SoloJSN, the new platform hosted by Colección, creates SOLO AI ‘23 AWARDS to promote artificial intelligence as a medium for artistic experimentation. The winning artwork will be part of the upcoming exhibition at Espacio SOLO in 2023.
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Colección SOLO joined Untitled Art 2022 (Miami) for the first time with the ‘Colección SOLO Acquisition Award’. The ceremony took place on December 1st and the award was given to the following artists: Alba Fernanda Triana, Pablo Benzo and Aglaé Bassens.
Koka Nikoladze, composer and sound artist who lives in Oslo, presented on 21st November his latest project: Koka’s Self-Applauding Machine. An electromagnetic sculpture that can play several sound landscapes self-sufficiently and which, involving the performer and his audience, questions the role of the…
The Dutch collective SMACK uses videogame engines to confront us with our group behaviour and show the hegemony of collective truths in the face of our ability to doubt. Tribe War, a live generative work, reflects on culture wars and our inability…
Certeza, an exhibition that proposes a collective reflection on what we take for granted, through the work of artists such as Amoako Boafo, Alex Hug, filip custic, Chino Moya, SMACK , Botto, Nick Cave and
Matadero Madrid, Centre for Contemporary Creation, a public arts space of Madrid City CouncilArea for Culture, Tourism and Sports, presents the exhibition The Garden of Earthly Delights, through the artworks of Colección SOLO, an invitation to revisit Bosch’s work through the prism…
Dutch artistic trio SMACK released ‘Tribe Characters’, their first NFT art project. Mario Klingemann, novakzen collective and Filip Custic, the artist behind Rosalía’s visual universe, also presented NFT works supported by Onkaos , an initiative to foster new media…
Colección SOLO has extended Still Human until 20th December 2021.
David Altmejd, Mario Klingemann, Tomoo Gokita, Neo Rauch, Nina Saunders, Nam June Paik, Evru/Zush and Miriam Cahn feature in this dialogue on how we create, observe and interact with new developments.
Colección SOLO’s artist Juan Díaz-Faes shows in Paris for the first time, brining his infinite patterns to the arts venue, Point Ephemere, in an exhibition that runs until 18 October. Cement, wood, ceramic, canvas and artificial intelligence serve as media for an artist whose works…
An artwork in which optical readers transform celluloid into musical compositions has won the €10,000 first prize in the PowSOLO Awards, created by Colección SOLO together with the Dutch collective, Powland Network. The winning piece, selected from 116 entries to the international open call,…
Juan Díaz-Faes, Ryan Heshka and Sergio Mora team up with Spanish fine jewellery firm, Joyería Suarez, to produce Silver Squad, a collection of 14 pieces crafted in sterling silver, infused with pop-culture energy and vintage chic. Silver Squad reflects the aim of…
On 17th September we will announce the winners of the PowSOLO Awards in a ceremony broadcast live with our partners and friends @powland.tv.
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Limited by SOLO is a new space for exclusive, curated and certified artworks. Developed by Colección SOLO, this project is an invitation to share, enjoy and support international contemporary art.
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Colección SOLO and Powland Network Powcademy, an Amsterdam-based collective dedicated to promoting sound art, launch the Powsolo Awards to recognise the best works in this artistic discipline.
The awards have been launched with the aim of supporting and recognising the best international sound artworks through…
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Packing is always a nightmare. Whether you’re heading for a full-blown adventure or squeezing your stuff into tiny hand luggage, getting ready for a trip is a challenge in itself. More so for the artist, Mario Klingemann, whose works are…
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“I’m a storyteller and an observer. And I don’t want to pretend to be someone I’m not.” Mu Pan (Taichung City, 1976) is unequivocal. Visual tales are intrinsic to human experience, the places we go to discover new worlds and…
Espacio SOLO Madrid is currently hosting the most ambitious retrospective to date and first museum presentation by the artist, Mu Pan. The exhibition brings together over 20 works by this master of visual narrative, many of which have never been shown in Europe before,…
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Think KAWS and Companion immediately comes to mind. The cartoon character with X-ed out eyes, blobby bone ears and Disneyesque gloves has come to be synonymous with the Brooklyn-based phenomenon, Brian Donnelly, aka KAWS. Since its first appearance back…
Juan Herreros, the architect who designed SOLO’s home, chats to us about this extraordinary project, winner of the prestigious Madrid College of Architects Awards 2018.
From the outset, Espacio SOLO was conceived as a space in permanent flux. It houses an art collection but is…
If you were a urinal, where would you rather live? In a bathroom or on a gallery wall? In 1917, Marcel Duchamp turned a manufactured piss pot into a gallery exhibit named Fountain; the work caused an earthquake in the arts establishment and is…
In 2002, The New York Times baptised him as “the painter who came in from the cold.” Eight years later, Vogue Italia made it even simpler: Neo Rauch is a “contemporary art master.” So whether you’re into Cold War spy glamour or not,…
When it comes politics, Marcel Dzama is unequivocal: “I think it’s an important time for artists to make as much noise about it as we can,” he told Juxtapoz magazine earlier this year. Now, his personal brand of subversion arrives to Madrid in the…
“I don’t really consider myself art-world material,” Danny Fox told GQ magazine in late 2016. This self-taught painter is the archetypal outsider: a stylistic loner, doing his own thing, his naïve creations apparently out of synch with aesthetic trends. Yet in that…
Mighty Mouse has lost the will to fight. He kneels on the ground, distraught, his face in his hands, while two smiling children look on, apparently delighting in the superhero’s distress. This is Broken Hearts by Victor Castillo, the title work for…
With Kenichi Hoshine’s oil painting, Fever – the latest edition to Colección SOLO –well on its way to Madrid, it’s the ideal time to discover this talented Brooklyn-based artist. His work joins a select group of pieces by figures such as Karim…
“It’s one of those gloomy things like cancer. It’ll happen to you. You’ll have a heart attack from political correctness,” said lifelong mischief maker, Peter Saul, during an interview in New York last month. No chance of suffering death by diplomacy at…
The exciting new installation, Skate Wall 01, by Spanish artist Juan Díaz-Faes, puts the spotlight on skate culture at Colección SOLO, home to boarding luminaries such as Haroshi and former pro skaters like San Francisco-based Andrew Schoultz. Whether as inspiration,…
“Peter Saul demands our full attention,” says Philipp Demandt, Director of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Forerunner of the Pop Art movement, pioneer of Bad Painting and eternal outsider, Peter Saul has been poking critical fun at contemporary society since the 1950s, yet has…
“Without music, life would be a mistake,” wrote Friedrich Nietzsche in Twilight of the Idols. It’s a view shared by the Musseu del Disseny de Barcelona, which this week opens David Bowie Is, curated by the Victoria & Albert Museum. With over 300…
From Evrugo Mental State to Nobson Newtown, from Clown Squid to Whoriders and Lizardmen, parallel worlds and their intriguing inhabitants form an essential part of Colección SOLO.
“People see it as a virtual or imaginary space but to me it’s absolutely real,” says the landmark Spanish…