carlier | gebauer is pleased to announce El Coleccionista, a solo exhibition of recent works by Oscar Muñoz. One of the most significant artists working in Colombia today, Muñoz has exhibited extensively throughout the Americas, yet has received comparably less exposure to date in Europe. El Coleccionista is his first solo exhibition in Germany and his first
exhibition with carlier | gebauer. 

Since the 1990s, Muñoz has developed a reputation for his use of ephemeral materials to explore elusive phenomena such as history, memory, loss, and time. His hybrid works combine photographic processes with drawing, painting, printmaking, installation, video, and sculpture in an attitude of alchemical experimentation. Muñoz’s work stages scenarios in which we witness the accumulation, dissolution, deterioration, or disintegration of the image. Manipulating evanescent elements like water, dust, heat, sun, and time, he has poetically reflected upon the fleeting nature of the human condition through unconventional formats such as mirrored portraits activated by breath or a vanishing self-portrait made with water on hot cement.