01/09/2024, 3:00 pm,

among trees, together. Talk and reading with nicolás paris and Merle Radtke

, Kunsthalle Münster

The exhibition Manigua makes it possible to immerse ourselves in other forms of knowledge and to gain a different perspective on our environment and the knowledge it contains. For the event among trees, together, nicolás paris and Merle Radtke invite you to immerse yourself in the texts placed at various points in the exhibition. The artist's expansive installation becomes a stage for collaborative experimentation, in which both the individual and togetherness play an important role. The exhibition becomes a classroom in which the aim is to see the world with one's own eyes, to measure it with one's own body, whereby an interplay unfolds that tells of individuality and community.

Manigua by nicolás paris is the first solo exhibition by the Colombian artist to be presented in a German institution. His work is a poetic resistance to conventions, rules and entrenched convictions. His working method, based on the act of drawing, on dialogue and elements drawn from architecture, aims to encourage open-ended and experimental learning processes. The knowledge arising from this practice allows for new ways of being together. paris thus transforms the exhibition space into a place of egalitarian, communal and exploratory exchange, centred on collective experience. Essentially, his work is inspired by his interest in the strategies and politics of nature and uses the forest as a role model for exchange and empathy.

The event will be held in English.

nicolás paris (born in 1977, in Bogotá, Colombia) works primarily in collaborative, interdisciplinary projects closely linked to questions of pedagogical strategies. His artistic practice includes drawings, videos, workshops, installations, object art, text and happenings. The focus of his work is on the structure of classrooms and pedagogical concepts. Having worked as a teacher in rural Colombia for several years, paris sees art as a form of dialogue in which experiences can be shared. In 2017, he founded the Institute for Radical Learning (InPAR): a place to mobilize collaborative processes and facilitate the activation of study groups. He was invited for projects based in educational research at MACBA, Barcelona (2022–2023), Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid (2022), Cultural Network of Banco de la República and MAMU, Bogota (2020–2024), INHOTIM Education residency programme, Brumadinho (2012) and Museum as Hub residency/New Museum Triennial, New York (2012), among others. His works have been shown in numerous international solo and group exhibitions: Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne (2021), Times Museum, Guangzhou (2019), El Museo Del Barrio, New York (2019), GovettBrewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth (2019), La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2016), CaixaForum, Barcelona (2017), MAC/CCB, Lisbon (2015–2016), XII Havana Biennial (2015), Grazer Kunstverein (2014), CEAAC, Strasbourg (2014), Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (2013), CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson (2013), MUAC, Mexico City, (2012), II Triennial of New Museum, New York (2012), XXX São Paulo Biennale (2012), 54th Venice Biennale (2011), XI Biennial of Lyon (2011) and Museum of Modern Art of Medellin (2009/2016/2023), among others.