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updated: July 2007
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Carlos Capelán
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay 1948
Lives in Lund, Sweden; in
Moravia, Costa Rica
2000-2006 Professor at the Vestland's Art Academy, Bergen, Norway
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Studies
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1978-81 Grafikskolan Forum, Malmö, Sweden
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Selected separate exhibitions and installations |
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2007 |
SAS Institute, Stora Frösunda Castle, Stockholm, Sweden |
2006 |
onlyyou / always there, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica |
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A few words, Galerie Leger, Malmö, Sweden |
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onlyyou / back to the horizon, Museo de Antropología y de Arte Contemporáneo, Guayaquil, Ecuador |
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Carlos Capelán, dpm - arte
contemporáneo, Guayaquil, Ecuador |
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2005 |
onlyyou / a certain notion of place, Museo Nacional
de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay |
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onlyyou / nobody was there, Museo Nacional de Bellas
Artes, Santiago, Chile |
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onlyyou, and there was somebody there (or, 11,285 nights),
Galería Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile |
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onlyyou, dematerialisation, rematerialisation, immaterialisation,
Fundación AtlánticaTransArt, Santiago, Chile |
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2004 |
onlyyou, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle,
England |
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Ceci n'est pas un video, Den 1a på Moderna,
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden |
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Ceci n'est pas un video - or, do natives have a soul?,
Galerie Leger, MAlmö, Sweden |
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2003 |
onlyyou, paintings, drawings, objects and installations,
Galería Fúcares, Madrid, Spain |
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Sin ti, paintings, drawings, objects and installations,
Galería Trinta, Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
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2002 |
onlyyou, paintings, drawings, objects and installations,
Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden |
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eisoptrophobia - installations and drawings, Galleri
s.e, Bergen, Norway |
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Low Tide / Technologies, Gary Nader Fine Arts, Miami |
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2001 |
Post-Colonial Liberation Army (rematerialización) - objetos
artísticos, Galería Angel Romero, Madrid, Spain |
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Skatteparadiset - works from the Ulla and Greger Olsson Art Collection, Kulturhuset Valfisken, Simrishamn, Sweden |
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2000 |
Galerie Leger, Malmö, Sweden |
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Jet Lag Mambo, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway |
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1999 |
Hommage to the Native Nations of Germany (1999),
WeltSichten, IFA Galerie, Berlin,
Germany |
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400 metros al norte del quiosco del Morazán, Fundación
TeorÉtica, San José, Costa Rica |
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1998 |
Galería David Pérez-MacCollum, Guayaquil, Ecuador |
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1997 |
A painting representing space, New Work
Series, Miami Art Museum of Dade County, Miami, USA |
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Die Welt als Vorstellung, Galerie Monique Knowlton,
New York, USA |
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Die Welt als Vorstellung, Galerie Leger, Malmoe,
Sweden |
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Galeria Caracol, Zaragoza, Spain |
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La casa de la memoria, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano
de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain |
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Galerie Le Monde de l'Art, Paris, France |
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1996 |
Lund's Cathedral, Lund, Sweden |
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1995 |
Façade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA |
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XI Mostra America, Museu da Gravura, Curitiba,
Brazil |
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La Zitelle, Venice, Italy |
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Galerie Leger, Malmö, Sweden |
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1994 |
Galería Fernando Quintana, Bogotá, Colombia |
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Galería Angel Romero, Madrid, Spain |
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Neuf, Maison de L'Amerique Latine, Paris,
