Architect, artist and influenced by Olafur Eliasson still have a chance to see this installation by Tomás Saraceno. Until 15th January 2012 the main hall at the Hamburger Bahnof “Museum für Gegenwart” (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Berlin presents “Cloud Cities”, an installation by the Argentinian artist and architect Tomás Saraceno, as part of the Dornbracht Installation Projects series.

Dornbracht Installation Projects “Tomás Saraceno. Cloud Cities”.

Spiderwebs, astrophysics and legendary visionaries, such as Buckminster Fuller, are just some of Tomás Saraceno's sources of inspiration. He calls his works “biospheres”, organic dimensional meshworks that hover in the room, sometimes adorned with plants, sometimes simply suspended by black nets. Having originally studied architecture, the artist's starting point for his works is his interest in man’s current and future living environment and society.

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Concept: Meiré und Meiré
Production: CHBP

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Tomás Saraceno born San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina (1973). He lives and works between and beyond the planet earth. He has degree architect, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Argentina (1992-1999), Postgraduate on Art & Architecture, Escuela Superior de bellas Ares de la Nación Ernesto de la Carcova,(1999-2000),Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule-Frankfurt am Main,(2001-2003), Postgraduate on Art and Architecture, Venezia Italia- Progettazione e Produzione delle Arti Visive- IUAV,(2003-2004), International Space Studies Program, NASA Center Ames, Silicon Valley, California, Summer 2009.

He has a permanent installations as; "On clouds (Air-port-City)" in Towada Arts Center, Towada,(Japan) and "Flying Garden", EPO Munich, (Germany).

He had recibed awars as a Kunstpreis-1822, (2010), Calder Prize-Calder Foundation in asociation with Scone Fundation,(2009), Hessische Kulsturstiftung in Rotterdam,(2003-2004), el Fondo Nacional de las Artes-Argentina Italy-Venice IUAV(2003-2004) and the first Prize in Bundeswettbewerb des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung, (2003).

Saraceno has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, and permanent installations at museums and institutions internationally, including the Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania (2022); The Shed, New York (2022); Towada Art Center, Japan (2021); Carte Blanche at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018); Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires (2017); K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Standehaus, Dusseldorf (2013); the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2012); and Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2011), and is part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Fundació Sorigué Fundación Hortensia Herrero, Arnault Collection, Boros Collection Fontanals-Cisneros, TBA 21 (Thyssen Bornemisza Collection), Espace Muraille Dragonfly Collection, Fundación Helga de Alvear, Foster Collection, Sammlung KiCo, Kupferstichkabinett Museum Berlin, and QAGOMA Brisbane, among others.

Saraceno has participated in numerous festivals and bienales, including the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale (2020) and the 53rd and 58th Venice Bienales (2009, 2019).

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Published on: January 13, 2012
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