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Atopia – Migration, Heritage and Placelessness | March 1–May 29, 2016 | MamBo, Bogota, Colombia

Installation view: Atopia, Photo: © Samantha Cendejas / MAZ, 2014
Alex Rodriguez – Las Américas, 2011 Installation view: Atopia. Migration, Heritage and Placelessness, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia, 2016 Photo: Sebastián Cruz Roldán & Santiago Pinol | Ambiente Familiar
Do Ho Suh – Staircase-V, 2008 Installation view: Atopia. Migration, Heritage and Placelessness, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia, 2016 Photo: Sebastián Cruz Roldán & Santiago Pinol | Ambiente Familiar
Los Carpinteros – Frío Estudio del Desastre, 2005 Installation view: Atopia. Migration, Heritage and Placelessness, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia, 2016 Photo: Sebastián Cruz Roldán & Santiago Pinol | Ambiente Familiar
Allora & Calzadilla – Petrified Petrol Pump, 2010 Installation view: Atopia. Migration, Heritage and Placelessness, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia, 2016 Photo: Sebastián Cruz Roldán & Santiago Pinol | Ambiente Familiar
Abraham Cruzvillegas – Autorretrato fronterizo y chispeante abrazando el retrato de Gilberto Robles, escuchando pireukas y tragando esquites afuera de la catedral, 2014 Installation view: Atopia. Migration, Heritage and Placelessness, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia, 2016 Photo: Ernesto Monsalve
Alex Rodriguez – Las Américas, 2011 Installation view: Atopia. Migration, Heritage and Placelessness, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia, 2016 Photo: Sebastián Cruz Roldán & Santiago Pinol | Ambiente Familiar
Brad Kahlhamer – Bowery Nation, 1985 / 2012 Installation view: Atopia. Migration, Heritage and Placelessness, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia, 2016 Photo: Sebastián Cruz Roldán & Santiago Pinol | Ambiente Familiar
Abraham Cruzvillegas – Boogie Woogie (handmade & sensual), 2012 Installation view: Atopia. Migration, Heritage and Placelessness, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia, 2016 Photo: Sebastián Cruz Roldán & Santiago Pinol | Ambiente Familiar
Monica Bonvicini – NOTFORYOU, 2006 Installation view: Atopia. Migration, Heritage and Placelessness, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia, 2016 Photo: Sebastián Cruz Roldán & Santiago Pinol | Ambiente Familiar
Abraham Cruzvillegas – Autorretrato queriendo ser Fray Tomás González y escuchando abajeños con la banda de Zacán, incapaz de comunicar la frustración de no poder reconocerme como un narciso iracundo, pobre, obediente, castoy para acabarla de chingar, desplazado, 2014 Installation view: Atopia. Migration, Heritage and Placelessness, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia, 2016 Photo: Sebastián Cruz Roldán & Santiago Pinol | Ambiente Familiar
Alex Rodriguez – Documentos y dibujos para una República popular moderna, 2016 Installation view: Atopia. Migration, Heritage and Placelessness, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia, 2016 Photo: Ernesto Monsalve
Mathilde ter Heijne – Woman to go, 2005 Installation view: Atopia. Migration, Heritage and Placelessness, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia, 2016 Photo: Sebastián Cruz Roldán & Santiago Pinol | Ambiente Familiar
Rivane Neuenschwander – Eu desejo o seu desejo / I Wish Your Wish, 2003 Installation view: Atopia. Migration, Heritage and Placelessness, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia, 2016 Photo: Sebastián Cruz Roldán & Santiago Pinol | Ambiente Familiar
Alex Rodriguez – En los lugares, 2013 Installation view: Atopia. Migration, Heritage and Placelessness, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia, 2016 Photo: Sebastián Cruz Roldán & Santiago Pinol | Ambiente Familiar
Walid Raad/The Atlas Group
Taysir Batniji
Sanja Iveković

Atopia: Migration, Heritage, and Placelessness is a new exhibition developed by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) in collaboration with the Museo de Arte Moderno Bogotá (MamBo). It features works drawn from the collection of TBA21 which reflect the growing interest among contemporary artists in place-specific narratives; dealing with the gaps and slippages between topos and atopos, space and nonspace, the global and the specific practices of cultural in-betweens and hybridization.