France |
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Song to myself, V Havanna Biennial,
Havanna, Cuba |
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1993 |
Bedia och Capelán, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden |
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Thanatocenosis, Jacob Karpio Gallery, San José,
Costa Rica |
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De Andra, based on the book by Stefan Jonsson, Malmö
Festivalen, Malmö, Sweden |
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1992 |
Kartor och Landskap, Lunds konsthall, Lund, Sweden |
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Mapas y Paisajes, Subte Municipal, Montevideo, Uruguay |
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Gallery Hertz, Bremen, Germany |
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1991 |
Galleri Mors Mössa, Gothemburg, Sweden |
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Karte - Landschaft - Raummalerei, Galleri Basta,
Hamburg, Western Germany |
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1990 |
Pilgrims and Relics, One Twentieigth Gallery, New
York City, USA |
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1989 |
Ronneby Art Center, Ronneby, Sweden |
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Galerie El Patio, Bremen, Western Germany |
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III Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba |
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1988 |
Krognohuset, Lund, Sweden |
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L'Espace Latinoaméricain, Paris, France |
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Massachusett School of Art, Boston, USA |
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1987 |
superficies RITUAL imágenes, Galerie El Patio, Bremen,
Western Germany |
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Rituals and Surfaces, Massachusett School of Art,
Boston, USA |
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1986 |
Ritual - Ytor - Bilder, Galleri Mors Mössa, Gothemburg,
Sweden |
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Skånska Konstmuseum, Pictura, Lund, Sweden |
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Galería Alternativa, Mexico City, Mexico |
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1985 |
Ansikte, Fotogalleri Ariman, Lund, Sweden |
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1983 |
Galerie Leger, Malmö, Sweden |
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1982 |
Centre Chaillot-Galliera, Paris, France |
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1979 |
Galerie Leger, Malmö, Sweden |
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Universidad Central, Caracas, Venezuela |
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1978 |
Galleriet (Anders Tornberg), Lund, Sweden |
Selected group exhibitions |
2007 |
Uiwang International Art Festival, Samdong, Uiwang City, Republic of Korea |
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Phoenix - Parihaka, in Memories of Modernity - an Academic and Artistic Exchange and Exhibition - September 2007, Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden |
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Phoenix - Parihaka, in Memories of Modernity - an Academic and Artistic Exchange and Exhibition - April 2007, Durban Art Gallery, Durban |
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Back to the Horizon in
Turbulence: 3rd Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland |
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2006 |
Diálogos, Museo Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay |
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2005 |
Fake Videos of the PCLA(r) in Photo Biennale,
Berlin, Germany |
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Communiqués of the PCLA(r) in Political
Gestures in Art, Tesaloniki Museum, Tesaloniki, Greece,
and Museum of Contemporary Art, Florence, Italy |
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2004 |
Ceci n'est pas un video, c/o Sophienholm, Sophienholm,
Denmark |
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Jet-Lag Mambo, Svenska Hjärtan, Moderna
Museet, Stockholm, Sweden |
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2003 |
Autorretrato, in IV Bienal Mercosur, Porto
Alegre, Brasil |
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Sin tí, in Juegos de Escala, Centro
Galego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela,
Spain |
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Botella ao Mar, Casa das Artes, Vigo / Auditorio de
Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
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2002 |
Reality and Figuration - The Contemporary Latin American
Presence, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA [catalogue
ISBN 0-936859-45-8] |
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Maps and landscapes (the living-room), 1991-2002,
Tilflukt/Refuge, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter,
Oslo, Norway |
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Hommage a Ola Billgren, Galerie Leger, Malmö,
Sweden |
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2001 |
Tirana Biennale, National Gallery/Chinese Pavilion,
Tirana, Albania [catalogue ISBN 88-7816-122-5] |
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1998 |
