Carlos Garaicoa
CURRICULUM
Nato a La Habana, Cuba nel 1967.
Ha frequentato l’Istituto di Belle Arti di La Habana fra il 1989 e il 1994.
Vive e lavora La Habana.
Mostre personali
2010
La enmienda que hay en mi, Caixa Girona Foundation, Girona, Spain | Marzia Projects, Lisbon, Portogallo | Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin, Colombia | Graphic Studio, Tampa (USA)
Carlos Garaicoa, IMMA, Dublin, Irlanda
Carlos Garaicoa, Burgos Museum, Spagna
Carlos Garaicoa, Matadero de Madrid, Madrid, Spagna
2009
Yo no quiero ver màs a mis vecinos, Exhibiciòn de video, Salle Zero, Alianza Francesca, La Habana, Cuba
How to become a millionaire trough the Junk Mail, Luisa Strina Gallery, San Paulo, Brasile
The point, the line and the plan, East Central Gallery, London, UK
La Mala Semilla, Château de Blandy-Les-Tours - Blandy Art Tour(s), Francia
Triunfo, Duda y Celebración, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italia
The Observatory - A project for Castleford, Bridge arts, Castleford, UK
La enmienda que hay en mì, Museo Nacional de Belles Artes de Cuba, X Bienal de la Habana, Cuba
2008
La Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, Brasile
Revolución o Rizoma, Galleria Continua, Beijing, Cina
2007
Capablanca’s Real Passion. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Latin Kings Music Vol. I-V, Elba Benítez Gallery, Madrid
2006
The drawing, the writing, the abstraction (with Ezequiel Suárez), Lombard-Freid Projects, New York
Yo no quiero ver más a mis vecinos. Castello di Ama, Gaiole in Chianti
Capablanca’s real passion, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
Das Gast (retrospectiva de videos 1996-2006), Kuntshalle de Fribourg, Germany
Postcapital, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain
2005
Things That Happen When Life Goes Very Wrong, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
Because Every City has the right to be called Utopia, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Wales, UK
Carlos Garaicoa, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK
Carlos Garaicoa. Carta a Los Censores, Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco, XXXIX Prix International d’Art Contemporain, Montecarlo, Monaco
Vamos fazer barullo agora, porra! (with Ezequiel Suàrez), Galería Habana, Cuba
El mapa del viajero, Luisa Strina Gallery, Sao Paulo (Brasile)
Capablanca’s real passion, LA Moca, Los Angeles (USA)
Carlos Garaicoa: Self-flagellation, survival, insubordination, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (USA)
2004
La misura di quasi tutte le cose, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena (I)
2003
Carlos Garaicoa, Elba Benìtez Gallery, Madrid (Spagna)
Carta a los censores (piccolo teatro dell’anarchia), Volume!, Roma
De la serie Nuevas Arquitecturas, Centro Wifredo Lam, La Habana (Cuba)
Lecciones de Historia, Casa de América, Madrid (Spagna)
Autoflagelaciòn, Supervivencia, Insubordinaciòn, Sala Montcada, Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona (Spagna)
Cuba on the Verge, Centro Internazionale di Fotografia (UK)
Espacio C, Camargo (Spagna)
La habitación de mi negatividad, Galería La Casona, VII Bienal de La Habana, La Habana, Cuba
2002
Now Let’s Play to Disappear, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano (SI)
Ni Christ, ni Marx, ni Bakouine, Maison Européenne de la Photographie (M.E.P.), Parigi (Francia)
2001
Because Every City Has the Right To Be Called Utopia, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York (USA)
Galerie Art & Public, Ginevra (Svizzera)
Carlos Garaicoa- The Ruin; The Utopia ,(works 1990-2000) Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas (Venezuela)
The last 10 days of the market, Aarhus Photography Festival, Image Gallery (Danimarca)
2000
