artist
Erick Beltrán
birth
Mexico City, Mexico, 1974
last update
07-11-2025

His work focuses on research and reflection on the concept of editing and the concepts of discourse.  He is interested in the way in which information is accumulated, circulated and organised through ideologies that frame our reality. He studied at the UNAM (Mexico); EnsAD (Paris); Rijksakademie (Amsterdam) and completed a Phd at Uniarts (Helsinki). His individual and group exhibitions include at Documenta 15, Artium, Savvy Contemporary, MUAC, Kadist SF, Museo Tamayo, MAM Paris, KW Berlin; Liverpool biennal, Synagogue du Delme, Centro Botín, SMAK Gent, Malmo Konsthall, Bienal de Cuenca, MMoma, Stedelijk Bureau, Vac Foundation, Fabra i Coats, MCAD Manila;  Tabakalera, Centrocentro, Muzeum Sztuki, MUSAC, La Panacee, RedCat, Espacio Odeon, De Appel, TBA21Augarten, Bienal de Sao Paulo, Malba, Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, La Capella, CCA Wattis, CGAC, Bienal Mercosur, Taipei Bienal, La Caixa, Royal College of Art,  and Biennale de Lyon, among others.

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[4427_002_pub / Imatge] El mundo explicado, São Paulo, Barcelona, 2008-2009 (I)
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Presentació investigacions PEI 2023-24 [Enregistrament audiovisual activitat]
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10-6-2024
A.HIS.08025
Empremtes del cos col·lectiu. Yazan Khalili (The Question of Funding) en conversa amb Erick Beltrán (lunbung press) [Reportatge fotogràfic activitat]
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9-3-2024
A.HIS.07683
Archivo estocástico
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2002
A13629
VII Simposi Internacional Crítica d’Art en un Món Global. Què vol dir ser contemporani? [Enregistrament audiovisual activitat]
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19-11-2011
A.HIS.00501
The world explained : a microhistorical encyclopaedia : containing a collection of precise descriptions with detailed pictures and diagrammes of the world in all its facets, all based on an unspecialised view on every area of human knowledge. This universal archive, is a compilation of testimonies and observations, obtained by means of questions about general interests regardins social, commercial, moral and political developments. In its totality the publication can be read as an Index of People's current understanding of the world. Composed of diverse interviews, recordings and transcriptions, held in São Paulo, August-October MMVIII / Erick Beltrán
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2012
A10944
The world explained : a microhistorical encyclopaedia : containing a collection of precise descriptions with detailed pictures and diagrammes of the world in all its facets, all based on an unspecialised view on every area of human knowledge. This universal archive, is a compilation of testimonies and observations, obtained by means of questions about general interests regardins social, commercial, moral and political developments. In its totality the publication can be read as an Index of People's current understanding of the world. Composed of diverse interviews, recordings and transcriptions, held in São Paulo, August-October MMVIII / Erick Beltrán
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2012
A08062
The world explained : a microhistorical encyclopaedia : containing a collection of precise descriptions with detailed pictures and diagrammes of the world in all its facets, all based on an unspecialised view on every area of human knowledge. This universal archive, is a compilation of testimonies and observations, obtained by means of questions about general interests regardins social, commercial, moral and political developments. In its totality the publication can be read as an Index of People's current understanding of the world. Composed of diverse interviews, recordings and transcriptions, held in São Paulo, August-October MMVIII / Erick Beltrán
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2012
A08132
The world explained : a microhistorical encyclopaedia : containing a collection of precise descriptions with detailed pictures and diagrammes of the world in all its facets, all based on an unspecialised view on every area of human knowledge. This universal archive, is a compilation of testimonies and observations, obtained by means of questions about general interests regardins social, commercial, moral and political developments. In its totality the publication can be read as an Index of People's current understanding of the world. Composed of diverse interviews, recordings and transcriptions, held in São Paulo, August-October MMVIII / Erick Beltrán
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2012
A08063
The world explained
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2011
A07513
The world explained : ARCO edition of a work in progress, 15 February 2012
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[2012]
A14288
The world explained : ARCO edition of a work in progress, 15 February 2012
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[2012]
A14287
The world explained : ARCO edition of a work in progress, 15 February 2012
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[2012]
A14286
The world explained : ARCO edition of a work in progress, 15 February 2012
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[2012]
A14289
Esto no es un juego
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2010
A01737
Esto no es un juego
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[2010]
A06157
Ergo sum / Erick Beltrán
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2007
A06973