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: 2023 (upcoming) solo show, Galleria Alessandro Casciaro, Bolzano (I) and Space is the base, Instituto de Vision. New York (USA); 2022, Acoustic Fossil, Baluarte de Santa Catalina. In collaboration with Daniel Villagas. 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: 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). In his practice, Santiago explores the structural legacies of the colonial past, while also addressing themes such as environmental and socio-political injustices and how they manifest themselves through the elemental. In 2015 he won the Abraaj Royal College of Art Innovation Fellowship. 2015-2017 Santiago holds an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art in London and a BA in Visual Arts and Art History and Theory from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. In 2019 he was the winner of the Matteo Olivero Prize in Italy. 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.