Notes related to Colombia
CONTINUUM: FROM THE DIALOGUE WITH DELCY MORELOS
The Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art (CAAC) is showing Continuum or the appearance of the parts and the whole in its recovered space in the cellars of the institution's complex in Seville, an exhibition whose origin is to be sought in Profundis, the proposal that Colombian Delcy Morelos (Tierralta, Colombia, 1967) made for this same center this year and that served as a framework to sublimate, from the analysis, the dialogue beyond the material and the relationship she kept with her collaborators when it came to putting together her recent exhibition.
ANTONIO PICHILLÁ QUIACAÍN: THE ARTIST NOMINATED FOR EFG LATIN AMERICA ART AWARD AT ArtBo
Antonio Pichillá Quiacaín was announced as ArtBo's nominated artist for the EFG Latin America Art Award, the company's annual acquisition award. The winning artist will be featured at Pinta Miami 2024.
ENCAPSULADOS, BY SANDRA GAMBOA, IN VALLADOLID
The Patio Herreriano Museum hosts the recent proposal by Sandra Gamboa (Bogota, Colombia) in which she outlines the necessary arguments to be able to analyse mental health, especially anxiety and depression. In Encapsulados, the Colombian-Spanish artist invites us to carry out this exercise of understanding, rapprochement and empathy with those who suffer from one of the great plagues of this century through the different related iconography that fills the exhibition hall of the Castilian institution.
SILVIA RIVAS AND THE LIMITS BETWEEN TIME AND SPACE
Cronotopías at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO) is the first institutional retrospective in Colombia dedicated to the visionary work of Argentinean artist Silvia Rivas. Since the late 1990s, Rivas has explored the expressive possibilities of expanded cinema, pushing the boundaries of video as a medium and creating multimedia and immersive environments. The exhibition is curated by Eugenio Viola.
MAGOLA MORENO AND JOSÉ VIVENES: REPRESENTATIONS OF A POSSIBLE BLACKNESS
If the history of art is, to a certain extent, "the history of the complex infrastructure generated by the development of relations between artists and economic power" (López Zumelzu, 2020), when we are faced with works that subvert the canons established by tradition -and still belong to it- we may ask ourselves, how can we operate from within this framework to question the policies that constitute and decide what is made visible, and what is consequently made invisible?
FOREIGNERS EVERYWHERE: LATIN AMERICA TAKES OVER THE VENICE BIENNALE
The exhibition of the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale - Stranieri Ovunque (Foregneirs Everywhere) - curated by Brazilian Adriano Pedrosa, presents 331 artists, significantly more than the usual number. More than a third of those artists come from Latin America.
CAYCEDO’S LAND OF FRIENDS AT VALENCIA’S IVAM
Carolina Caycedo’s (London, UK, 1978) Tierra de los amigos (Land of Friends) arrives at the IVAM in Valencia after its run at the Artium museum in Vitoria.
TANIA CANDIANI'S OFFERING AT MAMM
Ofrenda is the first large-scale exhibition of Mexican artist Tania Candiani in the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín. It is curated by Emiliano Valdés.
THE GERMINATION OF HISTORY ACCORDING TO DELCY MORELOS, IN SEVILLE
Delcy Morelos (Tierralta, Colombia, 1967) lands at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC) in Seville with Profundis, an exhibition that gathers the spectacular intervention she has made ex profeso in the monumental areas of the Sevillian institution and that focuses on revitalizing the ancestral link of man with the earth, as well as capturing, through botany, the symbolism of the relations between Europe and America.
ÓSCAR MURILLO AT PORTO’S SERRALVES
A distribution through several of the Porto’s Serralves Foundation's venues are hosting until the end of May the first solo exhibition of Oscar Murillo (Zarzal, Colombia, 1986) in Portugal.
TOWARDS MIGUEL ÁNGEL ROJAS' QUIEBRAMALES
Two decades after Miguel Ángel Rojas (1946, Bogotá, Colombia) conceptualized in his project David Quiebramales his denunciation of violence and the use of education as the most efficient vehicle towards a catharsis for those who suffer it, the Madrid headquarters of La Cometa revisits his most emblematic work and reinterprets it as the framework for a kind of thematic retrospective. This commemoration of that first David Quiebramales reinforces a view that is still difficult to overcome and that, even today, serves to trace those harmful social dynamics that are created between society and war, the institutional and the political systems.
MATIĆ AND MURILLO'S GESTURES OF ACTION IN VIENNA
Kunsthalle Wien presents artists Rene Matić (b.1997, Peterborough, UK) and Oscar Murillo (b. 1986, La Paila, Colombia) together for the first time at the exhibition JAZZ.
LAST DAYS: OPEN CALL “EN BLANCO” BY ESPACIO EL DORADO
Espacio El Dorado launched a new edition of En Blanco, an initiative with the intention of being the starting point for emerging ideas that want to be exhibited in a public space and that seek to dialogue with the contemporary creative context. Deadline to apply: February 25, 2024.
