Nicolás Rupcich

(b.1981) Santiago de Chile.

Lives and works in Berlin.

 

info[at]nicolasrupcich.com

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Solo/Duo exhibitions:

2024 Offline Islands, REITER Prospect Berlin, Germany

2023 Spotlights, Hilbert Raum, Berlin, Germany

2022 Archipiélago, Galería Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile

2022 Overlay, Juraplatz, Biel-Bienne, Switzerland

2021 Chepu, Kunstraum.mpeg, Leipzig, Germany

2020 Final-final-ok-final, duo show with Felix Leffrank, A&O Kunsthalle, Leipzig, Germany

2019 After Nature, duo show with Rocío Olivares at Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, USA

2018 Chepu, Die Ecke Barcelona – City Screen/Loop Festival, Barcelona, Spain

2018 La Sombra de la Imagen, Galería Concreta – Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile

2017 No Land in Sight, Spazio T)Raum, Milan, Italy

2016 Narcolepsia, Instituto Tele Arte, Santiago, Chile

2016 Der Tod der Sonne, Die Ecke gallery, Santiago, Chile

2016 EDF, MAC Valdivia, Valdivia, Chile

2015 No Land in Sight, Die Ecke Barcelona – Loop Festival, Barcelona, Spain

2015 ML, Videorama – Werkleitz, Halle, Germany

2014 Falso Reflejo, Galería Concreta – Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile

2012 Imagen Exportable, Espacio Flor, Santiago, Chile

2012 ML, Die Ecke gallery, Santiago, Chile

2011 Grand Celebration, Casa E, Valparaíso, Chile

2008 Designed Territory, Die Ecke gallery, Santiago, Chile

2006 Automatic, Die Ecke gallery, Santiago, Chile

2006 Berlínmiami, H10 gallery, Valparaíso, Chile

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Group exhibitions / Screenings:

 

2024 Mundo, Open Site 9, TOKAS, Tokyo, Japan

2024 It’s the end of the world (for real), BLAM Festival – Kino Moviemento, Berlin, Germany

2024 8vo AricaDoc, Ex-Cine Colón, Arica, Chile

2024 Water Light Festival, Neustift, Brixen, Italy

2024 Metabolic Rift curated by Vanina Saracino, Cifra.com, online playlist

2024 Evaluación sin Costo 4, Taller Otra Sinceridad, Santiago, Chile

2024 Schatten auf Schnee, Galleria Doris Ghetta, Ortisei, Italy

 

2023 You Children Will Learn to Live There, Galeria Skala. Poznań, Poland

2023 Hipótesis para un Lugar, M100, Santiago, Chile

2023 Todavía Somos el Tiempo, Arte y Resistencia a 50 Años del Golpe. Centro Nacional de Arte Cerrillos, Santiago, Chile

2023 4stract4 – Espacio ARTV, CEINA & Centro de Arte Alameda, Santiago, Chile

2023 FILE Festival, Fiesp Cultural Center – Ruth Cardoso, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2023 Paisaje | Experiencia | Producción: Fotografía y Territorios Productivos en Chile (2000-2020), MAC Forestal, Santiago, Chile

2023 Consciencia – CAB, Sala Zonaustral, Zona Franca, Punta Arenas, Chile

 

2022 Il Privilegio dell’Immagine, Real Academia de España en Roma, Rome, Italy

2022 Art Speaks Out, ikonoTV – COP27, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

2022 Todo esto era campo, Instituto Tele Arte, Santiago, Chile

2022 Dart Festival, multiple locations, Santiago – Concepción, Chile

2022 Ciclo de video arte Chileno, ISLA+, Antofagasta, Chile

2022 Di polvore e luce, Spazio Lampo, Chiasso, Switzerland

2022 34th annual exhibition, MAM, Castro, Chiloé, Chile

 

2021 15º Media Arts Biennale “Umbral”, in collaboration with CAB Patagonia, MAC Forestal, Santiago, Chile