A painting representing space, in XXIV Sao
Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
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At the speed of your steps, in Crossings,
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada |
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Desembarco de los 33, in Bienal del Barro,
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofia Imbert, Caracas, Venezuela |
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Mesótica III: Instalomesótica, Museo de
Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica |
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1997 |
Algunas consideraciones sobre: la crisis de la representación
en la Antropologia, sobre la potencialidad del objeto
artistico para representar el mundo, y sobre lo que algunos
dicen que actuar desde una identidad es más divertido que
simplemente representarla, o Retrato de Chih-Bai-Chih bajando
una escalera, in I Bienal Mercosur,
Museu de Arte de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil |
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Petit Café, XIIIes Atéliers du FRAC,
Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire, France |
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1996 |
Arbeten på papper, Galerie Leger, Malmö,
Sweden |
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Aura, in On time, Museum of Modern
Art, Stockholm, Sweden |
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Maps and Landscapes (the living-room), in Inclusion/Exclusion,
Steirischer Herbst 96, Graz, Austria |
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The sleep of reason, in Five Gardens,
Kulturhuset Valfisken, Simrishamn, Ystads konstmuseum, Ystad,
Sweden (also curatorship) |
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Exhibition room #7, in Interzones,
Kulturforeningen, Copenhaguen, Denmark; Uppsala konstmuseum,
Uppsala, Sweden |
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1995 |
Viajeros del Sur, Museo Carrillo Gil, México
(2 installations) |
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Kwangju International Biennale, Seoul, Republic
of Korea |
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Window #2: My home is your home, in Dialogues
of Peace, UN Jubileum, Geneva, Switzerland |
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Naming songs, in SITE Santa Fe,
Santa FE, New Mexico, USA |
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Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz,
España |
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Stepping out of the white cube ( a little song for Johannesburg),
parts I & II, in Africus, I
Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
(installation in two parts) |
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1994 |
Humanism and Technology, National Museum
of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Republic of Korea |
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Ante América, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence,
Kansas; Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa
Rica |
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Bienal del Pequeño Formato, Puerto Rico |
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Brytpunkter, Länsmuseerna, Stockholm Art
Fair, Sollentuna, Stockholm, Sweden; Länsmuseerna, Jönköpings
länsmuseum, Jönköping, Sweden |
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1993 |
In Fusion - New European Art, Ikon Gallery,
Birmingham, UK; Art Museum, Brighton, UK; Oriel Gallery, Cardiff,
Wales, UK |
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Living Rites, Carla Stellweg Gallery, New
York City, USA |
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Ante América, Museo A. Otero, Caracas, Venezuela;
Queens Museum, New York, USA; New Center for the Arts, S.
Francisco, USA |
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BIPOL'art, Skrylle, Sweden |
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1992 |
Ante América, Banco de la República - Biblioteca
L. A. Arango, Bogotá, Colombia |
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In Progress, Oldenburg, Groningen, Germany |
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America, Bride of the Sun - 500 Years of American
Art, Royal Museum, Antwerp, Belgium |
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Colectiva - Open Art, Galerie Ruf, Munich,
Germany |
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Mostra America, Museu da Gravura, Curitiba,
Brazil |
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Szwedzi w Polsce, Zabrze, Poland |
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1991 |
In Progress, Kunstler Werkstatt, Munich,
Germany; Leipzig, Germany |
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Gallerie Weissestadt, Köln, Germany |
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Art/Photography, Hasselblad Center, Gothemburg,
Sweden |
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1990 |
In Progress, Art Museum of Kiel, Kiel, Germany |
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1989 |
Latinoamérica Despierta - Latin America Awakened,
Massachusetts' School of Art, Boston, USA |
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Worldpictures - Picture Worlds, a
moving show from Stockholm Art Museum, Sweden |
