juan.gugger@gmail.com
Born in Dean Funes, Córdoba, Argentina (1986).
Education
2016 Postgraduate diploma, Torcuato Di Tella University, Art Department, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2012 Postgraduate diploma, Centro de Investigaciones Artísticas (Center for Artistic Investigations), START Foundation, Latin American Council of Social Sciences, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2006-2011 BFA, National University of Córdoba, Arts Faculty, Visual Arts Department.
Selected solo and duo exhibitions
2024 The Watermill Center, New York, U.S. (upcoming)
2024 Le Jour le Plus Long, Nuit sans Fin. Cometa, Paris, France.
2023 Sens Unique. Galerie Gardette, Paris, France.
2023 Point de Fusion. with Xolo Cuintle, Poush, Aubervilliers, France.
2023 Cyclo. Espacio 34_35, Palacio Barolo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2021 Monuments from a Liquid Past. Plateforme, Paris, France (with Constanza Piaggio).
2021 Ominod. More Projects, Paris, France (with Alison Blumenthal).
2020 All Rivers the River III. KAMC, Yokohama, Japan.
2019 Deck VII | Night Sweats. Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (solo).
2018 Vice Versa, Soleil Double. at Julio, Paris, France (with Néphéli Barbas).
2018 Todo lo desvanecido ha sedimentado en las superficies. NN Galería, La Plata, Argentina (solo).
2017 Humidité. at CheLA, Buenos Aires, Argentina (with Néphéli Barbas).
2017 Satélites de Satélites. at Panal 361, Buenos Aires, Argentina (with Néphéli Barbas).
2016 Ver esta oscuridad (See that darkness) at El Gran Vidrio Gallery, Córdoba, Argentina (with Susana Gamarra and Lihuel Gonzalez).
2014 La Actualidad es la Pausa Intercrónica en la que Nada Sucede (Actuality is the Interchronic Pause When Nothing is Happening), at Historic Old Town of Córdoba, Argentina (solo).
2013 Intercoat, at Contemporary Art Space, Montevideo, Uruguay (solo).
Disco (Disc), EAC, Montevideo, Uruguay (solo)
2011 Sistemas, Pinturas y Procesos (Sistems, Paintings and Processes), at CePIA (Center of Investigation and Development in Arts) Córdoba, Argentina (solo).
2011 Como explicar el mundo administrado a un conejo vivo (How to Explain The“Managed World” to a Living Rabbit), at Galerías Efímeras, Córdoba, Argentina (solo).
Residencies
2022-2024 Poush Manifesto, Aubervilliers, France.
2022 Villa Belleville, Paris, France.
2022 La Folie Barbizon, Barbizon, France.
2021-2022 Le Consulat Voltaire, Paris, France.
2021 RARO residency, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2020 Koganecho Bazaar 2020, Yokohama, Japan.
2019 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.
2019 Terra Summer Residency, Terra Foundation for American Art, Giverny, France.
2018 Space in Progress, Paris, France.
2017 Flora School Program, Bogotá, Colombia.
2016 Tamaco, CheLA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2015 Centro Metropolitano de Diseño, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2015 AIR Cuatro Cuartos, Rosario, Santa Fé, Argentina.
2014 Getty Research Institute, Los Ángeles, U.S.A.
2014 AIR La Sala que Habito, Córdoba, Argentina
2013 Sala taller III EAC, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2012 Centro de Investigaciones Artísticas, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Awards, fellowships & nominations
2020 Azcuy Prize (finalist), Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2020 Koganecho Area Management Center Commision, Yokohama, Japan.
2020 69e édition Jeune Création, Fondation Fiminco, Paris, France.
2019 Terra Residency Fellowship, Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, U.S.A.
2019 Lauréat of the Cité Internationales des Arts, Paris, France.
2017 Kenneth Kemble Grand Prize (first prize), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2017 Roberts Collection Fellowship for Artists, for Escuela Flora Program in Art, Bogotá, Colombia.
2017 Education Fellowship, Fondo Nacional de las Artes (National Arts Fund).
2016 Coleccionismo Federal Fellowship for Artists, for Artists Program, Torcuato Di Tella University, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2015 Project Award, Bienale of Art in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires City Government, Argentina.
2014 Fellowship of Inter-university National Council, Beca Estímulo a Jóvenes Vocaciones Científicas, National University of Córdoba.
2014 Oxenford Collection Fellowship for Artists, for development of an investigation at Getty Research Institute, Los Ángeles, U.S.A.
2013 Financing of Ministry of Education and Culture (UY) for the AIR Sala_tallerIII, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2012 Education Grant, Center of Artistic Investigations, Fundacion Start.