Carlos Garaicoa: La ruina; La Utopía (obras1990-2000),BibliotecaLuis Angel Arango, Banco de La República, Bogotá (Colombia);BronxMuseum of the Arts, New York (USA); Museo Alejandro Otero,Caracas,Venezuela
Recuadros (con Federica Herrero), Jacobo Karpio Gallery, San Jose (Costa Rica)
1999
Mi primer y último homenaje a la arquitectura (y al Marqués de sade), Galería La Habana (Cuba)
Paisaje, Ars TeoréTICA, San José (Costa Rica)
Survia, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Primier Saló de Fotografia, La Habana (Cuba)
1998
Principio y fin de la fascinación, Centro Wifredo Lam, La Habana (Cuba)
1996
El voluble rostro de la realidad, Fundación Ludwig de Cuba, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, La Habana (Cuba)
Cuando el deseo se parece a nada, Art in General, New York (USA)
Havana: un estudio, Carla Stellweg Gallery, New York (USA)
The Landscape; The Limits, Fototeca de Cuba, La Habana (Cuba)
1995
Inside Havana, Space Aglutinador of Art, La Habana (Cuba)
The Beheading Space, Centre
Mostre collettive
2010
ERÖFFNUNG IN NEUEN RÄUMEN, Barbara Gross Galerie, Monaco, Germania
Linguaggi e sperimentazioni, MART Rovereto, Rovereto, Italia
Isole mai trovate/ Islands never found, Palazzo Ducale Appartamento del Doge, Genova, Italia
2009
Panorama, Modern Art Museum (MAM), San Paulo, Brazil
El Patio de mi Casa, Arte Contemporaneo en 16 Patios de Còrdoba, Cordoba, Spain
Making Worlds, 53 Biennal of Venice, Venice, Italy
Desenhos [Drawings]:A-Z, Museu de Cidade, Lisbona, Portugal
Cartografias Disidentes, itinerante, Oi Futuro,Museodell’ Rio de Janeiro, Brasile - Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela - Centro de Formacion de la Cooperacion Española, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
Fragile. Terres d’emphatie, Musee d’art moderne, saint Ethienne Metropole, France
Spheres 2009, Galleria Continua / Le Moulin, Paris, France
The Sky withinmy house, Contemporary art in 16 years of Còedoba, University of Philosophy and Literature in Cordoba, Spain
Confluencias Inside, NHCC Art Museum (National Hispanic Cultural Center), Alburquerque, USA
Irreversible (Doble cara de la colecciòn Sanchez Ubirìa), Pazo de Cultura Pontevedra, Spain
ARTTLV_09, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Mundus Novus/Arte Contemporaneo Latinoamericano, 53 Venice Biennal, ILLA Pavillion, Artiglierie dell’Arsenale, Italy
Video in the street Project, Murcia, Spain
2008
Mental Drawings, a cura di Ludovico Pratesi, Galleria Alexandra Bonomo, Roma, Italia
¡Cuba! Art and History from 1868 to Today, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Surrounded by Water: Expressions of Freedom and Isolation in Contemporary Cuban Art, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston
The Sneeze 80 artists x 80 seconds 106 minutes, Durban Art Gallery, South Africa
Fate Presto, Chiesa dell'Addolorata, Napoli, Italia
Cultural summer, Saint Tropez, France
Cartografías disidentes, Itinerante, Santiago de Chile, Madrid, Sao Pablo, Barcelona, Mexico DF, Caracas...
2007
The Sneeze, Durban Art gallery, Durban, South Africa
A Number of Worlds Resembling Our Own, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam
Art Unlimited, Art Basel 38
Commitment, Mechelen
Turbulence Auckland Triennial, New Zealand
Luz ao Sul, Encuentro entre dos Mares, IV Valencia Biennial, Valencia.
Emergenze Hangar Biccoca, Milan, 2007
Killing Time. Exit Art, New Cork
Expérience Pommery, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France
Common House, Laboratorio per l’Arte Contemporanea, Stabilimento Teseco, Pisa
2006
Estrecho Dudoso, San José
De repente livros, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro
Arte de Cuba Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Curitiba
Overlapping, 4th Liverpool Biennial, Open Eye Gallery
C4. Centro Cultura Contemporaneo Caldogno, Vicenza.
