(…)María Evelia Marmolejo will give a presentation to speak from a personal perspective about her career as an artist and her seminal works.
A collective exhibition entitled Entre caníbales was inaugurated on April 16 at the Galería Instituto de Visión. Artist Carolina Caycedo performed a performance that addresses the consequences in the daily lives of communities that inhabit territories undergoing “colonization processes”
The work of artist Carolina Caycedo (Colombian, b. 1978; lives and works in Los Angeles) is deeply rooted in relationships with people, places, and other living things. Through fieldwork in communities that are being impacted by damming and mining, Caycedo gathers materials and stories that she weaves into her work. As part of Carolina Caycedo: At […]
In Colombia, the Cauca River is known as “Patrón Mono” for the yellow color of its waters and the gold nuggets hidden inside. There, through the images of the river that are part of the video installation by Carolina Caycedo, begins the journey of exploration through the myth of El Dorado proposed by the Proa […]
Beyond talking about the relationships that the Colombian experimental filmmaker forged with the New York queer underground of the 60s, this talk will address, among other things, the fixation on the exotic (in this case the tropical) of some queer filmmakers of that scene.
Creative Capital Visual Arts Award 2015 and finalist in the Artes Mundi Award in Wales. EL NUEVO SIGLO spoke with her
Pure documentary photography, but with the sensitivity of an artist who has seen it all and wants others to have that encounter with reality.
Puerto Rican artist Karlo Andrei Ibarra presents his exhibition ‘Concrete Wounds’ at the San Antonio Abad exhibition space
Her artistic proposals expressed in this project in the genres of objects, sculpture, installation and photography can be placed in the territory of visual poetry from conceptual approaches.
Carolina Caycedo’s work “challenges us to understand nature not as a place to be exploited, but as a living and spiritual entity of which we are part, one more part, fleeing from the divisions between nature and culture,” said the deputy director of the IVAM…
Within the programming of the exhibition Carolina Caycedo. Land of Friends, and as a transit between the presentation of the exhibition and the inauguration, the artist will carry out the action Más allá del control (2013-present), together with: Alba Teresa Higuera Buitrago, Claudia García Giraldo, Erika Paez Manjarrés, Leonora Castaño Caro, Luisa Roldán Giraldo and […]
A group of 17 Colombian creators, who resist in the regions and in indigenous reservations, are protagonists in the most important art exhibition in the world.
With a career spanning from industrial mechanics to artistic creation alongside his mother, Olinda Silvano, Ronin Koshi is dedicated to keeping the heritage of his ancestors alive through murals, crafts and educational projects
Testimony of an Amazonian artist displaced from a jungle that remains in his mind.
Abel Rodríguez was born Mogaje Guihu in the Putumayo Department of Colombia and trained as a botanical expert amongst the Nonuya, one of several Amazonian ethnic groups. The works exhibited in the Biennale Arte are characteristic of Rodríguez’s recent production…
This year, from March 6 to 10, ARCOmadrid 2024 will focus on the artistic scenes of the territories connected by the Caribbean Sea. Thus, the exhibition seeks to showcase the works of different artists from this region of the country and present different perspectives and voices on the history, geography and poetics of the Colombian […]
Cristina Camacho likens canvas stretched across a skeletal frame to skin. Both a protectant and a site for expression, the flesh is one of many layers within the body that the artist peels back to reveal what lies beneath and within.
Following his visit to the exhibition “La Canoa: Melodías desde el Río” (The Canoe: Melodies from the River), curated by the prominent Huitoto artist Rember Yahuarcani, Alfredo Villar raises the need for a critical and self-critical dialogue between curators and indigenous artists to avoid acculturation and loss of identity in art. In his analysis, he […]
A selection of canvases, photographs, sculptures and videos are part of the exhibition inaugurated at the famous Sao Paulo Museum of Art.
The work Paz y Flora by the artist Carolina Caycedo can be seen in the new mural made by the artist Alexander Aldana and members of the Honda community on the facade of the Cultural Center of El Banco de la Republica , in front of the Gualí River.
Trained since childhood by a family member to be a “namer of plants,” Abel Rodríguez uses his works as a way of translating subjectivities of the Amazonian ecosystem. His illustrations show the life processes of the forest and, at the same time, the processes of its death.
The meeting between artists Karen Paulina Biswell and María Amilbia Siagama took place in Pereira…
It seems as though everywhere one looks in New York City, Latinx artists are making their mark. In April, El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem, established in 1969 as a neighbourhood museum by and for the Puerto Rican community, opened a major retrospective devoted to the work of its founder, Raphael Montañez Ortiz.
