Gabriel Acevedo Velarde | Biography
1976 Born in Lima, Peru
Lives and works in Berlin
Education
2002-2004 Film production house, La Alcachofa Films, Mexico City, Mexico
2000-2003 Licenciatura en Artes Plásticas (BA Fine Arts), Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico
1998 Instituto Gaudí, Photography Department, Lima, Peru
1995-1997 Facultad de Artes (Fine Arts Department), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
1993-1994 Facultad de Letras (Humanities Studies Department), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Lima, Peru
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016 As Fantásticas Viagens da Energia, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Ojalá te mueras hoy, Espacio Garúa, Lima, Peru
2015 Pasillo de documentos e imágenes promocionales, 80m2 Livia Benavides, Lima, Peru
2014 Chifa, Karaoke, Telo, Arratia Beer, Berlin Germany
Interruptions on decrees and stages, Mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Ciudadano Paranormal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
2012 Visitas, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico
Escorpião e/ou Fotocopias de 1999, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brasil
2011 Art pieces / Tonotono, Arratia Beer, Berlin, Germany
2010 Territorial (in collab. with Rafael Polar), Sound installation at Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Cone Flow, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, FW, Texas, USA
2009 Runway Dance, Maribel López Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Quorum Power, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
2008 No matter what happens to you, we will keep growing, Y Gallery, Queens, New York, USA
Incorporación, desprendimiento, Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
Maratón, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2006 Sinapsis insurrección, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City, Mexico
Sinapsis 1, Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
Prehistoria. Animations and drawings, The Agency Contemporary, London, UK
Prehistoria, Escenario, Subzone2 Galerie Adler, Frankfurt, Germany
2005 Conmemoración, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Simplesmente Elas Exalam, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo (with Juan Pablo Macías), Sao Paulo, Brazil
Prehistoria. ÍNDICE ESPACIO (one night/one work show), Mexico City, Mexico
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 High Noon, Arratia Beer, Berlin, Germany
2017 Triângulo terrestre, Hawapi Project – BIENALSUR, Sala Juan de Saavedra, Valparaíso, Chile
2015 Corruption: Everybody Knows... (curated by Natasha Ginwala), E-Flux, New York, USA
Again, for the first time contemporary... (curated by Rina Carvajal), Durban Segnini Gallery, Miami, USA
Quem Nace Pra Aventura Nao Toma Outro Rumo, Paco das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Your Lazy Eye, LiMac, Madrid, Spain
2013 Biopic, Maria Stenfords gallery. London, UK
Así van las cosas, Fischli & Weiss + Videos Malba. Malba, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2012 Pop Politics. Activismos a 33 Revoluciones, CA2M, Madrid, Spain
Remesas: flujos simbólicos/movilidades de capital, curated by Rodrigo Quijano. Fundación Telefónica, Lima, Peru
Positioning Osmotic Impulses, ex-prision Gefängis Karl-Marx-Strasse, Berlin, Germany
Culturas en tránsito. Panorámica del videoarte en Perú, Centro Cultural de España, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Berlin Status (1), Künstlerhaus Bethainen, Berlin, Germany
Aire de Lyon, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2011 Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
Uro, IMO, Copenhagen, Denmark
Belvedere, Galeria Estrany - De la Mota, Barcelona, Spain
Arte al paso, Colección contemporánea del Museo de Arte de Lima. Estaçao Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo, Brazil
2010 Audience as subject, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
Like a river that stops being a river or like a tree that is burning in the horizon without knowing it is burning, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston collects Latin-American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Bienal de las Américas. Denver, USA
Auto-Kino (a project by Phil Collins), Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
Polimorfos Perversos, Galeria Fernando Padilla, Madrid, Spain
When lives become form, (Olinda Celeste, in collab. with Lucia Koch). Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
The mole’s horizon, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
2009 7a Bienal do Mercosul (as part of Erick Beltrán curatorial project), Porto Alegre, Brazil
Restraint, Oboro and Maison de la culture Marie-Uguay, Montreal, Canada
Juntos acordaron adelantar el atardecer, Fundación Sa Nostra, Mallorca, Spain
Yo uso perfume para ocupar más espacio, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Amplificadores - A Outra Vertigem, Museu Murillo La Greca, Recife, Brazil
2008 Fuck you human, Maribel López Gallery. Berlin, Germany
Guangzhou Triennial. Guangdong Museum of Art. Guangzhou, China
Panorama da Arte Brasileira. Museu de Arte Moderna. Sao Paulo / Sala Alcala 31, Madrid, Spain
Proyecto Cívico. CECUT. Tijuana, Mexico
I/Legítimo. Paço das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil
One of these things is not like the other things, Unosunove Arte Contemporanea. Rome, Italy
The Culture Clash. Working Rooms Project Space, London, UK
E-Flux Video rental. Centro de arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Old News 4, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, USA
Choose 1, Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin, Germany
Berlin Zoótropo. 7 proyectos de animación, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Zeichen unterzeichnen, artTransponder, Berlin, GErmany
2007 En perfecto desorden, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
STUK START, STUK Artcenter. Leuven, Belgium
Geopoliticas de la animacion, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla, Spain
FACE UP, Galerie Adler, New York, USA
The Most Curatorial Biennial of the Universe, Apexart, New York, USA
Curacion Geometrica, The Reliance, London, UK
Glorieta. Muestra de video sobre la ciudad, X-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico
Borderling moving image 2007, Beijing Film academy. Beijing, China
e-flux video rentals, Carpenter Centre, Harvard University, Cambridge, UK.
