Sandra Dinnendahl López is an artist, researcher, and cultural manager based in Asunción. In 2010, she earned her Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts and Creative Writing from Oberlin College (USA). In 2015, she completed her Master’s in Art in Context at the Berlin University of the Arts (Germany). Since 2016, she has been based again in Paraguay, where she has initiated several cultural projects and platforms in collaboration with local and regional artists, including: Temporal Festival de Arte, Festival Confluencias de Arte, Proyecto Enajenar / En Casa Ajena, Red Gris, Las Aguadas Artist Residency, and Floating Residency: La Deíxis del Río.
In 2019, she was awarded the “International Research Fellowship” from the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul (Seoul, South Korea). In 2020, she represented Paraguay at the Latinoamerican Performance Continuum: Cartographies in Context. In 2022, she was part of the curatorial team of JustMad (Madrid, Spain) and Equinox Art Fair (Argentina), and received the Francis Greenburger Fellowship for Mitigating Ethnic and Religious Conflict for the Art Omi artist residency (NY, USA). In 2023, she participated in the FlussLab Onsite:Delta residency (Tigre, Argentina) and ArteCo (Corrientes, Argentina). In 2024, she joined the Summer School “Political Education and Equal Rights for a Sustainable Future in Latin America” (Quito, Ecuador), organized by the CAPAZ Institute and JLU Giessen.
Her practice focuses on installation, performance, object-making, video art, and drawing. Her main thematic interests include mediating critical discourses on memory, collective identities, histories of conflict, decoloniality, feminisms, Marxism, and the geo- and socio-political tensions between communities.