2011 Roberto Jacoby forum. Center of Artistic Investigations, Fundacion Start.
2011 CCEC, Córdoba, Argentina.
2009 Itau Cultural, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Selected group exhibitions
2023-2024 Vice versa: posiciones y perspectivas de una colección. 60 años del MAMBO. Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia.
2024 Radicar Raði'kaɾ, curated by Margaux Knight, Poush, Aubervilliers, France.
2023 Del Cielo a Casa: Cultura Material Argentina, MALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Curated by Adamo Faiden, Bruno Fernández, Carolina Muzi, Verónica Rossi, Juan Ruades, Martín Wolfson and Paula Zuccotti.
2023 La vie là, curated by Marc Partouche, Galerie Wagner, Paris, France.
2023 Restes de Traces, curated by Eladio Aguilera, Tour Orion, Montreuil, France.
2022 Entre les deux, le homard des arbres, curated by Lena Peyrad, Villa Belleville, Paris, France.
2022 Unconditional Lover, curated by Adriana Blidaru and Jeanette Bisschops (Living Content), After Hours Zone, Paris, France.
2022 (H)usos del mundo, curated by Carolina Cuervo, Espacio de Arte Fundacion OSDE, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2022 Hystérie de l'éternité, curated by Andy Rankin, Le Gallo, Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
2021-22 Adentro no hay más que una Morada, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2021-22 Sueños de Rebelión Silvestre (Dreams of Wild Rebellion), Bienal Sur, Museo Palacio Dionisi, Argentina.
2021 Avalanche, curated by Andy Rankin, Pal Project, Paris, France.
2021 Désordre des Possibles, curated by Maria Ibañez Lago and Constanza Piaggio, Espace Voltaire, Paris, France.
2021 To Exhibit in Case of Emergency, curated by Andy Rankin, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.
2020 69e édition Jeune Création, Fondation Fiminco, Paris, France.
2019 Universos Cercanos, Casa Nacional del Bicentenario, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2019 La Marca Registrada: Arte Argentino, CCK, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2019 Iteraciones sobre lo no mismo, MACBA, Museo de Arte contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2018 A Group of People Walking Through the Space, Special Projects, Untitled Art Fair, Miami, U.S.
2018 Premio Itaú 2018, at Casa Nacional del Bicentenario, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2017 La casita, Bogotá, Colombia.
2017 Open Studios Escuela Flora, Bogotá, Colombia.
2016, 2017, 2018 National Salon of Rosario, Santa Fé, Argentina.
2016 La cosa soy yo (The Thing is Me), Torcuato Di Tella University, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2016 Casa Tomada (House Taken Over), Bicentenary National House, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2016 Open Studio #11, BSM Art Building, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2016 Opera Prima, Bicentenary National House, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2015 IV Biennale of Art in Buenos Aires, CheLA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2015 Modelos de Intercambio Temporarios (Temporary Exchange Models), Museo de la memoria Haroldo Conti, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2015 En el calor de la frontera (In the Heat of the Border), at MuMu Museum, Córdoba Argentina
2014 Linde, cidade especular (Edge, Specular City) Museu de Arte Contemporânea do RS – MACRS, Porto Alegre, Brasil.
2014 Colección (Collection), Un Muro Arte Contemporáneo, La Rioja, Argentina.
2014 Muva, Monserrat Castle, Unquillo, Córdoba (Curated by Romina Castiñeira).
2013 Espacios Parasitados (Parasitized spaces), Fine Arts Pavilion – UCA, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Curated by Rodrigo Alonso)
2012-2013 Proyecto A Prize, at ProyectoA Gallery. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2012 Final, at Habla Contemporáneo Gallery. Córdoba, Argentina.
2012 Consideraciones Móviles D, at Genaro Perez Fine Arts Museum, Córdoba, Argentina.
2012 SCDFIII Rojas Fest Video Festival, at Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2012 Progetto Umiditá 4.0 | Autenticity and Actuality of Art | Rotondus - 3 Rounded Acumulations | BANQUETE About Actuality and Autenticity of the Artworks According the Aesthetic Theory (T.W. Adorno) at CePIA (Center of Investigation and Development In Arts), Córdoba, Argentina.
2012 Google & Mozilla 1.0 - La Multisectorial Invisible, Petrobras Art Prize, ArteBA. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2011-2012 Proyecto A Prize, in ProyectoA gallery. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2011 Aplastar la utilidad (Crushing the Usefulness), in National Founding for Arts. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2011 FIVA International Video-art Festival, INCAA Space, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2010-2011 Sinestesia, un cruce entre la materia y los sentidos (Synesthesia, a cross between matter and senses), at Itau Cultural Space. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2010 Proyecto Delivery (Delivery Project), at National Founding for Arts. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2010 Progetto Umiditá 3.0 / Le Figure e le Icone + Inventario / Reactivation Laboratory, at CePIA. Córdoba, Argentina.
