Antoni Muntadas was born in 1942 in Barcelona. After studying architecture and engineering in Barcelona, Muntadas dedicated himself to art, and ever since 1971,he has focused specifically on video production. He settled in the U.S., where he was granted a fellowship, then became a professor at the Center of Advanced Visual Studies (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He now lives in New York and is a professor of the practice in MIT’s Department of Architecture, heading its Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT). He is also a professor at the Instituto Universitario de Arquitectura del Veneto in Venice.
Antoni Muntadas was an early pioneer of video and installation art in the mid-seventies, and he has continued to work with photography, video, installation art, audio recording, and urban art. Over four decades, Muntadas has been developing these projects, which critically reflect on key issues in the configuration of contemporary experience. His aim is to detect and decode the control and power mechanisms through which hegemonic ways of seeing are built, and explore the decisive role played by the mass media in this process. In his works, which always reflect a clear creative process and often make a direct appeal to viewer participation, Muntadas uses an array of media, languages and discursive strategies that encompass interventions in public space, video and photography, the publication of printed material, the use of Internet and new digital tools, multimedia installations, and the organisation of multidisciplinary, collaborative research projects.
Muntadas has taught and directed seminars at diverse institutions throughout Europe and the United States, including the National School of Fine Arts in Paris, the Fine Arts Schools of Bordeaux and Grenoble, the University of California in San Diego, the San Francisco Art Institute, Cooper Union, the University of São Paulo, and the University of Buenos Aires. He has also served as a resident artist and consulting advisor for various research and education centres including the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, the Banff Centre in Alberta, Arteleku in San Sebastian, The National Studio for Contemporary Arts Le Fresnoy, and the University of Western Sydney. His work has been exhibited in numerous museums, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Montreal Contemporary Art Museum, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona. His work has been included in international events and venues such the 9th and 10th editions of Documenta Kassel (1977, 1997), the Whitney Biennial of American Art (1991), the 51st Venice Biennial (2005), and others in São Paulo, Lyon, Taipei, Gwangju, and Havana. His solo exhibitions have also appeared at the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, the Centro de las Artes in Sevilla and the Centre d’art contemporain in Thiers. He presented an installation at the Inter-Society of Electronic Arts in San José, California in 2006, the Telefónica Foundation Space, the Recoleta Cultural Center, and the Spanish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires in in 2007, and the Cervantes Institute in Paris in 2008. In 2009, he carried out an art intervention at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion. In Montréal,his work was shown at the SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art and at the Cinemathéque Quebécoise. Supported by the program Lives And Works in Istanbul, he exhibited at the Istanbul Modern Museum in 2010. More recently, there was a Muntadas retrospective at the Reine Sofia Museum, showcasing his”Entre/Between”, which ran from 2011 to 2012. In 2013, his work was exhibited inside Pinacoteca Station in Sao Paulo.It has also been shown at Galeria Michella Rizzo in Venice and at Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz in Madrid. His exhibit”About Academia”, previously installed in 2011 at The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, traveled to the Audain Gallery in Vancouver in early 2013.
Muntadas is the recipient of numerous prizes and grants from institutions such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and Arts Electronica in Linz. He received the Laser d’Or prize (considered the “Oscar of Video Art”) from the International Association for Video in the Arts and Culture in Locarno, the National Prize of Plastic Arts from the Catalan Government, and the National Prize of Plastic Arts (2005) and the Velázquez Plastic Arts Prize (2009) from the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
Chema Madoz. La naturaleza de las cosas y su eco en la colección.
