Carlos Capelán
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay 1948
Lives in Santiago de Compostela, Spain; in Lund, Sweden; in Moravia, Costa Rica

Professor at the Vestland's Art Academy, Bergen, Norway

Studies

1978-81 Grafikskolan Forum, Malmö, Sweden

Selected separate exhibitions and installations

2003

onlyyou, paintings, drawings, objects and installations, Galería Fúcares, Madrid, Spain

Sin ti, paintings, drawings, objects and installations, Galería Trinta, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

2002

onlyyou, paintings, drawings, objects and installations, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden

eisoptrophobia - installations and drawings, Galleri s.e, Bergen, Norway

Low Tide / Technologies, Gary Nader Fine Arts, Miami

2001

Post-Colonial Liberation Army (rematerialización) - objetos artísticos, Galería Angel Romero, Madrid, Spain

2000

Galerie Leger, Malmö, Sweden

Jet Lag Mambo, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway

1999

Hommage to the Native Nations of Germany (1999), WeltSichten, IFA Galerie, Berlin, Germany

400 metros al norte del quiosco del Morazán, Fundación TeorÉtica, San José, Costa Rica

1998

Galería David Pérez-MacCollum, Guayaquil, Ecuador

1997

A painting representing space, New Work Series, Miami Art Museum of Dade County, Miami, USA

Die Welt als Vorstellung, Galerie Monique Knowlton, New York, USA

Die Welt als Vorstellung, Galerie Leger, Malmoe, Sweden

Galeria Caracol, Zaragoza, Spain

La casa de la memoria, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain

Galerie Le Monde de l'Art, Paris, France

1996

Lund's Cathedral, Lund, Sweden

1995

Façade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA

XI Mostra America, Museu da Gravura, Curitiba, Brazil

La Zitelle, Venice, Italy

Galerie Leger, Malmö, Sweden

1994

Galería Fernando Quintana, Bogotá, Colombia

Galería Angel Romero, Madrid, Spain

Neuf, Maison de L'Amerique Latine, Paris, France

Song to myself, V Havanna Biennial, Havanna, Cuba

1993

Bedia och Capelán, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden

Thanatocenosis, Jacob Karpio Gallery, San José, Costa Rica

De Andra, based on the book by Stefan Jonsson, Malmö Festivalen, Malmö, Sweden

1992

Kartor och Landskap, Lunds konsthall, Lund, Sweden

Mapas y Paisajes, Subte Municipal, Montevideo, Uruguay

Gallery Hertz, Bremen, Germany

1991

Galleri Mors Mössa, Gothemburg, Sweden

Karte - Landschaft - Raummalerei, Galleri Basta, Hamburg, Western Germany

1990

Pilgrims and Relics, One Twentieigth Gallery, New York City, USA

1989

Ronneby Art Center, Ronneby, Sweden

Galerie El Patio, Bremen, Western Germany

III Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba

1988

Krognohuset, Lund, Sweden

L'Espace Latinoaméricain, Paris, France

Massachusett School of Art, Boston, USA

1987

superficies RITUAL imágenes, Galerie El Patio, Bremen, Western Germany

Rituals and Surfaces, Massachusett School of Art, Boston, USA

1986

Ritual - Ytor - Bilder, Galleri Mors Mössa, Gothemburg, Sweden

Skånska Konstmuseum, Pictura, Lund, Sweden

Galería Alternativa, Mexico City, Mexico

1985

Ansikte, Fotogalleri Ariman, Lund, Sweden

1983

Galerie Leger, Malmö, Sweden

1982

Centre Chaillot-Galliera, Paris, France

1979

Galerie Leger, Malmö, Sweden

Universidad Central, Caracas, Venezuela

1978

Galleriet (Anders Tornberg), Lund, Sweden

Selected group exhibitions

2003

Autorretrato, in IV Bienal Mercosur, Porto Alegre, Brasil

Sin tí, in Juegos de Escala, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Botella ao Mar, Casa das Artes, Vigo / Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

2002

Reality and Figuration - The Contemporary Latin American Presence, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA [catalogue ISBN 0-936859-45-8]

Maps and landscapes (the living-room), 1991-2002, Tilflukt/Refuge, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway

Hommage a Ola Billgren, Galerie Leger, Malmö, Sweden

2001

Tirana Biennale, National Gallery/Chinese Pavilion, Tirana, Albania [catalogue ISBN 88-7816-122-5]

1998

A painting representing space, in XXIV Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil

At the speed of your steps, in Crossings, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Desembarco de los 33, in Bienal del Barro, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofia Imbert, Caracas, Venezuela

Mesótica III: Instalomesótica, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica

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

Petit Café, XIIIes Atéliers du FRAC, Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire, France

1996

Arbeten på papper, Galerie Leger, Malmö, Sweden

Aura, in On time, Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden

Maps and Landscapes (the living-room), in Inclusion/Exclusion, Steirischer Herbst 96, Graz, Austria

The sleep of reason, in Five Gardens, Kulturhuset Valfisken, Simrishamn, Ystads konstmuseum, Ystad, Sweden (also curatorship)

Exhibition room #7, in Interzones, Kulturforeningen, Copenhaguen, Denmark; Uppsala konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden

1995

Viajeros del Sur, Museo Carrillo Gil, México (2 installations)

Kwangju International Biennale, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Window #2: My home is your home, in Dialogues of Peace, UN Jubileum, Geneva, Switzerland

Naming songs, in SITE Santa Fe, Santa FE, New Mexico, USA

Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, España

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)

1994

Humanism and Technology, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Ante América, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas; Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica