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Latinamerican Art Today, Art Center of Ronneby,
Ronneby, Sweden |
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1988 |
Ester Almqvist - grantees, Pictura, Lund,
Sweden |
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1987 |
Sveagalleriet, Stockholm, Sweden |
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1986 |
Södertälje Art Museum, Södertälje, Sweden |
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Moving Exhibition with Three Cuban Artists,
Mexico |
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1985-1986 |
Colart, Copenhagen, Danmark |
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1984 |
The Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba |
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Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden |
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1983-1987 |
Por la Libertad, Europe, South and Central
America |
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1978 |
Forumgrafik, Felix Art Club, Eslöv, Sweden |
Curatorship
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1986
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Five Gardens, Kulturhuset Valfisken/Ystads
konstmuseum, Simrishamn/Ystad, Sweden
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1997
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Inside us, around us, Borås konstmuseum,
Borås, Sweden
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COMISSIONED WORKS |
Cosmic portraits - project of 10 photo portraits of different art collectors, arranged by the Ulla and Greger Olsson Art Collection, 2007
Daniel and Elita Yankelewitz Collection, San José, Costa Rica 2006 - garden sculpture, bronze (1.5 x 1.5 x 1.5 m)
Central hall, Banco Lafise, San José, Costa Rica 2005 - painting on 12 panels (total size 7 x 5 m) and bronze sculpture
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Represented at |
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Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden; Museo Nacional de
Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay; Museo Blanes, Montevideo,
Uruguay; Art Museum of Gothemburg, Sweden; Art Museum of Södertälje,
Sweden; Dunkers konstmuseum, Helsingborg, Sweden; Statens
Konstråd, Sweden; City of Lund, Sweden; Casa de las
Américas, Havana, Cuba; Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana,
Cuba; Art School of Havana, Havana, Cuba; Museo Extremeño
e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain;
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela,
Spain; Museo de Antropología y Arte Contemporáneo, Guayaquil, Ecuador; Banco Lafise Collection, San José, Costa Rica;
Fundación
Teor/éTica, San José, Costa Rica; Instituto Cervantes,
Madrid, Spain; The Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki,
Auckland, New Zealand; SAS Institute, Stora Frösunda Castle, Stockholm, Sweden; Carlos & Rosa de la Cruz Collection, Miami, USA;
Daniel y Elita Yankelewitz Collection, San José, Costa
Rica; The Ulla och Greger Olsson Art Collection, Tommarp, Sweden; Peter Menéndez Collection, Miami, USA;
Edgar Gunther Collection, Paris, France and New York, USA;
Jaime del Hierro Collection, Guayaquil, Ecuador; Colección David Goldbaum, Guayaquil, Ecuador; Björn Bergentoft Collection. |
Grants and international awards
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1996: Guggenheim Fellowship, USA; Bildkonstnärsfonden,
Sweden; 1995: Edstranska Stiftelsen, Sweden; Bildkonstnärsfonden,
Sweden; 1994: Bildkonstnärsfonden, Sweden; 1993: Bildkonstnärsfonden,
Sweden; 1992: Bildkonstnärsfonden, Sweden; Swedish Institute,
Sweden; Lunds kommuns kulturstipendium; 1991: Bildkonstnärsfonden,
Sweden; 1990: Bildkonstnärsfonden, Sweden; 1989: Swedish
Institute, Sweden; Centro Wifredo Lam, Cuba; Bildkonstnärsfonden,
Sweden; 1987: Crafoordska Stiftelsen, Sweden; 1986: Award,
Havana Art Biennale, Cuba; Ester Almqvist Minnesfond, Sweden;
1985: Bildkonstnärsfonden, Sweden; Studio Camnitzer,
Pratt Institute, New York, USA; 1983: Bildkonstnärsfonden,
Sweden; 1981: Bildkonstnärsfonden, Sweden
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Literature
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Turbulence: The 3rd Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery, 128 pp, Auckland 2007
"Carlos Capelán" - por Matilde Ampuero - Revista Nueva Buho, Quito
Exit Art -
100 Artistas Latinoamericanos / 100 Latin American Artists
454 pp,
600 colour ill., bilingual edition Español / English, (cataclismo@exitmail.net, ISBN 978-84-84-934639-3-9)
"Carlos Capelán: our modernity, not theirs", by Jonathan Friedman, in Contemporary Art and Anthropology, Arnd Schneider and Christopher Wright (Eds.), Berg Publishers, Oxford 2005 (ISBN 1845201035, ISBN 1845201027)
"Broken Walks", in Empires, Ruins and Networks
- the transcultural agenda in art, Scott McQuire and Nikos
Papastergiadis (Eds.), Melbourne University Press, Melbourne
2005 (ISBN 0 522 85281 1)
"La telaraña de Carlos Capelán",
by David Barro, Arte & Naturaleza, Madrid 2004
"Una charla entrevista con Carlos Capelán",
by Annika Köhler, Arte & Naturaleza, Madrid 2004
"Carlos Capelán: working in reverse order",
by David Barro (English and Swedish text)
"The ethics of collaboration", by Nikos Papastergiadis
(English and Swedish text)
"Introduction", by Jan-Erik Lundström (English
and Swedish text)
in onlyyou, exhibition catalogue, Monika Stedingk (Ed.)
