Marcello Mercado, Portfolio, Biography, 2023
Marcello Mercado
Born in Argentine in 1963. German citizen. He studied at the Academy of Media Arts Köln, Germany and at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. He lives and works in Pcia. Roque Sáenz Peña, Chaco, Argentina and in Köln, Germany
Mercado works across new media, bioart, soundart, interactive performances, drawing, painting and post-internet arts. He explores the relationship between technology, cultural biology and art, with a special interest in the interaction between digital and organic materials.
In his works, the line, the dot, the human body, and society are approached as living beings, which illustrate commentaries on the contemporary experience. In vertiginous collages, cellular multiplications and other organic processes, which obey solely their own laws, appear side by side with the seemingly messy amalgam of nuances from a world ruled by confusion and data overload.
Mercado bridges gaps between digital and organic worlds. He investigates the limits of the images.
Based on the fact that all the images are going to be lost, the question would be: Which ones could remain in time and why?
Fellowships:
1996 at The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation and The Lampadia Foundation;
1999 at The Academy of Media Arts Köln. Germany;
1993 at Fundación Antorchas. Buenos Aires Argentina and The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation.
2014 Grant from the Digital Synesthesia Group, Department of Digital Art, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
2013 Grant for Media Art from the Foundation of Lower Saxony at the Edith-Russ- Haus for Media Art
2012 Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica in Interactive Art;
2009 His work “Das Kapital” was selected in the exhibition “40 Years Videoart Germany” by Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Technologie. Karlsruhe. Germany;
2005 Nominated at The 50 Best, International\Media\Art\Award 2004, by Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Technologie, ZKM
2001 La Biennale di Venezia, Special Projects: Bunker Poético, curated by
Marco Rotelli;
Premio Konex, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2000 Post-Production Residence in Centre International du Creation Vidéo Pierre Schaeffer Montbéliard Belfort France;
Wie mann sieht…Museum Ludwig, Cologne; curated by Siegfried Zielinski and Jürgen Klauke
The First Prize Videobrasil;
1999 Grand Prix de La Création Vidéo. Vidéoformes, Clermont-Ferrand. France;
Wand5 – Stuttgart: Nominierungen Best Netart, 1999
1999-2001 Fellow at The Academy of Media Arts Köln. Germany;
1998 and 2001 The First Prize Videobrasil;
1997 Achievement Award. Melbourne International Film & Video Festival, Australia;
He participated in the Goethe Institutes Global Bodies, Global teleconference, Opening of Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany 1996 Fellow at The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation and The Lampadia Foundation;
1995 Main Prize 22nd EKOTOPFILM’95. Bratislava. Slovak Republic;
Nominated for the best video of the year, Internationaler Videokunstpreis, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie
ZKM, SWF, ORF, Karlsruhe, Germany
1994 The Main Prize Videofest Berlin
Grand Prix de Toutes Categories. 4a Mondial de la Video. Bruxelles, Belgium 1993 Grant at Fundación Antorchas and The Rockefeller Foundation and The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Mercado has participated in several art exhibitions, including Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien; Museum Museum Ludwig, Cologne; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid; Kunsthaus Dresden; 51st Venice Biennale; MAMBA, Buenos Aires; 11th Biennale de l ́Image en Mouvement, Ginebra; The Taipei Fine Arts Museum; Berkeley Art Museum; II Biennial of Mercosul; Itaú Cultural, São Paulo; New York Video Festival.Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center, etc
Exhibitions:
2022 Lo próximo y lo extraño – The next and the strange
curated by Celeste Massin, Solo Show
MUBA – Museo de Bellas Artes René Brusau, Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina
REVIRAVOLTA
Curated by Solange Farkas, Group Show, Galeria Homero Massena, ES, Brasil
2021 Marcello Mercado: Sense and Sensitivity I Galerie Bernet Bertram, Berlin, Germany
