Roberto Uribe received the architecture degree from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá and his Masters in Fine Arts from the Weißensee School of Arts in Berlin. As a freelance architect he has done research work on Bogotá and the Sabana and he has been an external consultant for the first POT of Bogotá. As a designer he has worked in private residences in Amsterdam and Berlin. From Architecture Uribe-Castro was linked to large scale artistic projects working in research, production and assembly for Doris Salcedo and Mona Hatoum in various projects. The Master of Space Strategies in Berlin marks the beginning of his individual practice as an artist. His interest in the city, architecture and space as historical documents and archaeological sites leads him to take as a starting point either a specific site or an archetypal architectural space, seeking to establish a dialogue between architecture, politics and history through alterations or changes to existing elements. On other occasions Uribe works from urban elements such as billboards in ephemeral public installations that question lesser known histories of the chosen site. Roberto has been awarded the Berlin Senate research grant, finalist in several public space art competitions in Germany and Ireland, shortlisted for the EU competition Beyond Memorialisation. Uribe is co-founder and member of CC_Berlin NGO that works with communities in the development of projects to improve living conditions and decrease the vulnerability of rural communities in Mexico and Colombia.
Solo Shows
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Trabajos Inacabados
Vögelperspektive
Wildpalms
Curated by: Jorge Sanguino
During four nights, two videos were projected in which feathers of famingos from the zoo of Barranquilla and feathers of parrots that live on the banks of the Rhine are slowly transformed. These videos run parallel to…→ View
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Quarantine Diaries
Wildpalms
Curated by: Jorge Sanguino
The sculpture consists of an old wooden chair delicately holding a row of soaps against the wall. The soaps are the product of collecting them during the COVID-19 pandemic between 2020 and 2021. The project, which…→ View
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Trabajos Inacabados
Value Magnifiers
Wildpalms
Curated by: Jorge Sanguino
On the wall are drawn in pencil different faces, animals and scenes with which different nations have chosen to be represented. In front of these drawings are glass vessels filled with water. The effect is of a glass…→ View
This temporary installation refers to the monument designed by Mies van der Rohe in memory of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebnecht, which was destroyed by National Socialism in 1933. Using recycled bricks, a solid is…→ View
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Proposal for REAKTOR Saal
Tausendundeine Nacht
REAKTOR
The proposal for the reactor's main hall is an immersive audio and video installation. Featuring the voices of migrants residing in Germany, it recounts tales, myths, and songs in their native languages. These voices,…→ View
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Competition Kunst am Bau für das Finanzministerium (Room 4)
The video installation proposed for minus20degree is an homage to those men and women that have died trying to cross European borders escaping military regimes, famines, poverty or simply looking for a better life. The…→ View
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Koloniale Kontexte
Black Gold
Schloß Charlottenburg
Curated by: Carolin Alff
The equestrian statue of Elector Frederick William I is submerged in a mountain of ground car tire granules.Rubber, known as black gold at the beginning of the 20th century, was one of the resources whose exploitation…→ View
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Landmark | Ned's Point Fort
Art Link
Curated by: Adriana Valderrama, Rebecca Strain and Martha McCulloch
with fotos by Jessica Auer and Roberto Uribe
Using a white/red tape typically used to surround places under construction, Landmark is an installation that dialogues with the sites that are under a process of change. With the temporary interventions the place…→ View
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Topography (I)
The Grid
Curated by: Eva Nieuweboer
These stones of approximately 5 x 5 x 5 x 5cm are made with small melted liquor bottles. These small bottles are usually discarded after consuming their contents in the street where they last for a long time because…→ View
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Vogelperspektive
Q18
Curated by: Michael Stockhausen
During four nights, two videos were projected in which feathers of flamingos from the zoo of Barranquilla and feathers of parrots living on the banks of the Rhine are shown slowly changing. These videos run parallel to…→ View
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Quarantine Diaries
Art Link
Curated by: Rebecca Strain, Martha McCulloch
It is a collection of more than 3000 photographs of soaps that was formed during the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. What started as a display of soaps collected through my Instagram account,…→ View
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Mein Kiez, mein Atelier
Between Heaven and Earth
The Cabins
Curated by: Eva Nieuweboer
