About my work
I feel a statement somehow contradicts the nature of what I do, mainly because I believe the experience should take place beyond the rigidity of the mind, like for example; eating drawings or dancing with clouds, becoming a horse or asking a volcano to write a poem. An important question for me is how can I transform our language-centered perception of the world in order to expand and speak to the uncertain? I guess my works are rooted in providing a different belief system, although I have to say these belief systems require certain complicit vulnerability and a state of deeper contemplation in order to allow us to BECOME the subject matter from within. In my work, I or we, have to believe we are truly transforming, otherwise it just does not work. When this transmutation occurs I think then some sort of real collective or individual cognition manifests, mainly because it takes you to a new place. Sometimes this transformation happens by playing, which in my opinion is the ultimate universal language. Only humans talk but everything else communicates in infinite ways. Can we communicate with a palm tree? Sure, but maybe it’s better if we first listen to one, then we might also understand how the palm tree communicates to the wind, the clouds and time and ultimately how it delicately whispers back to us. Communication is a circle, and like the circular function of the heart, blood has to return back to where it once left. Ok, so, what makes us human then? Maybe the answer is a question, maybe the best way to know this is by asking a turtle.
ps: Artist are like flowers, you never really see your self or your work, cause if you would, there wouldn’t be any bees, butterflies, wind, sun and so on. It’s always collaborative. Flowers smell themselves through others.
Studies
2003 / 05
Program for the Visual Arts
Guillermo Kuitca
Universdad de Buenos Aires
Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Residencies & Programs
2023
Amant Residency
New York City, U.S
2019
Instituto Inclusartiz
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2017 / 18
TBA21 Academy “The current”
2017
ATELIER MONDIAL/ART INSTITUTE FHNW
Basel, Switzerland
2016
ARTIST IN RESIDENCY SAO PAULO BIENNIAL
Sao Paulo, Brazil
2015 / 16 / 17
INSITE CASA GALLINA
DF, Mexico
2015
BAIR RESIDENCY PROGRAM
Banff Centre, Canada
2014
ARTIST IN RESIDENCY
3th New Museum Triennial
New York, US
2014
BAR PROJECT
Barcelona, Spain
2014
ARTIST IN RESIDENCY
12th Sharjah Biennial
United Arab Emirates
2014
ARTIST IN RESIDENCY
12th Cuenca Biennial
Cuenca, Ecuador
2012
ADVANCED COURSE IN VISUAL ARTS
Fondazione Antonio Ratti
Italy
2010
ART OMI
Omi International Artist Residency
US
2008
DEUTSCHE BORSE RESIDENCY PROGRAM
Frankfurter Kunstverein
Frankfurt, Germany
2007
OFF SITE
Aspex Contemporary Art
Portsmouth, UK
2006
SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING
Skowhegan, Maine
US
Grants
Teaching Experience
2023
2022
Workshop: I am a turtle
Nottingham Contemporary
Nottingham, United Kingdom
2021
Seminario de Obsesiones e Investigaciones Personales
TORCUATO DI TELLA UNIVERSITY
Buenos Aires, Argentina
2017
Ser Tortuga
TORCUATO DI TELLA UNIVERSITY
Buenos Aires, Argentina
2015
El Tao de lo Absurdo
TORCUATO DI TELLA UNIVERSITY
Buenos Aires, Argentina
2012 / 13
Más Es Más, Menos Es Menos
TORCUATO DI TELLA UNIVERSITY
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Talks
2018
Performative Talk given by the Cosmic Clown from Andromeda
Imminence Symposium: Art before environmental crisis and digital duplication of the world.
