Iván Navarro
The artist
Born in 1972 in Santiago, Iván Navarro grew up under the Pinochet dictatorship. He has lived and worked in New York since 1997. Iván Navarro uses light as his raw material, turning objects into electric sculptures and transforming the exhibition space by means of visual interplay. His work is certainly playful, but is also haunted by questions of power, control and imprisonment. The act of usurping the minimalist aesthetic is an ever-present undercurrent, becoming the pretext for understated political and social criticism.
Exhibitions
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Cosmography
June 27 - August 1, 2024
New York -
Celestialand
November 3 - December 23, 2022
New York -
Constellations of Fate
April 27 - July 16, 2022
Brussels -
Planetarium
January 30 - May 11, 2021
Paris - Beaubourg -
Prostutopia
September 6 - October 20, 2018
Brussels -
Fanfare
March 11 - May 13, 2017
Paris - Beaubourg -
Nacht und Nebel
January 16 - February 22, 2014
Brussels -
Where is the next war ?
April 25 - June 1, 2013
Paris - Beaubourg -
Nowhere Man
September 5 - October 24, 2009
Paris - Beaubourg -
Antifurniture
March 1 > April 5, 2008
Paris - Beaubourg -
Spy Glass
December 10, 2005 - January 18, 2006
Paris - Beaubourg
Biography
| Birth | Born in 1972 in Santiago, Chile |
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| Residency | Lives and works in New York, USA |
| Education | 1991-1995, BFA, Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile. Santiago, Chile. |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
| 2025 | TEMPLON, Paris, France |
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| 2024 | Reloj Solar, Galeria Madre, Santiago, Chile |
| 2023 | Silent Homeless Lamp, installation temporaire, Sunset Boulvard, Los Angeles, USA |
| Iván Navarro, Peninsula Hotel, New York, USA | |
| Eccidio, MicroMuseo di Arte Contemporanea della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy | |
| 2022 | Celestialand, TEMPLON, New York, USA |
| Thunder, Martin Asbaek Gallery in collaboration with TEMPLON, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
| 2024 | Glow : Neon and Light, Akron Art Museul, Ohio, USA Light Sound Senses, Heidi Horten Collection, Vienna, Austria |
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| Refaire le monde, Festival de la Francophonie, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France | |
| Under Pressure, Poli/Gráfica, Puerto Rico | |
| Au bout de mes rêves, La Tripostal, Lille, France | |
| La Conciencia Brillante, CristalLlíquido y Pantallas Expandidas, CAB - Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Spain | |
| Enlazando Mundos, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Museo de Arte Moderno de Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | |
| Bajo presión / Under Pressure, Poli/Gráfica de Puerto Rico: América Latina y el Carib, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, Puerto Rico |
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COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)
| Musée Thyssen, Madrid, Spain | |
| 21C Museum, Louisville, USA | |
| The Bangkok EDITION, Bangkok, Thailand | |
| Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey | |
| Caldic Collection, Rotterdam, The Netherlands | |
| Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain | |
| CENTRO University, Mexico City, Mexico |
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GRANTS, AWARD, RESIDENCIES AND PROJECTS
| 2025 | Permanent installation at Metro station Villejuif Institut Gustave Roussy, (collaboration with architect Dominique Perrault), Grand Paris Express, Paris, France |
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| 2023 | The Grand Paris Express project has been awarded the Veronica Rudge Green Prize for urban design by Harvard University (GSD), Boston, USA |
| 2021 | Memorial, Santiago, Chile |
| 2020 | The Ladder, public art installation, San Francisco, USA |
| 2019 | Residency at CCA Andraxt, Mallorca, Spain |
| Video Screening “Homeless Lamp, The Juice Sucker” at MACRO MUSEUM, Rome, Italy | |
| Artist Talk, Puerto Ideas, Valparaíso, Chile |
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Collaborations
| 2024 | Vid Vida Vidajena, (collaboration with Courtney Smith) La Capilla Azul Chiloé, Chile |
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| 2023 | Tierra Sin Tierra, (in collaboration with Hueso Records) Teatro Italia, Chaco |
| Las Ramas, (collaboration with Courtney Smith) Tierra Sin Tierra, Teatro Italia, Chaco | |
| El Paso (collaboration with Courtney Smith), Hawuapi – PS122, New York, USA | |
| 2022 | Panorama (collaboration with Courtney Smith), Van Alen Institute, Brooklyn, USA |
| Girasol, (collaboration with Courtney Smith), Revolver, New York, USA | |
| Remolino De Suerte (collaboration with Courtney Smith), Van Alen Institute, Brooklyn, USA |
