As we celebrate ten years of Instituto de Visión, it is an honor for us and our artists to be part of the Galleries and Kabinett sections, presenting a selection of works that fills us with pride. On this occasion, we aim to highlight our program by exploring themes that have been foundational to our […]

This year, Instituto de Visión celebrates its tenth anniversary. Led by women, it is dedicated to exploring conceptual practices and aims to investigate artistic discourses that have been excluded from the official art narrative. Through its Visionarios program, it has recovered valuable archives from the mid-20th-century Latin American art scene and continues to explore the […]

On this occasion, Instituto de Visión presents a project that explores the work artists whose works are created based on their experience with the ancestral and scientific knowledge of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. These artists incorporate an epistemology related to the use of plants, shamanic connections to invisible dimensions, and the foundational stories […]

This presentation brings together the voices of three Latin American female artists whose practices are rooted in concepts related to solutions and issues raised in societies corrupted by patriarchy, colonialism, and exploitation. From three different perspectives, Tania Candiani, Aurora Pellizzi, and Cristina Camacho explore the relations between their own experiences and the impact of cultural […]

The series presented on this occasion, titled Darién (2024), charcoal and embroidery on canvas, and painting, focuses on the tensions and relationships that arise from the connections between the landscape and the massive migratory processes of fauna and how they reproduce in humans. Many factors encourage species mobilization processes in nature. Historically, due to these […]

 It is an honor for Instituto de Visión to share our participation in The Armory Show in New York with the work of Abel Rodríguez – Mogaje Guihu (Cahuinarí River, La Chorrera territory, Amazonas).  Rodriguez’s work, mainly ink on paper, is characterized by a complex use of different shades of greens and browns, which are […]

Our booth presents the work of Colombian artist Cristina Camacho and Mexican artist Iván Krassoievitch. Based in conceptual practices both artists understand form and color as a code of communication. In Camacho’s works the canvas is understood as a structure that has to be taken to the limit. In Krassoievitch’s work poetry is a fundamental […]

Carolina Caycedo’s artistic practice has a collective dimension to it in which performances, drawings, photographs and videos are not just an end result, but rather part of the artist’s process of research and acting. Her work contributes to the construction of environmental historical memory as a fundamental element for non-repetition of violence against human and […]

From the work of three Latin American women artists, this presentation showcased in this iteration of Art Basel Miami Beach displayed possible ways to find the union with nature again. The work of Sandra Monterroso, Tania Candiani and Claudia Fontes, has in common the search for a sense of union between the traditions that identify […]

For the original cultures, art had a healing as well as an aesthetic attribute. That is to say that in their world views, the beauty, and health equation was manifested simultaneously in pieces that contained the same utilitarian and decorative value. Works of art then fulfill a healing function, not only of bodies, but also […]

Marlon de Azambuja’s work aims to generate strategies that amplify the perceptions and relations that the spectator establishes with the city, architecture, and the art world in general. He develops his practice through different media, mainly installation, video, photography, sculpture and drawing. The modernist and functional architecture that took root in Latin America, especially in […]

For this occasion, Instituto de Vision was in the Focus section with Aurora Pellizzi curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates. In the Platform section we presented the work of Carolina Caycedo curated by Tobias Ostrander. The work of Aurora Pellizzi explores the female body and its relationship with crafts traditionally generated by women. In the series Plastex, […]

Tania Candiani’s work has been developed in diverse media and practices that maintain an interest in the complex intersection between language, phonic, graphic, linguistic, symbolic and technological systems. She has worked with different associative narratives, taking as a starting point a proposal to invent, reorder, remix and play with the correspondences between technologies, knowledge and […]

Aurora Pellizzi’s work combines formal precepts of painting and sculpture with craft techniques. Her practice is informed by pre-industrial textile processes and materials, from natural dyeing to back-strap loom weaving. Technical constraints give way to textural, dimensional shapes and forms. Fiber is used both as a pictorial field and as the embodiment of the subject […]

The work of Nohemí Pérez, multidisciplinary, revolves around the relationship between men and nature; the conflicts, tensions and genesis that arise from this constant friction. Based on the notions of architecture, cinema and sociology, the artist proposes a rereading of the Catatumbo territory; a geographical region with a very particular natural and sociocultural ecosystem. From […]

