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BIOGRAPHY

CV Tomas Saraceno

1973 Born San Miguel de Tucumán – Argentina

Lives and works between and beyond the planet earth.

 

Education

Summer 2009, International Space Studies Program, NASA Center Ames, Silicon Valley, California

2003-2004, Postgraduate on Art and Architecture / Venezia Italia- Progettazione e Produzione delle

Arti Visive- IUAV

2001-2003, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule-Frankfurt am Main

1999-2000, Escuela Superior de bellas Ares de la Nación Ernesto de la Carcova, Postgraduate on Art

& Architecture

1992-1999, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Argentina UBA- Degree Architect

 

Permanent Installations

2008

«On clouds (Air-Port-City)» Towada Arts Center, Towada, Japan

2007

«Flying Garden», EPO Munich, Germany

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2012

"Tomas Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City", The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

2011

"Cloudy Dunes. When Friedman Meets Bucky On Air-Port-City", MACRO, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma

Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany

"Aeropolis", K21 Ständehaus, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO

2010

«14 billions (working title)», Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden,

«Tomas Saraceno: Lighter than air», Houston Blaffer Gallery, Houston, USA

«Tomas Saraceno», Baltic Centre for contemporary Art, Gateshead (currently)

«From Camogli to San Felipe, spiders weaving stars», Fondazione Pierluigi e Natalina Remotti,

Camogli, Italy (currently)

«Tomas Saraceno», Andersen's Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark

2009

«Biosphere», Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (in the framework of the cycle «RETHINK Relations»)

«Tomas Saraceno«, Mudam Musée d‘Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg (in the framework of the cycle «Habiter»)

«Cloudy House», Andersen's Contemporary, Berlin, Germany

«Tomas Saraceno: Lighter than air», Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

2008

«Galaxies forming along filaments, like droplets along the strands of a spiders web», Tanya Bonakdar

Gallery, New York, USA

«Cloudy Dunes», Fondazione Garrone, Genova, Italy

2007

«Air-Port-City», De Vleeshal, Middelburg, Netherlands

«Opening», AEREA Christian Larsen, Stockholm, Sweden

«Biosphere MW32 Air-Port-City», Pinksummer Gallery, Genova, Italy

«Microscale, Macroscale and Beyond: Large-Scale Implications of Small-Scale Experiments»,

Berkeley Art Museum, USA

2006

«On Water» Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain

«Cloudy Dunes_Air-Port-City», Attitudes - espace d'arts contemporains, Geneve, Switzerland

«Air-Port-City»,Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA

«Cumulus»,The Curve , Barbican Art Centre, London, UK

«Infinitive Actives», Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (with personal states of Marjetica Potrc)

2005

«Sehnsüchtig gleiten Ballone rund um die Welt», Green Light Pavilion, Berlin, Germany

2004

«On- Air» Pinksummer gallery, Genova, Italy

2003

«In-migration», Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011

«Private/Corporate VI.Die Sammlung Juan & Patricia Vergez, Buenos Aires, im Dialog mit der Daimler Kunst Sammlung, Stuttgart/Berlin», Daimler Contemporary, Haus Huth, Berlin

«Redesigning Nature», Städtische Galerie Bremen, May 28 - August 14

«The End of Money» Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam

"20 Jahre Gegenwart", MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt

2010

“Tales of Resistance and Change. Artists from Argentina”, Frankfurter Kunstverein (August, 20-October,31)

«Rethink Contemporary Art and Climate Change» Rogaland Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway (August, 20- Nov.,21)

«Art for the world», World Expo Shanghai, China (currently)

«Radical conceptual - Positionen aus der Sammlung des MMK» MMK Frankfurt (currently)

"Between here and there", Miami Art Museum (currently)

«Klimakapseln», Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany (current)

«Languages and Experimentations. Young artists in a contemporary collection«, MART, Rovereto,

Italy (currently)

«In Defense of Nature»,East Ayrshire Museum, Scotland

"Bianco y Nero", Udine Art Festival, Udine, Italy, September, 2-11

2009

«53d Biennale de Venezia, 2009», Venice, Italy

«WANAS 2009: FOOTPRINTS», Wanas Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden

«In Defense of Nature», Barbican Art Center, London, UK

«Life Forms», Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

«Labyrinth :: Freiheit», Franzensfeste Fortress, Italy

«Earth», Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

«Dome Culture in the 21st Century », Art in General, New York, USA

2008

«Psycho Buildings – Artists and Architecture», Hayward Gallery, London, Great Britain

«Sonsbeek 2008: Grandeur», Arnhem, The Netherlands

«Liverpool Biennial 2008», Liverpool, UK

«50 Moons of Saturn», T2 Torino Triennale, Turin

«Peripheral Vision and Collective Body», Museion Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

