JULIANA GÓNGORA
Bogotá, 1988
Artist, sculptor and educator from Bogota, Colombia. Currently interested in the exchange of knowledge with artisans, farmers and indigenous communities from the Americas. She studied her undergraduate and her master’s degree at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá.
Recently invited to “Rivus” The 23rd biennale of Sydney 2022. In 2020 she was given the Grant for Artists with Intermediate Trajectory, offered by the Ministry of Culture of Colombia, she was also part of the exhibition “La courte échelle” at Goodman Gallery South Africa (2020), participated in Zona Maco in CDMX where she was given the acquisition price by JSA arquitecture, and in the Bienal 12 Porto Alegre “Femenino(s). Visualidades, Acciones y Afectos”.
In 2017 she was invited for a residence at the MacVal Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne within the framework of the Colombia-France year.
Some of the scholarships and awards she has received in recent years in support for her artistic career are the creation scholarship for emerging artists in 2015 given by the Ministry of Culture. She was also the winner of the FLORA ars + natura Artist in Residence scholarship; winner of the summer program residency "The year of the internectaries” In Mildred's lane New York, USA 2016 and winner of the Young Art Award in 2016.
Nidos
Observer of the moss between the bricks and of the minuscule powers. She works with primitive and organic materials: earth, salt, spider threads, grains of sand, stones, glass, milk. She collects sculptural conditions: strength, subtlety, pressing, waiting, suspending, moistening. As an artist she incites material consciousness and asserts that as a species we need to start describing more of our daily actions instead of exposing our discourses of power.
“The earth is my principle of reflection. My floor. I approached it because it presented me with a limit: the most human of all. Dealing with something heavier than my body and trying to control it is a challenge. With it I understood that sculpture is not intellectual research but a relationship with matter that evolves over time. I learned about patience. That the processes of sculpture, like those of life, are not immediate. That art and life cannot be distanced. That we are entangled with matter and our relationship with it is physical and human. I understood that I was not going to play the artist's double game. That what I had chosen for my life, art, was going to be life itself.”
Ofrendatarios
Observer of the moss between the bricks and of the minuscule powers. She works with primitive and organic materials: earth, salt, spider threads, grains of sand, stones, glass, milk. She collects sculptural conditions: strength, subtlety, pressing, waiting, suspending, moistening. As an artist she incites material consciousness and asserts that as a species we need to start describing more of our daily actions instead of exposing our discourses of power.
“The earth is my principle of reflection. My floor. I approached it because it presented me with a limit: the most human of all. Dealing with something heavier than my body and trying to control it is a challenge. With it I understood that sculpture is not intellectual research but a relationship with matter that evolves over time. I learned about patience. That the processes of sculpture, like those of life, are not immediate. That art and life cannot be distanced. That we are entangled with matter and our relationship with it is physical and human. I understood that I was not going to play the artist's double game. That what I had chosen for my life, art, was going to be life itself. ”
Cuerpo de leche
Cuerpo de Leche is a mantle woven with threads of milk that follow the shape of the artist's grandfather's tomb. Through weaving this material, Juliana finds a way to understand the farmer lives of her lineage their hardships, and in a way, repairs the hurtful masculine archetype of her heritage.
"When I weave organic materials, I hope to offer an act of affection that authoritarianism and sexism hid and infantilized in the bodies of my ancestry."
Cuencos de leche
Cuerpo de Leche is a mantle woven with threads of milk that follow the shape of the artist's grandfather's tomb. Through weaving this material, Juliana finds a way to understand the farmer lives of her lineage their hardships, and in a way, repairs the hurtful masculine archetype of her heritage.
"When I weave organic materials, I hope to offer an act of affection that authoritarianism and sexism hid and infantilized in the bodies of my ancestry."
Exhibitions
ESPACIO CONTINUO GALLERY- ARRULLOS
Solo show, Bogota - Colombia
September - November 2021
CASA HOFFMAN GALLERY – LUCIFERINAS
Collective exhibition, Bogota Colombia
April – May 2021
BANCO DE LA REPUBLICA MUSEUM– IRES Y
VENIRES/DIÁLOGOS EN TORNO A LA COLECCIÓN
Collective exhibition, Bogota Colombia
March 2021 - March 2022
NUEVEOCHENTA – CUERPO DE LECHE
Solo show, Bogota Colombia
November – December 2020
LOKKUS GALLERY – CON ESTA BOCA EN ESTE MUNDO
Collective exhibition, Medellin Colombia
October – December 2020
GOODMAN GALLERY - LA COURTE ÉCHELLE
Collective exhibition
July – August 2020
BIENNIAL12 MERCOSUL – FEMENINO(S). VISUALIDADES, ACCIONES Y AFECTOS.
PORTOALEGRE, BRASIL
Curatorship by Andrea Giunta
April – may 2020
YUNTA – PROYECTO BINARIO
Collective exhibition, Bogota Colombia
February – March 2020
ZONAMACO – ZILBERMAN GALLERY, CDMX
February 2020
45 SALON NACIONAL DE ARTISTAS, EL REVÉS DE LA TRAMA - LA FÁBULA DE ARACNE
Curatorship by Alejandro Martín
Collective exhibition, Bogota Colombia
September – November 2019
ARTBO - ZILBERMAN GALLERY
October 2019
XXI – MAMM (MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, MEDELLIN)
PASADO TIEMPO FUTURO, ARTE EN COLOMBIA EN EL SIGLO
Collective exhibition, Medellin Colombia
March – July 2019
ARTECAMARA – ARTBO 2018
“Todo lo tengo, todo me falta”
Curatorship by Carolina Ponce de León
Collective exhibition, Bogota Colombia
October 2018
MAC VAL MUSÈE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN - LES HUMEURS
Solo show, Vitry-sur-seine, Paris / Francia
October 2017 – January 2018
SPAIN EMBASSY Y COLSANITAS - ARTE JOVEN
Nueveochenta Gallery
Collective exhibition
July 2016
44 SALÓN NACIONAL DE ARTISTAS “AUN”
Todo lo que traigo lo llevo conmigo
Curatorship by Ximena Gama and Pamela Desjardins
Collective exhibition
September – October 2016
NOGUERAS BLANCHARD, BARCELONA MADRID
Collective exhibition
May – July 2016
FLORA ARS+NATURA, LABOR
Solo show
February – March 2016
BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA MUSEUM, NUEVOS NOMBRES
VERSIÓN 2013 – DESEQUILIBRIO Y MOVILIDAD
Collective exhibition
October 2013 – February 2014
Collections
Cuja. 2015-2016.
Handmade bed. Wooden frame lined with cowhide. Woven sheet with grains of rice and thread.
Banco de la República's art collection
Techo de leche y tierra. 2018-2019.
PAMM, Miami
Cuerpo de leche (process). 2019
Zona MACO Art Fair, Mexico