Bienal del Pequeño Formato, Puerto Rico

Brytpunkter, Länsmuseerna, Stockholm Art Fair, Sollentuna, Stockholm, Sweden; Länsmuseerna, Jönköpings länsmuseum, Jönköping, Sweden

1993

In Fusion - New European Art, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK; Art Museum, Brighton, UK; Oriel Gallery, Cardiff, Wales, UK

Living Rites, Carla Stellweg Gallery, New York City, USA

Ante América, Museo A. Otero, Caracas, Venezuela; Queens Museum, New York, USA; New Center for the Arts, S. Francisco, USA

BIPOL'art, Skrylle, Sweden

1992

Ante América, Banco de la República - Biblioteca L. A. Arango, Bogotá, Colombia

In Progress, Oldenburg, Groningen, Germany

America, Bride of the Sun - 500 Years of American Art, Royal Museum, Antwerp, Belgium

Colectiva - Open Art, Galerie Ruf, Munich, Germany

Mostra America, Museu da Gravura, Curitiba, Brazil

Szwedzi w Polsce, Zabrze, Poland

1991

In Progress, Kunstler Werkstatt, Munich, Germany; Leipzig, Germany

Gallerie Weissestadt, Köln, Germany

Art/Photography, Hasselblad Center, Gothemburg, Sweden

1990

In Progress, Art Museum of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

1989

Latinoamérica Despierta - Latin America Awakened, Massachusetts' School of Art, Boston, USA

Worldpictures - Picture Worlds, a moving show from Stockholm Art Museum, Sweden

Latinamerican Art Today, Art Center of Ronneby, Ronneby, Sweden

1988

Ester Almqvist - grantees, Pictura, Lund, Sweden

1987

Sveagalleriet, Stockholm, Sweden

1986

Södertälje Art Museum, Södertälje, Sweden

Moving Exhibition with Three Cuban Artists, Mexico

1985-1986

Colart, Copenhagen, Danmark

1984

The Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba

Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden

1983-1987

Por la Libertad, Europe, South and Central America

1978

Forumgrafik, Felix Art Club, Eslöv, Sweden

Curatorship

1986

Five Gardens, Kulturhuset Valfisken/Ystads konstmuseum, Simrishamn/Ystad, Sweden

1997

Inside us, around us, Borås konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden

Represented at

Art Museum of Gothemburg, Sweden; Art Museum of Södertälje, 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; Carlos & Rosa de la Cruz Collection, Miami, USA; D. Yankelewitz Collection, San José, Costa Rica; Greger & Ulla Olsson Collection, Malmö/Esviiden, Sweden/Belgium; Peter Menéndez Collection, Miami, USA; Edgar Gunther Collection, Paris, France; Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Grants and international awards

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

Literature

"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

"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

Lectures and seminaries

2003

Academic performance and panel discussion at Forum Moderna: Globalization, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Academic performance and talk, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Cátedra de Andrea Giunta, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Academic performance and talk, Museo Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay

From the cooked to the raw, a multidisciplinary conference at the Valand's School of Fine Arts, Gothemburgh, Sweden

Symposium, TeorÉtica, San José, Costa Rica

Debate on Ethics and Contemporary Art, Arco Art Fair 2003, Madrid, Spain

2002

Talk, Valand's Art Academy, Gothemburg, Sweden

Gallery talk, onlyyou, Bildmuseet, Umeå

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

Museer, mångkultur och globalisering, panel discussion in "Det demokratiska museet - Museiveckan", Umeå, Sweden

Seminarium, CEGAC/Vestlandets kunstakademi, Bergen, Norway

2000

Panel discussion: "La acción y su huella", Performance-art seminarium, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Visiting Artist, workshop, Maestría de Artes Plásticas y Visuales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

Seminarium, CEGAC/Vestlandets kunstakademi, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

1997

Art, design and ecology. Seminarium, Vestlandets kunstakademi, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Personal tutorials and lecture. Vestlandets kunstakademi, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Visiones del arte latinoamericano. Symposium, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain

1996

Mesótica 1996. Symposium, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, san José, Costa Rica

Seminarie. Lunds Stifts Kyrkospel. Lund, Sweden

Workshop. Casa de Murillo, Facultad de Bellas Artes, Sevilla, Spain

1995

The Place of Place - SITE Santa Fe. Symposium, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Workshop at the Studio Camnitzer, Valdottavo, Italy

Las bienales de 1994. Symposium, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica

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

1994

Lecture, Tadeo Lozano University, Bogotá, Colombia

Lecture, Fernando Quintana Gallery, Bogotá Colombia

Lecture, Museo Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay

Symposium, V Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba

1993

The Global Village, in connection with the separate exhibition Kartor och Landskap, Lunds konsthall, Lund, Sweden

Arts International, Barcelona, Spain

New European Art, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

New European Art, Oriel Gallery, Cardiff, Wales, UK

About European Identity, televised round table discussion, Channel Four, London, UK

The Missing Link, BIPOL'art Symposium, Lund, Sweden

Lecture, Museo de Arte, San José, Costa Rica

Lecture, Heredia School of Art, Heredia, Costa Rica

1992

Seminary, Biblioteca L. A. Arango, Bogotá, Colombia

Lecture, Estudio Cubo del Sur, Montevideo, Uruguay

Lecture, Estudio Nelbia Romero, Montevideo, Uruguay

1989

Seminary, the Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba

1988

Signs of Everyday Life, Massachusett School of Art, Boston, USA

Two seminaries, Molino de Santo Domingo, Mexico City, Mexico