Jorge Macchi
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1963. Studied art at the National School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires. Lives and works in Buenos Aires.
Solo exhibitions (selection)
Diáspora, Jorge Macchi, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy.
Der Zauberberg, Quartz Studio, Torino, Italy.
Mikrokosmos, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich.
Threshold, Alexander and Bonin, NY.
Perspectiva, CA2M, Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, Madrid. Curated by Agustín Pérez Rubio.
The Book of Hours, curated by Philippe Van Cauteren, Deinze.
Perspectiva, curated by Agustín Perez Rubio, MALBA (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires), MNBA ( Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes) and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires.
Spectrum (Choix d' oeuvres 1992-2014), curated by Philippe Cyroulnik, Montbéliard, France.
Prestidigitador, curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina, MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, DF, Mexico.
Container, MAMBA, Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Container, curated by Fanni Fetzer, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland.
Music Stand Still, SMAK, the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium.
Rendez vous, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy.
10:51, Kunstlerhaus Bremen, Germany.
Last minute, in collaboration with Edgardo Rudnitzky, Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Anatomia da melancolia, CGAC, Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
The singers' room, in collaboration with Edgardo Rudnitzky, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy.
Jorge Macchi, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Gallery Night , Galería Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The anathomy of melancholy, Museo Blanton , Austin, USA.
Due volte nello stesso fiume, Galería Continua, San Gimignano, Italy.
Time machine, Galeria Kilchmann Martin, México DF, Mexico.
Still song, Peter Kilchmann Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland.
Doppelgänger, Casa encendida, Madrid, Spain.
Doppelgänger, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
La Ascensión, in collaboration with Edgardo Rudnitzky, Argentine Pavilion at the Venice Biennial , Palazzo Palagraziussi (Antico Oratorio San Filippo Neri), Venice, Italy.
Galería Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
ENAD, site Aubusson, France.
Fuegos de artificio, Mirta de Mare Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Nocturno, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Música Incidental, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Evidencias circunstanciales, Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The wandering golfer, Museum of Contemporary Art of Antwerp, MUHKA, Belgium.
The killing tear, with Miguel Rothschild, Jorge Alyskewycz Gallery, Paris, France.
Group exhibitions (selection)
In Prison. Musée de Confluences, Lyon, France.
Copy, Translate, Repeat: Contemporary Works from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection. Curated by Harper Montgomery
El mundo cabe en una obra, Bienalsur, Memorial de América Latina, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Curated by Jimena Ferreiro.
Doubles, Dobros, Pliegues, Pares, Twins, Mitades, The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas. Curated by Rodrigo Moura.
Kathmandu Triennale, Kathmandu, Nepal. Curated by Phillipe Van Cauteren.
The Queen Falls, OMR Gallery, Mexico. Curated by Anissa Touati and Marc Olivier Wahler.
Unfinished, Thoughts Left Visible and Nasreen Mohamedi, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Now! Biennial of the Americas, Denver, USA.
Eppur si muove - Art and technique, MUDAM, Luxemburg.
My Buenos Aires, curated by Albertine de Galbert and Paula Aisemberg, Maison Rouge, Paris, France.
BP15, Argentine Biennial of Performance, Centro Cultural Kirchner (CCK), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
20 Years of Art from Latin America, University of Essex, England.
In situ - Art in Public Space , organized by Secretaría de Cultura de la Nación, Bariloche, Argentina.
Daros Latinamerica Collection, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland.
The Call of Destiny, LIMAC, Museum of Contemporary Art of Lima, Peru.
Latin America, 1963-2013 , Fondation Cartier for Contemporary Art, Paris, France.
Saber Desconocer, 43 (inter) National Salon of Artists, curated by Mariángela Méndez Prenke, Oscar Roldán Alzate, Florencia Malbrán, Rodrigo Moura and Javier Mejía, Medellin, Colombia.
Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Switzerland.