The exhibition in the cultural space of the La Boca neighborhood presents works and worldviews that expose the problem of exploitation of natural resources that America experienced once it was discovered.
During the month of March, it is common to find headlines or texts that challenge the knowledge of women in any profession or trade, leaving the reader or viewer with a feeling of scolding, to say the least.
The first time I came across the name Sara Modiano (1951-2010) was months ago, while reviewing the catalogue of the XVI São Paulo Biennial, from 1981. That was the year I was born and –out of curiosity– I wanted to know what materials and concepts artists in Latin America were working with during that time […]
Carolina Caycedo makes work that addresses the commons, environmental justice, just energy transition and cultural and environmental biodiversity.
When London-born Columbian artist Carolina Caycedo begins a new project, she embarks on a process she describes as “spiritual fieldwork.” She hopes to distance her work from the field of ethnographic research, in which the researcher deliberately situates themselves as a neutral outsider. Instead, Caycedo combines her structured system of scientific research and interviews with […]
ON A FRIDAY NIGHT in August 2019, Mexico City’s Angel of Independence received a makeover. The statue, long a meeting place for football fans and political protesters alike, was covered in neon-pink, green, and purple graffiti. Before, the inscription on the base of the bronze statue of a child and lion—who symbolize, according to the […]
In an early watercolor series by Karen Lamassone—a Colombian American artist with a survey spanning five decades at the Swiss Institute in New York—an anonymous female figure is shown in closely cropped domestic interiors: standing nude at a bookshelf, sitting on a floor, stepping out of a tiled shower.
Design in Feminine’ at the Franz Mayer Museum covers more than 80 years of production made in Mexico by female talent.
Carolina Caycedo makes work that addresses environmental justice, just energy transition and cultural and environmental biodiversity. Through her studio practice and fieldwork with communities impacted by large-scale infrastructure and other extraction projects, she invites viewers to consider the unsustainable pace of growth under capitalism and how we might embrace resistance and solidarity.
Mexico City. – Slippers with party chair heels, the illustrations of the Pixar film “Coco”, a mega necklace that honors women who search for missing persons, iconic chairs made with palm leaves and silver vessels from Taxco, these are some of the legacies that women have left in Mexican design and that can be seen […]
A journey through 80 years of design made by women in Mexico and which makes visible a work that at first was relegated by the patriarchal dynamics of the past is presented in the exhibition Diseño en femenino. Mexico 1940-2022, made up of 335 pieces by 110 creators from 15 Mexican states.
Mexico City’s cultural space mounts a review of 80 years of women designers.
The male gender set the tone for the construction not only of design and creative disciplines during the 20th century, but also of the history and research surrounding them. Through a retrospective curated by Ana Elena Mallet and Pilar Obeso, the exhibition ‘Diseño en femenino. Mexico 1940-2022’, which opened at the Franz Mayer Museum, is […]
Faced with the bias of a history of design based on a male perspective, the exhibition Design in Feminine presents the work of more than a hundred female designers in Mexico over eight decades.
We invite you to this unique experience with the artist Venuca Evanán, who is an educator, illustrator and heir to the artistic expressions of the community of Sarhua, Ayacucho-Peru.
In a painting by Karen Lamassonne from 1989, a couple wrap themselves around each other in a fevered clinch. The amorous pair are vastly oversized compared with the tropical city in which they kiss: the woman’s bottom gently rests on the upper branches of a ceiba tree, a Lilliputian car drives past, a pedestrian strolls […]
On Wednesday morning, hordes of collectors fell upon Paris’s Grand Palais Éphémère, the site of Art Basel’s latest franchise, Paris+. The “plus,” said director Clément Delépine during the press conference on Tuesday, stands for extra savoir faire and the “new things” the fair promises.
Chilean artist Manuela Viera-Gallo’s life started in political unrest. Her father, a Chilean politician, was forced into exile during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Her parents, exiled in Rome, welcomed Manuela to the world in 1977.
From a veteran of the downtown New York scene only now getting his due to a young painter sought out by top collectors, here are our picks.
Providing moments of invigoration and meditation, this year’s installment of The Armory Show—the acclaimed international art fair born in NYC circa 1994—opens within the sprawling Javits Center to the public today (though preceded by an off-site installation). Inspiration radiates from the network of exhibits, presented by 240 galleries and representing more than 30 countries.
