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 BIOGRAPHY

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Jordi Colomer, born in Barcelona in 1962, is a Spanish artist who works in the field of sculpture, video-art and installations. At the heart of his work is the investigation of space: physical and real space and the space of performance and representation overlap in the mise-en-scène of the work, producing an experience defined by the artist as “expanded theatre”. Colomer explores the Utopian nature of town planning in large cities, but at the same time presents the dystopic decadence and alienation connected to architecture: the existing space is also made up of disorder and entropy. 

 

Colomer represented the Spanish Pavilion at 57 Venice Biennale (2017), curated by Manuel Segade with the project “Únete! Join Us!”, an exploration of nomadism and collective agency. From 2018 he started (with poet Eduard Escoffet and producer Carolina Olivares) La INFINITA, a self-managed cultural space based in l'Hospitalet (Barcelona) that want to generate encounters between the visual and living arts. 

https://www.lainfinitalh.org

 

His works have been exhibited in international museums and biennials including:  Museo Reina Sofia and Matadero (Madrid),  Jeu de Paume et Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris),  MUMOK and Belvedere 21(Vienna), Bronx Museum of the Arts (New York), Arte Alameda (México City), 7 Bienal del Mercosul (Porto Alegre, Brasil), MAAT (Lisboa), Bozar et  Argos (Brussels) ZKU, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (Berlín). Colomer’s work has been shown in two Manifesta editions: Manifesta 10 (St. Petersburg, Russia), Manifesta 12 (Palermo, Italy)

 




Jordi Colomer was born in Barcelona in 1962. He presently lives and works between Barcelona and Paris. Enjoying a gifted and marked sculptural sense, his work spans many mediums, centring on photography, video and the staging of both in exhibition areas. Often the creation of situations -befitting a kind of "expanded theatre"- allows the spectator to assess his/her relationship with the productions and his/her role in and before these.

 

The variety of mediums called forth by Jordi Colomer's work and the transversality of his judgement undoubtedly are linked to his fragmentary education as architect, artist and art historian in progressive 1980s' Barcelona. Beginning with the "Alta Comèdia" (High Comedy) exhibition, (tinglado 2, Tarragona,1993), Colomer began to fuse his sculptural work, elements of theatre staging and architectural references. From those years on (in particular after he discovered the German avant-garde cinema of the thirties), video started to stand out as the main mediator in the relationship the artist had with performance art, theatre and sculpture. In 1997 he showed his first video work "Simo" at a site-specific projection room built inside the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA). This strategy enabled Colomer to superimpose theatrical space, the installation as an inhabitable sculpture and cinematographic micro-narration. That was how he produced pieces such as Pianito (The Little Piano, 1999), Les Jumelles (The Twins, 2000) or Le Dortoir (The Dormitory, 2001), which would complete a period marked by work in extreme film set constructions, where the set entirely determines the characters' behaviour.

 

From 2001, Jordi Colomer's staging investigation extends to urban space and an exploration of the different scenes of social life (neighbourhoods, streets, rooftops…) and his reverse the desert. This phase of his work is determined by  different urban sets he is seeking or rediscovering. This is what led to works such as Anarchitekton (2002-2004), a travelling project involving four cities (Barcelona, Bucharest, Brasilia, Osaka),

NoFuture (filmed in Le Havre, 2006, reenacted for Manifesta X, St. Petersbourg, Russia, 2014) or Arabian Stars

(Yemen, 2005), among many others. It is also behind his most recent works En la Pampa (In the Pampa, made in the Atacama desert, Chile, 2008), Avenida Ixtapaluca (houses for Mexico) (Mexico, 2009) or The Istanbul Map (Istanbul, 2010), the tryptich What will come (New York, 2010), Medina Parkour (Tetouan, Morocco, 2013) or Sjobadet Alphabet (Norway. 2014). These are journey-works where the issue of movement keeps coming back, and where the isolated actions of a character condenses reflection (but not without a degree of absurd humour) on the possibilities of poetic survival offered by the contemporary metropolis.

