The most important contemporary art event in the Latin American industry

Espacio Andrea Brunson (EAB) at Zona Maco 2025

Zona Maco is the most important contemporary art event in the Latin American industry. Every first week of February, Mexico celebrates art week with a series of activities that bring together the best of the national and international scene; MACO being its most powerful event with more than 200 galleries and exhibitors from around the world, gathered at the Citibanamex Center.

The fair receives more than 77 thousand visitors, representing 29 countries from different parts of the world and more than 50 international museum groups, art consulting firms and institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), The Bass Museum Of Art (Miami), Los Angeles County Museum Of Art (LACMA), Desert X (California), Nelson-Atkins Museum Of Art (Kansas), Musée de l’Élysée (Switzerland), Fondation Cartier (Paris), Modern Art Museum Shanghai (MAM), among others.

The 2025 Zona MACO will celebrate its 21st anniversary and the Espacio Andrea Brunson (CL) gallery will be part of this new version for the second consecutive year, forming part of the SUR section of the fair; This is an area that brings together the most relevant Latin American projects under the curatorship of Ecuadorian Manuela Moscoso, inaugural executive director of the Center for Art Research and Alliances (CARA) NYC, who has been curator of the Liverpool, Cuenca, Helsinsky Biennials and the Tamayo Museum in CDMX, among others.

For this version of Zona MACO, EAB will represent two of its artists: Isidora Villarino with the project Apegos Feroces and Alejandro Corujeira, with the project La luz de un animal bello en el interior de un corazón conocí.

Isidora will present drawings made from an investigation into architecture and its transformation based on human needs: the consequences of a demolition/construction at a socio-cultural level, as well as the identity and memory of the places we inhabit and/or visit, in an attempt to not forget our history, memory and what has brought us to where we are today.

The works presented correspond to her most recent project: 'Apegos Feroces', which arises from an investigation into the time of transition between the abandonment and death of a place; translucent images that reveal what was and what is, plays of light and shadow that reflect a presence prone to disappear, where the image of nature taking over a structure becomes a constant after the permanent abandonment of a place. A kind of struggle between life and death, an aspect that runs through the entire body of the artist's work.

Alejandro, on the other hand, focuses his works on representations that he himself describes as a transition between sleep and wakefulness. Through painting mainly, he develops abstract images that represent everyday observations; an exercise in which he seeks to empty himself of that which lives inside each human being, giving rise to an image that for the artist is linked to a personal meditative state.

Each work begins as just a form, but as the work develops, this form ceases to exist and the work becomes a mere relationship with space, where light begins to flood everything trying to lose the limits of an initial silhouette, which ends up surrendering to the space and becoming an object of contemplation for the viewer questioning what they really see.

ABOUT ESPACIO ANDREA BRUNSON /

EAB begins as a traveling gallery that temporarily takes over different spaces, mounting short-term exhibitions. Since March 2022, it has an established space within the gallery circuit of the upper-class neighborhood of the city of Santiago de Chile, seeking balance between the craft and content of the artistic work; valuing the independence of the artist and his vision. EAB appreciates teamwork and communication between the gallery and the artist in order to enhance the creative development of those who show their work in the space.
Founded in 2018 by Andrea Brunson, the gallery has its main focus on painting, working mainly with emerging and mid-career artists.

Andrea Brunson studied photography at the School of Visual Arts in NY and then at The London School of Printing. She worked at the photography agency Magnum Photos where she was in charge of digitizing the entire photographic archive of the North American photographer Eve Arnold.
She then managed the headquarters of Cecilia Brunson Projects in Santiago for a year (currently a contemporary art gallery in London, dedicated to Latin American art), to finally start her personal project Espacio Andrea Brunson.

She is also currently co-director of programming for the cultural corporation of the Teatro de Zapallar and co-founder of the Lazo Cordillera scholarship awarded to Chilean artists for an international artistic residency (URRA).

ABOUT ISIDORA VILLARINO /

Isidora Villarino H. (Santiago – Chile), has a degree in Art from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, with a postgraduate degree in Visual Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence - Italy and studies in analytical drawing and art criticism in Madrid - Spain.