Icarus the son of Daedalus, architect of the labyrinth, helped his father collecting feathers on the ground the wind left behind in the corners and edges to build the wings that would allow them to espacpe Crete. He was…→ View
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Mein Kiez Mein Atelier
Ghost Station
The Cabins
Curated by: Eva Nieuweboer
“Ghost Station" y es una copia exacta de la valla publicitaria de la estación de metro de Moritzplatz. Esta valla publicitaria me ha llamado la atención desde que me mudé al barrio. Para mí, el andén del metro se…→ View
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Mein Kiez Mein Atelier
Topography (I)
The Cabins
Curated by: Eva Nieuweboer
These stones of approximately 5 x 5 x 5 x 5cm are made with small melted liquor bottles. These small bottles are usually discarded after consuming their contents in the street where they last for a long time because…→ View
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Mein Kiez, mein Atelier
Landmark
The Cabins
Curated by: Eva Nieuweboer
Using a white/red tape typically used to surround places under construction, Landmark is an installation that dialogues with the sites that are under a process of change. With the temporary interventions the place…→ View
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Mein Kiez, mein Atelier
Topography (II)
The Cabins
Curated by: Eva Nieuweboer
This piece occupies a large part of the gallery roof with small transparent glass bottles. The shadow of these bottles in turn covers the surface of the floor creating a tension between the object and its shadow. → View
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An Homage to Roger Casement
Seringueiro
Commissions Sculpture Dublin
The proposal for the O'Connel Plinth is a tribute to Sir Roger Casement (Dublin 1st. Sep. 1864 - hanged at Pentonville Prison in London on 3rd Aug. 1916). The sculpture consists of a rubber tree trunk form the Amazon…→ View
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Proposal for Fragmentos Arte y Memoria
Smoke Curtain
Fragmentos Espacio de Arte y Memoria
On Wednesday, November 6, 1985, at 8:30 p.m., while the Palace of Justice was burning as a result of the confrontation between the M19 and the army, Colombians were forced to watch and listen to a sports show broadcast…→ View
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Ornament und Verbrechen
Two billboards on the Kurfürstenstraße at the corner of Potsdamer Straße in Berlin have displayed for ten days the portrait of Captain Hendrick Witbooi, the former leader of the Namibian resistance against German…→ View
Wayúu Columns
Untitled
with Wayùu Community
I was approached by the leader of the Wayúu community to do an intervention on one of the buildings were the community resides and works. I agreed under the condition that local artist from their community…→ View
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Kunst am Bau
Haunted by the Absence
The proposal for the 28th anniversary of the reunification of Berlin, consists of copying the 12 largest columns that exist in the Brandenburg Gate by another 12 that would temporarily occupy the interstices that…→ View
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Eine Mündliche Erzählung von Migranten
Tausendundeine Nacht
with the support of Andrea Ideli
The installation Thousand and One Nights is a sound and video installation with audios of stories from Migrants from countries such as Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Senegal, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Turkey and many…→ View
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Circles and Cycles
Landmark
Plattenbauvereinigung
Curated by: Sarah Ambrosi
Using a white/red tape typically used to surround places under construction, Landmark is an installation that dialogues with the sites that are under a process of change. With the temporary interventions the place…→ View
Solo Shows, Group Shows
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Narrative Under Construction
Con los ojos en el cielo y los pies en la tierra
Projektor of HAWK (Hochschule von angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst)
Curated by: Leonid Keller
"Con los ojos en el cielo y los pies en la tierra" (Eyes in the sky, feet on the ground) is the title of four new works created by Berlin-based artist Roberto Uribe-Castro for Projektor HAWK during a recent residency in…→ View
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Narrative Under Construction
Con los ojos en el cielo y los pies en la tierra
Projektor of HAWK (Hochschule von angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst)
Curated by: Leonid Keller
"Con los ojos en el cielo y los pies en la tierra" (Eyes in the sky, feet on the ground) is the title of four new works created by Berlin-based artist Roberto Uribe-Castro for Projektor HAWK during a recent residency in…→ View
Group Shows
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ZNE
Seringueiros
Ufer Hallen
Curated by: Adrienne Goehler
The installation consists of 5 sculptures made of pulverized tires. The sculptures have the shape of the inside of a bucket, but only one of them retains the handle. The other 8 are in a state of relative disintegration…→ View
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Rabbits Blood
Tavşan kanı
Istanbul Artist Residency
Curated by: Özge Yılmaz
proposal for the Home exhibition refers to the history behind the construction of the Akaretler Row Houses, the house complex hosting the exhibition. Built in the 1870’s, the complex and their subsequent successful…→ View