2021 Videofenster, Ehrenfeld neighbourhood – public space video projections, Cologne, Germany

2021 Sublimeless, Embassy of Colombia and Chile collaboration, Washington, USA

2021 NordArt, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf, Germany 

2021 Temporary existence, Whaaaaats Art Fair – Tamtam Art, Taipei, Taiwan

2021 First Friday, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany 

 

2020 Reactivando Videografías, Cooperación Española y Real Academia de España www.reactivandovideografias.com 

2020 Chilean Conexión, Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2020 Espacios Transitorios, Litoral/public space, Santiago, Chile

2020 The People’s Revolt, Maysles Documentary Center, New York, USA

2020 The People’s Revolt, Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA

 

2019 Print Screen Festival, Holon Cinematheque, Holon, Israel

2019 Media/Life out of Balance, Tianchi Theater of Tainan Art Museum II, Tainan, Taiwan

2019 An Archive of your Future, Festival der unabhängigen Lesereihen, Z-Bau, Nuremberg, Germany

2019 Programa Eclipse, Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile

2019 You are here. Arbeiten aus der Sammlung Peters-Messer, Werkschauhalle, Leipzig, Germany

2019 The Return of the Westpol, Westpol, Leipzig, Germany

2019 La Mirada es un Atentado, publication realease and installation by Nicolás Rupcich, Catalina Rupcich and Editorial Otra Sinceridad, Local Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile

 

2018 Macro Asilo, Screening of Der Tod der Sonne, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy

2018 Five Trillion Times, 2nd international printmaking Triennal, Art Museum of CAA, Hangzhou, China

2018 Passage, residency & exhibition, la Maison de Associations, Bergerac, France

2018 Dobles de Proximidad: Videos, Galería Barrios Bajos, Valdivia, Chile

2018 Dobles de Proximidad, Contemporary Art Museum, Santiago, Chile

2018 BANK, BLANK (48 Stunden Neukoelln), Alte Sparkasse, Berlin, Germany

2018 WIN/WIN — Die Ankäufe der Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Leipzig, Germany

2018 Video Sur, Latin American video art at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2018 RE/PUBLIC – Public spaces in digital times, Polit-Forum-Bern, Bern, Switzerland

2018 Los Nuevos Sensibles, Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile

2018 INTERVENTION, Subte centro de exposiciones, Montevideo, Uruguay

2018 No middle, no end, LAZNIA Center for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk, Poland

2018 2018 FACES, collaboration with Yvon Chabrowski, Dorothée Nilsson Gallery, Berlin, Germany

 

2017 ELOY [Audiovisual concert directed by Francisco C. Goldschmidt], Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, Germany

2017 Lost Dimension video program at AMIFF Festival, Harstad Kino, Harstad, Norway

2017 In Your Dreams I Am A Landscape, Casa del Cinema Videoteca Pasinetti, Venice, Italy

2017 Collage I – Methode, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria

2017 Pacific Standard Time LA/LA: Video Art in Latin America, LAXART, L.A., USA

2017 Constitución 1989, D21, Leipzig, Germany

2017 Ombre Lunghe Festival, Ateliersi, Bologna, Italy

2017 Sobrexposición, EAC, Montevideo, Uruguay

2017 Athens Digital Arts Festival, Historic center, Athens, Greece

2017 Open the Narrative, Werkschau Halle – Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany

2017 Post 90, Museum of Contemporary art, Santiago, Chile

2017 CINEMA per L’ARTE, CUBO Centro Unipol, Bologna, Italy

2017 Elsewhere is Nowhere, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria

 

2016 Elsewhere is Nowhere, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

2016 El Cuerpo como Campo de Subversión, Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Oaxaca, Mexico

2016 Una Palabra Llamada Imagen, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Cerrillos, Santiago, Chile

2016 BLITZ International Performing Arts Festival. SURPRISES, Experimental Cinema Corner – IN YOUR DREAMS I AM A LANDSCAPE, Rovinj, Croatia