Some of the more recent work do research on the many facets of utopia or dystopia and its relationship with fiction and history; At L' avenir (2010), we follow a  group of pioneers in a free interpretation of the Phalanstery project of Charles Fourier. Prohibido cantar / No Singing (2012 ) superimposes imaginary cities and unrealized projects . Here the founding of a city,  evokes  the failed mega - projects of  casino-citiy in Spain ( as Gran Scala, Eurovegas ) and at same time the City of Mahagonny described by Bertoltd Brecht in the moment that Las Vegas began. La Soupe Americaine / The American Soup on the provisional postwar shelters  (Normandy , 2013 ) or The Svartlamon Parade ( Trondheim , Norway, 2014 ) incorporate archive footage  to place the present in a critical position. X-VILLE (2015), based on Yona Friedman's "manuels" introduces us to an imagined city to rethink the way in which time and life are currently organized. ¡Únete! Join Us! (2017) the installation at 57th Venice Biennale, Spanish Pavilion invites visitors to become participants in an exploration of nomadism and collective agency. Transhumance, wanderings, journeyings, strayings, displacement: these themes are key to the exhibition, whose reference point is rooted in urban utopias that use movement as part of a radical rethinking of social imagination.

 








CV / SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2022

Strade. Palazzina dei Giardini. FMAV (Fondazione Modena Arte visive). Modena. (Italy). Cur. Daniele de Luigi.

 

2021

Standard Colors/ Colors Standar. ADN Galería. Barcelona. (Spain)

 

2018

New Palermo Felicissima, Istituto Padre Messina. Manifesta 12. Palermo, (Sicilia, Italy)

 

2017

-¡Únete! Join Us! Spanish Pavilion, 57 Biennale di Venezia. Venezia. (Italy) Cur. Manuel Segade.

-Bajar a la calle / baixar al carrer / descendre dans la rue / going down into the street. ADN Galería.  Barcelona. (Spain) 

 

2016

X-Ville. Galerie Michel Rein. Paris (France)

 

2015

X-Ville. Arts Santa Monica. Barcelona. (Spain)

 

2014

-HVITE NETTER / WHITE NIGHTS. Rake, at parking garage Elgesetergate 21. Trondheim, (Norway)

-El porvenir y otros trabajos. Galería Juana de Aizpuru. Madrid.(Spain)

 

2013

-Défense de chanter. Galerie Michel Rein. Paris.

-La Soupe Américaine/ The American Soup. Frac Basse-Normandie. Caen. (France)

-L’avenir. Pavillon Blanc. Colomiers.  Festival international d'Art de Toulouse. (France)

 

2012

-Prohibido Cantar / No Singing. ( Didactic Work on the foundation of a Paradise City) AbiertoXObras. Matadero Madrid. Madrid (Spain)

 

2011

-L’avenir, BOZAR. Brussels (Belgium)

-What will come, ARGOS Centre for Art and media. Brussels (Belgium)

-Crier sur les toits, Galerie Art & Essai. Université Rennes 2. Rennes (France)

 

2010

Screening Co Op City, Bronx Museum of the Arts. New York (USA)

 

2009

-Avenida Ixtapaluca & Recent Works, Galería Juana de Aizpuru. Madrid (Spain)

-Jordi Colomer, Hiroshima MOCA. Hiroshima (Japan)

-Fuegogratis, Laboratorio Arte Alameda. Mexico City (Mexico)

-Avenida Ixtapaluca, Galería MSSNDCLRCQ. Brussels (Belgium)

-Fuegogratis, Centre d’Art La Panera. Lleida (Spain)

 

2008

Jordi Colomer, Jeu de Paume. Paris (France)

 

2007

Prototipos, Château de Roussillon. Roussillon (France)

 

2006

-The Prodigious Builders, Galerie Traversée. Munich (Germany)

-Más estrellas, Centro Cultural de España. Montevideo (Uruguay)

-Anatopies, Cimaise et Portique, Hôtel de Viviès. Castres (France)

-No Future, Le Spot. Le Havre (France)

 

2005

-(un crime), FRAC Basse-Normandie. Caen (France)

-Arabian Stars y otras estrellas, Galería Juana de Aizpuru. Madrid (Spain)

-Arabian Stars, Galerie Michel Rein. Paris (France)

-Arabian Stars, Traces, Salvador Dalí Museum. St. Petersburg, Florida (USA)

-Arabian Stars, Espacio 1, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Madrid (Spain)

-Jordi Colomer, Museo Patio Herreriano. Valladolid (Spain)

 

2004

-Jordi Colomer, Institut d’art contemporain, FRAC Rhône-Alpes. Lyon (France)

 

2003

-Anarchitekton, ECCO, Espaço cultural contemporâneo. Brasilia (Brazil)

-Anarchitekton & Les Villes, Atheneum Interface, FRAC Bourgogne. Dijon (France)

-Le Dortoir, Project Room, Centre de création contemporaine. Tours (France)

 

2002

-Le Dortoir, Expo 02. Murten (Switzerland)