Chema Madoz
Chema Madoz. La naturaleza de las cosas y su eco en la colección. Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid Del 16 de enero al 2 de mayo de 2021 Exposición comisariada por Oliva María Rubio La exposición de Chema Madoz que ahora acoge el Museo Patio Herreriano es …
Arte y arquitectura: un diálogo
Julião Sarmento
Julião Sarmento participa en la exposición ‘Arte y arquitectura: un diálogo’ en el Centro Botín, Santander. ‘Arte y arquitectura: un diálogo’ explora la influencia de la arquitectura en el arte y ofrece reflexiones sobre cómo la arquitectura conforma nuestras propias vidas y articula la interacción social. Esta exposición …
RED LIGHT: Sexuality and representation in the Norlinda and José Lima Collection
Julião Sarmento
The artist Julião Sarmento participates in the group exhibition ‘RED LIGHT: Sexuality and representation in the Norlinda and José Lima Collection’ at Centro de Arte Oliva, João da Madeira, Portugal, until March 14, 2021. RED LIGHT presents a selection of works from the Norlinda and José Lima art collection, …
Speculative Intimacy – Culturgest Porto
Alicia Kopf
Speculative Intimacy – Culturgest, Porto. Adaptación de la exposición de Fidelidade, Lisboa. Del 18 de diciembre, 2020 hasta el 28 de febrero de 2021, se puede visitar Speculative Intimacy, en Culturgest Porto. A partir de las leyes de atracción de los cuerpos celestes y su posible analogía en el …
Mais nada se move em cima do papel
Julião Sarmento
Mais nada se move em cima do papel. O desenho como pensamento 14 NOV. 2020 – 18 ABRIL 2021 CAA – Centro de Artes de Águeda, Portugal Comisaria: Sara Antónia Matos Exposición colectiva, con obras de Julião Sarmento. Enmarcada en el ciclo O desenho como …
END-OF-YEAR SELECTION
Borrell, Cabello/Carceller, Cabrita, Civera, Collins, Congost, Gordillo, Jauch, Kahrs, Kopf, Lasurt, Madoz, Muntadas, del Pozo, Prats, Reisewitz, Rubio Juliana, Sarmento, Sicilia, Solar, Uslé
During this time of year we want to celebrate the holidays with you. We all know art is a great way of expressing human emotion, and what better gift to make on this time of the year than that? When you buy pieces of art you are supporting …
Cabrita Cabinet d´amateur
Cabrita
Cabrita Cabinet d´amateur CAC Málaga Centro de Arte Contemporáneo 15 de diciembre del 2020 al 14 de marzo de 2021 El Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga presenta la exposición de pintura más importante del artista portugués Cabrita titulada Cabrita. Cabinet d´amateur, comisariada por Helena Juncosa. La muestra …
Bajo la superficie (Miedos, Monstruos, Sombras)
Teresa Solar
Bajo la superficie (Miedos, Monstruos, Sombras) Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Condeduque. Sala Bóvedas 11.12.2020 – 11.04.2021 Exposición colectiva, comisariada por Javier Martín-Jiménez, con obras de Teresa Solar entre otros. La crisis sanitaria mundial ha derivado en una crisis existencial generalizada que obliga a reflexionar y a dudar …
Diàlegs intrusos. Tot és present
José María Sicilia, Hernández Pijuan, Joan Brossa
Diàlegs intrusos. Tot és present. 13.11.2020 – 7.11.2021. Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. Comissariat: Sergi Aguilar i Àlex Mitrani. La irrupció l’art de la segona avantguarda sorgit amb posterioritat a la Guerra Civil espanyola i a la Segona Guerra Mundial, representa no només una ampliació lògica de la cronologia del museu …
Ara mateix: tot està per fer i tot és possible