«Greenwashing», Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

«Experiment Marathon Reykjavic», Reykjavic Art Museum, Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavic, Iceland

«Kunst Naturligvis», Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg, Denmark

«we have a dream», Spazio Gerra, Reggio Emilia

«Art Focus Jerusalem», Israel

«Megastructure Reloaded», Berlin, Germany

“48°C Public.Art.Ecology”, Delhi, India

“ROOMING IN! Claus Andersen visits Patricia Low”, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland

2007

«Brave New Worlds», Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

«Biennale de Lyon 2007», Lyon, France

«Hector German Oesterheld, La Aventura Continua», Museo de Arte y Memoria, Buenos Aires,

Argentina

«Poetic Cosmos of the Breath», Air Show Gunpowder Park, London, United Kingdom

«On Water», Art Basel, Switzerland

«In Cima alle Stelle». L'Universo tra Arte, Archeologia e Scienza. Aosta, Forte di Bard, Italy

«Still Life Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change», Sharjah BiennalUnited Arabs Emirates

«Situazione isola, a new Urbanism», Isola Art Center, Milano, Italy

«Weather Report. Climate Change and Visual Arts», Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las

Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

«The Domain of the Great Bear 3/3 Kosmische Sehnsucht», Kunstraum München e.V., Munich,

Germany

2006

«On Mobility» Berlin Büro Friedrich, Berlin, Germany

«On Mobility» De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands

«Buenos dias Santiago», Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Chile, Chile

«I still believe in miracles*» ARC (Musee d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris), France

«Luna Park. Fantastic Art» Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Italy.

«Reconstruction 1», Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

«Busan Biennale», Busan, South Korea

«How to live together», Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil

«Presented by», Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, Austria

2005

«Dialectic of Hope» First Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

«The Opening», Andersen_s Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark

«Project Rotterdam», Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

«Pursuit of Happiness», Leidsche Rijn, The Netherlands

«La Strada», Fuori uso 2005, Pescara, Italy

2004

«What is in my apartment when I’m not there», Berlin, Germany

«Open Duende» Duende, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

«Universal Outstretch», Flaca Gallery, London, United Kingdom

«Common Property» 6. Werkleitz Biennale, Halle, Germany

«ZIM- Zwaanshals in Motion» Rotterdam, The Netherlands

«Do It», http://www.e-flux.com/projects/do_it/homepage/do_it_home.html

2003

«Here we come» Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany

«Utopia Station, Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer», Biennale Venice,Italy

«Un-build Cities», Kunstverein Bonn, Germany

«Art-gentina» The Buena Vista Building, Miami, USA

2002

«X-position», Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna, Austria

«Peace and Love», Palazzo Buonauguro, Bassano, Italy

«Xposition» Berlague Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

«Next» Biennale Venice, Italy

«Mobile HIV/AID Health Clinic for Africa» RIBA London, United Kingdom

2001

«Real Presence» Tito Museum, Belgrado, Serbia and Montenegro

«El Suelo en Renuncio», Ministerio de fomento Arquería de los Nuevos Ministerios, Madrid, Spain

«Neue Welt» Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

 

Lectures, Presentations

2010

September, 6/7:

Bonniers' Grid Talk, Stockholm, Sweden

May

Participation at the symposium «Klimakapseln. Überlebensbedingungen in der Katastrophe», HFWK

Hamburg, accompanying the group exhibition at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

(upcoming)

http://www.hfbk-hamburg.de/index.php?id=876

March

Participation at the Tate Climate Change symposium «Rising to the Climate Challenge», Public Talk

with Professor Brian Hoskins and Professor Steve Rayner, London, UK, organized with Royal

Academy

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/20797.htm

2008

Less remote-the future of space exploration: International Arts & Humanities Symposium on the

Futures of Space 2-day symposium at the International Astronautical Congress, Glasgow, September/

October 2008

2005

ESA - (ESTEC) Nordwijk ESA Netherlands, on the Cultural Utilization of Space Study for the

European Space Agency

Organized by The Arts Catalyst - The Arts Catalyst has an ongoing contract with the European Space

Agency to develop a cultural utilisation programme for the human spaceflight, microgravity and

exploration division. Nordwijk ESA Netherlands

 

Residency

2010

Atelier Calder in Saché, France, Recipant of Calder Price and Calder Residency (currently)

2009

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

 

Awards

1822-Kunstpreis - Art price of the 1822-Foundation of the Frankfurter Sparkasse, 2010

Calder Prize - Calder Foundation in association with Scone Foundation, 2009

Hessische Kulturstiftung, artist-grant to work and live for one year in Rotterdam, 2003-2004

Scholarship from el Fondo Nacional de las Artes-Argentina Italia-Venezia IUAV, 2003-2004

1st prize - 16. Bundeswettbewerb des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung, 2003








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