A possibility of escape, curated by Agustín Perez Rubio, EACC, Espai d'art contemporani de Castelló , Spain.
Slow Burn, An index of possibilities, Fundament Foundation, Tillburg, The Netherland.
Brigdes and borders, curated by Sigismond de Vajay, PCdV, Cultural Park of Valparaiso, Chile.
Art and the city, Zurich, Switzerland.
Facing Walls, Opening Windows, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China.
7º Biennial of Liverpool, curated by Lorenzo Fusi, Liverpool, England.
18º Biennial of Sydney , All our relations, curated by Catherine de Zegher and Gerald Mc Master, Sydney, Australia.
A house full of music. Strategies in Music and Art 1912-2012, curated by Ralf Beil, Mathildenhöhe Institute, Darmstadt, Germany.
Air de Lyon, curated by Victoria Noorthoorn Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Lines of thought , curated by Ziba Ardanal, Parasol, Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, England.
Los impolíticos, curated by Laura Bardier, EAC, Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Notations : under the influence of John Cage, curated by Joachim Pissarro, Bibi Calderaro and Julio Grinblatt, Hunter College, The City University of New York, New York, USA.
Foreigners, MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Ciudad de México, Mexico.
Under Construction. Teixeira de Freitas Collection, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, TEA, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Spain.
A terrible beauty is born, 11º Lyon Biennial , curated by Victoria Noorthorn, France.
Untitled (12th ?stanbul Biennial), curated by Adriano Pedrosa and Jeff Hoffmann, Turkey.
The Peripatetic School : Itinerant drawing from Latin America, curated by Tanya Barson,The Drawing Room, London, England.
Um Outro Lugar, MAM - Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil.
El Rayo verde, curated by Solana Molina Viamonte, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Radical Shift, curated by Heike Van den Valentyn , Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen, Cologne, Germany.
All of this and nothing, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA.
Unresolved Circumstances: Video Art from Latin America, MOLAA, Museum of Latin American Art, California, USA.
Of Bridges and Borders, curated by Sigismond de Vajay, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Echoes, curated by Jean-Paul Felley y Olivier Kaese, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France.
It´s the End of the World as We Know it/La fin du monde tel que nous le connaissons, curated by Bettina Steinbrügge, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse Centre d'Art Contemporain, Mulhouse, France.
Yesterday will be better, Aagauer Kunsthaus, Switzerland.
From the past to the present - Migrations , Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
Freeze, curated by Caroline Bøge, NILS STÆRK Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Everything is out there, curated by Rosa Lleó and Zaida Trallero, La casa encendida, Madrid, Spain.
Model Kits, Thinking Latin America from MUSAC Collection ,Musac, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon, Spain.
4ta Trienal de Auckland, Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon, curated by Natasha Conland, Auckland Triennial, Auckland, New Zeland.
Moby-Dick, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA.
Mamoygua opá mamo pupé, 31 º Panorama del arte Brasilenia, MAM Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Los impolíticos , PAN, Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Naple, Italy.
Escuelismo - Arte argentino de los 90, MALBA Colección Costantini, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Deux pièces, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland.
Private Universes: Media Works, curated by María del Corral, Dallas Museum of Art, USA.
Extranjerías, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, curated by Andrea Giunta, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Places, Instituto Cultural Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil.
Points of View, Instituto Cultural Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil.
Yokohama Triennale, Japan.
Cancelled, Erased and Removed, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA.
Face to Face - The Daros Collections, Zurich, Switzerland.
Shake befote use, curated by Enrique Martinez Goikoetxea Artium de Álava, Centro - Museo Vasco de arte contemporáneo ,Victoria, Spain.
Limite Sud, Municipal Exhibition Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Order.Light.Desire, An exhibition of contemporary drawings, IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Irland.
Signes d?existence, MAC Santiago de Chile, Chile.
Arte, deshonra y violencia en el contexto Iberoamericano, curated by Patricia Betancur and Luis Camnitzer, CCE Centro Cultural de España, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Projections, Le 10 neuf, Centre régional d'art contemporain, Montbeliard, France.