Javier Peñafiel
Ara mateix: tot està per fer i tot és possible. Arts Santa Monica. Nivell 2 Exposició: 10.11.2020 – 17.01.2021 Comissariat: Rosa Lleó i Chus Martínez “Tot està per fer i tot és possible” Aquestes paraules no són meves, sinó del poeta Miquel Martí i Pol. Sintetitzen els meus sentiments i l’exigència …
Political Advertisement X: 1952-2020
Muntadas
Political Advertisement X: 1952-2020. Un projecte de Muntadas i Marshall Reese. Projecció Zumzeig Online: Coincidint amb les eleccions nord-americanes, la pel·lícula estarà disponible online durant 24 hores, el 3 de novembre. La projecció també inclou una presentació d’Albert Alcoz i un epíleg de Marcelo Expósito. + info i …
Casa carioca – MAR Museu de Arte do Rio
Caio Reisewitz
MAR Museu de Arte do Rio presenta la exposición Casa Carioca, que reúne alrededor de 800 obras en torno a temas relacionados con el hogar y la vida en Río de Janeiro y Brasil y será parte del programa cultural del Congreso Mundial de Arquitectos. – UIA 2021. Comisariada …
VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art
Teresa Solar
Teresa Solar participates in the VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, at section ‘Personal Spaces’, where her projects ‘Todas las cosas que no están’ and ‘El llano múltiple’ will be on view, from November 2nd. + info
sesin melodim, seslerin yankım benim
Annika Kahrs
sesin melodim, seslerin yankım benim (tu voz es mi sonido es tu ruido es mi eco) MIND the GAP, Hamburgo 21.10 – 13.12.2020 Instalación sonora de Annika Kahrs en colaboración con el músico Derya Yildirim. La base de la instalación de sonido de 7 canales …
Political Advertisement X 1952-2020
Muntadas
MUNTADAS + Marshall Reese Political Advertisement X 1952-2020 Since 1984, artists Muntadas and Marshall Reese have created an anthology of presidential campaign television advertisements which has been updated every 4 years to include spots from each presidential election year. Their latest iteration, Political Advertisement X: 1592-2020, is …
Línea Dolca 2008 – 2018. Irrefrenable
Juan Uslé
Línea Dolca 2008 – 2018. Irrefrenable Sala Concepción Arenal, Centro Cultural Los Arenales. Archivo y Biblioteca Central de Cantabria. 08.10 – 09.11.2020 Esta exposición nace de una selección de imágenes de las miles que componen el archivo personal de Juan Uslé. Son imágenes de paisajes naturales y urbanos, …
¿Para qué sirven las canciones?
Carles Congost
¿Para qué sirven las canciones? La Casa Encendida. Del 08 de octubre al 10 de enero de 2021. La Casa Encendida dedica esta exposición a mostrar la obra más reciente de Carles Congost en la que a su vez presenta su nuevo trabajo ‘¿Para qué sirven las canciones?’, …
Annika Kahrs at Villa Schöningen Potsdam
Annika Kahrs
Annika Kahrs at Villa Schöningen, Potsdam Group show: 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1 Art. 8 GG Versammlungsfreiheit Opening: 03 Oct 2020, 12 – 18pm On view: 03 Oct 2020 – 10 Jan 2021 + info
2.IX.20
Alfons Borrell
Alfons Borrell. 2.IX.20 Sala I. Acadèmia de Belles Arts de Sabadell. Inauguració, dimecres 2 de setembre a les 19.00 h. Exposició del 2 de setembre al 2 d’octubre de 2020. Pintor dels sentiments, els seus quadres duen la taca latent d’una nebulosa plena de vida o el gest …
Alicia Kopf: Speculative Intimacy
Alicia Kopf