2010 Co-existence Project Córdoba-Miami, in Americans Art Gallery. Miami, Florida, US
2009 Simbiosis Semántica (Semantic Symbiosis), at Emilo Caraffa Museum. Córdoba, Argentina.
Selected press/reviews
2020 Monuments from a liquid past (Interview), by Relieve Contemporáneo, Argentina.
2018 La cartografía y otras narraciones abiertas (Cartography and other open narratives), by Tania Puente, Revista Otra Parte (magazine)
2016 El lenguaje oculto de las imágenes (The hidden language of images), by Javier Mattio, Suplemento VOS (newspaper).
2015 Esto no es una Escultura (This is not a sculpture), by Verónica Molas, Suplemento VOS (newspaper).
2015 Arte. El Semillero (Art. The seedbed), by Celina Chatruc, La Nación (newspaper).
2014 Colección en Un Muro (Collection at Un Muro), by Oscar Rojas, El Independiente (newspaper)
2014 Castillo Encantado (Enchanted castle), by Verónica Molas, Suplemento VOS (newspaper)
2013 El Espacio Cuestionado (The space into question) by Laura Casanovas, Revista Ñ (magazine).
2013 Espacios Parasitados (Parasitized spaces), by María Paula Zacharías, La Nación (magazine).
2013 La Sensibilidad Diversificada (Diversified sensitivity), by Albino Diequez Videla, La Prensa (newspaper).
2013 Cuando el Arte es Parasitario (When Art is Parasitic), by Fabián Legenblik, Página 12 (newspaper).
2013 El Arte en una Simbiosis Perdurable (Art in a Lasting Symbiosis) by Laura Isola, Diario Perfil (newspaper).
2013 Sin domicilo fijo (No Fixed Abode), by Verónica Molas, Suplemento VOS (newspaper).
2012 Formas de la crítica de arte en Córdoba (Forms of Art Criticism in Cordoba), by Eva Finquelstein, Radio13.
2011 Entrevistas a artistas: Juan Gugger, (Artists Interviews: Juan Gugger) by Eva Finquelstein, Radio13.
2009 Operativo comando en el museo, (Commando Operation in the Museum) by Demian Orosz, suplemento Cultura, La Voz del Interior (newspaper).
2009 Apropiación del espacio: “Simbiosis Semántica” (Space Appropriation: “Semantic Symbiosis”), by Pamela Antón, Apartado de Cultura, Cba Noticias (newspaper).
Bibliography (selection)
2023 Del Cielo a Casa. Conexiones e Intermitencias en la Cultura Material Argentina. Catalogue. MALBA, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires. ISBN 978-987-48521-9-9
2022 Adentro no hay más que una Morada. Catalogue. Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. ISBN 978-987-673-615-2
2022 Nosotras Cautivas. Cadavres Exquisitos Argentina France. Buenos Aires, Argentina. ISBN 978-987-88-7041-0
2018 Cuatro evidencias en la superficie (Four evidences on the surface). Catalogue for the exhibition Todo lo desvanecido ha sedimentado en las superficies (All that is melted solidifies on surfaces). Clarisa Appendino.
2017 "La Sala que Habito > 2013-2017" Ed. Carla Barbero. Editorial de la Municipalidad de Córdoba. Argentina. ISBN 978-987-9129-63-0
2015 Montaje Ejemplar: Obra de Juan Gugger (Exemplary Montage: the work of Juan Gugger), in Montajes, Arte, Filosofía y Psicoanálisis en la Encrucijada (Montages, Art, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis at the Crossroads) Fernando Fraenza, Luis García y Pablo Moyano (Ed.) ISBN: 978-987-591-639-5
2011 Sobre un Hecho Artístico/Social: Apuntes Respecto de una Tensión (About an Artistic/Social Fact: Notes Respect to a Tension), in Pintura y Aledaños, Hacia una Crítica de la Institución Arte (Painting and its Environs, Towards a Critique of the Institution of Art) Manuel Molina et alt. ISBN: 978-987-591-272-4
2011 Hasta la Victoria… Donda! (Until the Victory… Donda!) Juan Gugger. Sauna (art magazine)
2009 El lugar de la idealidad e idoneidad de la obra y del comentario de arte contemporáneo (The Place of the Ideal and Suitability of the Work and Commentary on Contemporary Art) Juan Gugger. Comunidadoffline (peer-reviewed academic journal)