Oswaldo Maciá www.oswaldomacia.com Selected Projects
2021 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD (1999-2021) Collection Tate. London Tate Modern | 2021 – 2022
NEW CARTOGRAPHIES OF SMELL MIGRATION Kunsthalle Bremen, 07 | 2021
FORES OF BALMS Bienial de Guatemala, 06 | 2021
2020 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– THE OPERA OF CROSS-POLLINATION: FOR CATHERINE PETITGAS, Montpellier contemporain, France 05 | 03 |20
2019 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– FABLES OF THE WIND – SWARM WELCOME Struer // Tracks, Struer, Denmark 23 | 08 |19 – 07 | 09 |19
THE OPERA OF CROSS-POLLINATION Intonal Festival 2019, Malmö, Sweden 24 - 28 | 04 | 19
GEOPOLICS OF NATURE, Espaivisor Gallery Valencia, Spain 29 | 03 | 19 – 24 | 05 | 19
A GIFT TO SVALBARD Olfactory-acoustic sculpture composition Vinkelstasjonen, Longyearbyen on Spitsbergen Island, Norway Svalbard archipelago Arctic. 22 | 03 | 19
2018 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– TWO FRAGANCES: KNOWLEDGE AND IGNORANCE Presented: Dulce Tumaco, FLORA ars+natura, Bogotá, Colombia 15 | 09 | 18 – 15 | 12 | 18
THE OPERA OF CROSS-POLLINATION Olfactory-acoustic sculpture composition 22.2 1st Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Riga Latvia 2018
2017 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– EQUATIONS [OLFACTORY-ACOUSTIC SCULPTURE] CAAM _Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno Sala San Antonio Abad _ Las Palmas Gran Canarias _Spain, 09|02|17 – 18|06|17 SCENARIO IN CONSTRUCCION Public Sculpture - roundabout (calle 19, carrera 3) Bogotá Colombia. Is the winner of the first Open-Air Museum, an international contest for public sculpture in the capital district of Bogota Colombia
2016 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
CONDUCTOR, SYMPHONY FOR A MUTE BIRD Todo o Património é Poesia / Fórum Eugénio de Almeida Évora Portugal, 13|05|16
TRILOGY FOR THREE TIMBRES, MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo Mexico, 06|02|16
2015 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– CALUMNY 10th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 08|10|15
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD Tate Britain, London, 08|06|15
CONFESION Ocupación, Colateral 12th Bienal de La Habana. Estudio de Los Carpinteros La Habana, Cuba. Mayo 01|05|15.
CONFESSION The smell of war, De Lovie-Poperinge, Belgium 30|04|15
GARLIC SOAP Belle Haleine - The scent of art, Museo Tinguely, Basel 11|02|15
2014 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
TRANSITION olfactory-acoustic sculpture, Here Today, London 25|11|14
ANESTESIA first Cartagena Biennial of Art, Cartagena, Colombia 07|02|14
2013 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
A LABORATORY OF CYNICAL PERCEPTION Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York 13|09|13
THE LIBRARY OF CYNICISM Chelsea Space London 04|06|13
DARFUR, MACRO Museum Contemporary Art Rome, Audio-festival Helicotrema 18|04|13
VESPER Daros Latinoamerica Cantos Cuentos Colombianos Rio, Brazil 23|03|13
2012 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
MARTINETE Manifesta 9 Genk, Belgium, 01|06|12.
FLYING GLASSHOUSE WITH AN AQUARIUM INSIDE Galerie Coucou Kassel, Germany 05|06|12
ACTION VERSUS JUSTIFICATIONS/IWUANA, Kunsthal KAdE Amersfoort, Netherlands 25|05|12
FROGS/AMBIGUITY AND AMPHIBIAN ICA Sound works in Bruce Nauman’s Days, London 12|07|12
2011 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– SURROUNDED IN TEARS, primer premio de XI Bienal de Cuenca Cuenca, Ecuador 11|11|11
ESCENARIO PARA TRES CIRCUNSTANCIAS A,B,C. Museo de Arte Moderno Medellin 28|09|11
MARTINETE, 8a Bienal do Mercosul Porto Alegre, Brasil 10|09|11
UNDER THE HORIZON, XVIII Rohkunstbau. Macht, Schloss Marquardt Potsdam, Germany 01|07|11
PERCEPTIONS IN BALANCE Work on paper Nuartlink Gallery Westport, CT. US 06|09|11
EQUILIBRIUM New Narrative, Digital Art Center Taipei, Taiwan 05|05|11
EQUILIBRIUM, Robert Mapplethorpe Night Work, Alison Jacques Gallery, London 19|01|11
2010 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
EQUILIBRIUM Espaivisor Gallery, Valencia Spain 27|09|10
EQUILIBRIUM Haunch of Venison, Daydream with James Lavelle, London 27|08|10ACTION
VERSUS JUSTIFICATIONS/IWUANA Bienal Pontevedra Utropias, Pontevedra Spain 04|06|10
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD Fundacion Banco Santander, Madrid, 02|02|10
2009 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
DARFUR Performa 09 Pandora’s Sound Box - White Box New York 02|11|09
SURROUNDED IN TEAR Nuit Blanche 09 Toronto Canada 02|10|09
THE FOUNTAIN IV Biennale de Jafre Cataluna Spain 09|08|09
TEN NOTES FOR A HUMAN SYMPHONY 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece 24|05|09
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK.01|05|09
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD Whitechapel Art Gallery,01|05|09 London.
