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Gabriela Acha is an Argentine-Italian visual artist, researcher, and curator based in The Hague, the Netherlands for already nine years. She is currently Vice-Chair of Pulchri Studio and Chair of its Exhibition Committee. Pulchri Studio is a 180 years old artists association and one of the most remarkable institutions of this type in Europe. There she contributes to the development of exhibitions, artistic programmes, and new opportunities for artists.

At the centre of Acha’s practice is a concept-driven approach. Her artistic practice is multidisciplinary, moving between painting, installation, performance, and research. Acha studied Fine Arts, specialising in sculpture, in Argentina. In 2018, she moved to the Netherlands to pursue a Master’s degree in ArtScience at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, graduating with honours in 2020 and receiving the Holland Excellence Scholarship for her academic performance. 

Nature, landscape, memory, and conservation have been important subjects throughout her work. For more than twenty-five years, Acha has collected minerals, fossils, and antiques. These objects often become starting points for her projects, leading her to explore how objects are observed, classified, collected, and preserved.
Painting is an important part of her current practice. Through painting, Acha explores culture and nature through colour, texture, composition, and material. Her practice reflects on methodologies drawn from both science and art, approaching nature as an object of study while reflecting on the systems through which it is observed and represented.

Her interest in the relationship between art and science has also developed through her involvement with Expedición, an Argentine collective of artists, researchers, and scientific illustrators. Through this group and other projects, she has collaborated with institutions including the National Museums of Natural History of Uruguay and Chile, the National Academy of Sciences, in Argentina, the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology of Florence, Italy, and the Museum System of Siena, Italy, between others.

Her work has been presented in more than ten countries and is held in public and private collections in Latin America and Europe. She has participated in international residencies and artistic research projects and has received several awards, including the First Prize at the Biennale of Monopoli, Italy, in 2025.

In recent years, Acha has increasingly focused on museums and collections as places where knowledge and memory are constructed. Her research considers whose histories are preserved, whose voices are represented, and how these structures influence the way we understand the world. 

Across her practice, Acha combines careful natural and cultural observations with material experimentation and research. 
 

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Photo: Susana Perez.