Jordi Colomer
Colomer works in the fields of sculpture and installation art, photography and video art, and all of his activity is imbued with a pronounced sense of performativity which, through actions, puts to the test the customary uses of architecture and the urban space. Colomer is interested in the system of representations of the city and in our ability to subvert it. From this research emerge underlying themes such as nomadism, the periphery, the popular imaginary, humour, community, provisionality, fiction and utopia.
He represented Spain at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017), curated by Manuel Segade, presenting his project ¡Únete! Join Us! in the Spanish Pavilion. Since 2018, he and the producer Carolina Olivares have been working to promote La Infinita, a creation lab and meeting place for the visual and the live arts, based in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat. His work has been shown in numerous museums, art centres and biennials, among them the Museo Reina Sofía and Matadero, Madrid; Jeu de Paume and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Belvedere 21, Vienna; Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; Arte Alameda, Mexico City; Manifesta 10, Saint Petersburg, Russia; Manifesta 12, Palermo, Italy; 7th Mercosur Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil; MAAT, Lisbon; Bozar and Argos, Brussels; and ZKU Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin.
Colomer studied art at the Eina school, art history at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and architecture at the ETSAB. In addition, he worked as a set designer for the plays Olga Sola (Joan Brossa), Final de partida (Samuel Beckett), Perfect Lives (Robert Ashley) and Carta als actors (Valère Novarina).
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