Umeå University, Umeå 2004 (ISBN 91 7305 707 X)
FILES, by Octavio Zaya, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
de Castilla y León, León 2004
"Ceci n'est pas un video", by Ann-Sofi Noring,
exhibition catalogue, Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2004
Catastrofi Minime, exhibition catalogue, Gianni Belloi
and Arena Rojas (eds.), Museo d'Arte della Provincia di Nuoro
(MAN), Nuoro 2004
"Carlos Capelán: trabajando la viceversa",
by David Barro, in onlyyou, exhibition catalogue, Galería
Fúcares, Madrid 2003
Xogos de Escala, by Miguel Fernández-Cid, exhibition
catalogue, CGAC / Xunta de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela
2003
"Jet Lag Mambo", in Complex Entanglements -
art, globalization and cultural difference, Nikos Papastergiadis
(Ed.), River Oram Press, London, Sydney, Chicago 2003 (ISBN
1 85489 152 9)
"Post-colonial Liberation Army (rematerialización)", in Under
(De)Construction - Perspectives on Cultural Diversity in Visual
and Performing Arts, Marita Muukkonen (Ed.), The Nordic
Institute for Contemporary Art (NIFCA), Helsinki 2002 (ISBN
951-8955-72-7)
"Yo, kharma y geografía política", por Carlos Capelán. NIFCAINFO
(4/2001), Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki
"Paisajes en ninguna parte. Tentativas sobre seis artistas americanos" (Smithson,Ana Mendieta,Carlos Capelán,Vicente Rojo Gabriel Orozco y Hélio Oiticica) por Fernando Castro y Miguel Copón, Revista de Occidente (febrero 1997, Madrid
"Post-colonial Liberation Army (rematerialización)",
por Carlos Capelán, Heterogénesis 35
(abril 2001)
"Jag, Kharma och politisk geografi", Västerbottens-kuriren
(2001-03-21)
"Carlos Capelán - relaciones complejas".
Antiqvaria #192 (marzo 2001).
"Jet-lag. Un viaje de ida y vuelta", Revista del Centro
Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo #1, Febrero/2001,
CGAC, Santiago de Compostela
"Carlos Capelán/Manuel Rufo" Arte y Parte #31, Madrid
2001
Skatteparadiset - works from the Ulla and Greger Olsson Art Collection, Kulturhuset Valfisken, Simrishamn, Sweden (exhibition catalogue)
"Carlos Capelán's A Painting Representing Space",
by Thomas McEvilley, in Converge, vol. 1, Miami Art
Museum, Miami 2000
"No pierdas la calma -- o, Yo no quiero ser buenamoza",
por Carlos Capelán, en Ana Tiscornia - Citas y abreviaturas,
TEOR/éTica, San José 2000
Sin título - por Carlos Capelán, en Ana
Tiscornia - Citas y abreviaturas, TEOR/éTica, San
José 2000
"Carlos Capelán", by Gavin Jantjes, Jet Lag Mambo
catalogue, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Hövikodden 2000
"400 metros al norte del quiosco del Morazán - reflexiones
sobre la figuración del Lugar", by Virgina Pérez-Ratton,
Publicaciones TeorÈtica #3, San José 1999
"Seeing between the lines", by Germaine Koh, Fecit,
San José 1999 (CD-R publication)
"A Walk", by Annika Capelán Köhler
and Carlos Köhler Capelán, in Priscilla Monge
- polisemia / ambigüedad. Exhibition catalogue, TEOR/éTica,
San José 1999
"Una caminata", por Annika Kohler Capelán
