Teaching & Mentoring on Marcela Villanueva

ABC Kultur → ABC Incuba

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A long-term professional development and cultural incubation programme created and directed by Marcela Villanueva through Sorora e.V. to support transnational FLINTA artists and cultural workers in Berlin. Initially developed as ABC Kultur, the programme provided practical orientation on cultural management, funding, self-employment, language and professional networks. It later evolved into ABC Incuba, a six-month incubation model that combines direct project funding, weekly mentoring, specialised workshops, peer exchange and public presentations, supporting participants from early concept development through production and implementation. Each selected project receives €2,000 and ongoing accompaniment, while many workshops remain open to the wider community. ABC has become a sustained access structure for migrant cultural practitioners navigating Berlin’s cultural ecosystem, helping them build projects, networks and greater professional autonomy.

NEST — Maternar en Residencia / Resistencia

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A long-term residency and artistic development programme created by Marcela Villanueva to rethink the conditions of cultural production for artists who mother. Since 2022, NEST has developed residential, exhibition and research formats in Coswig, Berlin and Colombia, integrating children, care, collective living and artistic practice rather than treating caregiving as an obstacle to professional development. Across its editions, the programme has brought together more than thirty artists and cultural practitioners and generated exhibitions including Parallel Maternal and Care and Revelations, as well as longer-term projects such as Gabriela Rivera Lucero’s Maternajes Transfronterizos. Developed through Karne Kunst with Sorora e.V. and a growing network of artists, curators and cultural partners, NEST positions care as both cultural infrastructure and a field of artistic research

Bardo Curatorial Residency

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A curatorial development programme created at Bardo Projektraum to support emerging and mid-career curators working across migrant, queer, decolonial and intersectional perspectives. The residency combines mentorship, workspace, research time, studio and institutional visits, professional networking, public presentations and production support, allowing participants to develop projects in direct dialogue with Berlin’s independent art ecosystem. Longer residencies can culminate in an exhibition at Bardo, while shorter formats include talks, workshops and other public activations. Priority has been given to FLINTA curators and practitioners from the Global South, positioning the programme as a platform for curatorial development, international exchange and access to networks that are often difficult to enter from outside Berlin.

Funding Fiesta

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Accessible, practice-based guide to navigating arts funding in Germany, created for artists and cultural workers who are often excluded from formal funding knowledge.

Maternar en Cuarentena

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A collaborative artistic laboratory and development process initiated by Karne Kunst during the COVID-19 crisis, bringing together artist-mothers Alma Rayén Molina Carvajal, Ana Kavalis, Ana Sofía Hernández, Bárbara E. Bielitz, Glenda Rosero, Jazmín Ra, Kari Paredes, Patricia Jurado, Senoritaugarte and Soledad Ramírez. Through collective exchange, artistic experimentation and ongoing support, the project explored motherhood as a lived, political and creative condition, addressing care, domestic labour, isolation, family lineage, exhaustion, support networks and resistance. Karne Kunst The process extended beyond its initial virtual laboratory and exhibition, supporting works that continued to develop in other contexts. Jazmín Ra’s Amanece en Chile: La esperanza no ha sido robada was later presented at Performing Arts Festival Berlin in 202. Bárbara E. Bielitz’s Banquete del día de la madre, originally developed through Maternar en Cuarentena, was later activated at Bardo Projektraum within Uprootings and Reconnections in 2024.

Sorora e.V.

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A feminist cultural organisation co-founded by Marcela Villanueva in Berlin to develop programmes, resources and professional opportunities for FLINTA artists and cultural workers, particularly those with migrant and transnational backgrounds. Through Sorora, Villanueva has worked on the conception, funding and implementation of long-term initiatives including Vierte Welle, ABC Kultur / ABC Incuba and Resonance Residency, combining programme design, mentoring, cultural management and community-building. Sorora represents a key strand of her practice focused on building organisational structures that enable underrepresented cultural practitioners to access networks, develop projects and sustain their work.

Archivo Madre

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Created by Marcela Villanueva as a long-term artistic development programme for Latin American migrant artists who mother, Archivo Madre was funded by the Fonds Darstellende Künste and developed in collaboration with Lola Arias Company and Karne Kunst. Under the artistic mentorship of Lola Arias, participants Jasmine Bakalarz, Laura Jiménez, Anna Mariscal, Nicol Rivera Aro, Laura Santos and Citlali Huezo developed personal archives around motherhood, migration and feminism into lecture-performances. The programme combined collective workshops, individual mentoring, an intensive development phase and childcare support, culminating in public presentations at Studio Я, Maxim Gorki Theater, within Gorki en Español. Belén Marinato led production for Karne Kunst, with dramaturgy and production by Laura Cecilia Nicolás / Lola Arias Company