(bio)
María Angélica Madero is an artist and theorist. She is part of the founding faculty of the London Interdisciplinary School, where she is Associate Professor and was Associate Director of the MASc for three years. She previously directed the Fine Arts programme at Universidad El Bosque. She studied art at Universidad de los Andes, holds an MA in Sculpture (Slade School of Fine Art, UCL) and an MA in Contemporary Philosophy and Critical Theory (CRMEP, Kingston University). She is currently completing a PhD in Art, Philosophy and Critical Thought at EGS, Switzerland. Her thesis builds an aesthetic theory of desire: the idea that desire travels in low resolution, in the distance between what is anticipated and what arrives. She is also part of art collectives, and directs The Gallery at LIS, a space dedicated to exploring the intersection of art and complex problems.
María Angélica Madero es artista y teórica. Es parte del profesorado fundador del London Interdisciplinary School, donde es Profesora Asociada y fue Directora Asociada de la Maestría en Arte y Ciencia durante tres años. Anteriormente trabajó como directora del programa de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad El Bosque. Estudió artes en la Universidad de los Andes, tiene un máster en Escultura (Slade School of Fine Art, UCL) y un máster en Filosofía y Teoría Crítica Contemporánea (CRMEP, Kingston University). Actualmente realiza un doctorado en Arte, Filosofía y Pensamiento Crítico en EGS, Suiza. Su tesis construye una teoría estética del deseo: la idea es que el deseo transita en baja resolución, en la distancia entre lo que se anticipa y lo que llega. Además es parte de colectivos de arte y dirige The Gallery en LIS, un espacio dedicado a explorar la intersección entre el arte y los problemas complejos.
(education)
2016– PhD Candidate, Art, Philosophy and Critical Thought, European Graduate School, Switzerland. Supervisor: Avital Ronell
2023–24 Research Fellow, School of Commons + Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)
2012–13 MA Contemporary European Philosophy and Critical Theory, CRMEP, Kingston University, London
2012–13 MA Art (Sculpture), Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London
2005–10 BA Fine Arts, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá
(solo exhibitions)
2017 Lo mejor que nos puede pasar es que no pase nada, MIAMI, Bogotá
2015 hasta (until), Galería Barrio Abajo, Barranquilla
(selected group exhibitions)
2023 Hollow Tongues, RealMix Festival 0.3, Bogotá Planetarium, IDARTES
2022 Tudo, o que é estranho, GAAT Museum, Lisbon
2021 Facing Time, Surrey Art Gallery, Canada
2021 Design in an Age of Crisis, London Design Biennale
2020 Escaleras futuras, Museo del Banco de la República, Bogotá
2020 9:16, n-1, Estadio el Campín, Bogotá
2020 Simbiosis Entrópica, Museo de Arte de Pereira
2020 The Sensorium Art Show, University of East London
2020 Rapid Transition, curated by Judith Dean, London
2020 La exposición de 5 palabras, Arte Portátil, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá
2019 Wrong Biennale, Megalith, Svalbard, Norway
2019 Odeón Intensivo, Espacio Odeón, Bogotá
2019 No te oigo, nada dos veces, Festival en Tiempo Real, Espacio Odeón, Bogotá
2019 Lo que no se ha perdido de Santiago Pinyol, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City
2018 (Play)groundless, Photo50, London Art Fair
2017 Estructuras, datos y lenguaje, Grey Cube Projects, Bogotá
2017 Fórmulas disfuncionales de Amor, The Box Gallery, Los Angeles
2016 Hollow Tongues, Gasworks Gallery, London
2016 El Muestreo, Alianza Colombo Americana, Bogotá
2016 Panorama Colombia, Colombian Film Festival, Berlin
2015 Play(ground)less, Space In Between, London