Director: Graciela Speranza
Torcuato Di Tella University
2015
Poema Volcánico
A Talk by Artist Eduardo Navarro with Curator Sarah Demeuse
Americas Society, NY US
Guest scholar of the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
Visiting Artists Critics program with Hunter College
Curated by Veronica Flom
Public Collections
MoMa Museum of Modern Art
Lacma Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Malba Museum of Latin American Art Buenos Aires
Mamba Museum of Modern Art Buenos Aires
Sharjah Art Foundation
Kadist Art Foundation
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art
Solo Shows
2021
Oido Vegetal
Proyectos UltraVioleta
Cuidad de Guatemala, Guatemala
2020
(breathspace)
Gasworks
London, UK
Curated by Sabel Gavaldon
2019
In Collaboration with the Sun
Museum of Contemporary Art Mac Niteroi
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Curated by Pablo Leon de la Barra & Raphael Fonseca
2019
Instant Weather Prediction
PIVO
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Curated by Fernanda Brenner
2018
Into Ourselves
Drawing Center
New York, US
Curated by Brett Littman and Rosario Guiraldes
2017
Into Ourselves
Der TANK Art Institute FHNW Academy of Art and Design
Basel, Switzerland
Curated by Chus Martinez
2016
OCTOPIA
Museo Rufino Tamayo
DF, Mexico
Curated by Daniela Perez and Manuela Moscoso
2016
We Who Spin Around
High Line Art
New York, USA
Curated by Cecilia Alemani & Melanie Kress
2013
Estudio Juridico Mercosur
Faena Art Center
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Curated by Sonia Becce
2013
Orbita
Ensayo de Situación. Soy un Pedazo de atmósfera
Di Tella University
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Curated by Sonia Becce
2012
Estudio Jurídico Mercosur
Ignacio Liprandi Gallery
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Curated by Javier Villa
2008
Fabricantes Unidos
La Dulce Galeria
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Curated by Ines Katzenstein
2008
Do Not Feed
Frederieke Taylor Gallery
New York, US
Curated by Joanne Bernstein
2006
The Pod Show
The Blanton Museum/ Art Palace Austin
Texas, US
Curated by Gabriel Perez Barreiro
2004
Dibujos
Belleza y Felicidad
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Group Shows
2023
Remedios - Through the ancestral paths
C3A, Cordoba, Spain
Thyssen Bornemisza 21
Curated by Daniela Zyman
2023
2022
2023
18 minutes to the Sun
MAMBA - Modern Arts Museum of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Curated by Javier Villa y Marcos Kramer
2023
Luz y Fuerza
MALBA - Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Curated by Lara Marmor
2023
Sea Blindness: What Lies Beneath the Waves
NeME Center
Cyprus
Curated by Régine Debatty and Carmen Salas
2022
PERSONES, PERSONS
Biennale Gherdëina
Dolomite Mountain, Val Gardena, Italy
Curated by Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos
2022
WHAT WATER KNOWS, THE LAND REMEMBERS
Toronto Biennial
Toronto, Canadá
Curated by Tairone Bastien, Candice Hopkins and Katie Lawson
2022
ROOTED BEINGS
Wellcome Collection
London, UK
Curated by Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz with Emily Sargent
2021
FEET OF CLAY
Galeria Municipal do Porto
Portugal
Curated by Chus Martinez & Filipa Ramos
2021
VEGETAL ENCOUNTER
La Casa Encendida
Madrid, Spain
Curated by Barbara Rodrigez Muñoz
2021
WHEN IN DOUBT, GO TO A MUSEUM
City Museum of Ljubljana - MGML
ST_AGE TBA21
Slovenia
Curated by Tevž Logar
2021
NOT I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE–2020 CE)
LACMA
LA, US
Curated by José Luis Blondet
2020
Countryside
The Future Guggenheim Museum
NY, US
Curated by Rem Koolhaas and Samir Bantal
2020
Tiger in Space
Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM)
Estonia
Curated by Lea Vene, Vanina Saracino, Marten Esko
2020
Open air: large scale works at fazenda boa vista
Nara Roesler
São Paulo, Brasil
2020
Avanzar con paso leve
Thyssen-Bornemisza
ST_AGE TBA21
Madrid, Spain
Curated by Soledad Gutiérrez
2019
Chronos Cosmos: Deep Time, Open Space
Socrates Sculpture Park
New York, US
Curated by Jess Wilcox
2019
Reflections on space and time
Nara Roesler
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Curated by Agnaldo Farias