NEW MUSEUM PREMIERES PERFORMANCE WORK BY ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE CAMILO GODOY
The New Museum announced that 2023–24 Artist-in-Residence Camilo Godoy will convene participatory workshops, an open rehearsal and dialogue, and NewMu Teens programs throughout February 2024, culminating in the premiere of a new work, "Camilo Godoy: renacemos a cada instante," on February 24, 2024.
ADRIANA BUSTOS TRACES A MAP OF MAMBO HISTORY
Argentine multidisciplinary artist Adriana Bustos presents her site-specific project entitled Genealogy of a Collection conceived for Viceversa, an exhibition project celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO).
CAROLINA CAYCEDO: SPIRAL FOR SHARED DREAMS AT MoMA
Spiral for Shared Dreams is Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo’s exhibition at MoMA, presenting 11 handmade atarrayas, or fishing nets, denouncing the impact of hydroelectrical dams and other infrastructure on water bodies.
NEW MUSEUM ANNOUNCES CAMILO GODOY AS 2023-2024 ARTTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
The New Museum announced Camilo Godoy as its 2023–24 Artist-in-Residence. The annual Artist Residency supports an artist or collective working at the intersections of performance, pedagogy, and participatory art to develop and present new work.
AN EXHIBITION THAT CHALLENGES CONVENTIONAL VISUAL NARRATIVES AT MAMBO
In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá the exhibition Viceversa will highlight the museum's collection.
THE FIBER OF TIME: A GROUP EXHIBITION AT MAP
Montenegro Art Projects (MAP) presented the group exhibition La Fibra del Tiempo (The Fiber of Time), with the participation of Adriana Barrio, Yuli Cadavid, Laura Reneé Maier, Aimé García, Melany Valdés, Ana Milena Gómez and Erika Díaz.
GALA PORRAS-KIM AT LEEUM MUSEUM OF ART
Leeum Museum of Art presents National Treasures by Gala Porras-Kim, an exhibition that explores the intricacies that arise when ancient objects, history, and modern systems intersect.
MARÍA A. IOVINO MOSCARELLA: ABOUT THE SPECIAL PROJECT "SOURCES"
María A. Iovino Moscarella has developed a recognized work in Colombian and Latin American art as a teacher, researcher, curator and advisor on cultural projects. In the 2023 edition of Pinta BAphoto, she is participating as curator of Special Project: Sources by Andrés Ramírez Gaviria.
FERNANDO BOTERO: THE END OF A LIFE OF GREAT ARTISTIC LEGACY
Renowned artist Fernando Botero died on Friday, September 15, at the age of 91 at his residence in the Principality of Monaco.
ARTISTS NOMINATED FOR THE 13TH LUIS CABALLERO AWARD
The Luis Caballero Award is back for its twelfth edition, which since 1996 has recognized the work of Colombian artists of long trajectory, becoming one of the most important incentives for the creation and circulation of art in Bogota, Colombia.
ANA GALLARDO AT MAMBO: THE JULIUS BAER AWARD EXHIBITION
(Te busco en otro nombre). Bitácora guatemalteca 1987/2023 [(I'm looking for you in another name). Guatemalan Journal 1987/2023] is the winning project of the second edition of the Julius Baer Prize for Latin American women artists. The winner Ana Gallardo, together with María Us, presents the exhibition at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO).
INTERVIEW WITH LEÓN TOVAR: TRAJECTORY AND VISION OF AN OUTSTANDING ART DEALER
León Tovar was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and is a prominent curator, expert, and collector dedicated to promoting and disseminating Latin American art worldwide. He has curated numerous exhibitions and collaborated with important international museums and galleries.
THE ARBITRARY CREATING THE NECESSARY
Mateo Lopez (b. 1978), a Colombian artist with an outstanding career, has his first solo exhibition in Lima. Pasado futurista (Futuristic Past) is the title of his exhibition, curated by Maria Wills and Julien Petit, and comes with the Miguel Urrutia Museum in Bogota's seal.
HIV NARRATIVES BY CARLOS MOTTA
Carlos Motta's Stigmata exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of the Colombian artist's career, highlighting his concern for documenting the social conditions and political disputes of sexual, ethnic and gender minorities, with the intention of challenging dominant and normative discourses.
RUBY RUMIÉ: THE FALL
The Fall is the new body of work by artist Ruby Rumié conceived twelve months before the Covid-19 pandemic started. At the time the artist was reckoning the symptoms of a distressed society dedicated to a super production, consumerism and endless competition.
GALA PORRAS-KIM: A REFLECTION ON THE MEANING OF OBJECTS
Entre lapsos de historias (Between lapses of stories) is Gala Porras-Kim's exhibition at MUAC that investigates cultural artifacts and the relationship they maintain with their original functions.
QUESTIONING AND REDEMPTION IN COLOMBIAN ARTIST ROBERTO OCHOA'S INSTALLATION
Caliban. Roberto Ochoa at the Medellín Modern Art Museum.