2015 Sin Título: Derecho a la pereza, ARTICULARTE, ArtBo, Bogotá
2015 Escuela de Garaje, 15SNA Salón Regional de Artistas, Odeón, Bogotá
2014 Curaduría de Laagencia, Pabellón Arte Cámara, ArtBo, Bogotá
2014 Bruce Says, Teatro OKIN, Seoul
2014 Sandnes Kunstforening, Norway
2013 Worlds Apart, Noplace, Oslo
2013 Amalgama(s), Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá
2013 T.C.O.B, Museo La Tertulia, Cali
2012 Slade Degree Show, UCL, London
2012 The World's Our Oyster, APT Gallery, London
2012 The point of no return, The Book Society, Seoul
2012 Negotiation and Piracy workshop, Transmediale, Berlin
2012 Installations and Happenings, Bloomsbury Festival, London
2011 Proyecto Tímido, Feria de Arte La Otra, Bogotá
2011 Interim Show, Woburn Research Centre, London
2011 Taking care of business, M-I-A-M-I, Bogotá
2011 Salon Flux Nr.3, Salon Flux, London
2011 Deep Cuts / Last Measures, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London
2009 Tesis, MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Bogotá
2008 Séptimo Festival de Performance de Cali, Santiago de Cali
(curatorial projects)
2025 Caving In — Camilo Parra, The Gallery, LIS, London
2024 Listening to the Unknown — Dave Erasmus, The Gallery, LIS, London
2020 Ways to Inhabit the Screen, UHIM, Espacio Odeón, Bogotá
2020 From the Mask · Archive Delirium, Carnaval Digital
2019 Abierto desde afuera: cuerpos y sexualidades, with Angélica María Zorrilla, Galería Cafam, Bogotá
2016 Primero estaba el mar, Galería Barrio Abajo, Barranquilla
2014 Things presented to the Mind, AGAINAGAINAGAINAGAIN, London
(publications)
2026 The Body Dreams its Own Dissection: a conversation with Carl Gombrich, Right Click Save
2025 Surplus to Requirements: Work, Non-Linearity, and Abduction in Creative Research, Imaginations
2024 Mapping visual-based methods: an interdisciplinary approach, Journal of Visual Literacy
2023 Decolonial Remediators, Issues 2023: On Mutual Support, School of Commons
2022 La investigación creación como detonadora de nuevas indagaciones, with M. Ballesteros, Hojas de El Bosque 8(14)
2020 Art: a tool for questioning the present and imagining the future, Arts Professional
2015 Play(ground)less, Editorial Sub Rosa, London
2015 Hasta (poems), Más Allá Publications, Barranquilla
2015 TOLLOTA CRÍTICO, Universidad de los Andes / Universidad El Bosque
(residencies)
2023 Metal, Southend-on-Sea, UK
2023 Prosopagnosia Residency, Lisbon, Portugal
2010 Kurt Schwitters' Merz Barn, Lake District, UK
(selected talks)
2026 This tale needs many tongues, Immersion Week: Network Affects, LIS, London
2024 La medida del sentido y el significado de la medida, keynote, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá
2024 A Research-creation Episteme? Practice-based Research and Institutional Critique, Trent University, Ontario
2024 Research-Creation Colloquium, 1st Colombian RAD Biennial, Red Académica de Diseño
2023 Caves, Dwelling and Vibration, Nottingham Contemporary
2023 Intersemiotic under-trance-lation session, Decolonial (re)mediators, RADIUS, Netherlands
2023 Visual Methods, with James Carney, Anglia Ruskin University
2023 Coloquio de An-arqueología de los medios, IDARTES, Bogotá
2022 Documents with Depth, NECS Conference, Bucharest
2022 More than education: building a new interdisciplinary university, HKUST Symposium
2022 Performance-lecture with Camilo Pachón, MassArt MFA Colloquium: Art after audiences
2019 Phenomenality of spectres, Slade Summer School, UCL, London
2017 Naturaleza Oculta, Casas Riegner, Bogotá
2015 Collaboration and Authorship, curated by Hemera, Guest Projects, London
(recognition)
2018 Investigadora Asociada, Colciencias, Colombia
2012 Kingston University International Scholarship
2012–14 Colfuturo Scholarship, Colombia