Pedro Gómez-Egaña
PEDRO GÓMEZ-EGAÑA
b.1976, Colombia
Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark and Bergen, Norway
Since 2013 Professor of sculpture and installation, University of Bergen,
Faculty of Art, Music and Design, Bergen, Norway
2008–2012 Practice-Based PhD in Visual Arts, Norwegian Artistic Research
Fellowship, Bergen National Academy of Arts, Norway
2006–2008 MFA Bergen National Academy of Arts, Norway
1998–2001 BA Composition and Performance Art, Goldsmiths College,
London,UK
1995–1998 Music Theory and Performance, University of Northern Colorado,
Colorado, USA
1994–1995 Music Theory and Performance, Missouri Southern State
University, Missouri, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2018 Sleipnir, Yarat Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan
ArtBo 2018, Zilberman Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia (Mesoamérica al arte
Prize)
The Common Ancestor, Zilberman Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017 Pleasure, Entrée, Bergen, Norway
2015 The History of Velocity, Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger and Hordaland
Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway
2013 La Carroza de Greenwich, Galeria Casas Riegner, Bogotá, Colombia
The Tristan Chord, Música, Galeria Casas Riegner, Bogotá, Colombia
2011 En Abyme, Knipsu, Bergen, Norway
2010 The Destruction of One Someone (with Milena Bonilla), Gallery Volt,
Bergen, Norway
2009 Campo de Fuerzas, Torre de los Vientos, Mexico City, Mexico
Might Arrives, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway
2006 Local-Lokaal-Local, 66 East, Centre for Urban Culture, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
2005 in-eye i: atlas (director, research sessions, performance) Teatro Colón,
Teatro Jorge E. Gaitán, Bogotá, Colombia
Ortega (stage composition, sound and movement), Teatro Delia Zapata,
Bogotá, Colombia
2004 in-eye i: traza (director, performance), Goldsmiths College,
London,UK
in-eye i: en oir (director, research sessions, performance), Teatro Colón,
Bogotá, Colombia
2003 Fonórides, Galería Valenzuela y Klenner, Bogotá, Colombia
Cunícula, Teatro Colón, Bogotá, Colombia
2002 Implica, Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, Colombia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2017 The Moon Will Teach You, Contour Biennial, Mechelen, Belgium
Observatorio de la Cordillera, Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellín,
Colombia
The Great Learning, Sculpture Biennial, Oslo, Norway
Domain of Things, a good neighbour - 15. Istanbul Biennial, curators:
Elmgreen&Dragset, Istanbul, Turkey
2016 Aphelion, Kochi-Muziris Biennial, Kochi, India
Mitre Marrows, Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015 The Great Learning, Theorem. You Simply Destroy the Image I Always
Had Of Myself, Mana Contemporary, New Jersey, USA
The Vimana Kiranaavarta Observatory, Colomboscope Biennial, Colombo,
Sri Lanka
The Kinetoscope of Time, Oslo International Theatre Festival,
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
2014 Mitre Marrows, Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium
Mitre Marrows (performance), New York Art Book Fair, MOMA PS1, New
York, USA
The Future of Helen Chatelain (by invitation of Vlatka Horvat), Volt,
Bergen, Norway
2013 Object to be Destroyed, Performa 13 Biennial, New York, USA
The Common Ancestor, Art in Odd Places, Performance Festival, New
York, USA
The Chariot of Greenwich, Monday Begins on Saturday, Bergen Triennial,
Bergen, Norway
Sous nos Yeaux Part I, Kunsthall, Mulhouse, France
Anytime Now, Sous nos Yeux Part II, Kunsthall, Mulhouse, France
The Maelstrom Observatory, Lofoten International Art Festival, Svolvær,
Norway
2012 Anytime Now, Tegne Biennial, Tegnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway
The Tristan Chord, Machine Worries Machine Hearts, Blank Projects, Cape
Town, South Africa
Fire and Water and Land and Water, Museum of Longing and Failure,
Krakow, Poland
2011 The Destruction of One Someone (with Milena Bonilla), Kunstnernes Hus
W17, Oslo, Norway
The Exercise of Power, Never or Now Performance Festival, Bergen,
Norway
2010 Domain of Things and Other Histories, Oktoberdans Festival, Bergen,
Norway
3 Parts of Someone Missing (video), Vociferous, Diapason Gallery,