y Carlos Capelán Kohler, en Priscilla Monge - polisemia
/ ambigüedad. Catálogo de exhibición,
TEOR/éTica, San José 1999
"Gavin Jantjes in conversation
with Carlos Capelán". In A Fruitful Incoherence:
dialogues with artists on internationalism. Gavin Jantjes
and Rohini Malik, Editors. INIVA, London 1997
"En kurators föresatser/Curatorial intentions", by Carlos
Capelán, preface to the catalogue for Runt om oss,
inom oss/Around us, inside us, Borås konstmuseum,
Borås 1997 (in Swedish & English)
"Försvar av Picasso, Sankt Lars och det gamla Café
Ariman i Lund", by Carlos Capelán, in Aspekter
på Modernismen, Kulturen årsbok 1997, Lund
"El pasado como experiencia subjetiva", by Ivonne Pini, Art
Nexus 23, Enero-Marzo 1997
"Four gardens, and one in exile", by Pontus
Kyander, Material 30 (fall 1996)
"México, sobre viajes, mapas y espejos", by Paulo
Herkenhof, catalogue for Viajeros del Sur, Museo
Carrillo Gil, México City 1996
"Två svenskar på väg att
erövra världen", by Monica Nieckels, Konstvärlden
4 1996
" Några ord från kuratorn/Words from the curator",
by Carlos Capelán, preface to the catalogue for Fem
trädgårdar/Five Gardens, Lund 1996(in Swedish
& English)
"Förnuftets sömn/The sleep of reason", by Carlos
Capelán, catalogue for Fem trädgårdar/Five
Gardens, Lund 1996 (in Swedish & English)"
" De världsvida perspektiven", by Pontus Kyander, Sydsvenska
Dagbladet (13/08/96)
"Storm i trädgårdslandet", by Pontus Kyander,
Sydsvenska Dagbladet (3/08/96)"
"Konst i kryptan upprör Lundabor", by Yens Wahlgren,
Sydsvenska Dagbladet (17/07/96)"
"Capelán från Lund konstnär i världen",
interview with Carlos Capelán by Pontus Kyander.
Dagens Nyheter - Kultur & Nöjen, sid 1 (20/12/1995)"
"The Rorschach shirt syndrome (I Listen
to my Neighbour Do the Laundry)", by Carlos Capelán.
Delivered at The Marco Polo Syndrome. Problems of intercultural
communication in art theory and curatorship - the Latin American
example. International symposium at the Haus der Kulturen
der Welt, Berlin December 11-12, 1995. (text published in
http://www.capelan.com)
"De luz e de sombra" interview with Carlos Capelán
by José Carlos Fernandes. Gazeta do Povo, Caderno
G (31/10/1995). Curitiba, Brasil
"Towards a world-class city? Report from Johannesburg", by
Thomas McEvilley, Art in America, September 1995.
"Die 5. Biennale von Havanna und brasilianische Kunst im
20. Jahrhundert", by Karin Stempel, Pantheon, Jahrgang
LII 1994
"En uruguayansk konstnär i Skåne -- hans retro-praxis",
by Clemens Altgård i Om retrogardism by Clemens
Altgård & Håkan Sandell. Ellerströms,
Lund 1995"
"Cover presentation", by Ivonne Pini, Art Nexus 14,
Oct-Dec 1994
"Arte, postmodernidad y periferia en América Latina",
José Bedia, Carlos Capelán, Arturo Duclós,
Ticio Escobar, Frederic Jameson, Martín López,
Gerardo Mosquera, Ivonne Pini, Celia S. de Birbragher, Art
Nexus 14, Oct-Dec 1994"
"El ojo te está mirando", by Gerardo Mosquera. Carlos
Capelán - New Paintings, catalogue for Fernando
Quintana Gallery, Bogotá 1994"
"Carlos Capelán: texts and spirits", by Gerardo Mosquera.