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The Allien Every Day
Topography (I)
Spoiler
Curated by: Jakob Argauer, Mgada Mai, David Möller, Frederic Spreckelmeyer,
These stones of approximately 5 x 5 x 5 x 5cm are made with small melted liquor bottles. These small bottles are usually discarded after consuming their contents in the street where they last for a long time because…→ View
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Affecting Memory
Images of Rubber
Deutscher Künstlerbund
Curated by: Oscar Ardila and Stefan Krueskemper
Using one of the large windows that has the gallery. With a dimension of 3.2 meters wide and a height of 2.2 meters this glass houses a photo of Roger Casement accompanied by 10 Indians of the Chorrera in the Colombian…→ View
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Redraw Tragedy
Seringueiros
Künstlerforum
Curated by: Natalia Wehler
with fotos by Rolf Sachse
The installation consists of 11 sculptures made of pulverized tires. The sculptures have the shape of the inside of a bucket, but only one of them retains the handle. The other 8 are in a state of relative…→ View
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Redraw Tragedy
Even Dust Can Burst into Flames
Künstlerforum
Curated by: Natalia Wehler
with Wie-yi Lauw
fotos by Rolf Sachse
A nest of large proportions made with branches charred by fire. This piece is accompanied by 8 frottages made in Gois, with paper collected from an abandoned factory that, like a photograph, store on their surface the…→ View
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Büro für kuratorische Fürsorge & kollektives Experiment
Value Magnifiers
Quartier am Hafen
Curated by: Michael Stockhausen
The money is an abstraction of values that have make possible the exchange of goods for many centuries, but their representation goes beyond the currency. They stand for ideologies, economical…→ View
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BÜRO für kuratorische Fürsorge und kollektives Experiment / Phase 2
Vogelperspektive
Quartier am Hafen
Curated by: Michael Stockhausen
The mobile device for the procession consisted of a power plant, two beamers, four speakers, four pre-fabricated concrete supports and four pieces of wood. The set was arranged as one of the exhibited works for the…→ View
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Enterventionale 2020
O Jehovah Quam Ampla Sunt Tua Opera
Bonn University
Curated by: Julia Krings and Michael Stockhausen
This work moves 5 taxidermy pieces from the collection of the Alexander Koenig Museum to the castle chapel at the University of Bonn, while leaving a few cloth-covered copies in the museum to take their place. In a…→ View
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Enterventionale 2020
Landmark
Museum Alexander Koenig
Curated by: Julia Krings and Michael Stockhausen
Utilizando una cinta blanca/roja típicamente utilizada para rodear lugares en construcción, Landmark es una instalación que dialoga con los lugares que están en proceso de cambio. Con las intervenciones temporales el…→ View
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The PDF Project
Landmark
Exgirlfriend Berlin
Curated by: Jason Lazarus
Using a white/red tape typically used to surround places under construction, Landmark is an installation that dialogues with the sites that are under a process of change. With the temporary interventions the place…→ View
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Entre los días y las cosas
Topography (I)
Colombian Embassy
Curated by: Oscar Ardila
These stones of approximately 5 x 5 x 5 x 5cm are made with small melted liquor bottles. These small bottles are usually discarded after consuming their contents in the street where they last for a long time because…→ View
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And Even Dust Can Burst into Flames
Topography (I)
Volume
Curated by: Lynn Busch
These stones of approximately 5 x 5 x 5 x 5cm are made with small melted liquor bottles. These small bottles are usually discarded after consuming their contents in the street where they last for a long time because…→ View
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Third Berlin Becher Trienale
Value Magnifiers
Berlin Glas e.V
Curated by: Julius Weiland
The money is an abstraction of values that have make possible the exchange of goods for many centuries, but their representation goes beyond the currency. They stand for ideologies, economical…→ View
The Law of the Market
Ghost Station 2012
Freies Museum
Curated by: Stefan Koppelkamm
"Ghost Station" and is an exact copy of the Moritzplatz subway station billboard. This billboard has caught my attention ever since I moved to the neighborhood. To me, the subway platform resembles a museum space…→ View
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La Belle Alliance show
Viktoria
Weißensee Kunsthochschule
Curated by: Maren Strack, Frederic Schröder, Stephan Mörsch
Using bottle caps to re-create the image of the angel that decorates Mehringplatz, (one of the most emblematic squares of Berlin) moving it to the surroundings of the square temporarily and while the real sculpture is…→ View
Aleph
Weißensee Kunsthochschule
Curated by: Fritz Balthaus
with Wi-Yi Lauw
One of the Academy buildings in Weißensee KHB used to be a chocolate factory that like many other had a Wasserlöscher or cistern during the WWII to help to put down fires. Years later…→ View
