Felipe Castelblanco
b. 1985, Bogotá, Colombia. Lives and works in Basel. CH
Education:
2017 – 2021 PhD. University of Arts Linz (AT) and Basel Academy of Art and Design, University Northwestern Switzerland FHNW.
2010 – 2013 MFA (MA), Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA. USA
2003 – 2008 Degree in Visual Arts (BFA), Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia.
Selected Solo Shows:
2025 – Counter Expedition (10-year Retrospective) Haus für Medienkunst Oldenburg, DE
2024 – Water Territories. Museum Miguel Urrutia, Bank of the Republic. Bogotá, COL
2021 – Cartographies of the Unseen, Ausstellungsraum Klingental. Basel, CH
2019 – Driftless, La Bande Video Gallery as part of the Quebec Biennial CA
2015 – We Out Here, Royal Academy Schools. London, UK
2015 – The People’s Island. Negros Museum, Bacolod, PH
2013 – The Foreigner (collaboration with Jon Rubin), The San Diego Museum of Art, USA
Selected Group Shows:
2026 – Frame and Frequency at VISARTS Center. Rockville, MD. USA
2025 – What If (Was wäre wenn?) Kornhaus Forum, Bern CH
2025 – Unter Pflanzen (Curated by Yvonne Volkart and Kathrin Meyer) Museum Sinclair-Haus. Bad Homburg. DE
2024 – El Ombligo del Mundo at LA CAPSULA, Zürich. CH
2024 – Structures of Reciprocity at Jam Factory Art Center, Lviv. UA
2023 – Main Exhibition, Ars Electronica. Linz, AT
2023 – Bienal Sur, Museo Caraffa. Cordoba, AR
2023 – Taoyuan Museum of Fine Art Award. Taoyuan City, TW
2023 – Vibrant Waters at Temporary Art Gallery, Colgne. DE
2022 – Rio Arriba at “Weather Engines”. Onassis Stegi, GR
2021 – Inside the Amazon. Kunsthaus Baselland. Basel, CH
2021 – WOHIN, Helmhaus Zürich, CH
2020 – Té de Bogotá, Wild Palms Gallery Düsseldorf Photo, DE
2019 – Seasons of Media, Z.K.M. Museum, Karlsruhe, DE
2018 – Antisistemicas Exhibition. Cámara de Comercio Gallery. Bogota, COL
2016 – Queens International, Queens Museum. New York, USA
Selected Film, Screenings, Media & Participatory Art Festivals:
2026 – IMPACT Festival, Utrecht NL
2025 – Helvetropicos. Istituto Svizzero, Palermo. IT
2024 – Aesthetica Short Film Festival. York. UK
2021 – 3D Mapping and Public Intervention. Culturescapes Festival, Kaserne. Basel CH
2021 – Outdoor Screening and 3D Mapping. Sconfinare festival. Bellinzona, CH
2023 – Videonale 19, Kunstmuseum Bonn, DE
2019 – 4 x 4 Days of Motion Festival, Prague, CZE
2016 – Prospect Art Festival. CEC Arts Link. St Petersburg, RU
Selected Awards, Fellowships and Residencies:
2023 – Finalist, Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts International Art Award. TW
2022 – Studio Verde. Madre de Dios, Peru. Supported by Prohelvetia South America and Amazon Aid.
2022 – MATZA and Edgelands Institute. Supported by Prohelvetia South America. Medellin. CO
2020 – Finalists, Research Breakthrough. Falling Walls Foundation. Berlin, DE
2019 – Fellow, Sommer Akademie Paul Klee. HKB, Bern CH
2019 – Artist in Residency, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Captiva, Florida, USA
2014 – Starr Fellowship, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK
2014 – American Arts Incubator: US Cultural Emissary to the Philippines. US State Department + ZERO1, CA. USA – PH
Selected Conferences and Lectures:
2026 – (Lecture) In the Making Lecture Series at West, The Hague, NL
2025 – (Talk and Hosting) Plants_Intelliegence Symposium, HGK Basel CH.