Instituto de Visión participated for the eighth time in ArtBasel Miami Beach 2021, the most important Latin American art fair of the year on the continent. On this occasion with the powerful work of two of our represented artists: Carolina Caycedo and Sandra Monterroso. Carolina Caycedo participates in movements of territorial resistance, solidarity economies and […]

This presentation is based on two discourses: on the one hand, the work of the Colombian collective Mazenett Quiroga and on the other, the sculptural work of the Brazilian artist Vanessa Da Silva. Starting from a reflection based on classical concepts of philosophy, such as body, space and intimacy, we question again the position of […]

There are two themes that recurrently appear in Instituto de Visión’s exhibitions: on the one hand, the body and its political presence in history and on the other, territory. Both issues, equally important and transcendent, are analysed from different perspectives by the artists and, in each case, these approaches generate new directions from which to […]

Gloria Sebastián Fierro’s work looks into painting as a personal path to acquire knowledge and understanding of the self. Their work becomes a tool to philosophize without the use of language—philosophy made by the study of forms, of how things are presented to us. Fierro navigates the landscape between figuration and abstraction, and with a […]

From an intense exercise of observation of the everyday, Glenda León generates an ecosystem of works in which she gathers diverse ideas about the poetic, the marginal, the feminine and the way in which these concepts constantly break into the world of the mundane. The works that emerge from this process of digestion of reality, […]

Wilson Díaz’s work is informed by the complex sociopolitical context of Colombia. His practice includes music, painting, performance, photography, and video. While the range of mediums is broad, Díaz’s oeuvre is unified by his commitment to exploring the tensions inherent within local imaginaries and specifically by interrogating the representation of violence in the mass media. […]

For the first edition of South South, Instituto de Visión is pleased to present a solo show by Cuban artist, Glenda León. From an intense exercise of observation of the everyday, Glenda León generates an ecosystem of works in which she gathers diverse ideas about the poetic, the marginal, the feminine and the way in […]

With this presentation, we seek to explore the idea of Nature from three different points of view, in order to reveal tensions that are still pronounced around the concepts of modern and primitive. Don Abel’s drawings – beyond representing the landscape- contain the very spirit of Nature, which is manifested through the relationships between all […]

The work of Ana María Millán addresses the politics of the animation in relation to digital cultures and subcultures, gender and propaganda. She has developed techniques based on role playing, reenactment and ideas about animation as methodology to make a series of plays that end in the form narrative films. It speaks from amateur cultures, […]

Karen Paulina Biswell was born in 1983 to Colombian parents who emigrated to Paris escaping the extreme political violence of the early 90’s. Her varied oeuvre – which is consistently defying definition – is drawn to subjects of vulnerability morality and human fate. She is committed to capturing the lesser known aspects of contemporary life, […]

The work of Nohemí Pérez, multidisciplinary, revolves around the relationship between men and nature; the conflicts, tensions and genesis that arise from this constant friction. Based on the notions of architecture, cinema and sociology, the artist proposes a reconstructs the history of her origin and thus, collects the voices of those who live and have […]

Instituto de Vision is proud to present the works by a group of artists, who from their own particular practices, propose different approaches to the issues of “the Natural.” Starting from works that reflect on universal water systems, illegal mining, exploitation of forests, or botanical representations in colonial history, we propose to expand the notions […]

Abel Rodríguez is a sage of the Nonuya people who possesses the ancestral knowledge of the medicinal plants and the ecological systems of the Amazon basin. In the 90s, after his family left La Chorrera, his native territory, because of the Colombian armed conflict, Rodríguez found a way to preserve his legacy by drawing his […]

For this occasion we propose a dialogue between two artists from different generations of Colombia, whose work revolve around issues of identity and territory. From this dialogue an idea of cartography is presented from desire and memory; and new ways of understanding the territory are drawn from the experiences of those who inhabit it physically […]

Inspired by the images of the photographer Dorothea Lange, Making camouflage nets for the War Department (1942), Tania Candiani recreated the forced labor of Japanese Americans imprisoned in the concentration camps in Manzanar and the Santa Anita Assembly Center in California, during the Second World War. Overseen by army engineers, groups of women wove huge […]