2016 Appropriation is not Appreciation, CITY GALLERY des Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

2016 Art Speaks Out, Ikono.tv video program part of the exhibition “Till it`s Gone”, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey

2016 Neue Neue Schule, Kunstverein jahnstraße – Schauraum, Braunschweig, Germany

 

2015 The Wrong – New Digital Art Biennale, Sentir – Pavillion / Taller Monstruo, Santiago, Chile

2015 FIVA Festival, Biblioteca Nacional – Museo del Libro y de la Lengua, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2015 PARASPACE, MINY Media Center by IFP, New York, USA

2015 La tierra caerá con su sol en la noche eterna, Galería Artespacio, Santiago, Chile

2015 FILE Festival, Fiesp Cultural Center – Ruth Cardoso, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2015 Interscreening Festival, Westpol A.I.R. Space, Leipzig, Germany

2015 Del REMAKE al RESTAGE, Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile

 

2014 Ars Electronica Festival, Best of Animation/Film/VFX, Linz, Austria

2014 Territorios Fronterizos, Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile

2014 Dis-Appearance [2], Westpol A.I.R. Space, Leipzig, Germany

2014 Visiones Laterales, Centro Cultural Palacio de la Moneda, Santiago, Chile

2014 Algo es Algo, Galería Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile

2014 V_kunst, Galerie Maurer, Frankfurt, Germany

2014 Of Landscape, Reverse, New York, USA

2014 ¿Mar para Bolivia?, Centro Cultural Simon I. Patiño, Santa Cruz, Bolivia

2014 Die Barbaren Kommen, Group video show, Kunstraum Liška, Leipzig, Germany

2014 Spread Spectrum, Collaboration with Rodrigo Araya, Kunstraum Liška, Leipzig, Germany

 

2013 Cynetart, Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden, Germany

2013 11th Media Arts Biennale, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile

2013 Cultural Clash Nomade, Mobiles Ausstellung Projekt, Germany, France, Switzerland

2013 I SEE, International video art festival, Chongqing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Beijing, China

2013 Radiaciones de Fondo, Galería Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile

2013 Área / Procesos, Factoría Italia, Santiago, Chile

2013 MICH, Casa de las Américas, La Havana, Cuba


 

2012 Trienal 2, Galería Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile

2012 Museo de la Resistencia, Galería Daniel Morón, Urgent Paradise, Lausanne, Switzerland

2012 Contaminaciones Contemporáneas, MAC, Santiago, Chile

2012 Grenner on the Other Side, Kallio Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland

2012 Grenner on the Other Side, Titanik Gallery, Turku, Finland

2012 Súbita Política, Fundación Migliorisi, Asunción, Paraguay

2012 Festival OODAAQ Dʼimages Poétiques, Rennes, France

2012 Mit Ohne, Urgent Paradise, Lausanne, Switzerland

2012 Transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

 

2011 Imagen Local, MAC Quinta Normal, Santiago, Chile

2011 28th Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Video Fest, Kassel, Germany

2011 Desviados, public space intervention, Santiago, Chile

2011 Tenebrae, La Oscuridad, CeAC, Santiago, Chile

2011 Dislocación, Juraplatz, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland

 

2010 Transcripción Local, Palacio Astoreca, Iquique, Chile

2010 Contaminaciones Contemporáneas, MAC USP, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2010 Dislocación, Ciclo de Cine – ¿Qué fabrican las imágenes?, Santiago, Chile

2010 Extraterritory – Quien, Tel Aviv, Israel

2010 Colectiva Die Ecke, Die Ecke gallery, Barcelona, Spain

2010 Chili, l’envers du décor, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France

 

2009 7º Biennale of the Mercosur – Projetáveis, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2009 Twist and shoot, Puro Chile, Soho, New York, USA

2009 Trienal de Chile – El Terremoto de Chile, MAC Quinta Normal, Santiago, Chile

2009 ChACO, contemporary art fair, Santiago, Chile

2009 ArteBA, contemporary art fair, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2009 Beijing Biennale 798, Beijing, China