-Père Coco, quelques objets perdus en 2001 et autres histoires, Le Grand Café. Saint-Nazaire (France)

-Les Jumelles, Villa Arson. Nice (France)

-Fuegogratis, La Galerie. Noisy-le-Sec (France)

-Le Dortoir, Galerie Michel Rein. Paris (France)

-Les Villes (vraies), Le Hall, École nationale des Beaux-Arts. Lyon (France)

 

FOR OLDER EXHIBITIONS SEE http://jordicolomer.com/old/

 

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2021

-Cinema Galleggiante. Giudecca, Venezia (Italy)

-El Sentido de la Escultura. Fundació Joan Miró. Barcelona (Spain). (Cur. David Bestué).

-Anarchitekton. Modos de habitar 5. Subte. Montevideo/ Camuflajes urbanos. Modos de habitar 3. CCE. Bienalsur. Montevideo.(Uruguay). (Cur. Benedetta Casini)  

 

 

 

2020

-Oh les Beaux jours (Happy Days), Galerie Michel Rein, Paris (France)

-LIFE DURING WARTIME: ART IN THE AGE OF CORONAVIRUS. USF, Contemporary Art Museum. Tampa. Florida, USA. (cur. Christian Viveros-Faune.

-Étendue, corps, espace, CCC - Centre de Creation Contemporaine. Tours (France)

-Des marches, démarches.  Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille (France) (cur: Guillaume Monsaingeon) 

-Images liées. Château de Servières.  Manifesta XIII. Marseille. (cur: Josée Gensollen and Martine Robin)

-“2120. La Colección después del Acontecimiento”.  Patio Herreriano. Valladolid (Spain). (Cur: José María Parreño).

-En tres actos. Acto 2. Todo lo sólido se desvanece. Fundació Suñol. Barcelona.(Cur. Valentín Roma)

 

2019

-Picasso et l'exil / Dulces sueños. Artistes de la scène  contemporaine espagnole. Les Abattoirs. Toulouse (France)

-5994 is just a number. ADN Galería. Barcelona.

-The Value of Freedom. Belvedere 21. 21er Haus. Vienna (Austria). (Cur. Severin Dünser).

-Invisible Cities. MAXXI. Roma (Italy). (Cur. Leonardo Bigazzi).

 

2018

-Manifesta 12. Palermo. (Sicilia). ("New Palermo Felicissima" Istituto Padre Messina, Palermo)

(creative mediators: Ippolito Pestellini, Bregtje van der Haak, Andrés Jaque, Mirjam Varadinis)

-Habitar el Mediterráneo. IVAM. Valencia. (cur. Pedro Azara)

-Lo schermo dell'Arte. Florencia. (Italia).

-The Value of Freedom. Belvedere 21. 21er Haus. Viena (Austria). (cur. Severin Dünser).

-Houses. Galerie Michel Rein, Brussels. 

-The Uneding Gift. Galerie Meessen De Clercq. Brussels.

 

 

2017

-57 Biennale di Venezia. Únete/Join Us. Pabellón de España. Giardini de l'Arsenale. (cur. Manuel Segade). Venecia (Italia)

-Perpetual Construction. CAB Art Center. Bruselas (Bélgica)

-Prossimità di spazi e tempi. Careof. (cur. Martina Angelotti e Caterina Riva) Milan. (Italia)

-Utopia/ Dystopia. MAAT,  (cur. Pedro Gadanho) Lisboa (Portugal)

-The Brutalism Appreciation Society - HMKV - Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund (Alemania)

-The Walk-Group Show. Meessen De Clercq, Bruselas (Bélgica)

-Medina-parkour. ADN platform. Sant Cugat, Barcelona

-Punk. Its traces in Contemporary Art. (Cur. David G. Torres) Museo Universitario del Chopo. Ciudad de Mexico. (México)

-De la Habana ha venido un...Galería Juana de Aizpuru. Madrid.

 

 

2016

-Metamodern- The Devos Art Museum at Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI (USA)

-Peinture d'Architecture. Le Garage. Brive (France)

-Dialogues of the Gaze. Fundació Suñol. Barcelona.