Part of Instituto de Visión’s Visionaries program, Calentamientos presents works of the Colombian artist Miguel Ángel Cárdenas who deal with the concept of human warmth as understood in terms of its most naïve and innocent of connotations (the idea of been able to transform a rationalist and cold culture, such as that of the Dutch, […]

In Mandy El Sayegh’s work, the body functions as a central locus, a core from which broader exploration of the political, the psychological, the social and the linguistic can emerge. Encompassing painting, sculpture, installation, research, drawing and writing in the form of diagramming, her practice constitutes an expanded field within which issues such as cultural […]

Avocado comes from the Nahual Ahucatl word which means tree’s testicles. For the Syrians and Arabs the liver was the center of life and in the Hebrew tradition the kidneys are considered the fundamental organ of the body. In the old testament the kidneys appear as a recurrent metaphor for temperament and are used to […]

Alberto Baraya’s works carry out questions around the notion of travel, post colonialism and exoticism as discourses of cultural vindicated. All these issues converge in a particular way at his project Herbarium for Artificial Plants, an ironical project trying to reconstruct the identity of nature and men, trough the “studies” of fake botanics, based most […]

Camil’s work is usually associated to the mexican urban landscape, the aesthetic language of mod ernism and its relationship to retail and advertising. Recently she has engaged in public participation as a way to activate the work and engage with the politics of consumerism. Amalia Pica uses sculpture, performance, installation and photography to explore the […]

Amalia Pica uses sculpture, performance, installation and photography to explore the nuances of communication. Central to Pica’s work is the problem of communication, which she explores by setting everyday objects alongside obsolete technologies such as shutter telegraphs, slide projectors, and 16 mm film. Yet while her interest is in language, and in the mechanisms by […]

En el mundo natural todos los ecosistemas están interconectados y se retroalimentan de múltiples formas. Cada cierto tiempo una nube de polvo del desierto del Sahara se desplaza hasta la selva del amazonas y la fertiliza. Este polvo, está compuesto por con- chas marinas que se desmoronaron millones de años atrás cuan- do el desierto […]

Although they come from different generations, Ofelia Rodríguez and Carmen Argote’s practices share many formal and conceptual similarities. The most evident one is that they are both women who experienced multiple cultural and geographic displacements. Living and working in foreign countries, their work explores life experiences through their own identities. The body and its fragments […]

The references that Ana Roldán articulates to construct her work are based on cultural phenomena as historical events, philosophical ideas, language, systems, reflections on aesthetics and theoretical concepts in general. Due to her deep interest in the way in which spectators can be physically or intellectually stimulated, through opposition or displacement of the aforementioned systems, […]

Camil’s work is usually associated to the mexican urban landscape, the aesthetic language of modernism and its relationship to retail and advertising. Recently she has engaged in public participation as a way to activate the work and engage with the politics of consumerism. Pia Camil represents a very particular vision of contemporaneity as her work […]

Physical Structures, closely examines photographs from Primeval Forms (2011), which is a series of fourteen photographs taken in the Ethno-Botanical Garden of Oa- xaca. They depict autochthons and prehistoric Mexican plants. Ana Roldán is interested in archetypal forms of nature that serve as inspiration to hu- man beings in developing their own forms and designs. […]

The work of Marlon de Azambuja aims to generate strategies that amplify the perceptions and relations that the spectator establishes with the city, architecture and the art world in general. Herencia, exhibited in this occasion, is a living sculpture that questions in some ways the basis of art itself. A painted plant acquires the qualities […]

For this edition of Liste, IV is pleased to present a two artists project that deals with relevant concepts such as community, human relations, mythical thinking in contra position with other ideas that belong to the fundaments of modernity, like architecture and social control. Both Carmen Argote (Mexico, 1981) and Carolina Caycedo (London, 1978) have […]

Reacting against the insistence on sterile explanations and the exaggerated eagerness for clarification, poet and essayist Aldo Pellegrini titled his compilation of articles and conferences Contributions to the General Confusion (1965). Throughout the essays —at times lucid, at times feisty—he ponders the destiny of his intellectual exercise: to add to the governing, general confusion. Almost […]

As a multidisciplinary artist working in installation, Carmen Argote explores notions of home and place. The works presented are created horizontally and are inspired by the compositions created by street venting. With these works, Argote is interested in organizing a composition outside of the western conventions of painting, and drawing inspiration from the way street […]