Confinamentos
Curated by Videobrasil, On-line /Group Show
2020/2021 Beethoven bewegt/ Beethoven moves,
curated by Andreas Kugler, Jasper Sharp, Stefan Weppelmann and Andreas Zimmermann
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Austria
2018 Join the Dots/Unire le distanze,
curated by Nicolas Vamvouklis, Luca Beatrice, Luciano Benetton, Salone degli Incanti, ex Pescheria Centrale, Trieste, Italy
2017 Potential Spaces. Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe (HfG). Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM). Karlsruhe. Germany Bepi Crespan Presents, CiTR FM 101.9 Radio Vancouver, Vancouver
2016 In Medias Res, Bernet – Bertram Galerie, Berlin
Digital Synesthesia, Angewandte Innovation Lab (AIL)
The University of Applied Arts Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Digital Synesthesia, ISEA, Hong Kong
Bodenlos / Groundless, Vilém Flusser und die Künste, SESC Sao Paulo DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prag
2015 Bodenlos / Groundless, Vilém Flusser und die Künste, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie; Akademie der Künste, Berlin
European Media Art Festival, EMAF, Osnabrück, Germany
Imago Mundi. Luciano Benetton Collection, M
appa dell’arte nuova,
Fondazione Giorgio Cini,
Venice, Italy
XWRA Video and Media Festival 2015, XWRA, Artland, Greece Bienal Internacional de Performance BP.15, Buenos Aires, Argentina roBOt Festival, Bologna, Italia
2014 BIO·FICTION Science Art Film Festival, Museum of Natural History, Vienna Grant from the Digital Synesthesia Group, Department of Digital Art, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
Poéticas de Archivo, Historias del video arte argentino, MACBA, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires
Kunstfrühling 2014, Bremen
Bepi Crespan Presents, CiTR FM 101.9 Radio Vancouver, Vancouver
2013 Grant for Media Art from the Foundation of Lower Saxony at the Edith-Russ- Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany
2012 Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica in Interactive Art, Linz, Austria
2009 His work “Das Kapital” was selected in the exhibition “40 Years Videoart Germany” by Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Technologie. Karlsruhe, Germany, curated by Christopher Blase and Peter Weibel
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany;
Kunsthaus Dresden Städtische Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Dresden, Germany;
Lennox Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2007 El lienzo es la pantalla. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, curated by Berta Sichel
2006 Georges Abstraction. Centre Pompidou. Paris. France, curated by Bureau des Videos
2005 Biennial of Moving Images (BIM), Genéve, Switzerland
2004 New York Video Festival. Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, USA 2003 Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan curated by Andreas Walther 2002 Radiotopia, OE1 Kunstradio, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2001 La Biennale di Venezia, Special Projects: Bunker Poético, curated by Marco Rotelli
Post-Production Residence in Centre International du Creation Vidéo Pierre Schaeffer Montbéliard Belfort France;
Wie mann sieht…Museum Ludwig, Cologne; curated by Siegfried Zielinski and Jürgen Klauke
The First Prize Videobrasil; GND_Earth Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2000 Tent Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, USA
Biennial Interferences, Centre de Video Creation Pierre Schaeffer, France Art Biennial Buenos Aires Argentina, Argentina
1999 Grand Prix de La Création Vidéo. Vidéoformes, Clermont-Ferrand. France;
1999-2001 Fellow at The Academy of Media Arts Köln. Germany;
1998 and 2001 The First Prize Videobrasil;
1997 Achievement Award. Melbourne International Film & Video Festival, Australial;
1996 Fellow at The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation and The Lampadia Foundation;
1995 Main Prize 22nd EKOTOPFILM’95. Bratislava. Slovak Republic; Leeds International Film Festival, UK
1994 The Main Prize Videofest Berlin
Grand Prix de Toutes Categories. 4a Mondial de la Video. Bruxelles, Belgium
1993 Grant at Fundación Antorchas and The Rockefeller Foundation and The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,
