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SEBASTIAN
GUZMAN OLMOS


Sebastian Guzman Olmos (he/him) is an Argentine transdisciplinary designer, researcher, and curator currently based in Amsterdam. His research and discourse interests include class-critical practice, political ecology,  decolonial thinking and overcoming capitalist conditions. Often materializing in diverse methodologies, pedagogies and organizational efforts.

He is part of the research team ORGA’. Sebastian formerly studied at Design Academy Eindhoven in the Media and Culture Department. Additional non-institutional curricula include The People's Forum, New York City,  Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin and Progressive International (PI). Now, he participates in the research programme Organismo at TBA21.



SELECTED EXHIBITIONS


Design by Nature, Museum de Fundatie
ZWOLLE, NETHERLANDS 10.07—03.10.2021
The Exploded View, Design Museum Ghent GHENT, BELGIUM 15.04—22.06.2021
Symbiosis Festival, BlueCity
ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS 27—29.11.2020
The Exploded View, Dutch Design Week EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS 17—25.10.2020
CIRCULAR> MATERIALISTS., Kazerne
EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS 19.10.2019—30.03.2020
AiR Het Wilde Oosten, Artots
DEN BOSCH, NETHERLANDS 29—30.08.2020
Biomaterials Archive, Dutch Design Week
EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS 19—27.10.2019
Now & Beyond, Bruxelles Environnement
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM 24.04.2019
Aggregat, IMM Cologne
COLOGNE, GERMANY 14—20.01.2019

CURATORIAL PRACTICE


Tapping Water, Sandberg Instituut AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS 18/24.04, 12.05.2023
Positioned Realities, Haus der Statistik BERLIN, GERMANY 04—27.03.2022
All Good(s), Gr_und
BERLIN, GERMANY 07—11.07.2021
(Non)Depleted, Gr_und
AND BERLIN DESIGN WEEK. BERLIN, GERMANY 16.04—30.05.2021
(Non)Depleted, Dutch Design Week
EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS 17—25.10.2020



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POSITIONED REALITIES


Plural conditions for change are knocking on our doors. How we position ourselves is instrumental to fostering other ways of being and sensing—away from a western gaze that proclaims universality. While we actively embrace difference and the communal. Strategies for thinking about exits and alternatives beyond the modern/colonial order and its endless shortcomings.

Positioned Realities is a transnational assemblage of visual and spatial projects. Who operate within or between capital, class, race, gender and land—navigating across places, bodies and environmental dimensions. Reflecting, intervening, and delinking from dominant ideologies, frameworks, and continuities of Western historical reality.

This program is grounded in collective knowledge, political engagement, and articulating self-representation, decoloniality, and resistance narratives. Collaboratively, we are attempting to bridge gaps with other realities into one space: Haus der Statistik, to actively engage with our interdependence for the struggles ahead.
2022, Haus der Statistik. Visual identity by Can Yang.
BERLIN, GERMANY