Felipe Castelblanco

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Cartographies of the Unseen. November 28th 2020 – January 3rd 2021. Ausstellungsraum Klingental. Basel, Switzerland

Recent Shows:

Exhibition: Té de Bogota at Wild-Palms Gallery, Düsseldorf. March – June 2020
Group Show Curated by Jorge Sanguino and works by
FERNANDO BARRERA
KAREN PAULINA BISWELL
FELIPE CASTELBLANCO
BEATRIZ EUGENIA DIAZ BEJARANO
SIMON HERNANDEZ
feat. SIMON MEJIA (BOMBA ESTEREO)
ERWIN + LORENA KRAUS
JUAN MAYR

Presenting the 3 channel Video Installation Driftless at 4 Days in Motion Festiva in Prague

Seasons of Media at ZKM Karlsruhe. Germany August – September 2019

June – July 2019: Guest / Artist in Residency at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Studios in Captiva Florida, USA.

Quebec Biennial, 2019 (Canada) Manif d’Art and La Bande Video – February to April 2019

Screenings:

Borderless TV, Film Forum Museum Ludwig, Cologne. December 15th, 2018

Up-River / Rio, Kasko Gallery. Basel, Switzerland November 3 – 4, 2018

Recent Talks:

Videonale 2019 Bonn. Germany. February 21st, 2019

AMRO Festival 2018 Linz Austria. May 5th, 2018

IAM Weekend, Barcelona April 27th, 2018

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Thanks @ninasarnelle for sharing this!
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Rio Arriba (Upriver): Images from a breathtaking film + ambitious community project led by my dear friend @felipecastel, available online (Link in bio) // devastating to learn that several of the landscapes in the film have recently been consumed by intentional fires (the 3rd image headline)

Today Artist talk (ECT 7PM / EST 1PM) from @ausste

Today Artist talk (ECT 7PM / EST 1PM) from @ausstellungsraum_klingental streaming also on Facebook Live. Link in bio

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Artist Talk

Donnerstag, 10.12.2020, 19:00 Uhr

mit Felipe Castelblanco & Lydia Zimmermann reden über CARTOGRAPHIES OF THE UNSEEN

Aufgrund der aktuellen Situation ist die Teilnehmerzahl beschränkt. Anmeldung unter info@ausstellungsraum.ch. Das Gespräch wird ebenfalls über Facebook und Zoom gestreamt.

Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87854013688
Meeting ID: 878 5401 3688
Login ab 18:50 Uhr

#kunstbasel #artinbasel
#artfilm #regionale21 #regionale
#wuasikamas #felipecastelblanco #coincidencia_prohelvetia #ambulantecol #mincultura
@felipecastel @lydiazimmermann @nambi_rimai_comunicacion @camilopachon @regionale_org

🖤 These are pictures of our most recent show wi

🖤 These are pictures of our most recent show with @lydiazimmermann and @nambi_rimai_comunicacion with @camilopachon. On view until Jan 3rd at @ausstellungsraum_klingental in Basel as part of @regionale_org With support from @coincidencia_prohelvetia and @kunstkreditbaselstad the show feels like a big accomplishment but Still, we can’t indulge in passive contemplation or the joy of having completed a huge collaborative project. Instead, I have a heavy heart after finding out that while we hosted an opening far from the territory, aimed at raising awareness and creating inter-regional networks, the very same locations of our new film (sacred paramos in the Quillacinga Territory up in the Andean-Amazon region) have been consumed by a huge fire... This show has become a homage to a lost ecosystem, to an endangered bio cultural territory, to a gorgeous landscape that in no time became yet, another victim of human stupidity and extractivism. The Andean Paramos (wetlands) is where sacred plants called frailejones, day and night turn air into water and water into major rivers that flow across the Amazon... these essential plants grow less than a centimeter every year and in this place, some reached more than 2mts (meaning older than 200 years). They were there before photography was invented, before we could preserve an image of something instead of preserving the real thing... today I feel sad, cynical, powerless but fire up to continue an important process we initiated in 2019 with local youth leaders from five indigenous nations in order establish the first Pan-Amazon Media Collective in the region in order to amplify the quiet cry of a territory that has been suffering for so so long.

Our show is opening tomorrow at @ausstellungsraum_

Our show is opening tomorrow at @ausstellungsraum_klingental in Basel. this might be a very strange time but it is also the right time!
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CARTOGRAPHIES OF THE UNSEEN - Eine Videoinstallation von und mit Felipe Castelblanco, Camilo Pachón, Lydia Zimmermann, Ñambi Rimai Collective
(29.11.2020 - 03.01.2021)

Felipe Castelblanco ist am REGIONALE-ERÖFFNUNGSTAG am 28. November 2020 anwesend.
Unsere Türen sind von 11 - 20 Uhr geöffnet.

Im Rahmen der @regionale_org

#kunstbasel #artinbasel
#artfilm #regionale21 #regionale
#wuasikamas #felipecastelblanco #coincidencia_prohelvetia #ambulantecol #mincultura
@felipecastel @lydiazimmermann @nambi_rimai_comunicacion @camilopachon

From @wildpalms_store and @_wildpalms_ - - - - -

From @wildpalms_store and @_wildpalms_
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New selection up ✨

This time: focus on Felipe Castelblanco’s encounter with nature and the planet captured through his photography.

