Jordi Colomer

Born in 1962 in Barcelona, Spain. Lives and works in Barcelona.

Colomer works in the field of sculpture and installations, photography and video art, and all its activity is tinged with a marked performative sense, testing through actions the usual uses of architecture and urban space. Colomer is interested in the system of representations of the city and our ability to subvert them. Underlying themes such as nomadism, the periphery, the popular imagination, traditions, humor, community, the provisional, fiction and utopia emerge from this research.

He was the representative of the Spanish pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017) curated by Manuel Segade, with the project Join Us!. Since 2018, together with Carolina Olivares, she founded La Infinita, a self-managed creation laboratory and meeting place between visual arts and living arts, based in Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona). Since 2021, the EINA Foundation has promoted the eina-idea platform and co-curated the cycle of “ambush” artistic interventions. From 1991 to 2016 Colomer has lived between Barcelona and Paris.

His work has been exhibited in numerous museums, art centers and biennials. such as the Reina Sofía Museum and Matadero (Madrid), the Jeu de Paume and the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Belvedere 21 (Vienna), Bronx Museum of the Arts (New York), Arte Alameda (Mexico City), 7 Mercosur Biennial (Porto Alegre, Brazil), MAAT (Lisbon), Bozar and Argos (Brussels) or ZKU, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (Berlin), Palazzina dei Giardini FMAV (Modena). Colomer has participated in two editions of Manifesta, the European biennial: Manifesta 10, St. Petersburg (Russia) 2014, Manifesta 12, Palermo, (Sicily) 2018. In 2024, the Macba (Barcelona) dedicated an extensive retrospective to him, curated by Martí Peran, presenting more than 50 works from the late 80s to 2024. He is currently preparing a project for the Kunst festivaldes Arts in Brussels.

Colomer studied at the Eina school of design and art, History of Art at the Autonomous University and Architecture at the ETSAB in Barcelona. Colomer has also worked as a set designer: Olga Sola (Joan Brossa), Final de Partida (Samuel Beckett), Perfect lives (Robert Ashley), Letter to the actors (Valère Novarina). He has given numerous workshops: (recent selection): 2025: X-RUHR (an imaginary map), Urbane Künste Ruhr, Bochum (Germany). 2023: X-Buenos Aires. The educating village. Profesorado Pueblos de América, Villa 21-24, Buenos Aires (with Paulina Vera). 2019: “Momento-Monumento”. Soma Mexico. Mexico City. 2019: ”La post banlieue”. ESA Aix-en-Provence (FR). 2018: “A guided tour” Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam (Holland) (with Andrea Rodríguez Novoa). 2018: “New Palermo Felicissima”. Experimental Center of Cinematography, Palermo (Italy). 2016: « Welcome to Caveland? », ENSA Architecture, Paris-Malaquais, in collaboration with Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers (Centre Dramatique National), Paris. (with Yann Rocher).