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SEBASTIAN
GUZMAN OLMOS













Sebastian Guzman Olmos (he/him) is an Argentine transdisciplinary designer, researcher, curator, and educator based in Amsterdam. He works across political engagement and cultural production—addressing the contradictions within capitalist, extractivist, and (neo)colonial systematic structures. Often materializing through diverse practices, organizational efforts, and pedagogies. His research and discourse interests are anchored in historical material analysis, class perspective, and revolutionary optimism. Including tactics and strategies to overcome capitalist conditions.
 
He is part of the research team ORGA’ with Nina Blume. Sebastian formerly studied at Design Academy Eindhoven in the Media and Culture Department. Additional non-institutional curricula include Organismo as a fellow at TBA21 in Madrid; the People’s Forum in New York City; the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Berlin; and studies with Frente de Izquierda Unidad in Buenos Aires.



SELECTED EXHIBITIONS


His work has been shown in TBA21-Academy (Madrid), Dutch Design Week (Eindhoven), Museum de Fundatie (Zwolle), Design Museum Ghent (Ghent), Kazerne (Eindhoven), Bruxelles Environnement (Brussels), Guan Shanyue Art Museum (Shenzhen), and The Central House of Artists (Moscow), among other spaces.



EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES


He has initiated programs, workshops, and lectures at Rietveld Academie/Sandberg Instituut (Amsterdam), The Embassy of the Netherlands in Berlin, Design Academy Eindhoven (Eindhoven), Fontys University (Tilburg),  HMC (Rotterdam), AKV St. Joost (’s-Hertogenbosch), and Floating University (Berlin).



SELECTED RECOGNITION


Contributor/researcher on projects that received: TBA21‑Academy Ocean Archive Editor’s Pick 2025, S+T+ARTS Prize (Honorary Mention), Floriade Expo 2022 (Gold Award), and Henry van de Velde Award (Silver).



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CULTURAL SECTOR SOLIDARITY AND RESISTANCE

A two-day public program at the Rietveld Pavilion began by recognizing that cultural work constitutes labor, work is work. Bringing together artists, designers, and organizers, the program created a platform to address unionization, precarious employment, the pursuit of fair wages, and its links to larger international struggles. Through assemblies and collective discussions, the initiative explored strategies for cultural workers to organize under unstable conditions, facilitating exchange and supporting ongoing efforts toward collective action and labor rights.

Contributors: Alina Lupu, Arts of the Working Class, Cultural Worker Unite, Het ActieFonds, Kuntenbond, Oyuon Berlin (Louna Sbou), and Unidxs X La Cultura (Luca Bonfante).
2024, Amsterdam
Organized with Nina Blume. Supported by Sandberg Instituut’s Student Council. Photography by Nina Blume.