2006 Version animeé, Centre Pour L’image Contemporain, Geneve
Prevailing Climate, Screening program, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, USA
VideoZone 3, The Center for Contemporary Art. Tel Aviv, Israel
Media City Seoul 2006, The fourth Seoul International Media Arts Biennale. Seoul Museum of Arts, Seoul, South Korea
Contemporary Video Art from Brazil, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt, Germany
NTSC-MX-PAL conversiones de videos, El Instituto de México en España. PHOTOESPAÑA 2006, Madrid, Spain
d/Lux/MediaArts’ annual showcase of international video, mobile and web art, (VideoBrasil Festival Videos). The Studio, Sidney Opera House, Sidney, Australia
Eastern Alliance 3 Teledivision Show, Muzeul National de Arta Contemporana. Bucarest, Romania
Still Beauty, Center of Contemporary Art Zamek Ujadowsky. Warsaw, Poland
Tinta, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2005 Inscriptions murales, Piano Nobile. Geneve, Switzerland
Come Closer, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany / Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy / Piano Nobile,
Geneve, Switzerland / Indice Espacio, Mexico City, Mexico
Festival da Arte Electrónica VideoBrasil (15 Edition), SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo, Brazil
El sutil vértigo de la imagen. Fotografía y video-arte latinoamericanos, Galerías del Centro Cultural Parque de España. Rosario, Argentina
I am he as you are he and we are all together, Central de Arte, Guadalajara, Mexico Matemática Moderna* (video Olinda Celeste, made in collaboration with Lucia Koch). Galeria Casa Triangulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Contiene Glutamato, Galería OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
2004 Lactumen. Espacio e21, Cuernavaca, México
Sábados 2004. Ficción en vivo, Parking Lot in Mexico City’s Centro Histórico, Mexico City, Mexico
2003 Fraternidad Bondarchuk, Galería Art & Idea. Mexico City, Mexico
Reversible, foro sobre arte en espacios públicos. Intervención en el periódico El Independiente. SAPS,
Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros. Mexico City, Mexico
2001 Retrato, Galería Laalvaca. Puebla, Mexico Enviado del Profeta. Performance at Galería Laalvaca, Puebla, Mexico
2000 Supermodernismo (improvisado), X-Teresa Arte Actual. Mexico City Re-Visiones. Galería La Esmeralda. Centro Nacional de las Artes. Mexico City, Mexico
1999 El Último Lustro - 36 artistas jóvenes del Perú, Centro Cultural Ricardo Palma. Lima Concurso Arte Joven, Sala Luis Miró Quesada Garland. Lima Ésta sí es la última. Centro Cultural Ricardo Palma. Lima, Peru
Other Projects
2012 Participate in “The self-builder´s groove” Abraham Cruzvillegas´s prfermances project in Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2005 Olinda Celeste, animation made in collaboration with Lucia Koch, exhibited in her solo show Matemática Moderna, Galería Casa Triángulo, Sao Paulo (June 2005).
Presentations/Performances
2013 Concert, Revolver Galeria, Lima, Peru
2012 Cinema sincopado, ex-prision at Karl Marx Strasse, Berlin, as part of the “Osmotic impulses” exhibition.
2010 The lecture that turns into a party, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
2009 Hexagonal Hackers, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany
Quorum Power, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
Hexagonal Hackers, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
Marathon-II, Fundación Sa Nostra, Mallorca, Spain
Quorum Power, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
2008 Quorum Power, Maribel Lopez Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Quorum Power, Working Rooms. London, UK
Marathon-II, Y Gallery. Queens, New York, USA
Marathon-I, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Prizes/Grants
2007 Grant by Fundacion Jumex for video project “Cancion de Cuna”, finally intitled “Incorporación, desprendimiento”.
2006 Grant by Re:New Media, a division of The Rockefeller Foundation, for project “Marathon”.
2005 First Prize, Experimental Shortfilm category, Bienal de Cortometraje Cuadro 2005. Mexico City
Honorific mention, 15th Festival de Arte Electronica VideoBrasil. Sao Paulo
1999 Concurso Arte Joven, Municipalidad de Miraflores, Lima, Perú. First Prize with I.R., specific site project for public space in Lima, Peru.
Publications
Quorum Power, Exhibition catalogue. Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico, 2009
Mexico City Memorias 2003, SAPS. Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City GPB04.
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