Carlos Motta, Artist

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Screening | Gender Talents at Theater Freiburg, Jan 22 – Feb 15

December 29, 2014

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Award | Carlos Motta wins the Main Prize of the 3rd edition of the Future Generation Art Prize, 2014

December 8, 2014

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Carlos Motta (Colombia) and Nástio Mosquito (Angola) shared the Main Prize of the 3rd edition of the Future Generation Art Prize that was announced by the international jury at the award ceremony in the PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine on Dec 6, 2014. Artists will share the award of $100,000 ($60,000 in cash and $40,000 to be invested in the production of new works).

Future Generation Art Prize is the first global art prize for artists up to 35 founded by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2009 with the aim of acknowledging and giving long-term support to a future generation of artists wherever they live and work.

The winners were chosen by the respected international jury consisting of Francesco Bonami – Curator, Director of the 50th Biennale di Venezia (Italy); Jan Fabre – Artist (Belgium); Doris Salcedo – Artist (Colombia);Eckhard Schneider – General Director of the PinchukArtCentre (Ukraine); Bisi Silva – Independent curator, Director for the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (Nigeria); Adam Szymczyk – Artistic director of documenta 14 (Poland) and Philip Tinari – Director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing (China).

Carlos Motta and Nástio Mosquito, as the Winners of the Main Prize, both will present their solo shows in the PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv in autumn 2015.

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Screening | “Nefandus” at Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, La Habana, Cuba

November 26, 2014

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Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, La Habana

4-14 diciembre, 2014

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Screening | “Nefandus” at the Rencontres Internationales in Paris, December

November 24, 2014

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LES RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES À PARIS
Du 1er au 7 décembre 2014 à Paris, les Rencontres Internationales créeront pendant 7 jours à la Gaîté lyrique, un espace de découverte et de réflexion entre nouveau cinéma et art contemporain en présence d’invités du monde entier.

Nefandus will be screened: at Gaîté Lyrique, on Thursday December 4 – 14.15 PM

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Group Exhibition | Migraciones, Galería de Arte del Palacio Municipal, Puebla

November 21, 2014

INVITACION MIGRACIONES

Group Exhibition | Salon de belleza in Utopian Pulse — Flares in the Darkroom, Secession, Vienna, Oct. 22- Nov. 2

September 18, 2014

Salón de Belleza in Utopian Pulse — Flares in the Darkroom 22 October — 02 November 2014 Utopian Pulse — Flares in the Darkroom is a research exhibition divided into 8 salons, curated by a group of artist-curators and perceived as places for the monstrous birth of new alliances. We understand »Utopia« as an always incomplete alternative, the invocation within the given world of something incompatible with, and hostile to, given condition, an assertion of the unrealized in and against the real.

The 7 Salons of Utopian Pulse – Flares in the Darkroom taking place from September 10 to November 2 are curated by Christoph Schäfer, Mariam Ghani, Bert Theis, Zanny Begg, AND AND AND, Pedro G. Romero/Máquina P.H., Miguel A. López.

Salón de Belleza curated by Miguel A. López. With Carlos Motta, Sandra Monterroso, Giuseppe Campuzano, André Masseno, Sergio Zevallos, Virginia de Medeiros, Jaume Ferrete, Open Barbers (Greygory Vass and Felix Lane).

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Screening | “Nefandus” at Muestra internacional documental de Bogotá, October 19

September 17, 2014

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Screening and Talk | Marine Hugonnier et Carlos Motta, Jeu de Paume, Paris October 14, 6:30pm

September 16, 2014

Inventer le possible. Une Vidéothèque éphémère

Projections & rencontres avec Marine Hugonnier et Carlos Motta

le 14 octobre 2014

18h30 – 21h00

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Group Exhibition | Inventer le possible: Une vidéothèque éphémère, Jeu de Paume, Paris, Oct. 14- Feb. 8

September 9, 2014

Inventing the Possible: Ephemeral Video Library

The artists
Edgardo Aragón Díaz; Yto Barrada; Eric Baudelaire; Ursula Biemann; Wim Catrysse; Martin Le Chevallier; Declinación Magnética; Theo Eshetu; Mahdi Fleifel; Yang Fudong; Sirah Foighel Brutmann et Eitan Efrat; Peter Friedl; Pauline Horovitz; Marine Hugonnier; Hayoun Kwon; Naeem Mohaiemen; Wendy Morris; Carlos Motta; Els Opsomer; Daniela Ortiz & Xosé Quiroga; Anxiong Qiu; Khvay Samnang; Allan Sekula; Hito Steyerl; Atsushi Wada; Artur Żmijewski.

Curators
Hilde Van Gelder, professor of modern and contemporary art history at KU Leuven and director of the Lieven Gevaert Centre for Photography, and Marta Ponsa, head of art projects and cultural outreach, Jeu de Paume.

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Screening and Talk | Conversations at the Edge, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 2, 6pm

September 9, 2014

Carlos Motta: Nefandus Trilogy
Thursday, October 2, 6:00 p.m.
Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Carlos Motta in person

Carlos Motta’s practice draws upon various political histories in an attempt to articulate counter narratives that recognize suppressed histories, communities, and identities. Composed of the three films NefandusShipwreck (Naufragios),and The Defeated (La visión de los vencidos), his 2013 Nefandus Trilogy is a haunting examination of pre-Hispanic homoeroticism and its brutal stigmatization during Europe’s colonization of the Americas. Motta accompanies the trilogy with excerpts from his ongoing Democracy Cycle, including We Who Feel Differently (2011), a database documentary that addresses critical issues of contemporary queer culture, and Gender Talents(in-progress), a multiplatform documentary on international trans and intersex activism.

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