Eduardo Navarro (artist)

Eduardo Navarro
Portrait Eduardo Navarro
Born	1979 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Education	Program for the Visual Arts C.C.R.R., Argentina
Website	www.navarroeduardo.art

Eduardo Navarro (born 1979 in Buenos Aires) is a contemporary Argentine artist. Since 2002, he has worked in a variety of mediums, including dance and sonic sculptures, drawings, and creative workshops.

Work

Navarro's artistic projects have explored the power of deliberate uncertainty, intuition, curiosity, and contemplation. His work has touched on imagining how non-human entities such as a cloud, flower, or octopus sense the world and communicate.

At the launch of a five-month pedagogical program in concert with the 9th Bienal do Mercosul, Eduardo Navarro sent a telepathic message from his home in Buenos Aires to those willing to receive it whom had attended a lecture on curiosity at the Bienal. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Education

Eduardo Navarro is a self-taught artist. From 2003-2005 he was selected to participate in the Program for the Visual Arts at the Centro Cultural Rojas in Argentina coordinated by the artist, Guillermo Kuitca.

He has participated in numerous international Art Residencies such as Artist in residency at the Education Department, Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, US 2024, 2025), Amant Residency program (New York, US 2023), Institute Art Gender Nature FHNW Academy of Arts and Design (Basel, Switzerland 2017), Casa Gallina (Mexico City, Mexico 2015), Bair Program at Banff Center (Banff, Canada 2015), Fondazione Antonio Ratti (Como, Italy 2012) and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Maine, US 2006) among others.

Exhibitions (selection)

Instant Weather Prediction (2019)

Poema Volcánico (2014)

• Terraphilia, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Spain (2025)
• The Oracle: On Fantasy and Freedom, Ljubljana Graphic Biennial, Slovenia (2025)
• Ways of Knowing, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, U.S.A (2025)
• Bounding Histories, Whispering Tales, Art Encounters Biennial, Romania (2025)
• Future Ours, Kunsthal Charlottenborg Biennale, Denmark, (2025)
• Future Ours, 79th United Nations General Assembly, The Summit of the Future, Art 2030, New York, United States (2024)
• BreathSpace, Kadist, San Francisco, United States (2024) (13)
• Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions, Blaffer Art Museum, United States (2024)
• The ocean in the forest, Wanås Konst Art Foundation, Sweden (2024)
• Rooted Beings, Wellcome Collection, UK (2022)

Super Natural Eden Project, UK (2022)

• Persones - Persons, Gardenia Biennale, Dolomite Mountain, Val Gardena, Italy (2022)
• Water, Kinship, Belief, Toronto Biennale, Toronto, Canada (2022)
• Vegetal Ear, Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala (2021)
• Encuentro Vegetal, La Casa Encendida - Madrid, Spain (2021)
• (breathspace), Gasworks, London, UK (2020)
• In Collaboration with the Sun, Museum of Contemporary Art Mac Niteroi, Rio, Brazil (2019)
• Instant Weather Prediction, PIVO, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2019) ^[5]
• Galactic Playground, Casa tomada Site Santa Fe´s Biennial Exhibition (2018) ^[6]
• Polenphonia, Rayuela-Art Basel Cities, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2018)
• Into Ourselves, Drawing Center The Lab, New York, USA (2018) ^{[7] [8]}
• Metabolic Drawings, FUTURO. ARCO, Madrid, Spain (2018)
• Celestial Numbers, Metamorphoses. Let Everything Happen to You, Catello de Rivoli, Torino, Italy (2018) ^[9]
• Letters to Earth, KölnSkulptur 9 La Fin de Babylone. Mich wundert, dass ich so fröhlich bin!, Skulpturen Park Koln, Germany (2017) ^[10]
• OCTOPIA, Museo Rufino Tamayo, DF, Mexico (2016) ^[11]
• Sound Mirror, Incerteza viva. 32 Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil (2016)
• We Who Spin Around, High Line Art, New York, USA (2016)
• Timeless Alex, New Museum Triennial, New York, USA (2015) ^[12]
• XYZ, 12 Sharjah Biennial, UAE (2015)
• Ir para Volver, 12th Cuenca Biennial, Ecuador (2014) ^{[13] [14]}
• Weather Permitting, 9th Mercosur Biennial, Brazil (2013) ^[15]
• Horses Don't Lie, 9th Mercosur Biennial, Brazil (2013) ^[16]
• Aquella mañana…, Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires Argentina (2013) ^{[17] [18]}
• Estudio Jurídico Mercosur III (Mercosur Law Studio III). AES+F and Eduardo Navarro, Faena Arts Center (2013) ^[19]
• Órbita, Ensayo de Situación, Soy un Pedazo de Atmósfera, Di Tella University, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2013)
• There is always a cup of sea to sail in, 29th São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (2010) ^[20]
• Screaming and Hearing, 7th Mercosur Biennial, Brazil (2009)
• OPEN e v + a 2009, Reading the City, EVA Ireland Biennial, Limerick City, Ireland (2009) ^[21]
• Do Not Feed, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, USA (2008) ^[22]
• The Great Transformation, Kunst und Takitsche Magie, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany (2008) ^{[23] [24]}
• Fabricantes Unidos (Manufactured States), Daniel Abate Gallery, Buenos Aires (2008) ^[25]
• From Confrontation to Intimacy, Americas Society, USA (2007) ^{[26] [27]}
• The Pod Show, Blanton Museum-Art Palace Austin, Texas, USA (2006)
• Civilización y Barbarie, MAC, Santiago de Chile, Chile (2005)