The central interest of Lina Mazenett and David Quiroga is the temporality of matter. They work with materials of fossil origin such as tar, pitch, coal and a variety of minerals. These materials not only have a particular symbology, but also have a great condensed energy that has accumulated over time. Very present in our […]

Mobilize is an exercise of cooperation between two friends. Starting from two pieces: Stabile (with conffeti) and Revolver (Universidad Nacional) whose formal results seem to be a coincidence yet point towards different meanings; Amalia and Otto began a conversation about the limits of a work, authorship, generosity and originality. The result of this negotiation is […]

As a multidisciplinary artist working in installation, Carmen Argote explores notions of home and place. For her pieces, Argote was thinking about how stark and cold foldout chairs or structures can be, and how dressing them up makes them more presentable for a gathering. Coffee is a liquid that Carmen connects to through her daily […]

Carolina Caycedo transcends institutional spaces to work in the social realm, where she participates in movements of territorial resistance, solidarity economies, and housing as a human right. Carolina’s artistic practice has a collective dimension to it in which performances, drawings, photographs and videos are not just an end result, but rather part of the artist’s […]

Carolina Caycedo transcends institutional spaces to work in the social realm, where she participates in movements of terri torial resistance, solidarity economies, and housing as a human right. Carolina’s artistic practice has a collective dimension to it in which performances, drawings, photographs and videos are not just an end result, but rather part of the […]

In this edition, the Brazilian curator Kiki Mazzucchelli presents Against Forgetting”, a sample of 15 projects by contemporary artists represented by galleries from eight countries, which through their works reflect themes related to democracy and civil liberties. In “Against Forgetting”, Mazzucchelli explores how societies that promised a more egalitarian and inclusive, today they are being […]

Felipe Arturo is an architect and artist born in Bogotá in 1979. His practice takes elements from fields in the proximities of urbanism, architecture and art in relation to politics, history, geography and economy. His projects are mainly sculptures, installations and videos departing from concepts like structure, sequence and matter. The work of Arturo is […]

The Good will moon rock project is an ongoing research from the Colombian artist Santiago Reyes Villaveces. The artist traces the Goodwill moon rocks of the country where the project is presented to produces a drawing of each of the country’s Good will moon rocks. For the Frieze show, Reyes Villaveces has produced one drawing […]

As a multidisciplinary artist working in installation, Carmen Argote explores notions of home and place. Interacting with architecture to reflect on personal histories and her own immigrant experience, Argote works with the places and materials that surround her, utilizing local resources as points to expand from. Using the act of inhabiting as a starting point, […]

En los últimos años Ana María Millán se ha interesado en buscar relaciones entre performatividad, movimiento y animación. Este proyecto presenta piezas que de diferentes maneras hablan de estas tres ideas en relación a ciertos tipos de propaganda política. La pieza parte de un archivo, de un cómic perdido y descontinuado de la DC Comics […]

Sebastián Fierro paintings follow a dulling method of representation, seeking a dislocation with the “reality” we observe. The model is a space created from flat elements, which is then introduced again into another flat surface, the pictorial space. “When I work I am aware that painting is a grammar, a scheme of thought that proposes […]

This year’s ARTBO Projects section, titled Figurativism, brings together fifteen galleries from around the world, each one in charge of the exhibition of an only artist whose work explores the representation of the human figure through through painting. The Referents section brings together artists who broke the paradigms of art history over the decades of […]

Felipe Arturo’s practice takes elements from fields in the proximities of urbanism, architecture and art in relation to politics, history, geography and economy. His works and projects are mainly sculptures, installations and videos departing from concepts like structure, sequence and matter. The work of Arturo is deeply influenced by the vernacular architecture and construction techniques […]

Felipe Arturo’s practice takes elements from fields in the proximities of urbanism, architecture and art in relation to politics, history, geography and economy. His projects are mainly sculptures, installations and videos departing from concepts like structure, sequence and matter. The work of Arturo is deeply influenced by vernacular architectures and construction techniques that reflect processes […]

Otto Berchem has done obsessive studies of codes, and ways of classification. Being a foreigner in Colombia he decided to put together two of his principal interests, the tradition of conceptual painting, and the botanical expedition done in Colombia by priest and scientist Jose Celestino Mutis in the 18th and 19th century. Berchem does a […]