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PROJETS PUBLIQUES
| 2025 | Cadran Solaire, Grand Paris Express, Permanent installation at Metro station |
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| Villejuif Institut Gustave Roussy, in collaboration with architect Dominique Perrault Paris, France | |
| 2023 | Landless Land, Moving Image Media Art, City of West Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA |
| 2022 | Cohecho, Centro de Documentación de las Artes Visuales, Santiago, Chile |
| This land is Your Land, Art-OMI, Ghent, New York, USA | |
| 2021 | Un Río de Sangre, Rio Mapocho, Festival Santiago a Mil, Santiago, Chile |
| 2020 | This Land is Your Land, The Momentary, Bentonville, Arkansas, USA |
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PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION)
| Iván Navarro, Land Mark, Archivorum, Berlin and Kodoji Press, Baden, 2022 | |
| Iván Navarro, Welcome, Editions TEMPLON and Skira, 2020 | |
| Iván Navarro, Espejos y Espejismos – Mirrors and Mirages, Editions Manuel Cirauqui, 2017 | |
| Iván Navarro, Una guerra silenciosa e imposible, CorpArtes, Santigo de Chile, 2015 | |
| Iván Navarro, Threshold, Venice Biennale, Charta, Venice, 2009 | |
| Iván Navarro, Editions TEMPLON, Paris, 2007 |
Press Release
Les blogs de l'art helvétique contemporain - novembre 2022
Iván Navarro : lumière nuit
Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret
Stir World - juillet 2022
Navarro's sculptures navigate economic, political connotations of daily life
Le Soir - mai 2022
Les constellations d'Iván Navarro
Wallpaper* - février 2021
Iván Navarro's cosmic sculptures illuminate dark forces
SF Arts - décembre 2020
Illuminate SF Brightens Up Winter Nights
Connaissance des Arts - novembre 2020
Iván Navarro, abîmes électriques
ArtDaily - juillet 2020
Ivan Navarro's The Ladder
Collect - septembre 2018
Prostutopia
Focus Vif - août 2018
Ivan Navarro: Prostutopia
Ocula.com - mai 2018
A conversation with Ivan Navarro
L'Echo - février 2014
Des mises en abîme à la lumière des néons
La Libre Belgique (supplément ARTS) - février 2014
La lumière crue
The Art Newspaper - février 2014
Shining a light on History
Slash Magazine - 2012/2013
Iván Navarro: Where is the next war?
Art News - janvier 2012
Iván Navarro: Man of Refraction
NYO Magazine - mars 2011
Iván Navarro : Lighting up the Armory Show
ArtNexus - 2010
Iván Navarro
Beaux-Arts Magazine - 2009
Une longueur d'avance
Annual - 2009
The end of the tunnel
Connaissance des arts - septembre 2009
Iván Navarro, l'être et le néon
Art Review - 2008
Iván Navarro: Antifurniture
Flash Art - 2005
Entropology
News
Iván Navarro
MAPPA MUNDI – GROUP EXHIBITION
From march 5 to october 4, 2020
Boghossian foundation, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt, 67B, 1050 Bruxelles
The exhibition presented by the Boghossian foundation explores artistic representation of the planet: map, frontiers and travels, social and ecological upheavals. Visitors discovers a selection of contemporary works revealing their vision of the globe through many different medium. The representation of the world, as much today than yesterday, comes from scientific and convenient necessity to perceive our geography, far and near, as a vivid source for the imagination. Contemporary artists such as Iván Navarro are still captivated by the world map and constantly try to reinvent it or transform it. For Navarro, the new mappa mundi is a complex overlay of neon and mirrors, brought to life by electrical power.
Iván Navarro
GRAND PARIS EXPRESS IN COLLABORATION WITH DOMINIQUE PERRAULT
FUTUR TRAIN STATION "GARE DE VILLEJUIF"
As part of its artistic and cultural brief, GRAND PARIS EXPRESS has announced that Iván Navarro will be one of its guest artists, working with architect Dominique Perrault (DPA) on the future Villejuif-Institut Gustave Roussy station. Grand Paris Express is Europe’s largest urban infrastructure project, with 200-km of new automated metro lines and 68 new stations to build by 2030, designed by influential modern architects. As part of this unprecedented urban transformation project, and to promote the emergence of a unified city-wide identity, Société du Grand Paris (SGP) has launched a major arts programme under the direction of José-Manuel Gonçalvès. Each new station will be the setting for a lasting artistic intervention, fruit of the convergence between two creative worlds, architect and artist working in tandem. The programme will lead to the creation of a vast body of multi-disciplinary art, with an impact simultaneously local and city-wide. Iván Navarro and Dominique Perrault are one of the first architect-artist pairs to be announced. They will work together on the Villejuif Institut-Gustave Roussy station, collaborating on a project focused on sensations of depth and the interplay of light.