@felipecastel

You will find photographies and a super special artist book follows with a photographic project (which will be added tomorrow).

Check link in bio to see the works 💫

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#art #contemporaryart #onlinestore #artonline #wildpalms #wildpalmsamericana #gallery #felipecastelblanco #photography #colombia #ny #latinamericanart #colombianartist

It sounds so so nice!! Even in the mothership..🎥🚀🌎🌨🔥🌎 @lydiazimmermann and I have been working for months on a wonderful film taking place between the Colombian Andean-Amazon and the Atlantic coast with @nambi_rimai_comunicacion @azulgato and @ernestocobaantequera with support from @coincidencia_prohelvetia.

Voto a voto me alboroto... America, just remember:

Voto a voto me alboroto... America, just remember: no matter what, shit ain’t right so the fight for justice must go on... Independent from today’s results, there are many (MANY) people in the United States of Amnesia (Aka USA 🇺🇸) whose voices don’t count cuz they are systematically denied the right to participate in civil society.... thinking about my #dacadreamers #jornaleros and may many more out there without political voice or representation. Pic: 2016, Series: Norte Es Sur by @felipecastel

Upcoming show/screening @lacapsula.zh of my film e

Upcoming show/screening @lacapsula.zh of my film essay “Rio Arriba” made with support from @coincidencia_prohelvetia @kantonbaselstadt and @hgk_fhnw
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From tomorrow until November 4th! Video art window screening at Stauffacherstrasse 119, visible from the street.
Thursday, Oct 29, starting at 17:30 hs.
This program aims to display some of the ways how contemporary artists have worked around the topics of conflict, memory, and cultural heritage, contesting the official narratives. These artworks operate as devices for activating multiple and diverse memories –and not as a replacement for the single official narrative–, proposing entangled transversal links to the events recalled. The artists presented in this video-art window screening program also place history and its political conflicts –unresolved, only silenced– back in the center, bringing the past to the present in a sort of non-linear conception of time as open, multiple and with the possibility of being completed, redefined and, therefore, linked to the political. Arts have become critical sites for alternative social imaginations.
With works by: Felipe Castelblanco, @lacaycedo , @cocofusco and Guillermo-Gomez Pena, Adela Jušić, Yoshua Okón, María Ordóñez, Daniela Ortiz and Sarah Vanagt

Via @falling_walls - - - - - - @felipecastel's art

Via @falling_walls
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@felipecastel's art provokes people and communities to re-connect with each other – and with the space they inhabit. His participatory research is touching subjects like #migration, #climateChange, cultural erasure, territorial rights and #justice. The ultimate goal is biocultural peace-building through knowledge exchange, dialogue and inter-existence.

Felipe Castel is a finalist for the #Science #Breakthroughs of the Year in his category #ScienceInTheArts. Register and join the #WorldScienceSummit for free

https://falling-walls.com/remote2020/event-registration/
Link in Bio

@hgk_fhnw @nambi_rimai_comunicacio
#hgk_fhnw #peacebuilding #felipecastelblanco #pan-amazon #putumayo @parasite_school

From the show celebrating he 10th anniversary of @

From the show celebrating he 10th anniversary of @cat.cologne during the recent Cologne - Düsseldorf Gallery Weekend. On view until September 27th.
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view from the exhibition #14:

"Cartographies of the Unseen" is an ongoing artistic research project by Felipe Castelblanco. Part of this project and installation is "Rio Arriba [Upriver]:
A Cinematic Cartography Through a Vertical Landscape".

Up-River is an experimental film developed after a journey upstream the Putumayo River in the southwest of Colombia. This journey becomes a filmic map of the territory from various altitudes, which then reveal a complex eco-social landscape extending through the jungle and all the way to the high Andean mountains. In these regions, indigenous philosophies, trees, soils, clouds, temperature, light and shadow reveal new aesthetics, agency and forms of bio-cultural resistance.

The Putumayo, Cauca and Nariño states in the south west of Colombia are contested and extremely rich territories. For the last 400 years (or more) these regions have embodied dispossession, cultural extermination, colonialism, drug wars and lately natural devastation due to resource-extracting interests. These regions are a ‘residual spaces’ so rich that it gives birth to the Amazon ecosystem. Also, its endangered history and native cultures are the key to a portal where parallel epistemologies of space, time, environmental justice, bio-cultural models exist.

#processexhibition #tenyearsanniversary @cat.cologne @felipecastel

@marianautomatic and @patricemkeenan in sync for o

@marianautomatic and @patricemkeenan in sync for our stand at @ineverreadartbookfairbasel

Once more, sharing the logics of the The Para-Site

Once more, sharing the logics of the The Para-Site School at @ineverreadartbookfairbasel until September 20th. Stop by if you’re around! More: @parasite_school

In memory of a “wandering / drifting” past sel

In memory of a “wandering / drifting” past self 🌊 link in bio... via @sommerakademiepaulklee
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In the latest issue of the HKB-newspaper, our resident Felipe Castelblanco speaks about growing up in Bogotá, travelling as a creative act, transpiring trees and the symbolism of Bernese landmarks!

