Jordi Colomer
Born in 1962 in Barcelona, where he lives and works.
Jordi Colomer is a multidisciplinary artist known for his work with sculpture, installations, photography and video art, with which he tests urban systems of representations and our capacity to subvert them.
Colomer’s interests range from themes such as nomadism, the periphery, popular narratives, precariousness and fiction. From the 1990s onwards, and while living between Paris and Barcelona, Colomer began to experiment with the possibilities of sculpture to expand into scenography and architecture, with a markedly performative component. Colomer’s work is characterised by minimalist formal language and emphasis on narrative. Influenced by his training in art, design, history and architecture, Colomer’s work revisits the place of the spectator in the exhibition space and opens up to the urban space.
Colomer represented Spain at the Venice Biennale in 2017 with the project “¡Únete! Join Us!”, a relational exhibition curated by Manuel Segade that explored movement as a radical way of thinking about the social imaginary. In 2024, MACBA in Barcelona dedicated an extensive retrospective to the artist, with over 50 works from the late 1980s to the present day. Colomer is currently working on a project for KunstfestivaldesArts in Brussels.
Colomer’s work has been exhibited in numerous museums, art centres and biennials, including 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; Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin; among many others. Colomer has participated in several editions of Manifesta, in Palermo and Saint Petersburg; in the 7th Mercosur Biennial, Porto Alegre; and the 57th Venice Biennial.
Colomer has also worked as a set designer for theatre productions by Samuel Beckett, Robert Ashley and Joan Brossa, among others, and as an educator in workshops in institutions around the world.
His work can be found in collections such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Fundación “la Caixa”, Barcelona; Centre George Pompidou, Paris; MUMOK, Vienna; FRAC Rhône-Alpes, Lyon; MACBA, Barcelona; among many others.