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