Iván Argote

Iván Argote is a contemporary multimedia artist whose practice explores the dynamics of public space, collective memory, and the ways history is constructed and represented. Working across sculpture, public installation, film, painting, and performance, Argote examines our relationships with monuments, architecture, institutions, and one another.

His work challenges dominant historical and political narratives through a distinctive combination of critique, humor, and tenderness. Rather than proposing fixed answers, Argote creates situations that invite audiences to question established symbols and imagine alternative ways of inhabiting shared spaces. Through gestures ranging from subtle interventions to monumental public works, his practice considers how ideas of power, belonging, and identity are inscribed into the spaces around us.

Argote has created major public installations worldwide, from Venice and New York to Paris, Bogotá, São Paulo, Douala, and London. He has participated in major international biennials, including the Venice Biennale, São Paulo Biennial, Lyon Biennale, Cuenca Biennial, and Bogotá Biennial, among others.

His work has been presented at leading institutions including Palais de Tokyo and Centre Pompidou in Paris, the High Line (Plinth) New York, Rudolfinum Gallery in Prague, MASP in São Paulo, SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, MALBA in Buenos Aires.

His works are held in major collections internationally, including MoMA, the Guggenheim, Centre Pompidou, Museo Reina Sofía, LACMA, MCA chicago, MASP Sao Paulo, MACBA in Barcelona, and Museo del Banco de la República in Bogotá, among others.