Jordi Colomer is a multidisciplinary artist known for his work with sculpture, installations, photography, and video art, through which he challenges the systems of city representation and our ability to subvert them.
Interested in themes such as nomadism, the periphery, popular imagination, and fiction, Colomer began experimenting in the 1990s, splitting his time between Paris and Barcelona. He explored the possibilities of sculpture that expanded into scenographic and architectural realms, imbued with a strong performative sense. Colomer’s work shares a minimalist formal language and a narrative character. Influenced by his background in art, design, history, and architecture, Colomer’s work examines the role of the viewer in the exhibition space and opens toward the urban environment.
Colomer represented Spain at the 2017 Venice Biennale with the project “¡Únete! Join Us!”, a relational exhibition curated by Manuel Segade that explored movement as a radical way of thinking about social imagination. In 2024, MACBA in Barcelona dedicated a major retrospective to him, featuring over 50 works from the late 1980s to the present. He is currently preparing a project for the KunstenfestivaldesArts in Brussels.
Colomer’s work has been exhibited in numerous museums, art centers, and biennials, such as the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Matadero Madrid; Jeu de Paume, Paris; Belvedere 21, Vienna; Arte Alameda, Mexico City; Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin; among many others. Colomer has participated in several editions of Manifesta in Palermo and St. Petersburg, the 7th Mercosur Biennial in Porto Alegre, and the 57th Venice Biennale.
In addition, Colomer has worked as a set designer for theatrical productions by Samuel Beckett, Robert Ashley, and Joan Brossa, among others, and as an educator in workshops at institutions worldwide.
Colomer’s work is part of collections such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; the “la Caixa” Foundation, Barcelona; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the MUMOK, Vienna; the FRAC Rhône-Alpes, Lyon; the MACBA, Barcelona; among many others.