Santiago
Reyes Villaveces

"My practice follows a material investigation on structures, assemblages, and dynamics that evidence states of transitivity and precariousness. The works comprise installations, sculptures, drawings, and photography that address different relations of temporal indetermination. They transform, determine modify, and interfere with the space in which they operate; affecting the way in which the spectator occupies and perceives physical space. The different materials I use in my work are characterized by notions of: tension, scale, volume, weight, gravity, surface, pressure, contention, resistance, depth and limit. Such notions configure systems that produce new relationships between spaces, architectures and the bodies of the spectators. My work explore a latent architectural sensibility that is evident in precarious structures, mostly visible in- but not limited to- everyday urban detritus, overlooked by products of construction, and improvised temporary structures, underscoring a latent sophistication in anonymous ways of doing."
 
Santiago Reyes Villaveces
 

Exhibitions

Among the main solo shows we remember: 2024 (Upcoming)/ Acoustic Fossil, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín. In collaboration with Daniel Villegas.Medellin, Colombia; 2023 solo show, Galleria Alessandro Casciaro, Bolzano (I), Timisoara European Capital of Culture in Romania (RO) and Graft, Instituto de Vision. New York (USA); 2022, Acoustic Fossil, Baluarte de Santa Catalina, Cartagena, Colombia; Cosmic Sympathy, CAMA, São Paulo (BR); Ciaula discovers the Moon, Ncontemporary, Milan (I); 2021, Arabidopsis Thaliana, duo show, MAMBO Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (COL); 2019, Lo Bravo y lo Manso, Instituto de Visión, Bogotá (COL); 2018, Dos Pájaros de un solo tiro, duo show with Néstor Marcelo Gutiérrez, Calle 70a # 7-18, Bogotà (COL); Patria Boba, Galería Artnueve, Murcia (ES); 2017, Solo show, Galleria Alessandro Casciaro, Bolzano (I); Frieze London, Galería Instituto de Visión, Bogotá (COL); Art Dubai, Gallerie MLF | Marie-Laure Fleisch, Brussels (B); 2016, Artissima 2016, duo show with Alice Cattaneo, Torino (I); Reside, Gallerie MLF | Marie-Laure Fleisch, curatorial note by Eugenio Viola, Brussels (B); 2015, ArteBa 2015, Galería Instituto de Visión, Buenos Aires (ARG);  Contramuro, Galería Instituto de Visión, Bogotá (COL); 2014, Traino, Cavallerizza Reale di Torino, Torino (I); Repertory, Spazio In primo Luogo Santiago Reyes Michelangelo Pistoletto, Torino (I); 2012, El año pasado, Galería Valenzuela Klenner. Bogotá (COL); 2009, Monumetria (DELENGUAAMANO), Pinacoteca de Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo (BR); Acervo, Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá (COL); 2006, Art IN Theory, Sala de Proyectos Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (COL).

He has also taken part in numerous group exhibitions, including: 2023, Bright Cityscapes. Timișoara - European capital of culture. Romania (R), Altenatura, Museum of Modern Art Pereira,
Colombia; 2022, Un paisaje nunca es inocente, Instituto de Visión Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia; 2020, The Short laded, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, Cape Town, London (online show); Isolation, Marie Laure Fleisch Gallery. Brussels, on-line-Artsy-Artland; 2019, Bucarolito, with Alfonso Borragán Emerson Dorsch, Miami (USA); Cielos, Salón Comunal, Bogota, Colombia; El huésped (The host), Anthropology Museum of Murcia (ES); Nós Ninguém. Galería Nacasanova. São Paulo (BR); 2017, Show RCA | degree show, Royal College of Art, London (UK); LISTE Basel 2017, Galería Instituto de Visión, Bogotá (COL); Museum Dhondt-Daenens, Deurle (B); Art Montecarlo, Gallerie MLF| Marie-Laure Fleisch, Monaco (D); 2016, ACADEMIAE 2016 Youth Art Biennale, “Throwing Balls in the Air”, Fortezza (I); Dialogues on the Threshold, Crypt Gallery, London (UK); Borders are for crossing, Sculpture Court, Edinburgh College of Art (UK); WIP show, Royal College of art, London (UK); El Arte de Vivir: Kandor 13, La Fragua - Centro de Arte Pepe Espalier, Córdoba (ES); 2015, Monochrome Undone, Space Sayago Paradon, Irvine California (US); Material Art Fair, Galería Instituto de Visión. México City (MEX); Intervenciones. Museo de arte y cultura Colsubsidio. Bogotá (COL); 2014, Mapping Traces (Rastreando Indicios), Museo de Arquitectura Leopoldo Rother, Bogotá (COL); Nós Ninguém. Galería Nacasanova. São Paulo (BR); Nuevas Aperturas: color, tiempo, espacio y materia (New apertures: color, time and matter) Museum of Arts and Culture Colsubsidio. Bogotá (COL); 2013, Desequilibrio y movilidad, Nuevos nombres 2013 Banco de la República. Bogotá (COL); 43 Salón (Inter)nacional de Artistas, Ministerio de Cultura. Medellín (COL); ArtBo 2013, galería La Central, Bogotá (COL); ArteBA 2013, La agencia, Buenos Aires (ARG); Contra Escambos. Experiências Imaginativas nos Trópicos, Espaço Fonte, Recife (BR) (Participating with the group DELENGUAAMANO); Horizontal, galería La Central, Bogotá (COL); 2012, Panel, Artecámar, Feria de Arte de Bogotá ArtBo, Bogotá (COL); 2011, Fundición, Feria La Otra. Bogotá (COL).

Biography

Santiago Reyes Villaveces is a Colombian artist who was born in Bogotá (1986). Santiago’s work examines knowledge systems used to control and colonize nature. His work consists of drawings, installations (large-scale and site-specific), moving images, and sculptures. Santiago un- derstands these formats as techniques to engage with systems of power and their contemporary ma- teriality. His most recent projects take interest in today’s colonization of space, reflecting on the limits of extractivism and the survival of life-forms—within and beyond our planet. His works and projects have been presented in public and private spaces in various places around the world. Currently he lives and works between Italy, London and Bogotá.