The work of Andrés Ramírez Gaviria unfolds in a constellation of cultural references, primarily drawn from art, literature, science, and technology, which are reconfigured through methodologies that imagine alternative modes of perception and thought. Informed by processes such as transference, translation, appropriation, duplication, and reenactment, his work emphasizes an uncertain territory marked by moments of discord and dialogue between an experiential notion of the contemporary and the constantly changing perspectives of historical references.
His work has been exhibited in the Kunsthaus Graz, Kunsthaus Dresden, BA-CA Kunstforum, and BAWAG Contemporary in Vienna, the Lentos Museum in Linz, GAMeC in Bergamo, the Caribbean Biennial in Santo Domingo, the Museum of Modern Art and Museo de Arte del Banco de la República in Bogotá, La Casa Encendida in Madrid, Arthaus in Buenos Aires, as well as Sonambiente and Transmediale in Berlin, among others. He has been an artist-in-residence at the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna and the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York.
Awards include the Transmediale.06 Award and the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Emerging Artist Award. Two monographs of his work Between Forms of Representation and Interpretation and A Line, However Short, Has An Infinite Number of Points, have been published by Onomatopee in 2012 and Triton in 2016, respectively. His writing has appeared in Leonardo, #Errata, Flash Art International, among others.
In 2014, Gaviria co-founded Sigmund, and in 2017, Anna , both non-profit exhibition spaces in Vienna, alongside Norbert Pfaffenbichler. He is also co-editor with Elisabeth Kihlström and Yuki Higashino of the journal Agency.
Andrés Ramírez Gaviria studied media theory at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and holds a BFA from Boston University and an MA from the Winchester School of Art at the University of Southampton.
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Lives and works in Vienna
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Selected Bibliography
Clarín, March 31
in: Salto nel Vuoto: Arte al di là della materia, exhibition catalogue published by GAMeC, Bergamo
in: Abriendo el sistema – Homenaje a Carlos Rojas, exhibition catalogue published by Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota
in: El sueño de la razón, exhibition catalogue published by Arte Contemporáneo Banco de la República, Bogota
Listín Diario, March
Diario Libre, March
El Caribe, March
in: A Line, However Short, Has an Infinite Number of Points, exhibition catalogue published by Triton
in: A Line, However Short, Has an Infinite Number of Points, exhibition catalogue published by Triton
in: Between Forms of Representation and Interpretation, exhibition catalogue published by Onomatopee
in: Between Forms of Representation and Interpretation, exhibition catalogue published by Onomatopee
Errata# N°0, p. 188, December
Revista Arte al Día International, no. 128, August/September/October
Aguarrás, vol. 4, no. 21, ISSN 1980-7767, Rio de Janeiro, September/October
NSD – Kultur, p. 21, July 19
Norrbottens-Kuriren-Kultur, July 15
Der Standard, August 04
in: Andrés Ramírez Gaviria, exhibition catalogue published by Metro Verlag
in: Andrés Ramírez Gaviria, exhibition catalogue published by Metro Verlag
in: Andrés Ramírez Gaviria, exhibition catalogue published by Metro Verlag
in: Abstracts of Syn, published by Folio Verlag
in: Crossmedia – Kunstverein Medienturm 2000 – 2005, published by Folio Verlag
in: Narratives -35/+65 Two Generations, exhibition catalogue published by Kunsthaus Graz and Velag der Buchhandlung Walther
in: Modal Patterns, DVD published by Kunsthaus Graz
DVD published by Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz
Kronen Zeitung, November 04
NY Art Magazine, September/October
Springerin, Heft 4
in: Morse by Horse: Manual, published by Maurer Verlag
El Tiempo, February 10
El Pais, February 16
die tageszeitung, February 8
Falter/Wien Lexikon, p. 26
Falter, Nr. 30/35, p. 6
Die Presse, July 11
artmagazine, July 07
Der Standard, June 14
Kleine Zeitung, p. 43, June 13
Kronen Zeitung, p. 33, June 12
in: V Simposio Internacional: Diálogos Iberoamericanos, published by Institut Valenciá d’ Art Modern, IVAM
in: Skin/Haut, exhibition catalogue published by raumimpuls
in: Arte Iberoamericano Contemporáneo. Emoción y concepto, published by ATcultura, Chilavert, Buenos Aires
Listín Diario, Ventana
Kronen Zeitung, p. 41, October 14
Kleine Zeitung, Graz, Austria, October 27
Artes, p. 90, May
NY Arts Magazine, vol. 8, no. 6-8, p. 9, June-August
El Caribe, February 25
NY Arts Magazine, vol. 7, no. 10, p. 47, October
Berliner Kunst, vol. 1, no. 9, p. 73, September
Art Nexus, no. 44, June
Hoy, Areito, December
Hoy, Suplemento Revista, December
El Caribe, Suplemento Cultural, November
Listín Diario, Sección La Vida, November