Selected Biographical Information

Solo Exhibitions

• 2014: “In A Rhyhtmic Fashion”, Glyptotheca, Zagreb ,Croatia.
• 2014: “(to be titled)”, L.A.R.V.A., Guadalajara, Mexico.
• 2014: “Persiana”, CC De Garage, Mechelen, Belgium.
• 2013: “Click”, KaBe Contemporary, Miami, USA.
• 2013: “What Now?”, Isabella Czarnowska Galerie, Berlin, Germany.
• 2013: “Sunday”, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan.
• 2012: “Looking For Clues”, ltd Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA.
• 2012: “The Discrepansy Between the Pale and the Dark Zone”, Ganes Pratt, MALA Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• 2012: “After”, CAB de Burgos, Burgos, Spain.
• 2011: “Cabin Fever”, Cabin, Antwerp, Belgium.
• 2011: “Five Colors”, Editions Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• 2011: “Circa Tabac At the Wallace Collection”, curated by Ken Pratt, Wallace Collection, London, UK.
• 2010: “Undertow”, KaBe Gallery, Miami, FL, USA.
• 2010: “25°85’08” N – 80°12 ‘03””, Agency PLC at NADA Miami, Deauville Hotel, Miami, FL, USA.
• 2010: “Waterloo Station”, Peter Pilotto winter collection  2011, Fashion Week, Waterloo Station, London, UK.
• 2010: “As If”, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA.
• 2010: “Sequence #4”, Koraalberg Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.

Group Exhibitions

• 2014: “Museum to Scale 1/7”, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
• 2014: “HOW SIX MEN GOT ON IN THE WORLD”, Berlin, Germany.
• 2014: “Museum to Scale 1/7”, The Baker Museum, Artis-Naples, Florida, USA.
• 2013: “Selected Works: Carla Arocha & Stéphane Schraenen, Louis Lawler and Markus Döbeli Isabella Czarnowska Galerie, Berlin, Germany.
• 2013: “Museum to Scale 1/7”, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium.
• 2013: “Place Is the Space”, Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis Missouri, USA.
• 2013: “The Distaff Side”, The Melva Bucksbauam collection at the Granary, Sharon Connecticut, USA.
• 2013 :”CAB Burgos Collection”, El Centro de Arte Alcobendas Madrid, Spain.
• 2012: “Caraota von Moules”, with Arturo Herrera and Meyer Weisman, Künstlerhaus Bethaniën, Berlin, Germany.
• 2012: “Spectral Metropole”, curated by Ken Pratt, City Museum (Mestni Muzej), Vzigalica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• 2011: “New Art From Belgium”, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany.
• 2011: “You Never Walk Alone”, curated by Vanessa van Obberghen, Worksound, Portland, OR, USA.
• 2011: “Artefact 2011”, S.T.U.K., Leuven, Belgium.
• 2011: “New Art From Belgium”, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany.
• 2011: “Carla Arocha – Stéphane Schraenen: Framed and Vaast Colson: Screwed”, BeLa Editions, Brussels, Belgium.
• 2010: “Into the Light”, December 9-19, 2010, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium.
• 2010: “The Raw and the Cooked”, curated by Clayton Press and Gregory Linn, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, USA.
• 2010: “New Art From Belgium”, Galerie Christian Nagel, Antwerp, Belgium.
• 2010: “The State of Things”, curated by Ai Wei Wei and Luc Tuymans, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China.
• 2010: “POP-ARTPOP-ART”, NICC (New International Centre of Culture), Antwerp, Belgium.
• 2010: “Célébration”, F.R.A.C. Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Publications