New York, USA
The Enchanted, BGO1 Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway
Field and Force, Proposal for Articulating Works and Places, Palazzo Riso,
Palermo, Italy
Tell me exactly what you saw and what you think it means (performance),
Gallery 3,14, Bergen, Norway
2009 Los Panchos (with Icaro Zorbar and John Lely), Gallery Volt, Rom 8,
Bergen, Norway
Field and Force, Marrakech Biennial, Marrakech Museum of Art,
Marrakech, Morocco
The Ventricles, Entre Líneas, CCMoca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Ventricles, Asimetrías y Convergencias, Vermelho Gallery, Sao
Paulo, Brazil
Birds, Brick and Mortar International Video Art Festival, Greenfield,
MA, USA
The Enchanted, Exactitud Errante, ArtBo, Bogotá, Colombia
Birds, Lisières et Débordement, La Source de Lion, Casablanca,
Morocco
Birds, Multipistes, Meneer de Wit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2008 Birds, Amprenta Festival, CNDB (National Center of Dance), Bucharest,
Romania
Birds, Anytime Now, Le Monde Autour de Vous, Brussels Biennial,
Brussels, Belgium
Herdla International Performance Festival, Norway
Birds, Berlin Artforum, Goldrausch, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien,
Berlin, Germany
Swimming Sideways, Tomorrow’s Parties, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen,
Norway
2007 Música, Propio y Ajeno, Galeria Nutibara, Medellin, Colombia
Música, Video Art from Colombia, Boston Film Society, Boston, USA
The Ventricles, Cross Talking, Christiansands Kunstforening,
Christiansand Norway
Verhuizing, Museum Jan Cunen, Netherlands
Helicopter, Back in Track, Gallery Rekord, Oslo, Norway
2006 Helicopter, BETA conference, FACT, Liverpool, UK
Untitled, Recontre International d’art Performance Quebec, Galerie Rouje,
Quebec, Canada
BZZZZZ, Galeíra Cuarto Nivel, Bogotá, Colombia
Caminemos, 40 Salón Nacional de Artistas, Bogotá, Colombia
Música, Performance Art Cycle, Centro Colombo, Americano, Bogotá,
Colombia
2005 BMIC Cutting Edge Series, The Warehouse, London, UK
Macaurel (performance, installation), Del Otro Mundo, Convenio Andrés
Bello, Bogotá, Colombia
Clark Nova (composition/performance commissioned by New Noise
London), Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank, London, UK
2004 Caminemos, La choute, DARE DARE, Montreal, Canada
2003 Dos Mirta (instrumental composition), Convenio Andrés Bello, Bogotá,
Colombia
Ortega, Temporada Internacional de Danza, Medellín, Colombia
Fonórides, Muestra de Arte Independiente, Madrid, Spain
Mountains are Mountains (with Philipp Gehmacher), Tanz Quartier
Vienna,Austria
2002 Performance Art Week, Galería Sala de Espera, Bogotá, Colombia
2001 Telluric (performance), Chisenhale Dance Space, London, UK
Teta (performance), Festival de Danza, Almada, Portugal
Holes and Bodies (with Philipp Gehmacher), Festival Desviaciones,
Madrid, Spain
Holes and Bodies (with Philipp Gehmacher), ICA Institute Contemporary
Art, London, UK
Good Enough (with Philipp Gehmacher), Tanz Quartier, Vienna, Austria
SELECTED LECTURE PERFORMANCES AND PUBLICATIONS
2018 Economies of Attention and Sites of Exception (lecture),The Artistic and
Curatorial Thing, SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016 The Crash of George (lecture performance), Kunsthall Charlottenborg,
Copenhagen, Denmark
2014 Death and Clockwork and Mitre Marrows (lectures), Kunstnernes Hus,
Oslo, Norway
Pedro Gómez-Egaña - Mitre Marrows (publication), Dublett Publication,
ed. Hordaland Kunstsenter
2012 Los Otros and Los Dos (publication), Matera Magazine, Bogotá, Colombia
Brain Fade (lecture performance), “The Integrity of Reality” seminar,
Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway
SELECTED ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES
2018 Zilberman Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2010 Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
2009 La Residencia, Bogotá, Colombia
2007 Centrul National al Dansului, Bucharest, Hungary
2006 66East Centre for Urban Culture, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2005 New Noise, London, UK
2004 Laban Centre, City University, London, UK
2003 Tanz Quartier, Museums Quartier, Vienna, Austria
2001 Tanz Quartier, Museums Quartier, Vienna, Austria
2001 Chisenhale Dance Space, London, UK