
"To use words and reflection as sculptural materials: time as a container, learning as a system of thought, and art as a place."
1. BIOGRAPHY
Nicolás Paris‘s work is distinguished for generating a heightened awareness of the every day, promoting a deeper interaction with the environment around us, and highlighting the idea that art is rooted in the experience of understanding and the understanding of experience. Central to Paris’ artistic practice is exploring classroom structures and pedagogical strategies. Before devoting entirely to art, he worked as a teacher in rural areas of Colombia, giving him a unique perspective on the importance of resignification systems in the educational process. This experience has become one of the fundamental pillars of his artistic projects, where he employs pedagogical tactics within the exhibition context to foster collaboration and open inquiry with participant spectators in spaces that resemble laboratories. In this process, Paris transforms the exhibition space into a place of egalitarian, communal, and investigative exchange and dialogue, focused on the collective development of concrete artistic projects. His creations include installations, drawings, objects, workshops, events, and videos characterized by their delicacy and serenity. These works function as visual supports, using fundamental elements of art, architecture, and education as syntax and grammar from which he develops other means of communication. For Paris, the artistic medium is neither an end nor a result but a starting point and catalyst for a temporary, polyvalent, and fleeting experience.
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His work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions at institutions such as Kunsthalle Münster, Münster, Germany (2024); El Museo del Barrio, New York (2019); Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain (2018); Berardo Collection Museum, Lisbon, Portugal (2018); Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France (2013); MUAC, Mexico City, Mexico (2012); MAMM Museo de Arte de Medellín, Colombia (2009); MUSAC Museo de Arte Cotemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain (2008). Paris’ work is part of international collections, such as the Tate Modern, London; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco; the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Vienna, Austria; the MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain; La Caixa Colección de Arte Contemporáneo, Barcelona, Spain; the JUMEX Collection, Mexico City, Mexico; the Muso de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia and the MAMM Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Colombia.
2. WORK SELECTION
3. PROGRAM AT THE GALLERY
4. INSTITUTIONAL PROJECTS
Kunsthalle Münster
FCAYC
"Rather than being an exchange of services and objects, art is an exchange of reflections. I believe that art is a system of thought in itself, and I like to think that one of my responsibilities or one of my interests is to produce knowledge. Not necessarily knowledge that will change something, but knowledge that will allow us to find new ways of being together or of doing things."
"The question is not what art is, but where it takes place, and the answer is in time. Space becomes a tool for learning, and time becomes the place where art happens."
5. VIDEOS
2022
Nicolás Paris Talks About the Escuela Universos Project
Banrepcultural
2018
40 Under 40: The New Colombian Masters – Nicolás Paris
Jorge Pachon Saenz
2015
Nicolás Paris en LARA (Latin American Roaming Art)
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil
2014
Nicolás Paris en el NC-LAB de NC-arte
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