part of the SOMA docent team from 2016 to 2019. She is currently a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte de México.

7 días + 1, 2023
Indigo pigment and oil pastel on canvas

Y vas cobrando forma en el hogar que habito, 2024
Installation
White pastel on black wall and audio
Sound design: Martin de Torcy
Choir direction: Moisés Mata Piña
Translation of graphic score to musical score: Michelle Naomi Rocha Zendejas
Illustrations and voices: Daniela Guadalupe Vázquez Ramírez, Diego Alejandro Rojas, Diego Tadeo Rodríguez Santoyo, Erick Gerardo Hernández Arellano, Goretti del Rocío Flores Rocha, Josué Guzmán Delgado, Layla Briseida Galván Castro, Michelle Naomi Rocha Zendejas and Osmara Nicole Mata Parra

Central to Galia Eibenschutz’s practice are workshops designed for specific groups in which she explores the relationship between the body and drawing. In this installation, the artist starts with a series of five drawings associated with the vowels of the alphabet and whose creation follows a particular bodily movement. The drawings, repeated and organized in different ways, gave rise to a graphic score later translated into a musical score during a workshop with nine singers from the Fundación León youth choir. The result is a piece composed of recorded vocal sounds and drawn lines recreated in situ on five walls by the choir.

* Beneficiary of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Art (National Art Creators System) 2023-26, part of the Sistema de Apoyos a la Creación y Proyectos Culturales (Support System for Creative and Cultural Projects).