Speakers 2012

Tomás Saraceno (b. 1973 in San Miguel de Tucumán) studied architecture in Buenos Aires and Frankfurt. He was the recipient of a Hessische Kulturstiftung studio grant in Rotterdam in 2003, and won the Calder Prize in 2010. His installations, sculptures and photographs explore contemporary problems connected to overpopulation and the depletion of natural resources, developing futuristic urban models and suggesting new ways of perceiving nature. His most recent solo shows include: “Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City”, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2012); “Tomás Saraceno: Cloud Cities”, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2011); and “Cloud Dunes, When Friedman Meets Bucky on Air-Port-City”, MACRO, Rome. His works have been exhibited at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2009), Mudam, Musée d’Art Moderne, Luxembourg (2009); the Barbican, London (2009), Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (2009), and other venues around the world. At the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009) he presented Galaxy Forming along Filaments, Like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider’s Web.