-Punk. Its traces in Contemporary Art.(Cur. David G. Torres) Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona- MACBA, Barcelona

-Yona Friedman. Architecture Mobile-Architecture Vivante. (Cur. Caroline Cros) Cité de l'Architecture, Paris

-Alt-Architecture. Comisart. CaixaForum.(cur. Erika Goyarrola y Xurxo Insua). Barcelona

-Utopies, Espoirs, Colères. l'été Photographique de Lectoure.(cur. Aline Pujo). Lectoure, (Francia)

 

2015

-Plagiar o Futuro. (Cur. Andrea Rodríguez Novoa, Bruno Leitão) Hangar. Lisboa (Portugal)

-ANTHROPOCENE- Galerie Meesen De Clercq, Bruxelles (Belgium)

-Histoires parallèles. FRAC-Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Marseille (France)

-Model Behaviour. Holden Gallery at Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester (UK)

-Dimensions Variables - Pavillon de l'Arsenal. Paris

-MDE15. Museo de Antioquia. ( cur. Nidya Gutierrez). Medellín. (Colombie)

-MetaModern. Krannert Art Museum (cur. Ginger Gregg Duggan and Judith Hoos Fox ).Champaign Illinois.(USA)

-MetaModern. Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona. (USA)

-MetaModern. Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida (USA)

-DEVOUR! Social cannibalism, political redefinition and Architecture.( Cur. Marta Jecu). Freies Museum and  Z/KU Zentrum fur Kunst und Urbanismus. Berlin (Germany)

-DEVOUR! Kunst KraftWerk ( Cur. Marta Jecu) Leipzig. (Germany)

Il frutto maturo e la terra indifferente. (cur. Lore Gablier) Museo Nivola. Orani. Sardinia. (Italy)

-Especies d'Espais. (cur. Frederic Montornés). MACBA. Barcelona (Spain)

-El desarreglo. El curioso caso del arte despeinado. Artium. Basque Museum Center of Contemporary Art.

(cur. Daniel Castillejo), Vitoria Gasteiz.

-Landscape in my mind. Bank Austria Kunstforum. (Cur. Florian Steininger). Wien.(Austria)

-Punk. Its traces in Contemporary Art. CA2M. Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo.( cur. David G. Torres). Móstoles, Madrid. (Spain)

-Punk. Its traces in Contemporary Art. Artium. Basque Museum Center of Contemporary Art. Vitoria-Gasteiz. (Spain)

-After Landscape. Ciudades copiadas. Centre d'Art Fabra i Coats. (cur. Martí Peran). Barcelona.

-Prophetia. Fundació Joan Miró. (cur. Imma Prieto). Barcelona.

-Trankat. La Friche la belle de mai. (cur. Veronique Collard-Bovy et B.Saliou) Marseille. (France)

-In search of an exit. (Or eight Characters in a Parlor) (Cur. Samantha Greggs, Daniela Lieja). Heritage Square Museum. Los Angeles (USA)

 

2014

-Manifesta 10. St. Petersburg. (cur. Kasper König). Hermitage national Museum and the city of St. Petersburg. (Russia)

-Beyond the Supersquare (cur. Holly Block, María Ines Rodríguez), Bronx Museum for the Arts, New York, USA

-Rumor…historias decoloniales. (cur. Suset Sanchez). CaixaForum. Barcelona (Spain)

-Lost in Landscape.(cur. Gerardo Mosquera). MART, Trento, (Italy)

-Trankat episode1. 5th Marrakech Biennale. Marrakech (Morocco)

 

2013

-Art, dos punts. (cur. Bartomeu Marí, Nimfa Bisbe) Macba, Barcelona.

-Mínima resistencia. Entre la identidad y la globalización. (cur. Manuel Borja-Vilell, Beatriz Herráez, Rosario Peiró) MNCA Reina Sofía. Madrid. (Spain)

-Critique and Crisis. Art in Europe since 1945 (cur. Monika Flack), Kumu Museum, Tallinn (Estonia)

-Les Nouvelles Babylones. (cur. Sandra Patron) Centre d'Art du parc Saint Léger. Pougues les-Eaux. (France)

-Le Grand Tout. 30 ans du Frac Limousin, Limoges (France)

-Les Pléiades-30 ans des FRAC. (cur del. Xavier Franceschi, Laurence Gateau, Claire Jacquet , Olivier Michelon). Les abattoirs.Toulouse (France)

-4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art.(cur. Adelina von Fürstenberg) Thessaloniki. (Greece)

-Mehr Licht. Galerie Michel Rein. Paris

-Play. Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Kjersti G. Andvig, Kari Cavén, Jordi Colomer, Sebastian Diaz Morales, A K Dolven, Marcellvs L, Aernout Mik, Tony Oursler, Charles Sandison, Fiona Tan, Magnus Wallin. (Cur. Jorma Saariko). Helsingin Taidemuseo. Helsinki. (Finland)

-El Teatro Del Arte. Colección La Caixa. (Cur. Valentín Roma) CAB Centro de arte Caja Burgos, Burgos. (Spain)

-93. (Cur. Miguel Von Hafe Pérez). CGAC. Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea. Santiago de Compostela. (Spain).

