STATEMENT
GERMÁN BENINCORE
BOGOTÁ, 1993
As an artist I use images to consider their role in shaping reality. We inhabit a world of diagrams and signs as much as physical objects. Through my work I study the historical processes, technical aspects and social practices involved in creating and circulating certain kinds of imagery. I am referring to the pictures we use for constructing, validating and maintaining the stories that we tell to determine our beliefs and actions. Our behaviors, established through visual means, lead to ways of living that are causing unprecedented societal and ecological crises and that appear to be ever- present and all- encompassing.
I’m interested in observing stories that fail to settle down, are unsuccessfully built, and fail to take root because of contexts that are unfitting. My work is about moments in which perceptions of stability and certainty are broken. I see these moments as openings. They are necessary reminders of the limitations of any human model of the world and the transient nature of all structures. For me, these conditions present opportunities to imagine, resist and hope.
I try to translate these moments through my art by investigating, connecting, juxtaposing, transforming and sometimes, pushing to the limit, visual regimes or devices of representation. In this endeavor I’ve sought to find varied channels and strategies for creation and distribution. Using drawing as a structuring tool, a methodology more than a medium, my work has taken the shape of installations, artistic laboratories and publications.
CV
Education
-Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
-Bachelor in Visual Arts with Plastic and Graphic emphasis. 2024-San Francisco Art Institute
-2021-2022
- Arizona State University
-Master in fine Arts- Intermedia, candidate- 2024Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
-EDÉN
Solo exhibition- Alianza Francesa de Bogotá, sede centro. Bogotá, Colombia. 2023.- INTERSTICIO
In collaboration with María Margarita Moreno. Galería 12:00. Bogotá, Colombia. 2017.Group exhibitions
- 2024 Galbut Prize
Group show at Arizona State University. Winner of the 2024 Galbut prize. Phoenix, Arizona. 2024-Exposition D’ici et d’ailleurs à la Maison des auteurs
Group show at the Maison des auteurs. Angoulême, France. 2023.-An Alien show
Collective exhibition at the Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute. San Francisco, California. 2022.-The Wilding
Collective exhibition at the Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute. San Francisco, California. 2022.-XIV Salón Nacional de Arte Joven
Galería Santafé, Bogotá, Colombia 2021.-Que no cunda el pánico ( ¿Hay otras maneras?)
Cycle of exhibitions, meetings and interventions at Espacio Odeón, Bogotá, Colombia, 2020.- III Salón de Arte Joven FUGA
Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation,Bogotá, Colombia, 2019.-La Pedrada, diálogos con la piedra
Artistic laboratory organized by the collective “La Examinadora” in “El Parqueadero” space of the Miguel Urrutia Art Museum. Bogotá, Colombia, 2018.-Contra Natura
Colective exhibition curated by Jhon Ángel Rodríguez. Pereira Art Museum. Pereira, Colombia. 2018.-Noveno Salón de Arte Joven Club el Nogal
Club el Nogal, Bogotá, Colombia, 2017.-Babosas en el cielo. Tres rocas, un disfraz, algunos gestos y un algo disecado.
Collective exhibition organized by the artist Daniel Salamanca Nuñez in Galería Salón Comunal. Bogotá, Colombia, 2017.-Al final del arcoíris.
Group exhibition curated by Andrés Matute. Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá, sede Chapinero. Bogotá, Colombia,2016.Publications
-El Espacio entre las cosas
Tormenta Ediciones. 2021.- Dibujos robados
Tormenta Ediciones. 2019 Awards
* 2024 Galbut Prize
* 2023 MFA Thesis Award