Introduction ! La Ene started in August of 2010, as a form of constructive criticism to the art system in Buenos Aires.

In this city there is a museum of modern art, recently partially re-opened after being closed for more than 5 years, but there is no museum of contemporary art. There is a serious lack of critical work and inclusive spaces for young professionals in the field of art. Currently, La Ene has the support of a patron who pays the rent of a small space in a kind of alternative commercial gallery that emerged about three years ago. Since August of last year, we have undertaken the task of uniting people and funds to carry out this idea of creating a museum of contemporary art in Buenos Aires. La Ene is located on the first floor of a building in which there are several art galleries, design and architecture studios, as well as artists' studios, shops and an art bookshop. This year, for example, 3 of the 18 spaces that participated in the Barrio Joven section of arteBA are our neighbors. We think the most ridiculous idea we could have, in terms of how grandiose such projects tend to be, was to create a museum - a "new museum" for the city that would not only focus on itself selfishly, but rather critically; a place that would help circulate the work of lesser known artists or some that better known in other cities. We want to bringing in new perspectives and work together to create an institution we feel represents the current state of art and where we want it to go.

Mission ! The Nuevo Museo Energa de Arte Contemporneo is a space for the free exchange between different areas of contemporary culture. As an autonomous organism, it proposes to circulate non established culture, utilizing all of our capacity to make, transform or set it in movement, multiplying its interconnection and responding to its specific needs. La Ene supports the generation of new work and harbors artistic projects, concentrating in communicating, investigating, exhibiting and transmitting current art. What are we? ! The Nuevo Museo Energa de Arte Contemporneo is the only museum in Buenos Aires exclusively dedicated to contemporary art; it's an independent project that arises from and responds to the artistic community, being in itself an experiment on the link between the artist, institutions and the existing ways of legitimation. Objectives To be a space of creation and exhibition that allows the development of new work and projects that will become part of the museum's patrimony. Offer a work space for local or visiting artists so they are able to produce work to be exhibited in the museum. To generate and be a recipient of ideas; a place in which artists and curators have the opportunity to make proposals for the museum, including exhibitions, screenings and research presentations. Establish an educational program that includes talks, workshops and publications, along with a digital and physical library of original publications. To serve as commentary on the institutions in the art world, legitimation strategies, and the role of museums in a city like Buenos Aires, in Latin America.

Why do we need a contemporary art museum? As a project that arises from the artistic community, the desire to establish a contemporary art museum comes from the lack of a similar institutional space. The decision to adopt the title, considered by some as old fashioned, of museum, is very on point. The "museum" has a history, a theoretical and social history that we are interested in. Calling it a museum and self appointing us as such, is also evidence of the existing institutional vacuum.

PROJECTS
Marcela Sinclair / Time Management / 2010 - 2011 The Time Management office combines business performance strategies, situationist thought, psychoanalysis, poetic production and quantum mechanics, with the objective of offering personalized time management assistance. Sofa Dourron / Laboratory of Local Thought / 2011 The Laboratory of Local Thought is intended as a space for discussion and reflection on this multiplicity that is before us. We propose to analyze, based on texts, various exhibitions and ideas, the situation of contemporary art and its institutions, and all the elements that are part of the same (museums, institutions,the art market, educational programs, exhibition formats, conditions of production, etc.), as well as contemporary world problems that are directly related to artistic practices that circulate in our environment. Lala Ladcani / Audiogua en bicicleta / Spring 2011 The participants will travel the distance from La Ene to Otero and Dumont in Chacarita, listening to audio specifically designed and selected for the trip. You need to have a bicycle, music player and space available to incorporate the list that will be uploaded on the same day of the tour. Nicols Gullota / Largamos / 2011 In the reverse path of civilization, this piece of art could be a campground thatprovides us with a new homemade survival kit to an already lived in place or a strange pilgrimage. Beln Romero Gunset / Cambio dolor / August - September The project consists of a series of interviews of just under an hour with those interested in participating. In them, the artist will make a series of questions, taking written notes and working or creating images after which she will perform a small action. The conceptual core of this work is suffering and / or pain, and for participants to transmit their experiences in a transversal way.

Paula Castro / La Ene de nuevo / October This project is about looking at Santa Fe Avenue, where the museum is located, as a museum itself, an urban space that contains works of art that can be quoted. Castro's project integrates elements of new museology and community museums, honoring the fact that everything can be a master of something. Leandro Tartaglia - Santiago Villanueva - Francisco Marques / Oficina de Legales / Noviembre This group project is also an exhaustive work of research into the legal-syndical aspects of art making. La Ene will be the institution that supports this research process, as well as the dissemination of information and, during the month of November, will provide the space where the information will be communicated through different formats, such as diagrams, leaflets, videos, audio and talks, as well as on La Ene's website. The project was thought of as a Federal and historic search about the contractual link between institutions (museums, galleries) and other actors in the art world: artists, curators, preparators, etc.; artists and their artworks as work, the syndical organization of other disciplines, how auctions, copyright and copyleft work, and how the language of cultural planning and cultural politics is applied. Geraldine Lanteri - Sofa Dourron / Artists in their Secondary Jobs / December This project will investigate the current situation of artists working in Buenos Aires from two different approaches: photography and theoretical research and field work. The motivation behind the realization of this project is primarily to give an analytical view of the poor conditions of production of contemporary art in our country. In turn, we will try to study the relations of art production, clearly determined by the specific historical and political circumstances of our country and our time. The ultimate goal is to circulate the results of this research in the arts community and generate discussion around this issue, to then collectively or individually be able to think new tools for artistic production.