 

2012

-Critique and Crisis. Art in Europe since 1945 (cur. Monika Flack), The German Historical Museum, Berlin 

-Communitas, Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden (cur: Cecilia Andersson)

-Collection’12, IAC, Villeurbanne, France

 

2011

-Estil Indirecte, Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona. ( curator: Martí Peran)

-Tracing mobility, Haus der kulturen der welt, Berlin, Germany

La persistencia de la geometria. Caixa Forum, Madrid. (Spain) (cur: Nimfa Bisbe)

-High-Rise. Idea and Reality. Museum für Gestaltung Zürich. Zürich (Switzerland)

-Nuevas Historias, The national museum of photography, Copenhagen, (Denmark)

-ART VIDEO NIGHTS / AMERICANIA Art Basel, Miami Beach. (USA) (Cur: David Gryn)

-Utopie, Collection of the Société Générale. Société Générale, La Defense, Paris (France) 

-Du dire au faire. Screening of "Un crime" (2005). MAC/VAL, Vitry sur Seine (France) (cur: Patricia Brignone)

-L’Oeil sur les rues. Parc de la Villette. Paris (France)

-L’énigme du portrait, Neuflize collection, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Marseille, (France)

-Relats Encadenats. Centre d'Art La Panera, Lleida (Spain) (curator: Sergio Rubira)

-Archivision #1, poétiques urbaines, collection of Les Abattoirs (Frac Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse), Le Parvis, Pau, (France)

-SANFIC 7: Silencio para 5 + en la pampa. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago (Chile) (Cur: Christian Viveros-Faune)

-Cul-de-Sac. The Varley Art Gallery, Ontario (Canada)

-Video, An Art, A History, 1965-2010. Singapore Art Museum (Singapore)

-Car Fetish. I drive therefore I am. Museum Tinguely, Basel (Switzerland) (cur: Roland Wetzel)

-Living. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (Denmark)

-Bosch Art Film. Verkadefabriek, Den Bosch (The Netherlands)

-La qüestió del paradigma. Centre d'Art La Panera, Lérida (Spain) La Capella, Barcelona  (Curator: Manuel Segade)

-Centre Pompidou. Video Art Collection (1965-2010). Institut CUlturel Français, Izmir (Turkey)

-Video(s)torias. Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain)

-La Memoria del Otro. Museo Wilfredo LAM, La Habana (Cuba) (Curator: Anna María Guasch)

-II Muestra de Videoarte Contemporáneo Cuba-España-Suiza. Galería 23 y 12 El Vedado (Cuba)

 

2010

-New Media Collection from Centre Georges Pompidou. Herzliya Museum, Tel Aviv (Israel)

-Là où nous sommes. Maison d'art Bernard Anthoinioz. Nogent-sur-Marne (France)

-Panorama, Galerie Michel Rein. Paris (France)

-Walking the Hinderland, ARGOS Centre for Art & Media. Brussels (Belgium)

-Nomad-ness, Frac Pays de la Loire, Hangar à Bananes, Nantes (France)

-Puntos de Fuga, arquitecturas posibles, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (Colombia)

-More is More, CoCA Centre of Contemporary Art « Znaki Czasu ». Torun (Poland) 

-La memoria del otro, Museo de Bellas Artes. Santiago (Chile)

-The Garden of forking paths, Akbank Art Center. Istanbul (Turkey)

-Cosmética Dogmática, Caixaforum. Barcelona (Spain)

-Spatial City.  The architecture of idealism, Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (USA)

-Spatial City.  The architecture of idealism, MOCA. Detroit (USA)

-Spatial City.  The architecture of idealism, Hyde Park Art Center. Chicago (USA)

-Architecture and its Discontents, Kaleidoscope. Milan (Italy)

-Le Havre-Brasilia. Retrato de Cidades. MAC de Niteroi. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

-Collection 10. Institut d’art contemporain. Villeurbanne (France)

-Modelisme, FRAC Limousin. Limoges (France)

-BERLIN-PARIS Carlier-Gebauer. Berlin (Germany)

-Nuevas Historias: A New View of Spanish Photography and Video Art. Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art. Vaasa (Finland)

-Nuevas Historias: A New View of Spanish Photography and Video Art. The -National Museum of Photography. Copenhagen (Denmark)

