Current
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Oniric Realities. Abstraction in the Life and Work of Jorge Riveros
Galería Elvira Moreno 19 Oct 2024 - 12 Jan 2025 The emergence of abstraction as an artistic movement in the 20th century gave rise to distinct identities in Latin America, heavily influenced by universal constructivism and modernism. In Colombia, the growing interest in abstract languages during the mid-20th century led to the development of new voices that enriched the historical... Read more -
UNRAVEL The Power and Politics of Textile Art
Stedejlik Museum. Amsterdam 14 Sep 2024 - 5 Jan 2025 In Unravel , artists from around the world present extraordinary artworks, from large-scale, colorful, and expressive installations to delicate and intimate pieces about love, resilience, power, and resistance. The group show features over a hundred works by 45 artists, including such famous names as Louise Bourgeois, Sheila Hicks, and Tracey... Read more -
Chronoplasticity. How to eat a Rolex.
Raven Row London 3 Oct - 8 Dec 2024 The works in Chronoplasticity attempt to fold or stretch time. They ask what and how histories should be told and consider new conceptions of the ‘historical,’ connecting the no-longer to the not-yet. Significant events and political struggles of the last half-century echo in the show, and many works speak to... Read more
Institutional Exhibitions
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The Offering
MGLC ŠVICARIJA ART. MUSEUM, SLOVENIA 18 Sep 2024 - 12 Jan 2025 We are pleased to announce our represented artist Antonio Pichillá's solo exhibition titled 'The Offering' curated by Yasmín Martín Vodopivec at the MGLC Švicarija Art Museum in Slovenia. The show will open on September 18, 2024 at 6 pm. Mateja Demšič, MA, Head of the Department for Culture of the... Read more -
De Aion a Cronos: la obra de Ernesto Briel
Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City 12 Sep - 26 Oct 2024 Proyectos Monclova is proud to present “From Aion to Cronos: The Work of Ernesto Briel,” an exhibition that celebrates the life and legacy of the Cuban painter, set designer and producer, pioneer of Op Art, and founder of the Cuban Optical Art Group. The exhibition consists of works made by... Read more -
Tierra de nadie
IL POSTO, SANTIAGO DE CHILE 27 Jul - 27 Oct 2024 The exhibition 'No Man's Land' mainly presents works from two periods in which identity politics modulated artistic and curatorial discourses: the 1980s and contemporary times. Using the works of the Mares of the Apocalypse as a guide, the exhibition is organized into three cores in which the conceptual and aesthetic... Read more -
Todo el tiempo que sea necesario
Tierra y qué, Marfa 13 Sep - 13 Dec 2024 Tierra y Que is pleased to announce Todo el tiempo que sea necesario, a solo exhibition by Joaquín Segura, curated by Atomic Culture. Segura is one of our represented artists and is widely recognized as one of the leading Mexican artists of his generation. This exhibition draws its title from... Read more -
Diseminaciones Entrópicas
Museo de Arte del Tolima 19 Jul - 18 Aug 2024 Entropic Disseminations by artist Federico Ovalles will open on July 19 at 7 p.m. in the Museo del Arte del Tolima (MAT). 'The main axes of my observation and exploration are architecture, geometry, abstractionism, and historical constructivism.' Ovalles' work contrasts basketry and organic materials with cement in elaborate compositions that... Read more -
Poéticas visuales, arte concreto y minimalismo latinoamericano
Museo de Arte del Tolima 19 Jul - 18 Aug 2024 Opening on July 19 at the Museo de Arte del Tolima: 'Visual Poetics, Concrete Art and Latin American Minimalism' curated by Francisco Arévalo. The exhibition is a unique educational opportunity, bringing together movements present in the development of Colombian and Latin American plastic art since the middle of the 20th... Read more -
Shipibo-Konibo. Retratos de mi sangre
Casa de América, Madrid 6 - 30 Apr 2024 Our represented artist David Diaz presents his solo exhibition, 'Shipibo-Konibo. Retratos de mi sangre’ at Casa de América in Madrid, Spain. Through his photographs, David Diaz impeccably captures the intimacy of his Shipibo-Konibo community by portraying his most characteristic expressions and daily doings. The Inca Garcilaso Center of the Ministry... Read more -
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art
Barbican Centre, London 13 Feb - 26 May 2024 Antonio Pichillá is part of the “Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art” exhibition at the Barbican Centre in London. The exhibit is currently on view until May 26, 2024. The exhibit will highlight artists from the 1960s to today who have explored textiles’ transformative and subversive potential,... Read more -
Threads to The South
ISLAA, New York 28 Mar - 27 Jul 2024 Antonio Pichillá’s participates in the exhibition Threads to the South at The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), curated by Anna Burckhardt Pérez. The exhibition features works by over twenty artists from ten countries, including videos, photographs, paintings, works on paper, and textiles developed between 1967 and 2023.... Read more -