Third Text 26, Spring 1994
"Carlos Capelán: textos y espíritus", by Gerardo
Mosquera. Atlántica 6, Febrero 1994
"Carlos Capelán", by Pehr Mårtens. Catalogue
for the V Havana Biennial. Havana 1994
"Carlos Capelán - En Route", by Pehr Mårtens.
Canto a mí mismo catalogue for the V Havana
Biennial. Lund 1994
"Carlos Capelán", by Cathérine David. Canto
a mí mismo catalogue for the V Havana Biennial.
Lund 1994
"Carlos Capelán", by Cathérine David. Neuf,
Maison de l'Amérique Latine, Paris 1994
"European fusion", by Sandy Nairne. Frieze 11, Summer
1993
"Carlos Capelán", by Carla Stellweg, in In Fusion
- New European Art. Southbank Canter, London 1993
Bedia och Capelán - Resa i Sverige, by B.
Sydhoff, E. Haglund, C. Medina & P. Mårtens. Kulturhuset,
Stockholm 1993
"Carlos Capelán", by Luis Camnitzer, in Carlos
Capelán - Kartor och landskap. Lunds Konsthall,
Lund 1992 (Swedish and English version)
"The restricted redefinition of art", by Luis Camnitzer,
in Carlos Capelán - Kartor och landskap. Lunds
Konsthall, Lund 1992 (Swedish and English version)
"The implosion of modernity - The treacherous present", by
Jonathan Friedman, in Carlos Capelán - Kartor och
landskap. Lunds Konsthall, Lund 1992 (Swedish and English
version)
"Cutting the roots", by Oscar Hemer, in Carlos Capelán
- Kartor och landskap. Lunds Konsthall, Lund 1992 (Swedish
and English version)
"Preface", by Cecilia Nelson, in Carlos Capelán
- Kartor och landskap. Lunds Konsthall, Lund 1992 (Swedish
and English version)
"In the world with Carlos Capelán", by Rachel Weiss,
in Carlos Capelán - Kartor och landskap. Lunds
Konsthall, Lund 1992 (Swedish and English version)
"Carlos Capelán - Landscape and Map", by Carla Stellweg,
in America, Bride of the Sun, edited by Catherine
de Zegher. Inschoot Books, Antwerp 1992
"Carlos Capelán - Mapas y Paisajes", by Alicia Haber.
Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo, Montevideo 1992
"Carlos Capelán", by Rachel Weiss, in Ante América.
Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá 1992
"Remarks", by Carlos Capelán, in Being America,
edited by Rachel Weiss and Alan West. White Pine Press, New
York 1991
Karte - Landschaft - Raummalerei, by Dietmar Brandstädter.
Verein Basta, Hamburg 1991
Capelán, by Göran Lundstedt. Symposium
and Scripta Sancti Petri, Lund-Stockholm 1986
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Lectures and seminaries |
2007 |
Turbulence 2007, conference, Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand |
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Artist in Residence, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand |
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Talk, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand |
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Talk, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand |
2006 |
Asedios Críticos. Carlos Capelán ONLY YOU: siempre allí + pcla(r), Museo de Arte y Diseño de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica |
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Qué Centroamérica? Conference and open debate, Museo de arte y Diseño de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica |
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Memories of Modernity, conference, Durban, South Africa |
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Crossing Horizons: Context and Community in the South, South Project Conference, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile, Chile |
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Talk, School of Fine Arts, Guayaquil, Ecuador |
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Talk, Museo de Antropología y Arte Contemporáneo, Guayaquil, Ecuador |
2005 |
Talk and workshop, Department of Art, University of Valdivia, Chile |
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Talk, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo,
Uruguay |
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Notions of self in the practice of contemporary art,
talk at Fundación Rojas, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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Contemporary Horizons, talk, with Nikos Papastergiadis,
Galeri Signal, Malmö, Sweden |
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2004 |
Broken Walks, academic performance and panel discussion,
at Empires, Ruins and Networks: Art in Real Time Culture,
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia |
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Talk, Umeå School of Fine Arts, Sweden |
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A month long seminar in Argentina with students from
the Umeå School of Fine Arts, Sweden; in collaboration
with Mónica Girón |
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Panel discussion at Forum Moderna: Pressures on art
criticism, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden |
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Symposium and workshop, with Nikos Papastergiadis,
TeorÉtica, San José, Costa Rica |
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2003 |
Academic performance and panel discussion at Forum Moderna:
Globalization, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden |
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Academic performance and talk, Universidad de Buenos Aires,