Otto Berchem’s work explores social and visual codes, focusing on the relationships between language, architecture, history and poetry. His conceptual based practice employs a wide variety of media, including painting, video, public interventions and other unusual artist activities. Berchem’s interest in codes goes back to 1994’s Men’s Room Etiquette, a public intervention touching on how […]

Two of the most visionary curators with the most refreshing look on the Latin American scene, Manuela Moscoso and Catalina Lozano, were in charge of selecting the 15 artist projects, commercially represented by a gallery, who participate in this section. Gathered at the show “Merge with the light, become one with the dust”, these works […]

Sebastián Fierro is interested in approaching painting as a tool to investigate the ways in which we occupy a place in the world. He is intrigued by the way in which man wishes to separate himself from nature by creating spaces where he can have control and understanding of his surroundings. Carlos Motta is a […]

María Evelia Marmolejo’s Anónimo 3 displays documentary photographs of a performance at the banks of the Cauca River. This river, like so many rivers of this world, is being affected by non-digestible waste polluted thrown by industries and human beings alike. For this offense, Marmolejo created a ritual to the Mother Earth as an act […]

Be Dammed is a research-based project that explores concepts of Flow and Containment, particularly looking at the interrelations between the planning and construction of large water dams/reservoirs, and mechanisms of social control. Caycedo is focus on these case studies: The currently under-construction hydro-electric dams of Quimbo and Hidroituango (Colombia). The continuous documentation over time of […]

For Arco/Colombia 2015, Instituto de Vision is pleased to present the works of Carolina Caycedo and Carlos Motta two Colombian artists whose pieces reflect upon their country recent history and its complex geopolitical tensions. Yuma, or the land of Friends (2014) by Carolina Caycedo is part of Be Dammed. A research-based project that explores the […]

Sebastián Fierro is interested in approaching painting as a tool to investigate the ways in which we occupy a place in the world. He is intrigued by the way in which man wishes to separate himself from nature by creating spaces where he can have control and understanding of his surroundings. Karlo Ibarra’s work is […]

The first punch cards used as code came from looms that Joseph-Marie Jacquard developed at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The cards guided loom movement as a means of weaving pre-determined patterns. It was the beginning of what would become digital programming; this was the first time that information translated into perforations could afterwards […]

The reaction of the mixture of cement with water and its subsequent hardening is an event that we can experience without losing our capacity for awe. This event, normal within the construction of cities and fundamental in the accelerated process of transformation of the territory into “civilized” landscape, connects us with a magical dimension of […]

For Artissima, Instituto de Visión proposes a stand with the objetive of pointing some aproximations to the the matics of gender in contemporary art from latinamerica. With this in mind we have chosen four works whose roots are all in these thematic but the aproximations are very specific generating diferent tensions in regards to concepts […]

Carolina Caycedo’s Be Dammed is a research project that addresses concepts of Flow and Containment. In particular, it focuses on the relationships between the planning and construction of dams, and social control mechanisms. In this case, Caycedo focuses on the study of the current construction of the Quimbo and Hidroituango hydroelectric plant (Colombia). Felipe Arturo’s […]

Ana María Millán’s “Scanners” deals with some specific issues of the exploitation of gold in the Colombian Pacific region and the problem of the ownership of the land in this country. It refers to three cities in the southwest of Colombia: Popayán, Iscuandé and the port of Buenaventura related through their strong colonial past in […]

Otto Berchem’s work explores the way we live and how we communicate our experiences to one another. Said interest stems from the exploration of different social, pictorial and semantic codes through the use of public space and non-artistic contexts. The work that Monika Bravo shows in the 2014 version of arteBA enjoys processes and analyzes […]

RESISTENCIA is the last part of a trilogy that started with Sociedad Anonima, and was followed by Clandestina. It pro- poses a subjective reflexion on an important social syndrome of our times. For the past ten years we have witness protests in the streets of more than eighty countries. RESISTENCIA wants to represent this social […]

This project consists of the temporary construction of a floor design, resembling a mosaic, using unstable materials such as coffee, sugar, and cream (powdered milk). In this way, la disolución de la geometría is a project that proposes the construction of a temporary geometric order that can be collectively modified, generating a floor design and […]