Ensaio Sobre a Terra
Simões de Assis, São Paulo 25 May - 20 Jul 2024 “I don’t understand where there is anything that isn’t nature. Everything is nature. The cosmos is nature. Everything I can think of is nature.” ¹ Ailton Krenak In 1975, artist Manfredo Souzanetto created one of his most iconic works. In a mining region in Serra do Curral, in the Brazilian... Read more -
HETEROTROPISMOS
Cultural Center of San Isidro, Lima 10 May - 15 Jun 2023 Federico Ovalles solo exhibition Federico Ovalles has a unique language that stems from the historical and social framework of his Venezuelan origin, common to a region that was forged under urban utopian promises that resulted in absurdly dystopian mega-cities. It is from this incongruity that Ovalles develops a unique and... Read more -
Chants from Overseas
Biblioteca Nacional de Aruba 10 - 29 Jul 2024 Chants from Overseas – Samuel Sarmiento by Marjolein van de Ven The work of visual artist Samuel Sarmiento (Venezuela, 1987) invites you to embark on a journey. Not to physical or existing places, but to what lies dormant in your own mind. The simply drawn figures and events on his... Read more -
Myth Makers
Hatch Gallery, Milan 6 - 11 Apr 2024 Antonio Pichillá and Samuel Sarmiento's participate in the ‘Myth Makers’ exhibit at Hatch Gallery from April 6 to 10, 2024 during the iconic Milan’s Art Week. Under Barbara Newman's curatorial vision, the exhibit presents an invitation to celebrate the distinctive character of different identities that weave meaning to the idea... Read more -
Pioneering Ceramics
Museum Prinsenhof, Delft 16 Feb - 8 Sep 2024 Samuel Sarmiento’s is part of the “Pioneering Ceramics” group exhibition at the Museum Prinsenhof Delft in the Netherlands. The exhibit is currently on view and will run until September 8, 2024. “Pioneering Ceramics” places masterpieces from the museum’s collection side by side with the work of contemporary ceramists. An exciting... Read more -
Tropicalities
Vortic Art 5 Dec 2023 - 27 Feb 2024 Samuel Sarmiento's is part of Vortic Art's group exhibition 'Tropicalities,' curated by Maria Wills, director of the Arts Unit and Other Collections of the Banco de la República de Colombia. 'Taking Hélio Oiticica's Tropicália as an ethos, the exhibition 'Tropicalities' aims to bring together artists from diverse regions to present... Read more -
To Weave The Sky
El Espacio 23, Miami 2 Nov 2023 - 2 Aug 2024 Antonio Pichillá’s artwork acquisition by the Jorge Pérez Collection . Semilla is currently part of the exhibition To Weave the Sky: Textile Abstractions at El Espacio 23 in Miami. The exhibition celebrates numerous textile-based works from the Jorge Pérez collection – many of which have never been publicly exhibited –... Read more -
Antes de América: Fuentes originarias en la cultura moderna
Fundación Juan March, Madrid 6 Oct 2023 - 10 Mar 2024 Jorge Riveros is part of the collective exhibition Antes de América: Fuentes Originaruas en la Cultura Moderna Rigorous research and endless hours of dedication led the curatorial efforts of Rodrigo Gutiérrez to evolve the fantastic exhibition “Antes de América” at Fundación Juan March In Madrid that ended last Sunday. Iconic... Read more -
Pinta PArC 2023
LIMA 19 - 23 Apr 2023 I am interested in working with divergent ideas between triumphs and failures of Latin American modernity and its consequences, expressed in those areas of the current city that function as "non-city" and in contrast with the architectural majesty of great works that erected the modern Latin American city of the mid-twentieth century. The main axes of my observation and exploration are architecture, geometry, abstractionism and historical constructivism, approaching it beyond tradition, through immediacy, provisionality, spontaneous order and constructive precariousness that so much marks the reality in the present of Latin America. I counterpose dissimilar materials to create pieces of assemblage and installations that reference the architectural in a fragile or provisional way, I also build geometries on fabrics or natural fibers and with materials found in the city. Read more -
LABERINTO
Centro de Memoria, paz y reconciliación, Bogotá 9 Mar - 28 May 2023 “Laberinto” is a multisensory video-installation that combines different formats: video-performance, installation, moving image and sound. It invites the viewer to reflect on the dimension of violence embedded in our bodies. The work uses the gesture as a basis to explore how the traces of violence are inscribed in the psyche... Read more -
Destrudo Substrato Medellin
The Alliance Française, Medellin 2 Dec 2021 - 28 Jan 2022 Federico Ovalles was born in Caracas in 1972. During the seventies and eighties, the decades of his growth and artistic training, the city simultaneously witnessed the successes and weaknesses of the promises of modernity.