¡Viva la Muerte!, Kunst und Tod in Lateinamerika , Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria.
Unsung, curated by Dan Cameron, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, USA.
Contrabando, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Cruce de miradas, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Palacio de Bellas Artes, City of Mexico, Mexico.
Wall Drawings, Albion Gallery, London, England.
Espacio interior, Sala Alcalá, Madrid, Spain.
Romance, Galería Cristina Guerra, Lisboa, Portugal.
Farsites, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, San Diego-Tijuana, USA.
Praga Biennial, Czech Republic.
Artists in residence, Artspace San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Réplica, with Cristian Roman , curated by Jennfer Teets, MUCA Roma, City of México, Mexico.
Entre el silencio y la violencia, Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Treble, Sculpture Center, curated by Regine Basha, New York, USA.
El secreto , CCEBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
8º Istambul Biennial, Turkey.
4º Bienal del Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
A parasite showing, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Between silence and violence, argentine contemporary art , Sotheby's, New York, USA.
25 Hs, Video International exhibition , Barcelona, Spain.
Reality check, Hengevoss-Dürkop Gallery, Hamburg, Germany.
Palabras perdidas, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
12 views, The Drawing Center, New York, USA.
Mouvements immobiles, Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
7º La Habana Biennial, Cuba.
2º Sound Art Festival Humor y aliento, Galería Acceso A, City of Mexico, Mexico.
The cutting edge, Arco Fair, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Madrid, Spain.
Fotografía Argentina, Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fotografía Argentina Contemporánea, Museum of Contemporary Art of Bahía Blanca, Bahía Blanca, Argentina.
Collection of Latin-American Art of the University of Essex, Casa de América, Madrid, Spain.
Sight-seeing, Schloss Pluschow, Germany.
Otra fotografía, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Autorretratos-autobiografías, Galería Centoira, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
En tránsito, Fundación Banco Patricios, Buenos Aires
En tránsito, Museo del Chopo, City of Mexico, Mexico.
70, 80, 90, National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Buenos Aires Video 7, Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Cairo Biennial participation, CAYC, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Installations, Salas Nacionales de Cultura, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Deutsche Bank Prize, Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Oie como va, exhibition curated by Mario Flecha at Reconquista 1030, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fortabat Biennal, Recoleta Cultural Centre, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Video Fest Berlin '93, Germany.
Buenos Aires Video 5, Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Konex Biennale, Salas Nacionales de Cultura, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
L'atelier de Buenos Aires, CREDAC, Ivry-Sur-Seine, France.
The ?80s at the MAM, Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
A vision of argentinian contemporary art (1940-1990), Patio Bullrich, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fortabat Biennal, Recoleta Cultural Centre, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Menor o igual que 30, Fundación Banco Patricios, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Cuenca Biennal, Cuenca, Ecuador.
Mitos y Ritos en los ?80s, Centoira Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fundación Banco de Crédito Argentino Prize for young sculptors '89, Badii Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Eureka, Castagino Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
X Group, Castagnino Museum, Rosario; Sivori Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Grants and Residences (selection)
Subsidy for Artistic Creation , Fundación Antorchas, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Public collections (selection)
Tate Modern, London, England.
MOMA, New York, USA.
MUSAC, Museum of Contemporary Art, Leon, Spain.
CGAC, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
CA2M, Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, Madrid, Spain.
Fundación Banco de la Nación Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Museum of Modern Art Buenos Aires, Argentina.
MACRO , Museum of Contemporary Art of Rosario, Argentina.
MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium.
Museo del Barrio, New York, USA.
SMAK, the municipal Museum of Contemporary Art of Ghent, Belgium.
Fundación Arco, Spain.
Collection of the Province of Hainaut, Belgium.
MALI, Museum of Art, Lima, Perú.
Musee d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain de Nice (MAMAC), France.
Museum of Contemporary Art of Vigo, Spain.