Vinicio Bastidas Artist

About

Vinicio Bastidas currently lives and works in Munich and has been a residence artist at Platform 3, Experimental Space for Contemporary Art since 2009, where he participates at the yearly collective shows, also creating art workshops for children and adults.

Vinicio Bastidas was born in 1971 in Quito, Ecuador. In Quito, he studied Arts and earned his academic degree in Painting and Printmaking in 1998. Highlights of his academic studies include the course "Creative Consciousness” by Professor Alvares (1997, Quito). He was granted several scholarships for foreign studies (1994 in Mexico and 1997 in France). In 2017 Vinicio Bastidas finished his master degree in Arts at the Arts Faculty of Universidad Politecnica in Valencia, Spain. In December 2017 he was part of the second Conference of Printmaking and Arts Editions in Campeche, Mexico), where he held the speech „El cuerpo disperso“ (Femicide). He is currently working at his doctoral thesis.

Since 1990, Bastidas has had numerous exhibitions in Europe and Latin America.

Exhibitions

Spain

2017

Collective show „Machete“, Josep Renau, Valencia, Spain

Germany

2016

Individual exposition NO BODY at Platform, Munich

Ecuador & Germany

2015

Individual show JET LAG in Metropolitan Cultural Centre in Quito, Ecuador, and the collective exposition „Off Munich“ in München.

Ecuador & Germany

2013

NO BODY at the Contemporary Arts Centre in Quito, Ecuador, and at Kunstarkaden Gallery in Munich.

Ecuador & Germany

2012

ALIEN SKIN at FLACSO Gallery in Quito, Ecuador and at KVD in Dachau, Germany

Spain & Germany

2011

DECONSTRUCTIONS at Luis Gaspar Gallery in Madrid; collective show Día de los Muertos at Domagk-Ateliers in Munich.

Spain & Germany

2010

ANONYMOUS NATURE in Madrid at Luis Gaspar Gallery and at Mercedes Felgueres Gallery in Munich

Germany

2009

Individual show HYBRIDS and collective show „Latinlithos“ at Mercedes Felgueres Gallery in Munich

Germany

2008

Individual show URBAN DIALOGUES at Gasteig Cultural Centre in Munich.

Germany

2005

Individual MEMENTO MORI at Freiraum e.V., and collective „All About...Domagk“, White Box, both in Munich

Germany

2002

Individual „ABOUT LOVE AND OTHER BARBARISMS at Eine Welt Haus and the collective conceptual exhibition „Room for Rent“ at Hotel Mariandl, both in Munich

Germany

2001

Individual show THE ANTI-HEROES Goethestr. 53 Gallery in Munich.

From 1990 to 1999, he participated in more than 20 exhibitions in his native country Ecuador. In 1995 he won the prestigious first prize in drawing at the Salón Nacional de Pintura y Dibujo (National Exhibition of Drawing and Painting) from the Foundation El Comercio, Quito. Other major Latin American exhibitions include "Taller de Tagua" Centro de estudios Andinos in Mexico City (1994) and National Museum in Lima, Peru (1996).

Additionally, Bastidas has participated in the most prestigious national exhibitions in Ecuador such as Salón de París the Alianza Francesa, Salón de Julio, Guayaquil and Salon Mariano Aguilera (1998). In 2015 he his short film „Dreams to Recycle“ was shown at the Short Film Night in Stadtmuseum, Munich.