On the one hand, since the 1950s a large group of Venezuelan artists -from Paris- had taken on with vigor, and much added originality, the avant-garde tendencies affiliated with the experimentation of the European metropolis. But also in that period Caracas was already beginning to witness the failure of those dreams that, on the other hand, can be seen as dreams close to those cherished by many Latin American cities, including Medellín.
Also in artistic events —in the popularity of the various forms of abstractionism— a path advanced that took geometric abstraction to the unusual circuit of boom, popularity, officialization to the point of monumentalization... and disenchantment. From there arises the work of Federico Ovalles, in whose context he appears destroyed, developed mostly in Medellín for this exhibition.
Nydia Gutierrez
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Past
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ARTBO 2024
GALERÍA ELVIRA MORENO 26 - 29 Sep 2024 We are pleased to announce our participation in the Main Section of Bogota's International Art Fair, ARTBO 2024, with the curatorial proposal titled 'FORM and forms', which comprises a selection of artists who explore the topic of FORMS (conventionally capitalized and also commonly translated as 'Ideas') as the non-physical, timeless,... Read more -
Modernisms: Simultaneously and Sistematically
Galería Elvira Moreno 3 Aug - 12 Oct 2024 General Dossier We have the honor to present our collective exhibition titled “Modernisms: Simultaneously and Systematically,” an unpublished exhibition that, under the curatorship of the artist Lucio Celis reflects on a contemporaneity conceived more than six decades ago and represented in the works of artists Felipe Arturo, Elvira Celis Cepero,... Read more -
ARCO Lisboa | OPENING SECTION
Galería Elvira moreno 23 - 26 May 2024 We are honored to communicate our participation in the seventh edition of ARCO Lisboa 2024, which will run from May 23 to 26, 2024. This edition will present two curated sections: OPENING and As Formas do Oceano (The Shapes of the Ocean). We have been curatorially invited to participate in... Read more -
ARTBO | Fin de Semana 2024
Galería Elvira Moreno, Bogotá 12 - 14 Apr 2024 In the eighth edition of ARTBO | Fin de Semana 2024, Galería Elvira Moreno presented the solo exhibition 'The Immemorial. Luis Fernando Zapata' from April 12 to 14, 2024. Our represented artists, Luis Fernando Ramirez and Federico Ovalles, exhibited at the component: Intervención of ARTBO | Fin de Semana, which... Read more -
The Immemorial Luis Fernando Zapata
Galería Elvira Moreno, Bogotá 2 Mar - 24 Jun 2024 Luis Fernando Zapata (Colombia. 1951-1994) Luis Fernando Zapata was an artist deeply committed to a practice that immanently reflected the inevitable reflections that arise when we confront the fragility of our existence. His exhaustive research into Mesoamerican, transcontinental Egyptian, and Middle Eastern cultures, the advent of the HIV epidemic, and... Read more -
Zonamaco 2024
Mexico City 7 - 11 Feb 2024 Galería Elvira Moreno is proud to show in the XX version of Zona Maco 2024 six Latin American artists who manifest the apparent pragmatism of geometric abstraction but who, beyond its visual context, lead us to reflect on the problems and historical references of modernism. The curatorial selection represents artists... Read more -
ARTBO 2023
Galería Elvira Moreno 23 - 26 Nov 2023 We are pleased to announce our participation in the Main Section of Bogotá's International Art Fair, ARTBO 2023, with the curatorial proposal titled 'Al Margen,' which comprises a selection of artists who have developed their practice under contexts of marginalization and social exclusion, whether under censorship, due to their sexual... Read more -
Everything Which We Love is Lost
