Carlos Motta

Carlos Motta film screening Nefandus (2013) @MACBA Barcelona

As part of the Plague exhibition, curated by the Cultural Ecologies Group of the Independent Studies Programme, in which we take a critical look at the various ways ‘nature’ is managed today, we are programming a season of films entitled “Plague Open Screen. Artwork from the MACBA Collection”. We invite you to enjoy unlimited access to a number […]

Alexander Apóstol, Hernando Toro, Oscar Muñoz, Carlos Motta and Rosângela Rennó in the exhibition “I wanna be with you” @MAMBO

“I wanna be with you” is a group exhibition that investigates the notions of contact, interaction, communication, proximity, exchange and collaboration strategies, in contrast to the concepts of isolation, seclusion, social distancing, detachment and separation. The project offers an exceptional itinerary of the history of Colombian and international art from the 1970s to the present. Thus, […]

Oscar Muñoz and Carlos Motta in the exhibition “De Voz a Voz” @MAMBO

Launched in partnership with the newspaper El Tiempo, “De Voz a Voz” is a nation wide artistic project that responds to the emergency caused by the COVID-19 in Colombia. Since May and twice a week, “De Voz a Voz” has involved Colombian artists of different generations; from the most recognized nationally and internationally, to those emerging and […]

Carlos Motta Highline project proposal

THE VOID is an AIDS counter-monument hosting public programs and designed by artist Carlos Motta, architect Koray Duman, and writer/organizer Theodore Kerr. Grounded in the image of Milton Glaser’s United Nations-commissioned logo for the early days of the AIDS crisis, the work features 18 months of public programming—monthly performances, rallies, presentations, and community gatherings regarding HIV […]

Carlos Motta participated in “At Plain Sight”

In Plain Sight is a coalition of 80 artists united to create an artwork dedicated to the abolition of immigrant detention and the United States culture of incarceration. A highly orchestrated mediagenic spectacle and poetic action, this project is conceived in five parts — a poetic elegy enacted on a national scale, an interactive website, an anthology docuseries, […]

Carlos Motta symposium @SF Moma

This screening of video works by artists featured in SOFT POWER expands ideas explored in the exhibition on the role of the artist as citizen. Many of the artists in the exhibition work across media and are incisive makers of time-based art including sound and moving images. Profoundly nuanced and lushly depicted works by LaToya Ruby Frazier, […]

Carlos Motta SOLO SHOW @UC Santa Cruz

UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences (IAS) presents Carlos Motta: We The Enemy, the first West Coast solo exhibition of artworks by the artist. In conjunction with the exhibition, Motta and Rachel Nelson, IAS curator and interim director, have organized a 2-day symposium “Bodies at the Borders.” Taking place January 24, 2020 at UC […]

Carlos Motta, Cevdet Erek and Marwa Arsanios @SF MoMa

Timely and provocative, SOFT POWER is an exhibition about the ways in which artists deploy art to explore their roles as citizens and social actors. Appropriated from the Reagan-era term used to describe how a country’s “soft” assets such as culture, political values and foreign policies can be more influential than violence or coercion, the title SOFT POWER suggests […]

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