2009 Cohortes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile

 

2008 La Otra Contemporary art, Bogotá, Colombia

2007 Video Festival Mini-Max, Apetit Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2007 Chile Channel, Matucana 100, Concreta gallery, Santiago, Chile

2005 None, Military Historical Museum, Santiago, Chile

2004 Suple, Pedro de Valdivia 2454, Santiago, Chile.

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Grants and Awards:

2022 – STIFTUNG KUNSTFONDS – NEUSTARTplus_Stipendium, Bonn, Germany

2021 – INITIAL special grant programme, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany

2020 – Dresden State Chancellery funding within the frame of the campaign “So geht sächsisch – Kultur Digital” 

2019 – Ca.Sa. Award 2019 finalist, Santiago, Chile

2019 – Niio x Asia Art Awards for new media art, 3th place. 

2015 – 2nd Prize FIVA international video festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2014 – 1° Place in Photography Prize, granted by Galería Patricia Ready / Nescafé. Santigo, Chile

2012 – 2015 DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst / German Academic Exchange Service Scholarship

2011 – Torres Del Paine Award, granted by Galería José Daniel Morón, at “Morón Awards”

2006 – 1° Place in Digital Art Prize, granted by revista Paula and UDD. Santiago, Chile

2006 – Fondart scholarship (granted by the Chilean government)

2004 – 2005 Fondart scholarship (granted by the Chilean government)

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Publications:

2023 Archipiélago, exhibition catalogue, Galería Gabriela Mistral, Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio ISBN 978-956-352-425-3

2020 Pedagogy and Social Critique in the Era of Fragmentation: A Collective Writing Experiment as cadavres exquis

2020 Esos Grandes Detalles, Enrique Matthey, Extensión y publicaciones departamento de Artes Visuales, Universidad de Chile

2018 La Mirada es un Atentado, photo & poetry book by Nicolás & Catalina Rupcich, published by Otra sinceridad

2017 Visiones Laterales, Claudia Aravena & Ivan Pinto (Experimental Cinema and Video art in Chile 1957-2017), ISBN: 9569843411

2016 Rotunda Magazine interview

2016 Der Tod der Sonne, Die Ecke Arte Contemporáneo, ISBN: 978-956-9516-13-9

2014 Algo es Algo, Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes [exhibition catalog] ISBN: 978-956-352-107-8

2013 Imagen Criolla, by Nathalie Goffard, ISBN: 978-956-8415-59-4

2013 T.A. Tecnologías Aplicadas, by Daniel Cruz, ISBN: 978-956-353-118-3

2011 Landscapes of Contemporary Creation, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, by Fabrice Bousteau ISBN-13: 978-2330000615

2010 Chili, L’envers du décor. [exhibition catalog]

2009 Grito e Escuta [7ª BIENAL DO MERCOSUL], ISBN: 978-85-9950-118-4

2009 Trienal de Chile, by Ticio Escobar, [exhibition catalog] ISBN: 9789568926014]

2009 Constellations, Beijing Bienale 798. [exhibition catalog]

2009 Younger Than Jesus: Artist Directory, published by Phaidon Press and New Museum, ISBN-13: 9780714849812 link

2009Through the Eyes of New Photographers, by Artnow International Corporation, ISBN-13: 978-0982092118

2009 Nature v/s Culture by Public Library, independent Chilean publishing house

 

Studies:

2013 – 2015 Meisterschüler bei Prof. D’Urbano, Intermedia Klasse, HGB Leipzig, Germany

2004 – 2005 Magister in Visual Arts, Universidad de Chile. Santiago, Chile

1999 – 2003 Fine Arts Graduate, Universidad Finis Terrae. Santiago, Chile.

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Curatorial:

2017 Open the Narrative, Werkschau Halle – Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany

2015 Entre el Ocaso y el Colapso (Between Dusk and Collapse), video program at Centro de Arte Digital Juan Downey, Puerto Varas, Chile

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