Galería Elvira Moreno, Bogotá 21 Oct - 20 Dec 2023 Mira Schendel, Waltercio Cáldas, Victor Vasarely, Eduardo Terrazas, Jorge Riveros, Joaquín Segura, Ernesto Leal, Johanna Calle, Rafael Echeverri, Jaime Bellechasse, Lucio Celis, Federico Ovalles, Antonio Pichillá, Ernesto Briel, Juan Iribarren, Pedro Tagliafico, Guillermo García Cruz, Carlos Rojas, Pedro de Oraá, Eduardo Ramirez Villamizar, Alfredo Hlito, Alberto Miani, Beatriz Grau, Andrés Michelena, Eduardo Mac Entyre, Milton Becerra, Eugenio Espinoza, Julio Le Parc, Julia Carrillo, Manolo Vellojín, and Belkis Ayón. Read more -
XIMONEEM K'IN SOLONEEM
Galería Elvira Moreno, Bogotá 22 Jul - 7 Oct 2023 T'zutujil-Guatemalan artist Antonio Pichillá Quiacaín first solo exhibit in South América at Galería Elvira Moreno. Pichillás’ artworks showcase his Tz'utujil heritage and celebrate the uniqueness of an identity that was suppressed and marginalized by the cultural restrictions imposed by colonialism. Our exhibit heralds a transcendental message, as the exhibit's title... Read more -
ARTBO FIN DE SEMANA 2023
Galería Elvira Moreno, Bogotá 21 - 23 Apr 2023 Magola Moreno is an artist who fully defines the term 'Ars Gratia Artis”, Greek phrase that describes that action that involves creating art for the sake of it, without an objective or definition, leading it to be present with no other purpose than its mere presence, alien to academism, immune... Read more -
Je suis veritablement un goutte du soleil sous la terre.
Galería Elvira Moreno, Bogotá 15 Apr - 31 May 2023 Magola Moreno is an artist who fully defines the term 'Ars Gratia Artis', a Greek phrase that describes that action that consists of creating art for itself, without objective or definition, bringing it to be present with no other purpose than its mere presence, foreign. . to academicism, immune to... Read more -
THE DISQUITENESS OF SEEING
Galería Elvira moreno, Bogotá 11 Mar - 10 Apr 2023 Galeria Elvira Moreno proudly announces our first solo exhibit featuring Venezuelan artist Beatriz Grau. Grau is a photographer by training who graduated with an MFA in photography from the Glasgow School of Art, tutored by Thomas Joshua Cooper, and has been a professor in the subject for the last two... Read more -
ZONA MACO 2023
Mexico City 8 - 12 Feb 2023 In our first international art fair participation at Zona Maco 2023, we are proud to convey two of our gallery’s most important messages through the artworks of five of our represented gallery artists. Our first one, delivered by the Venezuelan and Colombian artists Federico Ovalles and Lucio Celis, respectively, reflects... Read more -
ETHOS
Galería Elvira Moreno, Bogotá 22 Oct 2022 - 25 Feb 2023 'Ethos' is defined as the 'Set of traits and modes of behavior that make up the character or identity of a person or community.' Ethos is part of the main aspects of the Aristotelian discourse that complements the notions of Pathos and Logos, fundamental referents of the legitimacy of the... Read more -
GRAMATICAL
Galería elvira moreno, bogotá 1 Aug - 30 Sep 2022 Faithful to its principles of giving art a voice in its most forceful manifestos of contemporary Latin American art, Galeria Elvira Moreno has the privilege of presenting the GRAMATICAL exhibition of the Cuban artist Ernesto Leal, a show that brings together the most representative works of his series so far... Read more -
DIÁFANA
Galería elvira moreno, bogotá 7 Apr - 11 Jun 2022 Curated by Elvira Moreno Read more -
ZONA MACO 2022. LGM Gallery
Jorge Riveros & Federico Ovalles 9 - 13 Feb 2022 Read more -
UTOPÍAS DE LO INMATERIAL
Galería Elvira Moreno, Bogotá 18 Nov 2021 - 14 Mar 2022 Curated by Francisco Arévalo Read more -
FORMAS CONSTRUCTIVAS, ORÍGENES Y PROGRESIÓN
Jorge Riveros 29 Sep - 4 Nov 2021 Curated by Ana María Franco Read more -
ATLAS DE UN CONTINENTE QUE NO EXISTE
Santiago Vélez 22 Jul - 20 Aug 2021 Curated by Santiago Vélez Read more -
GEOMETRÍAS Y ABSTRACCIONES - HOMENAJE A NEGRET
Group Exhibition 24 Oct - 24 Nov 2020 Curated by María Elvira Ardila Read more