2008 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD 41 Salon Nacional Cali. Colombia 19|11|08
SOUFFLE The Gallery, Sketch, London 1|11|08
SOUFFLE Mediation biennale, Poznan, Poland 03|10|08
SMELLSCAPE III Odor Limits, Esther M. Klein Gallery Philadelphia, USA 09|05|08
VESPER Fondation Clement, Martinique, 01|04|08
CALUMNY and TEARS Musee D’Art De Joliette Quebec. 25|05|08
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD Festival de Lanaudiere Joliette Quebec. 25|05|08
DIVERSION END Product, Varna, Bulgaria, 10|04|08
2007 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
CALUMNY and DARFUR Fri-Art Fribourg 09|09|07 CALUMNY Marian Goodman Gallery Paris, 23|06|07
VESPER Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. 21|01|07
DARFUR 2nd. Moscow Biennale. Special project ‘We are the future’, Moscow Russia 03|03|07
SURROUNDED IN TEARS Telefonica Buenos Aires. Negatec Buenos Aires Argentina 16|04|07
DARFUR ‘The dog barks, but it makes no difference to the Camel’. Madrid Abierto Madrid. Spain 2007
CALUMNY Sheffield Museum. Abstraction: extracting from the World. Sheffield UK 2007
2006 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
DARFUR Urp! Dieci posizioni tra pubblico e privato Cagliari Italy 2006
SMELLSCAPE Museum Science Oxford 2006
SURROUNDED IN TEARS Kunstverein Freiburg-Invisible Worlds 2006
SMELLSCAPE South London Gallery. Around the World in Eighty Days 2006
2005 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
DIVERSION END Zoo Art Fair. London (cat.) 2005
VESPER Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Ireland. (cat.) 2005
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD 51st Venice Biennial Jardin - Palazzo Franchetti Venice Italy (cat.) 2005
VESPER Daros Collection Cantos Cuentos Colombianos Zurich (cat.) 2005
2004 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD Haunch of Venison Animals London (cat.) 2004
SURROUNDED IN TEARS III Tate Liverpool Biennial (with Jasper Morrison & Michael Nyman). Liverpool, UK 2004 VESPER Sound–Smell, Shanghai Biennale 2004. Techniques of the Visible, Shanghai, Chia (cat.) 2004
E2 7SD Sound Sculpture The Place Prize (choreographer Rafael Bonachela). The Place, London, UK (First prize) 2004
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD Daros Collection: Cantos Cuentos Colombianos, Zurich (cat.) 2004
2003 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD The Power Plant, Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada (cat.) 2003
VESPER II Bienal de Lanzarote: El viaje inútil Arrecife, Spain (cat.) 2003
VESPER VIII Bienal de La Habana: El arte con la vida, La Habana, Cuba (cat.) 2003
ES QUE NO ME OYEN O ES QUE NO ME VEN VIII Bienal de La Habana XEspacio Aglutinador La Habana, Cuba, 2003
VESPER VTO Gallery London, UK 2003
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid, Spain 2003
VESPER, The Place, (choreographer Rafael Bonachela), London, UK 2003
2002 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD AfricAméricA Port–au– Prince, Haïti 2002
PROVOKES / EVOKES (with Jasper Morrison) Artlab Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK (cat.) 2002
2001 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
PARA MAÑANA TENDREMOS UN DIA NUBLADO Sinfonía anal auditiva.Tercer Festival Internacional de Arte Sonoro México D.F., Mexico 2001
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD I Tirana Biennale, Tirana Albania (cat.) 2001
WHO CLEAN WHOM Ventana. Office in Madrid, Madrid, Spain 2001
2000 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– ALGAE GARDEN Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Continental Shift. Aachen, Germany (cat.) 2000
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD 12th century Church of Gamla Uppsala, Sweden 2000
1999 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD ExTeresa Arte Actual, Cartucho. México D.F., Mexico 1999
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD Whitechapel Art Gallery London, UK 1999
1998 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
FROM WITHIN Juliet Gallery, Trieste, Italy (cat.) 1998
1996 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
BAJANDO CAYENDO Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia (cat.) 1996
FAMILIARES ANONIMOS Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango: Nuevos nombres. La lógica de los sentidos Bogotá, Colombia (cat.) 1996
1995 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– CLEANAWAY Lisson Gallery, Post Script. London, UK 1995
GARLIC SOAP Lisson Gallery, Ideal Standard Summertime, London, UK 1995
MEMORY SKYP Museum of Installation, London, UK (cat. with CD) 1995
1994 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
1 WOODCHURCH RD LONDON NW6 3PL smell sculpture, Goldsmiths College MA Show. London, UK 1994
Education –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
1993-94 Goldsmiths’ college, University of London, England MA IN FINE ART
1990-93 Guildhall University of London, England BA SCULPTURE
1988-90 Llotja School, Barcelona, Spain MURAL PAINTING 1976-80 School of Fine Art Cartagena De Indias Colombia BA IN FINE ART