• 2014: SIMON, Joan, ‘The Women’: The Distaff Side. Sharon, CT,p 104
• 2013: NEHB, Julika, ‘What Now’, Kunst, Berlin, Germany. p 6-10
• 2013: PATT, Ken, ‘Account’, What Now?, Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Distanz, Berlin, Germany. p 9-12
• 2013: MOLESWORTH, Helen, ‘Interview with Carla Arocha’, What Now?, Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Distanz, Berlin, Germany. P14-22 / MOLESWORTH, Helen, ‘Interview with Stéphane Schraenen’,  What Now?, Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Distanz, Berlin, Germany. P 24-31
• 2013: MOLON, Dominic, ‘Place is the Space: A Building, A Decade, An Exhibition’,Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, St Louis, Missouri, p 39, 41, 44-45
• 2013: KREUGER, Anders, The Collection as a Character, M HKA, Antwerp, p.69
• 2012: PRATT, Ken, ‘Global Positioning system (GPS) – Or The Bitter Tears of Caraota von Moules’: Caraota von Moules, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany.p 3-15
• 2012: (H)ART, ‘Protject of Arocha-Schraenen: Umbrellas In Olimpyc London, March, pp.21 (ill.)
• 2012: (H)ART, ‘After’ At CAB Burgos’, January, pp.15
• 2012: RICH, Sarah, ‘Afterthought’, exhibition catalogue After. CAB de Burgos,Burgos, Spain.
• 2012: RICH, Sarah, ‘Soto and You in Soto Paris and Beyond 1950-1970’, Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York, pp. 45-53

Collections

• American Express, New York NY, USA.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA.
• Benedictine University, Chicago, USA.
• British Airways Collection, O’Hare International Airport, Chicago IL, USA.
• CAB De Burgos, Burgos, Spain.
• C.I.F.O., Miami, Fl, USA.
• F.R.A.C. Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
• F.R.A.C. Bourgogne, Dijon, France.
• Fundación Banco Mercantil, Caracas, Venezuela.
• MCA, Chicago, IL, USA.
• MOMA, New York NY, USA.
• MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium.
• Nationale Bank Van België – Banque Nationale de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium.
• Stiftung Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
• Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

• Artists

Over the last years I’ve been developing a series of sculptural works that seek to investigate the layers that constitute and construct things and places. Relating directly to the physicality of the space as a point of departure. Using found objects and places that accumulate layers of information, containing what is particular from a place. The superficial skin becomes a profound path to explore and discover in each step the intersection of different experiences of time. (The historic time, material time, the time of everyday, and perhaps a more existential/psychological time that has to do with the duration of the experience.) The gesture is sculptural but without making sculpted objects; using destruction as a way of construction, allowing an engagement to a particular place and all the confluences and dimensions within. My work is site-responsive; it takes in consideration the architecture and the context of the surroundings, generating a layered outcome.

Traducido del inglés

A lo largo del tiempo he desarrollado una serie de trabajos escultóricos que buscan investigar las capas que constituyen y construyen las cosas y los lugares. Están relacionados directamente con la cualidad física del espacio como punto de partida. Usando objetos encontrados y lugares que acumulan capas de información, conteniendo las particularidades de cada lugar. La piel superficial se vuelve en un camino profundo para explorar y descubrir a cada paso el cruce de diferentes experiencias del tiempo (del tiempo histórico, tiempo material, tiempo cotidiano y quizá un tiempo más existencial y psicológico que está relacionado con la duración de la experiencia.) El gesto es escultórico pero sin realizar objetos; usando destrucción como una forma de construcción, permitiendo una interacción con un sitio particular y todas las confluencias y dimensiones del mismo. Mi obra responde al lugar y toma en consideración la arquitectura y el contexto de sus alrededores, generando un resultado con muchos niveles.

Selected Biographical Information

Education / Training

• 2001-2004: MFA, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, United States.
• 1995-1999: BFA, Los Andes University, Bogotá, Colombia.

Prizes / Fellowships

• 2012: Premio 2ºBienal de Artes Plásticas y Visuales, Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, Bogotá, Colombia.
• 2012: LARA (Latin American Roaming Art), Asiaciti Trust, Bogotá, Colombia.
• 2010: Workshop with Mona Hatoum, Fundación Marcelo Botin, Santander, Spain.
• 2008: Gran Premio MOLAA Awards, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, USA.

Solo Exhibitions

• 2014: “el tiempo lo aguanta todo“, Casas Riegner Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia.
• 2014: “Invited project“, Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia.
• 2011: “lo deshecho“, Casas Riegner Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia.
• 2006: “Traces of displaced recollection“, d.e.n. Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA.

Group Exhibitions

• 2013: “Artesur, Collective Fictions“, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.
• 2013: “Salón Nacional de Artistas“, Medellín, Colombia.
• 2013: “LARA 2012 (Latin American Roaming Art)“, NC-Arte, Bogotá, Colombia.
• 2012: “Tracing Time“, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, USA.

Collections

• West Collection, Philadelphia, USA.
• Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, USA.
• F.G.A.A., Bogotá, Colombia.

• Artists