2019
Portadores de Sentidos
Museo Amparo
México
Curated by Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
2018
Rayuela
Art Basel Cities
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Curated by Cecilia Alemani
2018
Casa tomada
Site Santa Fe Biennial
New Mexico, US
Curated by Ruba Katrib, José Luis Blondet, Candice Hopkins
2018
Oceans. Imagining a Tidalectic Worldview
Museum of Moder Art Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik and Lopud, Croacia
Curated by Stefanie Hessler
Organized by TBA21–Academy and the Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik
2018
Solo Show
ArteBA Art Fair
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Curator: José Luis Blondet
2018
METAMORPHOSES LET EVERYTHING HAPPEN TO YOU
Castello di Rivoli
Torino, Italy
Curated by Chus Martinez
2018
FUTURO
Arco Madrid
Madrid, Spain
Curated by Chus Martinez, Rosa de Lleo, Elise Lammer
2018
Cuando los animales hablan con los humanos
Travesía Cuatro
Madrid, Spain
Curated by Juan Canela
2018
The way you read a book is diferent from how you tell a story
Jahn und Janh Gallery
Munich, Germany
Curated by Marta Ramos-Yzquierdo
2018
Océans–Une vision du monde au rythme des vagues
Le Fresnoy
Tourcoing, France
Curated by Stefanie Hessler
2017
LA FIN DE LA BABYLONE. MICHWUNDERT, DASS ICH SO FROHLICH BIN
Köln Skulptur 9 Skulpturen Park
Koln, Germany
Curated by Chus Martinez
2017
ELASTIC HOURS
Sequences 8
Reykjavík, Iceland
Curated by Margot Norton
2017
FISHING FOR ISLANDS
Hamburger Bahnhof
Berlin, Germany
Curated by Stefanie Hessler and Markus Reymann, with an experimental ‘circus’ organized by Chus Martínez
2017
ENERG(ETICA)
Flora ars+natura
Bogota, Colombia
Curated by Jose Roca
2017
OBSERVATORIES
Center for the Arts
Wyoming, US
Curated by Matthew Day Jackson, Camille Obering, and Andy Kincaid
2017
TIDALECTICS
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21)
Vienna, Austria
Curated by Stefanie Hessler
2017
EL EJERCICIO DE LAS COSAS. Las Decisiones del Tacto
Casa America
Madrid, Spain
Curated by Sonia Becce & Mariano Mayer
2016
INCERTEZA VIVA
32th Sao Paulo Biennial
Brazil
Curated by Jochen Volz
2016
NERIRI KIRURU HARARA
Media City Biennial
Seoul
Curated by Beck Jee-sook
2016
HUMAN ECOLOGY
Gallery Nara Roesler
New York, USA
2016
FRIEZE PROJECTS
Frieze Art Fair
New York, USA
Curated by Cecilia Alemani
2016
FOR EVERY PURPOSE
P! Gallery
New York, US
Curated by Sarah Demeuse
2016
SPACE TO DREAM
Auckland Art Gallery
Auckland, New Zealand
Curated by Beatriz Bustos Oyanedel & Zara Stanhope
2016
THE ECCENTRICS
Sculpture Center
New York, US
Curated by Ruba Katrib
2015
LA ERA METABOLICA
Malba Museum of Contemporary Art
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Curated by Chus Martinez
2015
SURROUND AUDIENCE
New Museum Triennial
New York, US
Curated by Lauren Cornell & Ryan Trecartin
2015
THE PAST, THE PRESENT, THE POSSIBLE
12 Sharjah Biennial
Sharjah, UAE
Curated by Eungie Joo
2014
WE, THE OUTSIDERS
e-flux
New York, US
Curated by Chus Martinez
2014
IR PARA VOLVER
12th Cuenca Biennial
Cuenca, Ecuador
Curated by Jacopo Crivelli & Manuela Moscoso
2013
AQUELLA MAÑANA FUE COMO SI RECUPERARA, SI NO LA FELICIDAD, SI LA ALEGRIA, UNA ENERGIA QUE SE PARECIA MUCHO AL HUMOR, UN HUMOR QUE SE PARECIA MUCHO A LA MEMORIA
Parque de la Memoria
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Curated by Ines Katzenstein & Javier Villa
2013
WHEATHER PERMITTING
9th Mercosul Biennial
Porto Alegre, Brazil
Curated by Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy
2010
THERE IS ALWAYS A CUP TO SAIL IN
29 São Paulo Biennial
Brazil
Curated by Moacir dos Anjos & Agnaldo Farias
2009
READING THE CITY
EVA Ireland Biennial
Limerick, Ireland
Curated by Angelika Nollert & Yilmaz Dziewior
2009
SCREAMING AND HEARING
7th Mercosur Biennial
Porto Alegre, Brazil
Curated by Victoria Noorthoon
2008
THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION
Frankfurten Kunstverein
Frankfurt, Germany
Curated by Chus Martinez
2008
THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION
Marco
Vigo, Spain
Curated by Chus Martinez
2007
UBS YOUNG ART
Zurich, Switzerland
Curated by Joanne Bernstein
2007
BEGINNING WITH A BANG!