PABLO LINSAMBARTH
2024
Pablo Linsambarth Cartagena. Visual artists. Santiago, Chile. 1989
Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts, Title of Painter from Universidad de Chile, and Master's degree in Arts, specializing in Visual Arts, from the same institution. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Fine Arts at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
He lives and works between Santiago, Chile, and Madrid, Spain.
In 2016, he was awarded a scholarship by the AADK Network Spain platform to carry out a project and artistic residency in the city of Murcia, Spain, receiving funding from the same organization to produce a video-documentary in various locations in Morocco. He has exhibited both individually and collectively inside and outside of Chile, showcasing his work at various institutions, galleries, museums, art fairs, and artist residencies. Among them include the Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos (Santiago, Chile); Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (ICPNA), Lima, Peru; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires (MACBA), Argentina; Centro Párraga in Murcia, Spain; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago (MAC), Chile; El Apartamento Gallery, Madrid, Spain; Patricia Ready Gallery, Santiago, Chile; D21 Gallery, Santiago, Chile; Vigil Gonzáles Gallery, Cusco, Peru; ARCO Madrid Art Fair, Spain; NADA NYC and NADA Miami, USA; ZONA MACO, Mexico City, Mexico; Hangar Art Residency / Research and Artistic Creation Center, Lisbon, Portugal; ZK-U, Berlin, Germany; Reset Proa 21, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has also been featured in publications and catalogs in specialized contemporary art magazines and newspapers such as ART News, Artishock, Terremoto, El País, Babelia, Artes y Letras de El Mercurio, and La Panera, among others. He has been awarded the FONDART grant twice in the categories of "Ventanilla Abierta: International Circulation" and "Ventanilla Abierta: Residencies."
His work has been acquired by renowned collections and institutions, highlighting El Espacio 23, Miami, USA; ArtNexus, Miami, USA and Latin America; Il Posto, Santiago, Chile; ICPNA Collection, Lima, Peru; Kells Collection, Santander, Spain; Aldebarán Collection, Madrid, Spain; Engel Foundation, Santiago, Chile; Colección Ca.Sa, Santiago, Chile, among others
STATEMENT

In the last 10 years, I have been investigating the ways in which art can relate to everyday political life. The methods I have been applying to achieve this have been variable. Ultimately the anecdotal aspect of a story or narrative is what I use as investigative source.
I have always believed that art should not seek or represent a theme; rather, I think it is its own language, which possesses codes and symbologies. I am interested in the dialogue that exists between the enigmatic and the timeless, and as an artist I attempt to relate with the viewer from many different possible places, yielding to different analyses or perceptions. Therefore, my work does not seek certainty, becoming almost exclusively statements that represent some feeling or personal longing.
The mediums I work with are mainly painting, video, and installation. However painting plays a prominent role in how I conceptualize or initiate a work (independent of the medium to be used), it is the starting point of any project from a theoretical conception. This means that even when working with a different medium than painting, I compose it in the same way I would start to execute a painting.
Over time, I have discovered that my works share a common denominator: they represent the political everyday life of any average citizen, who like me, struggles to conceive their particular environment and tries to understand it through their own actions.
Finally, "memory" as a concept is the "place" I always turn to. Highlighting personal and collective events that have marked my own existence.