Emilia de las Carreras was selected by the Salta art jury and the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich to participate in the AIR-M Ebenböckhaus Residency 2026 in Munich.

Emilia de las Carreras (b. Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a visual artist working across sculpture, installation, drawing, and site-responsive projects. Her practice centers on the collection of discarded materials, which she transforms into suspended structures, prosthetic assemblages, and spatial interventions. Informed by research in medicine and biology, her work frequently references anatomy, healing, and processes of mutation.

Grounded in the daily collection of urban residues, her methodology brings together a sensory inquiry into the body, research informed by medicine and biology, and processes of fictionalization that reframe waste as a site of knowledge. Aluminum bottle caps, car window glass, shells, insects, and construction debris form the basis of suspended meshes, modular columns, and small-scale assemblages. Weaving and assembling function as central strategies: bottle caps are washed, folded, and manually interlaced into hanging structures that operate simultaneously as surface, skin, and spatial framework. In parallel, she develops small-format “mythological prostheses,” connecting mineral, plastic, shell, or glass fragments through delicate orthopedic-like devices. These works suggest systems of adaptation and mutation, proposing objects as organisms in transformation. Collaboration is integral to her process, involving collectors and community members in the gathering and assembly of materials, reactivating everyday remains as structures of relation, memory, and care.

About the Residency

The AIR-M Ebenböckhaus Residency is part of the Artist-in-Residence Munich (AIR-M) program organized by the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich. Since 2022, the program has been developed in collaboration with Salta art to expand the residency to South America. For the 2026 edition, the artists’ residency is realized in partnership with ERA Foundation.

The three-month residency (7 July – 24 September 2026) provides time and resources for research, experimentation, and focused studio work, alongside opportunities to engage with Munich’s art scene through studio visits, institutional encounters, and public programs. Residents live and work at Ebenböckhaus in Munich-Pasing and receive accommodation and a monthly stipend funded by the City of Munich. Return flights from South America and a research-trip allowance are covered by Salta art and ERA Foundation.

The residency also includes access to a shared studio at Empfangshalle in the Museumsquartier and a MakerPlus membership at MakerSpace Munich. The program fosters exchange between South America and Munich’s cultural landscape, creating a framework for dialogue, collaboration, and sustained professional connections.

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