Her work is developed around the city, urban space and architecture; being exhibited in galleries, museums and art fairs in Santiago de Chile and abroad. Her projects stand out: 'Continuous Facade' (Gallery Espacio Andrea Brunson EAB, Santiago - Chile and Arróniz Gallery, Mexico City - Mexico 2024), Immanence (Montecramelo Cultural Center 2023), Disappear (Collectio Gallery 2022), Resistance (Museum of Modern Art of Chiloé, MAM 2021), Nothing is Forever (Artespacio Gallery 2019), Structural (NAC Gallery 2017), Expanded (somoS Gallery, Berlin 2017), T99 / 60 years (National Museum of Fine Arts, MNBA 2017), Spring of Youth (Visual Arts Room Gabriela Mistral Cultural Center GAM 2017), You Didn't See Me (Museum of Visual Arts MAVI 2016), Between the Concrete and the Ephemeral (MAC Museum of Contemporary Art) 2015), among others, in addition to her participation in SWAB Fair (Barcelona, Spain 2024), Zona Maco (CDMX – Mexico 2024), PArC (2023, Lima – Peru), Salón Acme (2023, Mexico City – Mexico), SWAB Fair (2023 – 2021, Barcelona – Spain), SP – Arte (2021, Sao Paulo – Brazil), Pinta (2020, Miami), Material Fair (2020 – 2019, Mexico City – Mexico), Nord Art Fair, (2017, Büdelsdorf – Germany), ChACO Fair (2022 – 2014 – 2015, Santiago – Chile), among others.

She has been chosen as one of the seven artists of the year by the critics circle (2019, Santiago – Chile); Her work has been nominated for 'best project' and 'most consistent work' by the Spanish Critics' Circle (2024), for the Latin American Art Award (ArtNexus 2021), chosen as one of the 5 best projects at Salón Acme (Mexico City - Mexico 2023), awarded at the SWAB Fair for two consecutive years with the award for best project, being acquired by the Bassat Collection (Barcelona 2023) and Sorigué Collection (Barcelona 2021), awarded at the Triennial of Contemporary Art (France, 2016) and selected for the Florence Biennial - Italy (2014) and the South American Biennial that took place in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil and Córdoba - Argentina (2015). In turn, the artist has been chosen as a finalist in various contemporary art competitions, including the Jackson Art Prize (UK 2024), Eeckman Art Prize (Belgium 2024), MAVI Arte Joven (Santiago de Chile, 2022- 2020 – 2017 – 2016), Premio Artespacio Joven (Santiago de Chile, 2015 – 2016 – 2018 – 2020) and ArteFacto where she received the first prize (Santiago de Chile, 2022).

Various media have published her work, highlighting her most recent publications in ARTNews (New York, 2023) and Artes y Letras, El Mercurio newspaper (Santiago, 2024, 2023 – 2022 – 2021 – 2020 – 2019 – 2018 – 2017).

His work is currently part of collections in Chile (Santiago), Spain (Lérida and Barcelona), Mexico (CDMX and Guadalajara), Peru (Lima), Ecuador (Quito), Germany (Berlin), United States (California), Dubai (UAE) and London (UK).

ABOUT ALEJANDRO CORUJEIRA /

Alejandro Corujeira (Argentina – Buenos Aires), studied at the School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, and then moved to Madrid (where the artist resides today, since 1991). That same year, he was the youngest artist included in the innovative exhibition El Taller Torres García: La Escuela del Sur, curated by Mari Carmen Ramírez at the Huntington Art Gallery.

His practice is anchored in pre-Columbian abstraction and an interest in anchoring spirituality and knowledge in a material form. Over time, Corujeira has gone beyond geometric abstraction and has sought out a work immersed in Japanese poetry and minimalist classical music.

His projects include 'Abrigo de luz' at the Case Chiuse gallery (Milan – Italy 2021), 'Al despertar Flotaban' at the Caja Negra gallery (Madrid – Spain 2020), 'Murmurs of Light' at the Cecilia Brunson Proyects gallery (London – UK 2018) and 'El Tóraz de los Sueños' at CAP (Burgos, Spain 2017).

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