2025 – (Paper) Flying Rivers of the Pan-Amazon. At Symposium “Extractivisms – Earth Exploitation and Data Mining”, Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel. DE
2023 – (Lecture) M.A. Symposium. IAGN, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, CH
2022 – (Paper) at Levels of Life. Photographers Gallery and University of Arts London, UK
2021 – (Lecture) M.A. Symposium. IAGN, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, CH
2020 – (Presenter and Moderator) Anthropocene Curriculum, HKW Berlin, GERMANY
2019 – (Paper) at Vaping Networks, University of Art and Design Linz, AUSTRIA
2017 – (Guest Speaker) Lecture Series, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, IR
2017 – (Paper) Passages and Crossings. CAA Conference. New York, USA
2016 – (Lecture) Borderless TV. Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne, GERMANY
2016 – (Artist Talk), Art Prospect Festival, St Petersburg, RUSSIA.
2016 – (Guest Speaker), San Francisco Art Institute. California, USA.
2015 – (Lecture) The Para-Site School. Creative Time Summit. 54th Venice Biennale IT
2015 – (Lecture) “Politics of the Archive” Tate Modern Summer, London, UK
2015 – (Artist Talk and Workshop) “The People’s Monument”. South London Gallery, UK
2015 – (Artist Talk) Green Papaya Projects. Manila, PHILIPPINES
2014 – (Lecture) Starr Fellow, Royal Academy of Arts. London, UK
Selected Writing:
Castelblanco, Felipe 2026. Iridescent Forests: On Vegetal Resistance and Enlightenments (Book Chapter) In: Extractivisms: On Planetary Exploitation and Data Mining, Berlin and Boston. Eds. Christiane Kruse, Hauke Ohls, Michael Klipphahn-Karge. De Gruyter, 2026 (Forthcoming)
Castelblanco, Felipe 2025. “Jajañe-Chagra-Garden: La Chagra de La Vida. Plant Intelligence as Becomings.” Edited by Yvonne Volkart, Dominique Raemy, Sigrid Adorf, Noëmie Stähli, and Julia Wolf. Insert.Art, no. 7 (Issue: August 2025).
Castelblanco, Felipe. 2025. “Borrachero„ Teufelsatem“, Engelstrompete: was möchte diese Pflanze von uns?” In Unter Pflanzen. Edited by Yvonne Volkart and Kathrin Meyer. Stiftung Kunst und Natur, Museum Sinclair-Haus.
Castelblanco, Felipe. 2022. “Vertical Fabulations: The Clouds, The Tree and The Coulds.” Edited by Rasa Smite, Jens Hauser, Raitis Šmits, and Kristin Bergaust. Acoustic Space. Green Revisited: Encountering Emerging Naturecultures in Art and Research 19 (4): 193–202.
Castelblanco, Felipe. 2022. “We Feel the Forest Like We Feel the Skin: A Conversation With Taita Hernando Chindoy.” In Amazon as Cosmology, edited by Kateryna Botanova and Quinn Latimer. Sternberg Press.
Selected Press and Reviews
2025 – Exhibition Review: Fertile socio-ecological relationships moor Felipe Castelblanco’s Counter Expeditions. By Mrinmayee Bhoot for Stir World Magazine
2026 (Book Chapter) Ohls, Hauke. “Art as Pluriversal Practice in Cartographies of the Unseen”. In: Linhart, Jan; Mora-Motta, Alejandro et. al (Hg.): Pluriversal Dialogues on Environmental Ethics: Decolonizing Scientific Practice to Build Futures Beyond Development’. Berlin: Springer, 2026.
2024 (Book Chapter) Sanguino, Jorge. “Künstlerkollektive Mit Neue Strategien in Der Zeitgenössischen Indigenen Gemeinschaften: Kolumbianischen Kunst.” In Kritik Des Neo-Extraktivismus in Der Gegenwartskunst, edited by Hauke Ohls, Birgit Mersmann, Petra Löffler, Claudia Mareis, and Florian Sprenger, 135–45. Meson press. doi:10.14619/2362.
2015 – The Foreigner. Neural Magazine, Italy. (Issue # 48)
2014 – Anthem, Sound Space as Political Space. Neural Magazine, Italy. (Issue # 46)
2010 – Andy in the Andes, Carnegie Museum Magazine. USA.