Eileen Contreras @ Rome Art Week
Eileen Contreras
Independent Contemporary art and critic curator, Venezuelan, celebrates beauty through wide originality of expressions and artistic languages, recognising the power of creativity to overcome barriers, prejudices, stereotypes, and ideologies.
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Graduated in Business Management (URBE) in Venezuela and with an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, Eileen has dedicated over ten years to promoting international cultural projects. She has held artistic leadership roles in organizing contemporary art exhibitions and festivals, conceptualizing events in numerous institutional venues and curating over 20 exhibitions, festivals, and fashion shows across Rome, Milan, and London.

Earlier this year, she received the “Energie per Roma 2025” award from the European Parliament Commission, which recognized her commitment to promoting and enhancing art and culture as tools for social growth and cohesion, through initiatives that enrich Rome's cultural heritage and strengthen its identity.

 She was recently the curator of second edition of the International Art Biennale of the Riviera Romana 2025 , Eileen is responsible for curation and logistics in prestigious locations such as the Chamber of Deputies, Palazzo Valentini, Polo Museale La Sapienza, and the Castello di Santa Severa. Her mission is to initiate international dialogue through works that enrich cultural identity, using art as a means of communication and cultural interaction.

 Also has a special passion for developing exhibitions that pay homage to beauty in all its expressions. Her curatorial methodology is constantly looking for poetic, philosophical approaches inspired by literature, surrealism, and understanding the world or other inventions that foster a social dialogue between the themes of the works on display. She strongly believes in the richness of making his public reflect and intrigue her audience with a wide variety and originality of forms of expression, recognizing as a value the power of creativity, sensation, and emotion that mediate artistic languages, the only one capable of overcoming the barriers, prejudices, stereotypes, and ideologies.

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Events at Rome Art Week
ART & HUMAN RIGHTS
24 Oct 2025 | 17:00-20:30
ARTISTS REUNITED FOR PEACE
Event on Reservation
Organizer Eileen Contreras
Event
Palazzo Ruspoli
Via della Fontanella di Borghese 56
2024
“ENERGY, TIME AND CONSCIOUSNESS” by FEDERICO KAMPF
25 Oct 2024 | 18:00-20:00
« Energia, Tiempo y Conciencia » (Energy, Time and Consciousness) is a fresco created by the famous Mexican visual artist Federico Kampf in collaboration with a team of Mexican artists, Antonio Nieto, Rodriguez and Daniel Calderon.
Free access
Organizer Eileen Contreras
Event
Eileen Contreras
salita del grillo 21
2023
Brain Art Contest
27 Oct 2023 | 16:30-20:30
Brain Art Contest a comparison between art and neuroscience
Event on Reservation
Organizer Eileen Contreras
Project
Palazzo Ruspoli
Via della Fontanella Borghese 56
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