 

2009

-Grito e Escuta – VII Bienal do Mercosur. Porto Alegre (Brazil)

-Nuevas Historias, A new View of Spanish Photography and Video Art, Stenersenmuseet. Oslo (Norway)

-Socially Disorganised, Experimental Art Foundation. Adelaide (Australia)

-Topographic, Eglise des Forges. Tarnos (France)

-Arquitectures del després – Arts Santa Mònica. Barcelona (Spain)

 

2008

Nuevas Historias, A new View of Spanish Photography and Video Art, Kulturhuset. Stockholm (Sweden)

Éclats de frontières, FRAC Provence-Alpes Côte d’Azur. Marseille (France) 

Low Key, Fundación Botin. Santander (Spain)

Ambition d’art, Institut d’art contemporain. Villeurbanne (France)

España 1957-2007, Palazzo Sant’Elia. Palermo (Italy)

Archéologies du présent, Collection FRAC Centre, Musée Archeologique d’Argentomagus. Les Mersans (France)

Collection 1970-2001, Fundació Suñol. Barcelona (Spain)

Ne pas jouer avec des choses mortes, Villa Arson. Nice (France)

Wandering in contemporary video art, Magazzini del sale, Musei Civici. Siena (Italy)

Mondo e Terra, La collezione del FRAC Corsica, museo d’Arte di Nuoro. Nuoro (Italy)

Esto no es una exposición, Centro Huarte de Arte contemporáneo. Huarte (Spain)

Drawn together, Traversée Zeitgenössische Kunst. Munich (Germany)

La vida privada, Colección Josep Civit, CDAN, Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Fundación Beulas. Huesca (Spain)

 

2007

Continuous temporality, Israeli Center of Digital Art. Holon (Israel)

Ida e volta: ficção e realidade, Fundação Gulbenkian. Lisbon (Portugal)

Façades, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois. Champaign-Urbana (USA)

Instant City, Abbaye de Fontevraud. Fontevraud (France)

No Future, Bloomberg Space. London (UK)

Existencias, MUSAC, Museo de Arte contemporáneo de Castilla y Léon. León (Spain)

Utopies quotidiennes, La Centrale électrique, Centre européen d’art Contemporain. Brussels (Belgium)

Barcelona 1947-2007, Fondation Maeght. Saint-Paul-de-Vence (France)

Luxe, calme et V..., La Panacée. Montpellier (France)

Brasilia-Chandigarh-Le Havre, musée Malraux. Le Havre (France)

Video Spain Phe’07. Cuenca (Spain)

BRXLBRAVO, FNAC City 2. Brussels (Belgium)

La Ricarda. Appropriation temporaire, Culturcentrum Mechelen, La Raffinerie, Kunstenfestival. Brussels (Belgium)

Repeat all, Centro cultural Matucana 100. Santiago (Chile)

Escenaris transitables, Museu d’art de Girona. Girona (Spain)

Reflections, Galerie Traversée. Munich (Germany)

 

2006

What happens?, Dispari & dispari Project. Reggio Emilia (Italy)

La Vision impura, Museo nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Madrid (Spain) 

Repeat all, Ateliers de construction mécanique. Vevey (Switzerland)

I Bienal de arquitectura arte y paisaje de Canarias, Fortaleza del Tostón, El Cotillo. Fuerteventura (Spain)

Dinámicas de la cultura urbana, 9a Bienal de La Habana. La Habana (Cuba)

La Vie, la ville, Biennale du Havre. Le Havre (France)

Modernicité, Le Grand Café. Saint-Nazaire (France) / Stroom den Haag. Den Haag (Netherlands)

Archipeinture, Le Plateau, Paris (France) / Camden Arts Center. London (UK)

Trilhas na mata digital, Videocraçao contemporanea na Espanha, Museu de Arte contemporanea de Niteroi. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Nuit blanche, La Goutte d’or. Paris (France)

Picasso to Plensa. A Century of art from Spain, The Albuquerque Museum. New Mexico (USA)

Videodyssey, Parker’s Box, Brooklyn. New York (USA)

Communicating Vessels: video works by seven Spanish artists, Hara Museum of contemporary Art. Tokyo (Japan)

Passages en villes, Le Bellevue. Biarritz (France)

Dormir. Rêver et autres nuits, CAPC musée d’Art contemporain. Bordeaux (France)

Identidades criticas, Sala Puerta Nueva. Cordoba (Spain) / Museo Patio Herreriano. Valladolid (Spain)

La Mirada breve, Centro cultural de España. Buenos Aires (Argentina)

La Vidéothèque mobile, École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Belleville. Paris (France)

Ça s’ouvre ? Ça s’ouvre pas ?, Ateliers d’artistes de la ville de Marseille. Marseille (France)

 

2005

FOR OLDER EXHIBITIONS SEE http://jordicolomer.com/old/

 

EDUCATION

1979-81 Eina, School of Art and Design.