Cátedra de Andrea Giunta, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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Academic performance and talk, Museo Blanes, Montevideo,
Uruguay |
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From the cooked to the raw, a multidisciplinary conference
at the Valand's School of Fine Arts, Gothemburgh, Sweden |
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Symposium, TeorÉtica, San José, Costa Rica |
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Debate on Ethics and Contemporary Art, Arco Art Fair
2003, Madrid, Spain |
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2002 |
Talk, Valand's Art Academy, Gothemburg, Sweden |
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Gallery talk, onlyyou, Bildmuseet, Umeå |
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2001 |
Art and artist in the age of global culture, workshop
at "ARS 2001", in collaboration with the Nordic Institute
for Contemporary Art (NIFCA), Helsinki |
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Museer, mångkultur och globalisering, panel discussion
in "Det demokratiska museet - Museiveckan", Umeå, Sweden |
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Seminarium, CEGAC/Vestlandets kunstakademi, Bergen, Norway |
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2000 |
Panel discussion: "La acción y su huella", Performance-art
seminarium, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
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Visiting Artist, workshop, Maestría de Artes Plásticas y
Visuales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia |
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Seminarium, CEGAC/Vestlandets kunstakademi, Santiago de Compostela,
Spain |
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1997 |
Art, design and ecology. Seminarium, Vestlandets
kunstakademi, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway |
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Personal tutorials and lecture. Vestlandets kunstakademi,
University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway |
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Visiones del arte latinoamericano. Symposium, Museo
Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz,
Spain |
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1996 |
Mesótica 1996. Symposium, Museo de Arte y Diseño
Contemporáneo, san José, Costa Rica |
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Seminarie. Lunds Stifts Kyrkospel. Lund, Sweden |
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Workshop. Casa de Murillo, Facultad de Bellas Artes, Sevilla,
Spain |
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1995 |
The Place of Place - SITE Santa Fe. Symposium, Santa
Fe, New Mexico, USA |
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Workshop at the Studio Camnitzer, Valdottavo, Italy |
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Las bienales de 1994. Symposium, Museo de Arte y
Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica |
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The Marco Polo Syndrome. Problems of intercultural communication
in art theory and exhibiting - Latin America as an example.
Symposium, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany |
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1994 |
Lecture, Tadeo Lozano University, Bogotá, Colombia |
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Lecture, Fernando Quintana Gallery, Bogotá Colombia |
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Lecture, Museo Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay |
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Symposium, V Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba |
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1993 |
The Global Village, in connection with the separate
exhibition Kartor och Landskap, Lunds konsthall,
Lund, Sweden |
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Arts International, Barcelona, Spain |
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New European Art, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK |
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New European Art, Oriel Gallery, Cardiff, Wales,
UK |
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About European Identity, televised round table discussion,
Channel Four, London, UK |
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The Missing Link, BIPOL'art Symposium, Lund, Sweden |
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Lecture, Museo de Arte, San José, Costa Rica |
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Lecture, Heredia School of Art, Heredia, Costa Rica |
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1992 |
Seminary, Biblioteca L. A. Arango, Bogotá, Colombia |
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Lecture, Estudio Cubo del Sur, Montevideo, Uruguay |
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Lecture, Estudio Nelbia Romero, Montevideo, Uruguay |
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1989 |
Seminary, the Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba |
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1988 |
Signs of Everyday Life, Massachusett School of Art,
Boston, USA |
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Two seminaries, Molino de Santo Domingo, Mexico City, Mexico |
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