References

Horses Don't Lie (2013)

Órbita (2013)

1. "The 9TH Bienal do mercosul / Porto Alegre launched its pedagogical Program." Arte Alida. May 30, 2013.
2. "9th Bienal do Mercosul includi nomes estelares da arte contemporânea." Folha de S.Paulo. May 17, 2013.
3. Demeuse, Sarah. "¨See, Hear, Touch. How Eduardo Navarro's work retrain the senses¨" (PDF). Frieze Magazine, March 2017.
4. Authier, Ariel. "Eduardo Navarro" (PDF). 2017.
5. Brenner, Fernanda. "Looking Back 2018: Brazil and the Body Electric" (PDF). Frieze, Jan 2019.
6. Bennett, Megan. "A book with a needle" (PDF). Journal North Reporter. August 2018.
7. Mendelson, Meredith. "What's for Lunch? Soup, With a Side of Art" (PDF). New York Times, April 2018.
8. Yerebakan, Osman Can. "Eduardo Navarro: Into Ourselves" (PDF). The Brooklyn Rail, May 2018.
9. Kleinman, Adam. "Metamorphoses. Let Everything Happen to You" (PDF). Art Agenda, Jun 2018.
10. Hontoria, Javier. "KölnSkulptur #9" (PDF). Art Forum, Feb 2018.
11. Demeuse, Sarah and Martínez, Chus (2016). Octopia. Museo Rufino Tamayo.
12. Howard, Dorothy. "Role Reversal: Eduardo Navarro at the New Museum" (PDF). Whitehot Magazine, May 2015.
13. "Ir para volver (leaving to return) describes a physical and temporary absence (frequently without a definite duration)." Biennial Foundation. July 1st, 2014.
14. "Leaving to Return." Press Release. e-flux. 12th Bienal de Cuenca. March 28–June 27, 2014.
15. "Biome World: Pursuing a Pedagogy of Intervention." Archived 2014-06-20 at the Wayback Machine Chus Martínez. Mouse 43. 2013.
16. "Horses Don't Lie." Archived 2014-08-10 at the Wayback Machine 9th Bienal Mercosul, Brazil (2013).
17. "Tratamiento Homeopático para el Río de la Plata." Medicine, Biology, and the History of a Water Landscape." Aquella mañana…Parque de la Memoria Buenos Aires Argentina
18. Los Recuerdos del Porvenir (Memories of the Future). Pagina 12. Winter, 2013.
19. "AES+F and Eduardo Navarro." E-flux announcements. May, 2013.
20. "Eduardo Navarro 2004-2010." Archived 2014-08-12 at the Wayback Machine Foundazione Ratti.
21. "Reading the City." E-flux announcements. 2009.
22. Eduardo Navarro. Frederieke Taylor Gallery.
23. "Review: The Great Transformation." Archived 2014-09-30 at the Wayback Machine Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany. Frieze Magazine. Issue 118. October 2008.
24. "The Great Transformation- Art and Tactical Magic." Archived 2016-07-16 at the Wayback Machine Frankfurter Kunstverein. June–September, 2008.
25. "El planeta Once." La nacion. April 26, 2008.
26. Noorthoorn, Victoria, and Gabriela Rangel Mantilla. Beginning with a bang!: from confrontation to intimacy: an exhibition of Argentine contemporary artists, 1960-2007. New York, N.Y.: Americas Society. 2007. OCLC   183917294
27. Johnson, Ken. "Art Review: Roars of Argentina’s Past, Murmurs of Its Present." New York Times. December 14, 2007.

External links

• Artist website.
• F.O.C.A. (Fundación Oceánica de Contemplación Amorosa) website
• "Do Note Feed." Joanne Bernstein Exhibition Text. 2009.
• ¨OCTOPIA¨, publication by Museo Rufino Tamayo, with texts by Chus Martinez and Sarah Demeuse, and an interview by Manuela Moscoso and Daniela Perez (2016)
• "Eduardo Navarro." ^{[ permanent dead link ]} Art Pension Trust. Biographical Entry