Del 11 de septiembre al 20 de noviembre de 2020, Fidelidade, Lisboa, acoge la exposición ‘Alicia Kopf: Speculative Intimacy’. A partir de las leyes de atracción de los cuerpos celestes y su posible analogía en el campo de las relaciones humanas, la exposición que aporta Alicia Kopf al ciclo …
CORONA SOUND SYSTEM
Annika Kahrs
CORONA SOUND SYSTEM. BEING LAID UP WAS NO EXCUSE FOR NOT MAKING ART An experimental exhibition format in two chapters 22.8 –11.10.2020 Kunstverein in Hamburg The experimental exhibition Corona Sound System foregrounds the experience of listening while changing the visual experience of an exhibition. What is …
Cabrita: Obras na Coleção de Serralves
Cabrita
Cabrita: Obras na Coleção de Serralves. Museo Municipal de Caminha, Portugal. 07/08 – 29/11/2020 La colección Serralves vuelve al Museo Municipal de Caminha con una exposición de obras de Cabrita. La muestra reúne un conjunto de obras del artista que pertenecen a la colección del Museo de …
Fragmentos, Espacio de Arte y Memoria
Fernando Prats
Fernando Prats, ganador de la tercera edición de la convocatoria para realizar intervenciones artísticas en ‘Fragmentos, Espacio de Arte y Memoria, Museo Nacional de Colombia’ en la categoría de artistas con larga trayectoria, con el proyecto ‘Aún tendría que haber luciérnagas’. + info
The Future Generation Art Prize
Teresa Solar
Teresa Solar, among the 20 nominees to The Future Generation Art Prize, by The Victor Pinchuk Foundation (Ukraine). The Future Generation Art Prize is a biannual global contemporary art prize to discover, recognize and give long-term support to a future generation of artists, all under 35 years old. …
Courants Verts
Fernando Prats
Fondation EDF, Paris 16.09.2020 – 31.01.2021 Du 16.09.20 au 31.01.21, la Fondation groupe EDF présente Courants verts, Créer pour l’environnement. Pour la première fois en France, une exposition d’envergure qui réunit des artistes internationaux engagés dans le combat écologique. Tous les artistes sont résolument engagés à travers leurs …
Joc d’infants
Lola Lasurt
Del dimarts 21 de juliol al 27 de setembre de 2020 L’exposició Joc d’infants de Lola Lasurt parteix de la retrospectiva Miró. Barcelona 1968-69, la primera mostra d’art contemporani presentada a La Capella. A través d’una nova sèrie de pintures, fotografies, vídeos i ceràmiques, Lasurt aborda l’agitació sociopolítica de finals de la dècada …
Acció. Una història provisional dels 90. MACBA Barcelona
Cabello/Carceller
Acció. Una història provisional dels 90. MACBA. Exposició col·lectiva. Del 10 de juliol de 2020 al 7 de febrer de 2021 Si la dècada de 1980 va representar a Europa un retorn a l’ordre, a la reivindicació d’una certa formalitat en l’art, als formats convencionals de la pintura i l’escultura …
No brilho da pele, Museu de Aveiro
Julião Sarmento
No brilho da pele, exhibition by Julião Sarmento at Museu de Aveiro / Santa Joana, Portugal. July 15 – September 27, 2020 Exhibition organized by the Museums of Aveiro in partnership with the Serralves Foundation – Museum of Contemporary Art and curated by Joana Valsassina. Selection of works by Julião …
Alrededores exentos de adultocentrismo – Casal Solleric
Javier Peñafiel
Alrededores exentos de adultocentrismo. Javier Peñafiel. Casal Solleric, Palma. 26 de juny – 25 de setembre de 2020 “Alrededores exentos de adultocentrismo” és un projecte de Javier Peñafiel que planteja un tema estructural dins la nostra societat, encara que fins ara massa ocultat, massa menystingut per tot tipus de poders …
CHRISTO ET JEANNE-CLAUDE, PARIS!