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, Nigata
Metropolitanscapes, Palazzo Cavour, Turin
Less. Strategie alternative dell’abitare, PAC, Milan
Other than Art, G Fine Art, Washington D.C
Nuit Blanche, París
Ideal City-Invisible Cities, Zamosc, Postdam
2005
Senza Confine (15th year), Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italia
New Photography ’05, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
III Tirana Bienale, Albania
Farsite, Insite Tijuana, Tijuana-San Diego, Mexico-Usa
Inverting the Map, Latin American Art from the Tate Colletion, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Sempre un po’ più lontano, LI Biennale di Venezia, Arsenale, Venezia
Art Unlimited, Art 36 Basel, Basel (Svizzera)
Fantasmapolis, Université Rennes 2 and Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes
Manmano, Galleria Continua, Beijing (China)
Dialectics of Hope, 1st Moscow Biennale, Moscow (Russia)
7th Sharjah International Biennial, United Arab Emirates
2004
Transmigraciones, Trienal/Poli/Gráfica de San Juan, Puerto Rico
We Come in Peace... Histories of the Americas, Musée d’Art Conemporain de Montréal (Francia)
Artitecture, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California (USA)
Images Smugglers, XXVI Sao Paola Biennale, San Paolo, Brasile
Galerie Anne De Villepoix, Parigi
Future Cities, progetto esterno della Art Gallery di Hamilton, Hamilton (Canada)
A taste of Pain of Others. Contemporary video works from Latin America, L.A. Freewaves, California (USA)
2003
Catastrofi Minime, MAN, Nuoro
43° Premio Suzzara “Anima e corpo. Tra tradizione e cibernetica”, Galleria Civica d’Arte contemporanea, Suzzurra (MN)
La Ripro-Riduzione dell’Arte, National Institute of Graphic, Roma
La Ciudad Radiante, Bancja Foundation, Bienal de Valentia (Spagna)
Time capsule, Art in General, New York (USA)
Dream Spaces/ Entre Sueños, Deutsche Bank Lobby Gallery, New York (USA)
Salon des Refuses, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia
Modern Islands, Public Project, Drasda (Germania)
2002
Copyright, Centro Cultural de España, La Habana (Cuba)
Continuidad de una arquitectura ajena, DOCUMENTA 11, Kassel (Germania)
De ponta cabeça, Primera bienal de Fortaleza (Brasile)
La Ripro-Riduzione, Museo della Calcografia Nazionale, Roma
On/Off, Vista Mare, Pescara
Archivio Attivo, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Carbognano (VT)
Reality’s Desire, Generazione dell’immagine 8, Milano
Artists Imagine Architecture, I. C. A., Boston (USA)
2001
Demostration Room (casa ideal), Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas (Venezuela); Apex Gallery, New York (USA); NICC, Antwerp (Belgio)
Some Islands Exhibition, Project Room, Ianidett Cadot Gallery, Arco 2001
Mirror’s Edge traveling exhibition – Tramway, Glasgow (UK); Charlottenbourg; Copenhagen (Danimarca)
Sincretisimi, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Roma
Shifting Tides-Cuban PhotographyAfter The Revolution, LACMA, Los Angeles; Grey Art Gallery, New York (USA); Museum of Contemporary Photograohy, Chicago (USA)
1st Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama (Giappone)
Sonsbeek 9, Arnhem (Paesi Bassi)
Mas alla del documento, Telefonica Foundation, Madrid, Granada, Badejez.
