Sebastián Díaz Morales
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Sebastián Díaz Morales was born in Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina, in 1975 and lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He attended the Universidad del Cine de Antin in Argentina from 1993-1999, the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam from 2000-2001, and Le Fresnoy, Roubaix, France from 2003-2004. Diaz Morales’s conception of reality has been shaped by the living conditions and landscape of his birthplace, Comodoro Rivadivia, an industrial city located on the Atlantic coast, in a rugged area between the Atlantic Ocean and the Patagonian Desert in southern Argentina. His questioning of reality in film, whether concerning landscape, the urban, or even the sociopolitical, has been marked from the very outset by a fundamental distrust of the belief in a single, unified reality. With Díaz Morales, the camera does not function as a medium for faithfully depicting and recording what is observed, but is an essential, even epistemic means for questioning and appropriating reality.
His work has been exhibited widely at venues—such as the Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou; Stedelijk Museum and De Appel, Amsterdam; Le Fresnoy, Roubaix; CAC, Vilnius; Art in General, New York City; Ludwig Museum, Budapest; Biennale Sao Pablo; Biennale of Sydney; Miro Foundation, Barcelona; MUDAM, Luxemburg; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; the Biennale di Venezia and Documenta Fifteen. His works can be found at the collections of the Centre Pompidou; Tate Modern; Fundación Jumex, Mexico; Sandretto Foundation, Torino; Lemaître's collection; Constantini collection, Buenos Aires; Pinault Foundation, Paris; Sammlung-Goetz, Munich; and the Fundacion de Arte Moderna, Museo Berardo, Lisbon between others. In 2009 he was awarded with a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Pasajes IV, Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, DK
2023
Bienalsur, Les Abatoirs, Toulouse, FR
Smashing Monuments, Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen, Norway
Smashing Monuments, Collective, Edinburgh, Scotland
2022
Miles Marchan (Thousands March), De Pont, Tilburg
Pasajes, carlier | gebauer, Madrid
2021
Suspension, Kunsthal, Gent, Belgium
Pasajes, Cityscapes Foundation, Oudezijds Voorburgwal, Amsterdam, NL
Open Sketches, Van Zijll Langhout Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, NL
2020
Talk with Dust, carlier|gebauer, Berlin
2019
Talk with Dust, STUK, Leuven, Belgium
The Lost Object, Statenlokaal Tweede Kamer, Den Haag, NL
Insight, Rotterdam Art Fest. & Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, CS
The Lost Object, Statenlokaal Tweede Kamer, Den Haag, NL
2018
En un futuro no muy lejano, Muntref, Ecoparque, BsAs, Argentina
Passages, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria
2017
Solo Show, Ikono TV, Berlin, NY, Shanghai
The Man with the Bag & Canto Ostinato, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen, NL
Compilation of works, Caixa Forum, Madrid, Spain
Insight, Solo presentation Feria Arco, Madrid, Spain
2016
Ficcionario IV, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany
The Lost Object, gallery carlier | gebauer, Berlin, Germany
Suspension and Pasajes IV, Statenlokaal Tweede Kamer, Den Haag, NL
2015
Pasajes, Galeria Pepe Cobo, Lima, Peru
Ficcionario III, Le Fresnoy, Roubaix, France
2014
Ficcionario II, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013
Ficcionario, gallery Catherine Bastide, Brussels
Social Sciences school, Paris (screening)
Double Feature, Schirn, Frankfurt (screening)
Something you should know, Social Sciences school, Paris (screening)
2012
Ficcionario, carlier | gebauer, Berlin
On Cinema and Representation, Videodromo, Ancona, Italy
2011
Solo presentation Open Space, Art Cologne, Germany
Sebastián Diaz Morales, Artsphere gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Seance Speciales #2, Frac Franche-Compte, Besançon, France
2010
Perspectif Cinema (screening), Centre Pompidou, Paris
El Camino entre dos puntos, Pepe Cobo y cia, Madrid
Natalie Seroussi Galerie, Paris
2009
The Way Between Two Points, carlier | gebauer, Berlin
The Way between Two Points, Frieze fair, London
2008
Fine Art School Grand Galleries, Rouen, France
2007
The Means of Illusion, carlier | gebauer, Berlin
Ring, Art/Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
2006
The Man with the Bag, Miro Foundation, Espai 13, Barcelona, Spain
2005
Dependents, Attitudes, Geneve, Switzerland.
Prototypes, carlier | gebauer, Berlin.
Lucharemos..., Yvon Lambert, Le Studio, Paris.
Nowhere, Le Plateau, Paris.
2004
The Enigmatic Visitor and The Man with the Bag, Kunst Werke, Berlin.
15000000 Parachutes, Tate Modern,The Projected Image, Collection Display, London.
2003
In a not so Distant Future, Stedelijk Bureau, Amsterdam, NL
Compilation works, MK2, Paris, France
Operacion Rescate (screening program), Compilation works, MAMBA Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires
In Focus Compilation Video Works 1997-2002, World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, NL
The Apocalyptic Man and One Year Later, Croix Baragnon, Traverse Video, Toulouse, France
The Apocalyptic Man, Buro Empty, Amsterdam, NL
2002
The Apocalyptic Man, gallery carlier | gebauer, Berlin
The Persecution of the White Car, FIAC, Video Cube, Price Winner, Paris
Blikwissel, De Paraplue-Fabriek, Nijmegen, NL
Just Like a That Productions, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach,Germany
2001
Open Circuit, n.s.a. Gallery, Durban, South Africa, (in collaboration with Jo Ractliffe)
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