Episode 064: Nicolas Rupcich

Episode 064: Nicolas Rupcich

Kevin Kirkwood met with Nicolas at the Reiter Gallery in Berlin, Germany to talk about his recent solo exhibition titled, “Offline Islands”.  In this show, he  presented a series of video installations and works developed over the past two years as a result of an artist’s residency in the Arctic Circle. These works primarily address themes related to image production in remote regions of our planet and the often-paradoxical nature of these processes.

 

Nicolás Rupcich (Santiago, 1981) / Lives and works in Berlin.

He grew up in the Chiloé island in the south of Chile, before studying Fine Arts at Universidad Finis Terrae in Santiago, and then taking a Masters in Visual Arts at Universidad de Chile. He acquired a degree as a Meisterschüler in Media Arts at HGB Leipzig, supported by a DAAD scholarship in 2012. Since then, he has lived in Germany.

Rupcich works across a variety of media, focusing mainly on experimenting in photography, video and animation. Thematically, his works explore the functions, effects and behaviors related to the digital image, where what we see on a daily basis as conventions of the screen in fact alter and impact upon our understanding of reality.

His works have been exhibited in several video and media arts festival and exhibitions, including: Art Speaks Out, ikonoTV – COP27 (Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt 2022); Macro Asilo, Museum of Contemporary Art (Rome, Italy 2018); Video Sur, Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France 2018); Collage I – Methode, Fotogalerie Wien (Vienna, Austria 2017); Pacific Standard Time LA/LA: Video Art in Latin America, LAXART (L.A., USA 2017); Ars Electronica Festival, Best of Animation/Film/VFX, (Linz, Austria 2014); Transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, Germany 2012); 28 Kasseler Dokfest (Kassel, Germany 2011); Chili, l’envers du décor, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton (Paris, France 2010); and the 7º Bienal del Mercosur – Projetáveis (Porto Alegre, Brazil 2009).

 

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