1981-84 Studies of Art History  at UAB. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Barcelona.

1984-1987.Studies of Architecture at ETSAB, Escola Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona.

 

RESIDENCIES / RESIDENCES (recent)

2019- Residency program. Soma México- AC/E (Mexico City) 

2016- Cité des Arts. Paris

2014- Residency program. Rake. Trondheim (Norway)

2013- Residency program. Trankat., Tetouan (Morocco)

2010- Residency program, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, (USA).

 

 

LECTURES

2019. "de Ixtapaluca a La Infinita". Miércoles de Soma. Soma-México. (Mexico City)

“Turistas en nuestra casa (mudanzas, fogatas, lobos: no miréis por la ventana)’ CENDEAC, Murcia (Spain)        

2018. Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. Palermo. (italia)

          Manifesta 12 Meet Up. Teatro Garibaldi. Palermo. (Italia)

          Careof Miano. Mián (Italia)

          Madrid 45. sala el Águila. Madrid

2017. "Patadas en la calle".Conferencia inaugural.  III congreso internacional de investigación en artes visuales. Aniav. UPV. Facultad de Bellas Artes de Valencia.(Spain)

2015. MDE15. Museo de Antioquia. Medellín (Colombia)

          Artium. Basque Museum. Centre of Contemporary Art. Vitoria (Spain)

           Especies d'Espais. MACBA. Barcelona.

           ESAAA. Ecole Superieure d'Art Aglomeration d'Annecy. Annecy (France)

           Villa Arson. Nice (France)

2014: Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture, Paris. (France)

          Cité de l'Architecture, Paris (France)

2013: ENS, École Normale Supérieure, Paris.(France)

           ENSAD, École Nationale Supérieure Arts décoratifs, Paris. (France)

           UB, Universitat de Barcelona, Art History, Barcelona ( Spain),

           Trankat, Dar Ben Jelloun, Tétouan (Morocco)

           Université Paris 1, Pantheon- Sorbonne. Paris (France).

2012: ISDAT, institut supérieur des arts de Toulouse (France)

           UCM, Universidad Complutense de Madrid BBAA,  Madrid (Spain)

           Post-Degree Design of Scenographyc Space. Bau Escola Superior de Disseny. Barcelona. (Spain)

2011: ERBA, Rennes. (France)

2010: Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, (USA),

           ENBA Lyon (France).

           Bozar. Brussels (Belgium).

2009: Vidéo et après. Centre Georges Pompidou. Paris (France)

           Escuela Superior de Arte y Arquitectura Universidad Europea de Madrid (Spain)

2008  Scénographie d'auteur. Pavillon Bosio. Monaco.

 

WORKSHOPS / TEACHING

 

2022 -workshop “Modena Parade”. Scuola di alta formazione. FMAV. Modena (Italy)

-workshop “¿Dónde empieza la ciudad?”. CCE. Buenos Aires (Argentina)

2020  -workshop: “aquellas que no deben morir”. La Infinita de l’Hospitalet, (Barcelona) Loop, districte cultural LH (with Salvador Sunyer)

2019  -workshop: “La Duranne: La post-banlieue”. École Superieure d'Art d'Aix. (France), 

-workshop: “Momento-Monumento”. Soma-México (Mexico City),

-workshop: “Momento-Monumento” PAC-SIPAC, nodo Puebla. Puebla (Mexico)

2018  -workshop “Una visita Guiada/ A guided tour”. Sandberg Instituut. Amsterdam (Holanda). (with Andrea Rodríguez Novoa)

-workshop “New Palermo Felicissima”. Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Palermo (Italia)

-workshop “Mapas a escala real”. Madrid 45. Madrid

-workshop Arte visione lab. Careof Milano. Milán (Italia)

2016  Profesor invitado en ENSA Architecture Paris-Malaquais. Paris (Francia) y workshop "Welcome to Caveland?" Proyecto en colaboración con Théatre Nanterre-Amandiers, Centre Dramatique National.(con Yann Rocher)

2015. -workshop “X-Medellín”. Universidad  Nacional de Colombia. Facultad de Arquitectura. Medellín. (Colombia)

-workshop “X-VILLE”. ESAAA. Ecole Superieure d'Art Aglomeration d'Annecy. Annecy (Francia)

2014  -workshop “Dos desconeguts”. ACVic. Quam 2014. Vic, Barcelona.

