El Bodegón Post-Mortem

El Bodegón started as a collaboration project between artists and professors from different universities in Bogotá. As all artist initiated collaboration projects, El Bodegón was intense, incredibly important and short lived. It fueled a drastic change and boosted a lot of the art scene we find in Bogotá today.

Not only do El Bodegón and Dortmund Bodega have similarities in the name, their structure and positions in their respective art scenes may also be seen as a cultural and artistic brotherhood. This exhibition presents the work and history of El Bodegón, through a post-mortem documentary produced by Jimena Andrade and Marco Moreno, and a publication project directed by Victor Albarracín, one of the driving forces behind El Bodegón. The result is a week dedicated to artist-run spaces and the culture of collective self-organization.

Programme

19. April – Dortmund Bodega

• Opening of the exhibition El Bodegón – Post mortem.
  
• A look in the rear-view mirror on the activities and practice of the most influential artist-run space in Bogotá during the first decade of the new millennium.
  
• Screening of the documentary Mordiendonos la Cola (Chasing our tail) by Jimena Andrade and Marco Moreno. A post-mortem approach about the life and death of El Bodegón based on interviews and other archive material from El Bodegón.
  

21. April – Dortmund Bodega

• Lecture by Victor Albarracín (El Bodegón) on the underground art- and music scene in Bogotá from the early 1980s and up to present day.
  
• Screening of the documentary Mordiendonos la Cola (Chasing our tail) by Jimena Andrade and Marco Moreno.
  

24. April – El Parche Artist Residency, W17 / Kunstnernes Hus

• Panel discussion about The Nature, Spirit and Future of Artist-Run Spaces and the Culture of Collective Self-Organization in contemporary art. How do the different socio-cultural and economical conditions in Bogotá and Oslo influence the development of the local underground scene?
  Participants: Victor Albarracín (El Bodegón), Liv Bugge (FRANK), Leander Djønne (Dortmund Bodega), Per Gunnar Tverbakk (Otto Plonk), Olga Robayo / Marius Wang (El Parche), Geir Harald Samuelsen (Norsk kulturråd). Moderator: Line Halvorsen.
• Screening of the documentary Mordiendonos la Cola (Chasing our tail) by Jimena Andrade and Marco Moreno.
• Open Studio #2 at El Parche Artist Residency – W17. Opp av asken – ut av esken… a glimpse of the remains of Galleri STRUTS

This exhibition was a part of Colomborama.