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), was founded in 2002 by Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, the Vienna based foundation is dedicated to the production, commissioning and dissemination of contemporary art from around the world. The presentation of Atopia which was initially developed in collaboration with MAZ, Guadalajara, Mexico in 2014, marked the beginning of a series of exhibitions collaborating with key institutions in Latin America being today with MAMBo and it reflects a strong focus on Latin American artists from the collection.

Curated by Daniela Zyman (TBA21) and Valentina Gutiérrez (MamBo), the exhibition addresses the many sides of the global processes of aggregation and homogenization, examining the practices and representations of ways in which artists have accessed, rehearsed, participated in and negotiated concepts of “place”, mapping, landscapes, and geographic descriptions. Atopia, a word used primarily in medicine and philosophy, literally means placelessness, out of place, unclassifiable, and of high, extraordinary originality. Place-specific and locational narratives have thus become important figures of the artistic expressions of the past decade, but also projective sites of stereotyping and (post-colonial or ethnicizing) simplifications. Artistic exploration of geographies through mappings, landscapes, descriptions of sites, places, collection of cultural objects, historical inscriptions and personal research, as well as the shifting political implications in language, writing and formal representation are at the nexus of the current exploration. As an example we can take the prominent pieces of Abraham Cruzvillegas, Mario García Torres, Rivane Neuenschwander, Carl Michael von Hausswolff y Thomas Nordanstad, Allan Sekula, Los Carpinteros, among others.

 
Duration
March 1–May 29, 2016
Curated by
Valentina Gutiérrez (Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá) und Daniela Zyman (TBA21)
Location
Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia
Bogotá's Museum of Modern Art (Museo de Arte de Bogotá - MamBo) is a non-profit foundation, established in 1962, that has been directed by Gloria Zea since 1969. It has a trajectory of over 50 years in which it has developed activities stimulating young art and contemporary artistic practice, as it can be seen throughout its history. A dynamical cultural institution, it strives for the encouragement, disclosure and promotion of all manifestations of visual modern and contemporary art in Colombia.
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Petrified Petrol Pump, 2010
Jonathas de Andrade
Litoral Pacífico Sulamericano, 2011
John Bock
Skipholt, 2005
Monica Bonvicini
NOTFORYOU, 2006
Abraham Cruzvillegas
Autorretrato fronterizo y chispeante abrazando el retrato de Gilberto Bosques, escuchando pirekuas y tragando esquites afuera de la catedral, 2014
Mario García Torres
Carta Abierta a Dr. Atl, 2005
Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Thomas Nordanstad
Golden Days (Remedios, Colombia, 2012), 2013
Mathilde ter Heijne
Woman to go, 2005
Sanja Iveković
Triangle, 1979
Brad Kahlhamer
Bowery Nation, 1985/2012
Los Carpinteros
Frío Estudio del Desastre, 2005
Rivane Neuenschwander
Eu desejo o seu desejo, 2003
Alex Rodríguez
Las Américas, 2011
Alex Rodríguez
Las Américas, 2011
Allan Sekula
The Lottery of the Sea, 2006
Do Ho Suh
Staircase-V, 2008
Allan Sekula
“Middle Passage”, chapter 3, from Fish Story, 1994
Artists
Walid Raad/The Atlas Group
Taysir Batniji
Sanja Iveković
Rivane Neuenschwander
Paulo Nazareth
Monica Bonvicini
Mathilde ter Heijne
Mario García Torres
Los Carpinteros
Jonathas de Andrade
John Bock
Do Ho Suh
Carl Michael von Hausswolff
Brad Kahlhamer
Allora & Calzadilla
Allan Sekula
Alex Rodríguez
Abraham Cruzvillegas