VII Bienal de La habana, Centro Wifredo, Lam, La Habana, Cuba
Mega Wave, First Yokohama Trienale, Yokohama (Giappone)
2000
Memorias Intimas, Marcas, MUHKA, Antwerp (Belgio)
Mirror's Edge, Vancouver Art Gallery, Castello Di Rivoli, Torino
From the negative: conceptual photography from Cuba, Parts Gallery, Minneapolis, North Dakota Museum (USA)
Beyond the Document, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid (Spagna)
Waterfront project, Malmo (Svezia)
Fotolatina, Contemporary Art Museum of Guadalajara (Messico)
Project: Window onto Venus, VII Biennale di A, Avana (Cuba)
Cream 2, 10 curatori, 100 artisti. Exhibition Catalog, Phaidon Press, Londra (UK)
1999
Los mapas del deseo, Kunsthalle, Vienna (Austria); Nikolaj Comtemporary Art Center, Copenhagen (Danimarca)
Four Cuban artists, Geunkens and De Vill Gallery, Knokke (Belgio)
Mirror’s Edge, Bild-Museet, Umea (Svizzera)
1998
The Sight and the Labyrinth, Cosello da Cultura Gallega, Galicia (Spagna)
Isla Oscura: New Photography from Cuba, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach (USA)
Comme peut on être cubain?, Maison de L´Amerique, Parigi (Francia)
Fragments a su imán, Casa de las Américas, La habana (Cuba)
Memorias Intimas, Marcas, Electricworkshop, Johannesburg; Window-Museum, Pretoria (Sud Africa)
XXIV Biennale of Sao Paulo, Parque Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo (Brazile)
Memorias Intimas, Marcas, White Pavilion, Institute for Contemporary Art, Lisbona (Portogallo)
2nd Salón de Arte Contemporáneo, Center for Development of the Visual Arts, Avana (Cuba)
1997
Utopian territories: New Cuban Art, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (Canada)
Memorias Intimas, Marcas, Cuito Cuanavale, Portuguese Cultural Center, Angola; The Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town (Sud Africa)
Individual and his memory, VI Biennale di Avana, Wifredo Lam Centre, Avana (Cuba)
1997 Kwangju Biennale ( Space/Fire ), Kwangju (Sud Corea)
El individo y su memoria, VI Bieanal de La Habana, La Habana (Cuba)
1996
Las otras escri(p)turas, Visual Arts and Design Center, Avana (Cuba)
1995
Africus ‘95, I Biennale di Johannesburg (Sud Africa)
Una de cada clase, Centro nacional de Conservación, REstauración y Museología, Fundación Ludwig de Cuba, La habana (Cuba)
Trans ( Intro ) Post- Diary, La Fundición Gallery, Bilbao (Spagna)
Cuba: la isla posible, Centro Cultura Contemporánea, Barcelona (Spagna)
1994
Environment and Circumstances, V Biennale di Avana, National Museum of Fine Arts, Avana (Cuba)
The New Generation: Contemporary Photography from Cuba, Fototeca de Cuba, V Biennale of Avana, Avana (Cuba)
V Biennale of Havana, Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen (Germania)
1993
The Metaphors of the temple, Gallery Center for Development of the Visual Arts, Avana (Cuba)
1991
Si Tim tiene, Tim vale IV Biennale di Avana, Gallery ISA, Avana (Cuba)
Flesh Space Aglutinador of Arte, Avana (Cuba)
Borse e Premi
2007 Seleced Young Global leader 2007 by the World Economic Forum
2005 XXXIX Prix International d’Art Contemporain, Montecarlo, Monaco;
Katherine S. Marmor Award 2005, Aspen
1999 Artista in residenza, Parts Gallery. Minneapolis
1998 Artista in residenza, Mario Abreu Museum, Maracay (Venezuela);
Artista in residenza, Yaddo Corporation, New York (USA)
1997 Artista in residenza, Centro Ranieri Civitella, Umbertide
1996 Artista in residenza, Art in General, New York (USA)
1995 Artista in residenza, City of Biel-Bienne, Pro Helvetia and the Canton of Berne (Svizzera)
1993 Artista in residenza, Città di Düsseldorf e Museo Paul Pozzoza (Germania)
Selezione di Collezioni Pubbliche
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Avana
LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
National Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA
Musée Européen de la Photographie, Parigi, Francia
Smak Museum, Ghent, Belgio
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spagna
Tate Modern, UK
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). Los Angeles, USA
The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York, USA
The Bronx Museum of Art, New York, USA
Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto
Metropolitan Savings Bank, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Le high University Gallery Bethlehem, USA
Centre PasquArt, Biel-Bienne, Svizzera
Arte Viva, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil


