The International Contemporary Art Fund was founded by independent agents in the city of Mar del Plata, in April 1999. Legally, it is a NGO non-profit organization (Personería Jurídica Nro. 22240). Since then the Fund works to achieve the following objectives and aims:

1 -Special training for artists or for anybody who is interested in some specific aspect of contemporary art through seminars, workshops, clinics, lectures, video projections, etc, giving special attention to local young artists.

2- Counseling to artists for the presentation of projects on a national and on an international level.

3. Network.

4. Appropriate space to exhibit work.

5. Patrimony, collection and propagation of local, national and international contemporary art. ,

6- Documentation Fund for public consultation and on going updating of books videos and publications.

7. Editorial Fund to publish projects, books and portfolios.

Project: The drawing club

The drawing club is a social community project to support this discipline and to promote the exchange of criteria on the question – what is drawing about?
Drawing is an activity that draws people of different ages and different strata in society. Artists and non-artists. A draftsperson is he or she who draws, a pleasure anybody may enjoy. Regardless of how one draws.
The drawing club is a project that involves diverse activities around this discipline: exhibitions, debates publications, public exchange meetings, collections and archives, creating drawing clubs in schools, etc.

Daniel Besoytaorube
Born in Mar del Plata, Argentina in 1959.
1988 Lived in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
1991-1992 Won the Antorchas Foundation Award to work in the studio coordinated by Guillermo Kuitca in Buenos Aires.
In 1997 he became a member of the Auditorium Center for the Arts Theatre
(under the sub Culture Secretariat of the Province of Buenos Aires) as coordinator / producer and exhibition curator – he also organizes talks, lectures and video series.
1999 He created the International Contemporary Art Fund together with Cecilia Gispert and Mario Gemin in Mar del Plata.

Mario Gemin
Born in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in 1960.
1984 He graduated as a Graphic Designer from the Escuela Superior de Artes Visuales (Visual Art Superior School) in Mar del Plata
1986-1989 Lived in Barcelona, Spain. Throughout this time he is involved in the study design at «Zimmermann Asociados", headed by Ives Zimmermann. He is in touch with América Sánchez, Humberto Rivas and Norberto Chaves, who had a strong influence in his training.
1990-1991. Lived in San Diego, California.
Lives and works in Mar del Plata since 1992.
Since 1982, parallel to his work as a designer, he works on his art taking part in exhibitions as an artist, in juries and as curator in several national and international exhibitions.