Iván Navarro
IVáN NAVARRO : BIFOCAL
MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO DE BUENOS AIRES, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA November 15, 2019 - March 1, 2020
The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires presents BIFOCAL, a solo exhibition of the internationally recognized Chilean artist Iván Navarro. In collaboration with Revolver Galería (Buenos Aires and Lima), Templon Galerie (París), Galería Isabel Aninat (Santiago de Chile) and Luciana Brito Galeria (SãIno Paulo), the show will feature a selection of more than fifteen artworks, including neon sculptures and audio-visual installations. Navarro’s work seeks to explore the aesthetic and political dimensions of electricity through perceptual alterations stimulating the spectator in a sensorial and psychological way. Thereby, the artist achieves to reinvent everyday objects to criticize power institutions and ponder about Chilean history.
Iván Navarro
BIENALSUR, HOME SWEET HOME – GROUP SHOW
AMBASSADE DU BRESIL-PALAIS PEREDA, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA From 26/06/2019 to 30/10/2019
How much do the spaces we inhabit say about us? What forms do such spaces take? In what way do they reflect our lifestyle? If the home is the border limit between outside and inside, public and private, safety and uncertainty, “home” is also the projection of our own body (and in particular our mind) as a kind of microcosm which with to dispute the immensity of the universe. In the context of this exhibition, we conceive of home as a space-time where we unfurl the experience of inhabitation, anchoring men and women’s primary desire to occupy a place in the world, which is also the springboard for imagination to take flight.
Iván Navarro
ART AND SPACE – GROUP SHOW
GUGGENHEIM BILBAO, BILBAO, SPAINFrom 5/12/2017 to 15/04/2018
The point of departure of Art and Space is the collaboration between Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida and German philosopher Martin Heidegger in 1969, which resulted in the publication of an artist book whose title inspired that of this exhibition. By updating and fleshing out concepts and questions embedded in that extraordinary dialogue, this show presents more than 100 works by international artists and offers itself as a reinterpretation of the history of abstraction in the past six decades.
Iván Navarro
Pierre et Gilles
MIROIR MIROIR – GROUP SHOW
MUDAC, LAUSANNE, SWITZERLANDFrom 5/31/2017 to 10/01/2017
The exhibition Mirror Mirror takes the form of a series of chapters and aims to bridge the microscopic gap separating our image from our being. Our reflection is utterly specific, making it undoubtedly the most complex of all images. In it, recognition and illusion are confused, giving rise to an inner disorder linked to our constant desire to read our identity here. Each chapter tackles a specific theme relating to the mirror or reflections, and presents an array of design objects, complemented by others from the worlds of contemporary art and photography. Artists, whether famous or emerging, offer their take on the idea which, on the frozen surface of the window, now defines our being in the world.
Iván Navarro
POMMERY EXPERIENCE #13 : GIGANTESQUE ! – GROUP SHOW
DOMAINE POMMERY, REIMS, FRANCEFrom 10/14/2016 to 5/31/2017
The Estate Pommery, one of the most famous champagne estates worldwide, is showing the exhibition Gigantesque!, in the framework of the 13th edition of Pommery’s Experiences. The exhibition takes place in the 30-meter deep cellars and their breathtaking 18 kilometers long maze. The Pommery Experiences brings together an exceptional heritage and contemporary creation in a unique and fascinating space. More than twenty French and international artistes are reunited for this occasion around the theme “from the infinitely big to the infinitely small”. With: Brook Andrew, Daniel Buren, Lilian Bourgeat, Vincent Carlier, JulianCharrière, Gaëlle Chotard, Michel de Broin, Choi Jeong Hwa, Bertrand Gadenne, Séverine Hubard, Guy Limone, Chaim van Luit, Soundwalk Collective, Pablo Valbuena, Enrique Ramirez, Su-Mei Tse, Iván Navarro, Stéphane Thidet, LeeMingwei…
Iván Navarro
Chiharu Shiota
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY – GROUP SHOW
MAISON PARTICULIERE, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM From 10/06/2016 to 4/30/2017
From “Where do we come from?” to “Where are we going?” From beginning to end, from origins to eternity, such is the guiding theme and framework of the exhibition, From here to eternity. In his works, guest artist Angelo Musco tirelessly explores the cycles of existence: birth—a recurrent theme in his work; origins and evolution ; the metamorphoses of the human being and nature; mystery; and abysses. Accompanying Angelo Musco on his journey are works, among others from Chiharu Shiota and Ivan Navarro, that encounter his, engaging in a dialogue and free falling weightlessly into an open space with no beginning or end. Existence can therfore be the intertwining of connections and relationships, sometimes due to chance, other times intentional, like the threads that are woven and (out)stretched, as in the work by Chiaru Shiota.
