In autumn 2019, Het Nieuwe Instituut joined forces with Tilting Axis to offer a Fellowship to an applicant based in the Caribbean. Cuban architect-duo Fernando Martirena and Anadis Gonzàles have been selected as the recipients of the Tilting Axis /Het Nieuwe Instituut Fellowship 2021/2022. Martirena and González founded the architecture office Infraestudio in Havana in 2016.
Both will begin their Fellowship at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam starting November 2021 - January 2022, and will thereafter continue research and activities through April 2022. Stay tuned for reports and programming notes around the Tilting Axis /Het Nieuwe Instituut Fellowship 2021/2022.
Cuban Architect, Anadis Gonzàles, 2021-2022 co-Fellow.
Anadis González (Matanzas 1994) She is the co-founder of the art and architecture studio Infraestudio and the editorial project Inframince Editions. She studied Music in the Professional School of Arts of Matanzas until 2013 and graduated in Architecture and Urban Planning from the Technological University of Havana in 2018.
Her personal obsessions draw a body of interests whose borders are space, politics, and fiction. In addition to architecture projects she has made books, works of art, urban research, and curatorial projects; seeking to illustrate the poetics of a narrative and minor architecture from a transdisciplinary practice based in Havana.
She has participated in the last two art Havana Biennials and in 2019 Infraestudio made its first solo exhibition in The Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, Everything I Say is Only What You Hear. During 2019 she worked as a member of the exhibition´s board in GECA. (Group of Cuban Architecture Studios) were she and Martirena curated the exhibitions such as How does the pressure takes you?, a critical overview of Cuban architects´ work. During the same year she curated Postales a Margot in the Factory of Cuban Art, to acknowledge the role of Cuban female architects of the past and present. She currently works and lives in Havana.