2013  -work-shop “Zamanarchitecture”. Ècole d'Architecture, Tétouan (Morocco)

2011- Crier sur les toits. Master 2 Professionnel "Métiers et Arts de l'Exposition"program of Université Rennes 2 .(France)

2010  -workshop. Pavillon Bosio, Monaco.

-seminar- La memoria del otro. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile.(Chile)

2009-workshop. Escuela Superior de Arte y Arquitectura Universidad Europea de Madrid (Spain)

2008- workshop. ECAL Lausanne (Switzerland)

2007- workshop. Matucana 100. Santiago de Chile, Chile

2006- workshop CCE. Montevideo, Uruguay

2003 -ENBA École Nationale Beaux  Arts, Lyon, Lyon (France).

2002 -ENBA École Nationale Beaux  Arts, Lyon, Lyon (France).

2001 -ENBA École Nationale Beaux  Arts, Lyon, Lyon (France).

 

ART COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)

 

Musée des Arts contemporains. Hornu (Belgium)

MNCARS Museo nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Madrid (Spain)

Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, La Caixa. Barcelona (Spain)

MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Barcelona (Spain)

MUMOK, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig. Wien (Austria)

Bronx Museum of the Arts. New York (N.Y), (USA)

IVAM Instituto valenciano de Arte moderno. Valencia (Spain)

MUSAC Museo de Arte contemporáneo de Castilla y León. León (Spain)

CAAM Centro atlántico de Arte moderno. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)

Museo Patio Herreriano. Valladolid (Spain)

Colección Rafael Tous. Barcelona (Spain)

Fundació Suñol. Barcelona (Spain)

Collection Dobe. Zürich (Switzerland)

Joost Vanhaerents art Collection, Brussels (Belgium)

Musée national d’Art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou. Paris (France)

FMAV. Fondazione Modena Arte Visive. Modena. (Italy)

FNAC, Fonds national d’art contemporain. Paris (France)

Les Abattoirs, musée d’Art moderne et contemporain. Toulouse (France)

FRAC PACA, Provence-Alpes, Côte d'Azur. Marseille (France)

FRAC Centre. Orléans (France)

FRAC Bourgogne. Dijon (France)

FRAC Limousin. Limoges (France)

FRAC Rhône-Alpes. Lyon (France)

FRAC Corse. Corte (France)

FRAC Basse-Normandie. Caen (France)

FRAC Seine-Saint-Denis. Bobigny (France)

FRAC Pays-de-la-Loire. Carquefou (France)

 

 

THEATER COLLABORATIONS (STAGE DESIGN)/ PERFORMANCES

 

2022 Modena Parade/ Corteo Modenese. FMAV Modena (Italy). Cur. Daniele de Luigi, collettivo Amigdala, Federica Rocchi.

 

2019 De Ixtapaluca a la Infinita. Miércoles de SOMA, Ciudad de México.

interpretado por Sarahi Carrillo. (Cur. Shio García)

 

2017-18

"The Spanish Coast". Performance para actriz y maquetas. Pabellón de España, 57 Biennale di Venezia /  ARCO, Galería Juana de Aizpuru (Madrid). Interpretado por Laura Weissmahr.

 

2016

"La nuit des Taupes" / Welcome to Caveland. Théâtre des Amandiers. Nanterre. (France) con Philippe Quesne.

 

2013

LA RE MI LA/ en colaboración con Carles Santos y La Banda de Música de Sant Mateu /EACC (centre d'Art Contemporani Castelló), Sant Mateu (Castelló). 

 

2005

Fin de partie. Samuel Beckett, Festival Grec. (Teatre Grec). Barcelona (Spain). Dir. Rosa Novell.

 

2004

"À l’anglaise", Performance for 12 people and banners (Performance para 12 personas y pancartas)

Festival Entre Cour et Jardins, Jardins Guy Roux.

Barbirey (France)

 

1998

Joan Brossa, Olga Sola, Espai Joan Brossa. Barcelona (Spain). Dir. Rosa Novell.

 

1997

Robert Ashley, Perfect Lifes, Metrònom. Barcelona (Spain). Dir. Robert Ashley.

 

1995

Valère Novarina, Lettre aux acteurs, Co Teatre Invisible, Teatre Lliure. Barcelona (Spain)