Nicolás Rupcich
(b.1981) Santiago de Chile.
Lives and works in Berlin.
info[at]nicolasrupcich.com
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Solo/Duo exhibitions:
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 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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