New York is back (if it even ever left). The sentiment was proven yesterday during the vernissage of the Armory Show’s latest edition, installed for the second time inside the city’s spacious Javits Center—a welcome venue offering room to roam the spread of approximately 250 exhibitors from 30 countries.
Parked outside the Javits Center in Midtown Manhattan yesterday afternoon was a glitzy, soft gold-colored Rolls-Royce car of the latest model. The chauffeur was sitting alone in the car, patiently waiting for his passenger, who was inside the center for the VIP preview of the 2022 Armory Show. The license plate indicated a Florida denizen […]
The Armory Show’s Focus presentation, entitled Landscape Undone and curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates, treats the idea of landscape as a more inclusive hemispheric concept framed by her focus on the intertwined geographies, sociopolitical conditions, and environment of the peoples of North, Central, and South America.
A variation of the video installation Patrón mono, by Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo, will be exhibited during September, at midnight, on the screens of the famous Times Square in New York.
The Javits Center is among the most talked about works of art this year, and while there is plenty to take in, some collectors found the offerings a bit lacking
The climate crisis is inspiring — and requiring — new perspectives in thinking for the London gallery, starting with “Back to Earth.”
Colombian American artist Karen Lamassonne, who rose out of the male-dominated Bogotá and Cali art scenes of the 1970s and ’80s, is finally getting her first institutional survey show. “Ruido/Noise” opens in September at New York’s Swiss Institute and travels to the KW Institute in Berlin and the Museum of Modern Art in Medellín.
The artists discuss West Texas, environmental justice, and their new Projects exhibition at MoMA.
A city whose people are known for quickly and continually adapting to changing circumstances, Bogotá has long been home to major artists, including Beatriz González and Doris Salcedo, who have poignantly reflected on the many hardships and atrocities that have marked Colombia’s history. In the past, the artist community operated mainly by way of underground […]
Tufted, peachy wool marks out a strong-shouldered-woman’s torso reflected in a murky pool in Aurora Pellizzi’s textile work, Rising (2021); the woman’s arms stretch out to either side against a hazy blue embroidered background. Below the water’s surface, the body is mirrored in muted yellow and black threads.
Instituto de Visión Wins Prize at Frieze—Again – The Bogotá-based gallery Instituto de Visión has won Frieze’s 2021 Frame Stand Prize for its “poetic and political” presentation of works by Tania Candiani. The win marks the second year in a row for the gallery whose presentation of Wilson Díaz also earned it the prize last […]
Instituto de Visión and Tania Candini with her work “El sonido del fuego” mentioned in the New York Times.
With the 2022 edition of Frieze New York in full swing this week, the fair has announced the winner of its Frame Stand Prize, which goes to a gallery and artist participating in the “Frame” section, located on the back half of the fourth floor of the Shed in Hudson Yards. For the section, galleries […]
On a sunny spring Wednesday, the 2022 edition of Frieze New York opened to VIPs at 11 a.m. at the Shed in Hudson Yards. This iteration of Frieze feels a little tighter than past New York editions—there are only 66 exhibitors, as opposed to the nearly 200 that showed at the fair when it was […]
It seems as though everywhere one looks in New York City, Latinx artists are making their mark. In April, El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem, established in 1969 as a neighbourhood museum by and for the Puerto Rican community, opened a major retrospective devoted to the work of its founder, Raphael Montañez Ortiz…
The Bogotá based gallery was awarded the prize for its presentation of work by Wilson Díaz
Bosco Sodi’s new museum in New York’s Catskill Mountains will feature artists from around the world and perhaps add some glimmer to a place that time has frayed.
After two years, the Material Art Fair returns with more spice than ever. And because Mexico City can’t get enough of art, a recharged version of Art Week vol.2 is coming, where other galleries and projects will take advantage of the season to exhibit in their spaces.
November 1985 marks a turning point in Colombia. On the sixth day of the month, a squad of M-19 guerrillas attacked the Palace of Justice in Bogotá. They took its staff hostage and demanded a ransom from the president.
The Northern Trust Purchase Prize was awarded to three institutions toward acquiring work from the EXPOSURE section. In summary, the Pérez Art Museum will acquire a painting by Reginald Sylvester II from Maximillian William Gallery, the Portland Art Museum will acquire three paintings by Nohemi Perez from Instituto de Visión, and the Walker Art Center will acquire […]
Abel Rodríguez (Mogaje Guihu) was born Nonuya on the Cahuinarí River in the Colombian Amazon. His uncle, a sabedor (man of knowledge) taught him everything about plants, giving him the role in his community as the namer of plant…
Based on a selection of works from the contemporary art collection of the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), this first installment of Imaginarios contemporáneos Vol. I brings together a set of pieces by Peruvian and Latin American artists on diverse supports, media and materials that weave together narratives about customs, worldviews and ways of […]
Claudia Fontes in conversation with Aimé Iglesias Lukin, director and chief curator of Visual Arts.
