Iván Candeo (Caracas, 1983)

He currently lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. Since 2004, he was part of an independent study group made up of artists from different generations. In 2008 he obtained a degree as a Professor, with a specialization in Plastic Arts, at the Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador, Instituto Pedagógico de Caracas. He pursued studies in the Master’s program in History and Theory of the Plastic Arts at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and in the diploma program in Contemporary History at the Fundación Rómulo Betancourt. He has also carried out complementary studies in “experimental cinema” at the Aula Xcèntric of the CCCB. In 2018 he received the scholarship to study at the Laboratorio de Prácticas Audiovisuales Contemporáneas (Máster LAV), Madrid. In addition, he participated in the artist residency Lugar a Dudas, directed by the artist Óscar Muñoz, in Cali, Colombia.

Among his solo exhibitions: Hay un Goya en la sopa, Galería Alarcón Criado, Sevilla, Spain (2022); Sin Acto, Galería Carmen Araujo Arte, Caracas, Venezuela (2018); Correspondencias del Ultramar: Núria Güell e Iván Candeo, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela (2017); Corte En Movimiento. Oficina #1, Caracas, Venezuela (2015) and Identidad y Ruptura, Casa Sin Fin, Madrid, Spain (2014).

Candeo focuses on and confronts the relationship between image, movement, and history, identifying a series of contradictions and paradoxes. He approaches this question from the position of an intermediary who “lets images pass through” different aesthetic apparatuses of vision. He has participated in group exhibitions in various spaces in Latin America, the United States, Canada, and Europe.

Among them are: Unresolved Circumstances: Video Art from Latin America, MOLAA – Museum of Latin American Art, California (2010); When a Painting Moves… Something Must Be Rotten! Museo Sternesen, Oslo, Norway (2011); 8ª Bienal do Mercosul: ensaios de geopoética, Brazil (2011); Moving image / Alteration, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, (2012); Colonia apócrifa. Imágenes de la colonialidad en España, MUSAC (2014); Ibi Et Nunc: paradojas democráticas, LOOP, Barcelona, 2016; Propuesta para un archivo de vídeo, HAMACA – Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid (2018); El revés de la trama – 45 salón nacional de artistas, Bogotá, Colombia (2019); VHS (Video Home System), Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (2020); Entre nosotros y los otros: JUNTOS APARTE. MUNTREF Centro de Arte Contemporáneo y Museo de la Inmigración – Sede Hotel de Inmigrantes. Buenos Aires, Argentina (2022), among others.

Iván Candeo (Caracas, 1983)

He currently lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. Since 2004, he was part of an independent study group made up of artists from different generations. In 2008 he obtained a degree as a Professor, with a specialization in Plastic Arts, at the Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador, Instituto Pedagógico de Caracas. He pursued studies in the Master’s program in History and Theory of the Plastic Arts at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and in the diploma program in Contemporary History at the Fundación Rómulo Betancourt. He has also carried out complementary studies in “experimental cinema” at the Aula Xcèntric of the CCCB. In 2018 he received the scholarship to study at the Laboratorio de Prácticas Audiovisuales Contemporáneas (Máster LAV), Madrid. In addition, he participated in the artist residency Lugar a Dudas, directed by the artist Óscar Muñoz, in Cali, Colombia.

Among his solo exhibitions: Hay un Goya en la sopa, Galería Alarcón Criado, Sevilla, Spain (2022); Sin Acto, Galería Carmen Araujo Arte, Caracas, Venezuela (2018); Correspondencias del Ultramar: Núria Güell e Iván Candeo, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela (2017); Corte En Movimiento. Oficina #1, Caracas, Venezuela (2015) and Identidad y Ruptura, Casa Sin Fin, Madrid, Spain (2014).

Candeo focuses on and confronts the relationship between image, movement, and history, identifying a series of contradictions and paradoxes. He approaches this question from the position of an intermediary who “lets images pass through” different aesthetic apparatuses of vision. He has participated in group exhibitions in various spaces in Latin America, the United States, Canada, and Europe.

Among them are: Unresolved Circumstances: Video Art from Latin America, MOLAA – Museum of Latin American Art, California (2010); When a Painting Moves… Something Must Be Rotten! Museo Sternesen, Oslo, Norway (2011); 8ª Bienal do Mercosul: ensaios de geopoética, Brazil (2011); Moving image / Alteration, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, (2012); Colonia apócrifa. Imágenes de la colonialidad en España, MUSAC (2014); Ibi Et Nunc: paradojas democráticas, LOOP, Barcelona, 2016; Propuesta para un archivo de vídeo, HAMACA – Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid (2018); El revés de la trama – 45 salón nacional de artistas, Bogotá, Colombia (2019); VHS (Video Home System), Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (2020); Entre nosotros y los otros: JUNTOS APARTE. MUNTREF Centro de Arte Contemporáneo y Museo de la Inmigración – Sede Hotel de Inmigrantes. Buenos Aires, Argentina (2022), among others.