EXHIBITIONS
Our exhibition program is based on the possibility of circulating work, artists and information that, given the current circumstances of the art world in Buenos Aires do not find another place to be.

Luciano Podcaminsky / EXIST / 2011 The piece of Podcaminsky, who belongs to the group THANK YOU VERY MUCH INDEED! quotes the "exit" signs that are normaly found on the premises of any institution. In the case of La Ene, EXIST is not only an invitation to the individual looking at it, the sign also speaks in the institution and proclaims its existence as a museum. Group exhibition of Puerto Rican artists / Cooperation is our business: Boricuas bestiales / April La Ene acts on the premise that projects of both local and international reach can be generated its space. This exhibition was handled by the Puerto Rican collector Alexis Figueroa and the director of La Ene, Marina Reyes Franco. La Ene, acting as an organization with a cooperative base accepted the works of art as a donation for a sale event sale, in exchange for creating a publication to be distributed to publicize the work of selected Puerto Rican artists in Argentina. The works are on sale for 200 to 400 pesos. The artists participating in the exhibition are: Chemi Rosado Seijo, Jesus "Bubu" Negron, Ivan Girona, Omar Velazquez, Roberto Marquez, The Ele, Jason Mena, Melissa Xiloj, Rafael Miranda, Abdiel Segarra, Aslan, Nina

Mendez-Marti, Carla Hernandez, Bik, ESCO, EPIC, Alana Iturrade, Lorraine Rodriguez, Fabian Behind, Carlos Santiago, Nelson Figueroa, Heryk Tomassini, Gang, Manuel Rodriguez, Admin Torres, Sebastian Vallejo, Hector Madera, Pun 18, Celso Gonzalez, Beto Torrens Grimaldi Baez, Roger Baez, Jorge "Rito" Cordero, Aby Ruiz, Jos Rosa, Nepo, Vincent Diaz, Mero, J2, Gabriela Nieves, Jos "Quique" Rivera, Bobby Cruz, Jonathan Torres, Juan Negroni, Nicole Salcedo, Fernando Pintado Clandestino 787, Karlo Ibarra, Brian Rivera, Jose Ortiz OTS, Norma Vila, Edgardo Larregui and Radams 'Juni' Figueroa, who sent instructions for the realization of a piece. The exhibition serves to raise awareness of the contemporary art of the island in a country that knows very little about the art scene in Puerto Rico. Santiago Villanueva / 1930 / July For this project, the artist suggests a possible reading for Argentine modernism through catalogs, books, images and artworks, resulting in a fictional space by utilizing museum resources. 1930 seeks to think of La Ene as a contemporary art museum with an art historical exhibition that is more linked to a sense of modernity than contemporaneity, as well as using books as a legitimizing format of history. Miju Lee / Munguau Project guest / September Project Munguau is a cultural exchange iniciative covering various cultural fields between Argentina and South Korea. La Ene recognizes this project as one akin to its objectives and invites them to exhibit one of the project's Korean artists in the space. Gabriel Chaile / Tentative video project / August This still untitled work is a video that Gabriel Chaile filmed some time ago, on his return from a vacation in a place he didn't want to leave. Gonzalo Arbuti / Sendero / August Installation. Guillermo Faivovich / Fin de obra / September Faivovich proposes to modify the structure of the place, varying the stairway, door, etc. It is through these transformations

that he will construct a random map of course; as exegesis of the cultural policies that often seem bizarre and inappropriate. Luciana Rondolini / Mis peores pesadillas / October Rondolini will cover the room with drawings made with fruit, dirt, leaves and hair, and place, in the middle of the space, a mountain-shaped sculpture made of earth, trodden banana, fruit peels, apples coated with black plastic gems, avocados, eggplants, hair and leaves. A person in charge of the room will invite people to get rid of their fears, worries and anxieties by drawing them. There will be a small desk, behind the spiral staircase, with the elements needed to draw. After drawing them, they can exchange fears by taking aways the artist's and hanging their own. Then they can save, dump or burn the nightmares and she will keep the theirs.

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
La Ene's residency program offers a work space premises of the museum, a solo exhibition and general assistance in the realization of projects. The residence is by invitation only. Past Hsuan Lin (Taiwan) Current Resident Nicolas Sarmiento (Argentina) Future Felipe Salem (Brazil)

EDUCATION
We approach art education as a means to learn, both in theory and in practice, the broad spectrum of contemporary art. We offer workshops, courses and artists' talks that bring together different subjects for the public to reflect, critique and create. Drawing and Painting Workshop by Cotelito The Acdemi, by Lucrecia Lionti

ASOCIACIN AMIGOS DE LA ENERGA

The museums friend association seeks to build bridges between museums and institutions, companies and various agents in the cultural field. Through the generosity of our friends and sponsors, we continue to build and strengthen our vision of a

new space for social interaction, contributing to the cultural offer and artistic heritage of the city. Sponsor a museum, be part of the project. By collaborating, you are part of the transformation. Please write to donaciones@laene.org on information on how to contribute.

INFO
Santa Fe Ave # 2729, Local # 34 (1st floor), Buenos Aires Open: Tues 18 - 21 hrs, Wed and Thurs 15 to 19 hrs. To make an appointment, email info@laene.org. Museum staff: Director Marina Reyes Franco Coordination Gala Berger Space Cristina Nuez Education Cotelito Image Lala Ladcani Production Martin Lowenstein Interinstitutional Santiago Villanueva Advisers Claudio Iglesias, Franco Ferrari, Marcela Sinclair Volunteer Evangelina Aybar For more information: www.laene.org Email: info@laene.org