The Spanish-Colombian artist Alberto Baraya is attending the Art Basel Miami Beach fair with his solo exhibition entitled Miami Beast. In it, he dissects the society of this city through fable, humor and an explosion of color in his interventions.
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Contemporary art is an export industry in Colombia. Gallerists boast of an abundant supply of homegrown artists, but bemoan a shortage of consumers willing to pay the prices that could support professional careers. If galleries want to sell at the high end of the international market, they need to build connections at […]
On this occasion we spoke with Rosmery Shoenbron, a theatre actress, and Ana María Millán, a visual artist. Both of them told us about their experiences and migration paths to Germany, as well as about the different projects they have carried out to recover collective memory, to vindicate the struggle and defence of human rights […]
In the context of the exhibition “Symbiology. Artistic practices on a planet in emergency”, curator Valeria González presents the cycle “Undisciplined conversations”
(…) This was a collective work carried out by Ana María Millán and Las Andariegas, where the experiences of women in the fight for territory are narrated.
Until August 1, the most recent exhibition by sculptor Santiago Reyes Villaveces, entitled “Arabidopsis Thaliana”, a collaboration with researcher Ilona Jurkonytè, will be on display at MAMBO. The artist spoke to El Espectador about some of the keys to understanding his artistic universe
After many years as an actor in multiple television series – in recent years, La Esclava Blanca, Paraíso Travel and Bolívar (Caracol) – Broderick made his debut as a theater actor in 2010 in Primer amor, a monologue by Samuel Beckett under the stage direction of Manuel Orjuela.
Within the cosmogony and social ecosystem of the ancestral peoples who survive today, there is no difference between the everyday and the sacred, and therefore, there is no difference between artistic manifestation and manifestation of spiritual reality. The balance that makes the cycle of life and death possible depends on the correct relationship between the […]
“We are in a time where we all must have respect, care and affection for each other. We must all be heard. I have learned that it doesn’t matter what they say about me, as long as I paint what I consider to be right.
(…) Karen Paulina Biswell will present Ellas Álbum I & II where, from an investigative perspective on sexual identity…
In 2020, the Bogota Museum of Modern Art launched the call for Efectos secunadarios, for artists to reflect on the future of the planet, given the bleak outlook of the pandemic. This work is one of the winners
Carolina Caycedo creates works that address the relationship between humans and their natural environment through practices based on working with communities affected by large-scale infrastructure projects, such as mining or the construction of dams carried out by corporations and governments.
On Thursday, February 11 at 6:00 p.m., through Facebook.com/comisionverdadc, comisiondelaverdad.co and the YouTube channel of La comisión de la verdad, a new talk will be held on ‘Naming the Unnameable: Conversations on Art and Truth’, a space in which Colombian artists talk about how art helps to name the conflict, often becoming a testimony and […]
Colombia is a place booming with a multitude of variegated landscapes and, by consequence, spectacular biodiversity. Though I am biased as a native myself, I believe that anyone who has set foot in the South American country can easily understand how it came to be the birthplace of magical realism…
He challenges the botanical explorers of the 19th century by creating artificial herbariums. Alberto Baraya’s plastic, fabric, paper, ceramic and wire plants can be seen (but not smelled) in Segovia.
During my visit to the Roberto Paradise gallery on my Saturdays of art and exhibitions, I was also able to enjoy the exhibition “Forma x forma, formas conforman” (Form x form, form conform) by the young Puerto Rican artist Karlo Andrei Ibarra (B.1982) in its experimental gallery or new trends room. I have been observing […]
Winning project of the Red Galería Santafe Fine Arts Programming Grant. District Stimulus Program. Idartes – District Institute of the Arts, Bogotá.
(…) Doble Faz is inspired by a Colombian villain from the DC Comics New Guardians series. The character is Snowflame who acquired his power after snorting cocaine.
The search for forms of representation of society in the future has been a continuing interest of humanity. If we look at the accounts of what we have accepted as the past, we see how, at some point in history, these were aimed at favoring a minimal percentage of the thousands of life forms that […]
(…) On one occasion, around 2004, while walking through the streets of Madrid, Alberto Baraya came across an artificial plant on the floor. This chance encounter made him interested in observing the population of artificial plants in his surroundings. Thus, he began collecting taxa that gradually led to the beginning of a collection.