Christo et Jeanne-Claude
Christo et Jeanne-Claude, Paris! a major exhibition at Centre Pompidou, Paris. July 1st – October 19th 2020. As of 1975, Christo and Jeanne-Claude developed the idea of wrapping the Pont-Neuf in Paris in a golden sandstone-coloured polyamide canvas, which would cover the sides and the vaults of the bridge’s twelve arches, …
Gran Sur: arte contemporáneo chileno en la Colección Engel
Fernando Prats
Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid 25.02 – 26.07.2020 La Sala Alcalá 31 presenta la exposición “Gran Sur: arte contemporáneo chileno en la Colección Engel”, una importante selección de una de las mayores colecciones privadas de Latinoamérica, la colección de Claudio Engel. Comisariada por Christian Viveros-Fauné, “Gran Sur”, presenta por …
The closing line also opens
Julião Sarmento
Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisboa 18.5 – 26.7.2020 In an exhibition dedicated to Florentine Renaissance drawing and its Iberian extensions, works either produced by or attributed to Baccio Bandinelli, Luca Cambiaso, Correggio, Pontormo and Francisco Venegas would always establish predictable ties between one another. However, the presence among …
EXPOSURES #02
Erick Beltrán, Joan Brossa, Pauline Bastard, Muntadas, Javier Peñafiel, Perejaume, Teresa Solar, Anna Dot
EXPOSURES #02 until May 30, 2020 exposure:the fact of experiencing something or being affected by it because of being in a particular situation or place (Cambridge Dictionary) Exposures is a series of online exhibitions that aims to reflect on topics related to the current context, and around the general idea …
EXPOSURES #01
Alicia Kopf, Teresa Solar, Annika Kahrs, Pedro Torres
EXPOSURES #01 09-23, April 2020 exposure:the fact of experiencing something or being affected by it because of being in a particular situation or place (Cambridge Dictionary) Exposures is a series of online exhibitions that aims to reflect on topics related to the current context, and around the general idea of ‘The body …
13th Drawing Prize Daniel & Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation
Juan Uslé
The 2020 Daniel and Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation Drawing Prize awards Spanish artist Juan Uslé. Juan Uslé has been chosen by an international jury. Other nominees were Callum Innes and Florian Pumhösl. In October 2020 all the artists of the contemporary drawing prize will be exhibited in the …
Una Veu / Una Imatge
Javier Peñafiel, Muntadas
Espai d’Art Contemporani, Castelló 12.3 – 14.6.2020 Inauguración 12.3.2020 – 20h Artistes: Ignasi Aballí / Ángela Bonadies / Gonzalo Elvira / Esther Ferrer / Dora García / Pedro G. Romero / Narelle Jubelin / Eva Lootz / Antoni Muntadas / Javier Peñafiel / Álvaro Perdices / Paloma Polo / …
Desorientalismos
Teresa Solar
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla Inauguración: 3.3.2020 – 20 h. Exposición: 4.3 5.7.2020 Comisariado: Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes Coordinadores: Alberto Figueroa y Roxana Gazdzinski Espacio: Claustrón Sur OBRAS DE Amina Agueznay · Kamrooz Aram · Ariella Aïsha Azoulay · Asli Çavusoglu · Gülsün Karamustafa · Jumana Manna · …
El món serà Tlön
Alicia Kopf
El món serà Tlön. Bòlit. Centre d’art contemporani de Girona. Una exposició col·lectiva amb Alicia Kopf / Serafín Álvarez / Lúa Coderch / Ana Garcia-Pineda / Rosell Meseguer / Claudia Pagès / Aleix Plademunt / Ricardo Trigo Comissariada per: Jordi Antas Inauguració, divendres 21 de febrer a …
Double Feature
Annika Kahrs
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 29.1.2020 – 19.30h For more than six years, the SCHIRN has served as a forum for national and international filmmakers and video artists. Under the heading Double Feature, the latter present a work from their own oeuvre, followed by their favorite film. Already, films and videos …
Elogi del malentès
Cabello/Carceller
Sala dels Trinitaris, Vilafranca del Penedès 17.1 – 22.3.2020 Inauguració 17.1 – 20h Mar Arza, Cabello/Carceller, Lúa Coderch, Kajsa Dahlberg, Anna Dot, Dora García, Andrea Gómez, Núria Güell, Alexandra Leykauf, Mariona Moncunill, Mireia Sallarès, Batia Suter i Pilvi Takala Comissariat: Joana Hurtado Matheu Tretze artistes contemporànies s’apleguen en …