Link in bio. #hkbzeitung #felipecastelblanco #residents2019_20 #sommerakademiepaulklee #statecraft #bundeshaus #reitschule #travel

Pics from a busy birthday boy turning 35, opening

Pics from a busy birthday boy turning 35, opening a show during the DC weekend, celebrating the 10 year anniversary of @cat.cologne, the reopening of public life and lots of love. Thanks everyone for the nice messages and bday wishes!! Thank you @patricemkeenan for joining me in this nice trip from Lofoten to Cologne, via Basel with a little detouring in St. Petersburg ;-) thanks @josephpopper for your/my bday shirt!!

Another nice stop for the journey of my piece #Dri

Another nice stop for the journey of my piece #Driftless (2012-2019). Now that part of the @works_on_water Triennial in NYC has been moved online you can tune in from anywhere and watch artists films created in/on/with water. Organized by: @nancy9000 // link in bio for info and RSVP
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Works on Water is pleased to present ALL THESE INCREDIBLE WORKS starting FRIDAY!! Thanks to covid, we turned a gallery show into 🌊6 LIVE SCREENINGS 🐬 as part of our 20/21 #wowtriennial. Join us in viewing these works from 🌏🌍🌎. Ask screenings are free but RSVP IS REQUIRED. Follow link in bio!

Back into the Swiss Tropic... Corona Plants, secre

Back into the Swiss Tropic... Corona Plants, secret plant-societies and imaginary discoveries.

Join us Today - 6:00PM CET Via @sommerakademiepaul

Join us Today - 6:00PM CET Via @sommerakademiepaulklee
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We are excited to announce our second online event this summer: On August 5 at 6.p.m. CET, residents of the Sommerakademie Paul Klee will engage (together with our artistic director Tirdad Zolghadr) in a remote viewing experiment, testing the potentials of online formats which are bound to play a growing role in the way we work and engage with one another in the near future. On account of momentary travel restrictions, we as a Sommerakademie can no longer pursue our conversations by the banks of the Aare River. But we can take advantage of our geographic disparity in other ways, wherever we happen to be stranded during the ongoing pandemic.

Taking up to 15 minutes each – either live on location, or by way of recent footage – residents address a physical space within their immediate material surroundings that speaks to the ongoing discussion at the Sommerakademie: What role do national boundaries still play? How do international debt economies and new legal instruments define the rapport between Contemporary Art and statecraft more recently? How can one create the conditions of production that might make a sustained discussion possible - across space as well as time? From divestment to institution building to propaganda: Which strategic means have been successfully deployed by artists and curators, and which ones continue to make strategic, aesthetic and political sense today?

The Zoom link will be published on our website before the event (link in bio). We hope to see you online!
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#sommerakademiepaulklee #residents2019_20 #statecraft #tirdadzolghadr #switzerland #bern @felipecastel @oliviaabaecherli @fadwa_naamna @aartisunder @contemporary.institute @two_evils #airitriisberg #dorotheekreutzfeldt #fadwanaamna #aartisunder #felipecastelblanco #tracyjeannerosenthal #oliviaabächerli #joãoenxutoericalove

Don’t even ask me how 📸 ... all I know is tha

Don’t even ask me how 📸 ... all I know is that it takes about 10mts of snow fall to make a layer of 0,39 inches of glacier. It takes thousands of years, many pandemics and a bunch of empires for a glacier like this to form.. thanks @davidzehnder for introducing us to his amazing Valais region!

Düsseldorf-Cologne or Planetary folks come by or

Düsseldorf-Cologne or Planetary folks come by or tune in via @_wildpalms_ for this talk and screening: Monday, 7/27/2020, 7:30pm CET // 1:30pm EST
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We warmly invite you to a dialogue w/ @felipecastel & Sanguino about Felipe’s work in the Putumayo region, his collaboration w/ @nambi_rimai_comunicacion a Pan Amazon Media Collective, @camilopachon and @lydiazimmermann
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#screening #talk #art #wildpalms #latinamerica #colombia #contemporaryart #latinamricanart #düsseldorf

My quarantine ramble: An interview about my hopes/

My quarantine ramble: An interview about my hopes/fears for the post-pandemic artist by @carolina_martinez_s for @coincidencia_prohelvetia at https://coincidencia.net
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“I fear that Covid-19 will not be remembered by the freely-moving output of creative and cultural movements, but by the hole that social media will leave behind once their servers need to be erased to make room for yet another world event.” - Felipe Castelblanco. ⠀
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⁣📸⁣⁣ "Nowhere Islands" ©️ Felipe Castelblanco ⠀ ⠀
⁣📸 Portrait ©️ Felipe Castelblanco ⠀
📸 Still from Driftless ©️ Felipe Castelblanco ⠀ ⠀
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⁣#prohelvetia #coincidencia_prohelvetia #coincidencia_switzerland ⁣ #cartographiesoftheunseen #COVID19 #interview #felipecastelblanco #FC #carolinamartinez.

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