(…) Manglaria is, therefore, an attempt at a word that seeks to name a territoriality about which we still have no certainty and, at the same time, an invitation to lose ourselves in order to find ourselves in an intricate universe of links and roots, of confrontations and ruptures, which allow us to approach the […]
Lo Bravo y lo Manso brings together at Instituto de Visión (Bogotá) the most recent work of Santiago Reyes Villaveces (Colombia, 1986), whose concerns revolve around constant themes in art such as the presence/absence of the body, the materiality of the work, the consonance of opposites and, at the same time, deals with questioning issues […]
The exhibition Elevación by Colombian artist Ana María Millán will look at the politics of animation in relation to painting, role-playing games, and their different practices, and will explore possibilities of reappropriation and reconstruction of identity within the digital world.
The new edition of Revista de cine Kinetoscopio has just been published and is dedicated to the cinema of the Colombian Caribbean. This article is part of the special dossier, which also includes a panoramic view of the cinema of the region, texts on Pacho Bottía, Roberto Flores Prieto and Ciro Guerra.
An exhibition and a book revive one of the great loves of the multifaceted artist: drawing.
The first time I saw Marlon de Azambuja’s work was in 2007, after arriving in Madrid. At the time I was working in a gallery in the Chueca neighbourhood and one day, when I went out to eat, I saw a line of white dust surrounding the buildings at ground level. It was as if […]
Marta Minujín, Claudia Fontes and Liliana Porter were figures of the international art scene this year.
There is a silent fascination with destruction, and a peculiar beauty portrayed by the shattered object. In Domestic Violence: Matriz Nula, fragmented and broken ceramic dishes are lashed together to create an overloaded sequence of ornaments.
The art scene in Colombia is alive and kicking. With the 12th edition of ARTBO coming up in October, Amuse explored the capital’s hottest art hotspots to talk to those in charge and understand what makes Bogotá so interesting.
PODIUM is also a return to carpentry work. His pieces give prominence to the material itself. The grain of the wood establishes a relationship between speed and curve. And the curve becomes a stroke, a drawing. Arcadia spoke with him.
This weekend, the Max Estrella gallery is celebrating its anniversary by inviting several artists to the Madrid town. Squares, street lamps and facades will be decorated with works created for the event.
Frozen in time, 400 rocks are launched towards a woman and a horse in Claudia Fontes’ installation at the Venice Biennale, The Horse Problem.
The Bogotá gallery Instituto de Visión shares the works of a group of artists who explored the nature of the universe. Here is an account of a brief visit to the exhibition.
Andrea Rosen Gallery and Instituto de Visión present the first solo exhibition in the United States of Colombian-Dutch artist Miguel Ángel Cárdenas (1934-2015), whose sculptures are recognizable in the context of contemporary postwar movements such as Nouveau Réalisme in France, Pop Art in the United States, and the Nul Group in the Netherlands, while also […]
Diners has invited five artists you can’t miss. Here’s why. Take advantage of art month to discover their work and get a closer look at the proposals of this generation.
Her work locates a personal, skeptical and sometimes humorous voice in the narrative spaces of the transmission of information in relation to subcultures and ideas of violence. She speaks from pop culture, amateur culture, incorporating the possibilities and errors inherent to the essay, as well as narrative forms considered dysfunctional.
Within the cultural proposals offered by the state of Jalisco, we find an exhibition that questions the concept of space and time
Astrum in Corpore, a project by Lina Mazenett and David Quiroga, has as its starting point the historic fall of the meteorite in Santa Rosa de Viterbo (Boyacá) in 1810. Based on a review of scientific studies and imaginative interpretations originated by these celestial bodies; the artists created an installation with objects and drawings that […]
(…) One of the artists selected to exhibit her work at the Biennale was Manuela Viera-Gallo (Rome, 1977). She received the jury’s acquisition award for her work Jauja, which consisted of five wooden stakes that, nailed to the wall, held sawdust drawings. The drawings spelled out the word Jauja, that country that in popular mythology […]
The Juntos Aparte art biennial showcases works by 72 artists who address issues related to large-scale migrations and administrative and mental borders, in five cultural spaces in Cúcuta.
The Prostitutes series reflects the life of sex workers in Cali, a port on the Colombian Pacific, in the 1970s. Fernell Franco presents marginal spaces and environments with an artistic vigor that was avant-garde for the time. This exhibition is part of the official section of PHotoEspaña 2011.