About us - LA CASA CUADRADA

FOUNDER.

La Casa Cuadrada A.I.R. was born from the personal and artistic drive of Lisa Marie Vlietstra — photographer, filmmaker, and cultural practitioner originally from Amsterdam, who has been living in Andalusia for the past eight years. With a background in Fine Arts (Photography) from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and a Master’s degree in Artistic Research from the Netherlands Film Academy, Vlietstra has developed her career across visual arts, film creation, and cultural mediation. Her work has been featured in numerous international festivals, exhibitions, and artist residencies.

After a long trajectory of traveling and creating in diverse contexts, Lisa decided to establish La Casa Cuadrada A.I.R. in El Coronil (Seville), a small Andalusian town where she saw the opportunity to weave new forms of connection between art, territory, and community. What began as a respectful restoration of a 18th-century manor house has evolved into a hybrid space — bridging the intimate and the collective, the rural and the contemporary.

La Casa Cuadrada A.I.R. is an artist residency that welcomes national and international creatives to develop projects in close dialogue with the surrounding environment. Our approach is guided by a philosophy of active accompaniment — from conceptual guidance to co-production, audiovisual documentation, and meaningful engagement with the local community.

Lisa is as host, mediator, and artistic collaborator, placing her experience and professional network at the service of each creative process.

Our mission is to offer a space for reflection, exchange, and creation—where art can grow with roots and purpose. We believe that artistic practices have the power to transform both those who create and the places where they take root.

LISA-MARIE VLIETSTRA

CV.

EDUCATION

2015-2017 MA ARTISTIC RESEARCH THROUGH CINEMA, CUM LAUDE, THE NETHERLANDS FILM ACADEMY, ÁMSTERDAM.
2010-2014 BA PHOTOGRAPHY, GERRIT RIETVELD ACADEMY, ÁMSTERDAM. 2013 HONOURS PROGRAM ‘CRACKING COBRA’, A COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE GERRIT RIETVELD ACADEMIE AND THE COBRA MUSEUM, AMSTELVEEN.

PRIZES

2014 START POINT PRIZE AWARD DOX CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART PRAGUE
(PRIZE FOR EMERGING ARTISTS)
2014 PUBLIC PRIZE AWARD RON MANDOS BEST OF GRADUATES

(PUBLIC’S FAVORITE)
2014 NOMINATION STEENBERGEN STIPENDIUM (PHOTOGRAPHY TALENT)

EXHIBITIONS

2024 – ART TODAY OFICIAL – EMPOWER HER ART FORUM, CAIRO, EGYPT. 2022 – CLUSTER PHOTOGRAPHY AND PRINT, LONDON, ENGLAND.
2022 – FAIR SATURDAY FESTIVAL 2022, HUELVA, HUELVA, SPAIN.
2021 – FAIR SATURDAY FESTIVAL 2021, HUELVA, HUELVA, SPAIN.

2021 – MUDI IN ARTE 2021, SALERNO, ITALY.
2021 – THE HOLY ART, MOMENTUM, LONDON, ENGLAND.
2021 – ROUND LEMON ZEST HALL BODY, LONDON, ENGLAND.
2020 – WINTER EXHIBITION ̈ 2020 ̈ , PACHAMAMA COLLECTIVE, LONDON, ENGLAND.
2020 – ONLINE FAIR SATURDAY FESTIVAL, HUELVA, HUELVA, SPAIN.
2020 – ITS PINK! BUDAPEST ART WEEK, CHARBON ART CAFÉ, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY.
2017 – MASTER OF FILM ARTISTIC RESEARCH WEEK, FRAMING TRACES, EYE FILMMUSEUM, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS.
2016 – THE ARCHIVE AS A PLACE TO PLAY, EYE FILMMUSEUM, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS.
2015- STARTED 2015 RESIDENTS OF STARTPOINT PRIZE, GAVUCHEB, CHEB, CZECH REPUBLIC.
2015 – ‘ENSAYO PARA UNA EXPOSICIÓN’, COMBO, CORDOBA, SPAIN.

2015 – ‘LO CONSULTAMOS DURMIENDO’, LA FRAGUA THE FORGE A.I.R, BELALCAZAR, CORDOBA, SPAIN.
2015 – OPEN STUDIO’S 33OC, OFFICINA CREATIVA A.I.R., TOFFIA, RIETI, ITALY. 2015 ITS LIQUID GROUP, LIQUID ROOMS THE LABYRINTH, PALAZZO CA’ ZANARDI, VENICE ART HOUSE GALLERY, VENICE, ITALY.

2014 – SCREENING #TOFF THE ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL, NETHERLANDS.
2014 – SCREENING SHORT OF THE MONTH ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL, NETHERLANDS.
2014 – BOOKLAUNCH GUP NEW TALENT 2015, ART L’HOTEL, 5&33 GALLERY, CLAIRE / LISA-MARIE VLIETSTRA & JANNEMAREIN RENOUT, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS. .
2014 – GRID FOTOWEEK FOTOFLASH EXPO, BASISBUREAU TOLSTRAAT, AMSTERDAM, CLAIRE / LISA-MARIE VLIETSTRA & JANNEMAREIN RENOUT 2014 CBK FOTOFESTIVAL SCHIEDAM, SCHIEDAM, NETHERLANDS. .

2014 – START POINT PRIZE, DOX CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC.
2014 – STEENBERGEN STIPENDIUM, HET NEDERLANDS FOTOMUSEUM, ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS.

2014 – BEST OF GRADUATES GALLERIE RON MANDOS, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS.
2014 -GRADUATION SHOW 2014, GERRIT RIETVELD ACADEMIE, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS.

2014 -CONSTANT COMPANION, RIETVELD IN THE OLD CHURCH, CLAIRE / LISA- MARIE VLIETSTRA & JANNEMAREIN RENOUT, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS. 2013 – OVERAL/AVRAL PART II, BUTCHER’S TEARS, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS. 2013 -OVERAL/AVRAL IN COLLABORATION WITH FOTODEPARTAMENT, CHETVERT,

SAINT PETERSBURG, RUSSIA.
2013-UNTERSICHT, DIE HOCHSCHULE FÜR BILDENDE KÜNSTE HAMBURG (HFBK), HAMBURG, GERMANY.

2013 – ‘CRACKING COBRA’, A COLLABORATION WITH THE COBRA MUSEUM, AMSTELVEEN, NETHERLANDS.
2013 -MANIFESTATION #1, DE SLANG, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS.
2013 -PLAYING WITH REALITY, VETTERSTRAAT 66, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS. 2012- RIETVELD UNCUT ‘THE MAKING OF’, VLAAMS CULTUURHUIS DE BRAKKE GROND, CLAIRE / LISA-MARIE VLIETSTRA & JANNEMAREIN RENOUT, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS.

2012 – POP-UP BOOKSTORE, GALERIE DE SCHANS, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS. 2012 – FOTO EXPOSITIE, GALERIE DE SCHANS, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS.