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 His interest in the city, architecture and space as historical documents and archaeological sites leads him to take as a starting point either a specific site or an archetypal architectural space, seeking to establish a dialogue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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Padrões
Vila Sul, Goethe Institut
Curated by: Ines Linke
The Portuguese word padrão refers simultaneously to a standard, a pattern, a marker and a monument. Historically, padrões were stone pillars erected by Portuguese navigators to claim territories in Africa and the…→ View
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Padrões
Vila Sul, Goethe Institut
Curated by: Ines Linke
The Portuguese word padrões carries multiple meanings: standard, norm, pattern, marker or monument. Historically, padrões were stone pillars erected by Portuguese navigators along the coasts of Africa and the Americas…→ View
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Artist Residency at The Watch
Architectures of Exclusion
The Watch
Curated by: Jean Ulrick Désert
Architectures of Exclusion is part of an ongoing investigation into architectures of exclusion and the spatial mechanisms through which societies regulate access, visibility and belonging.→ View
Curated by: Architect Ulrike Lickert and Architect Regina Jost
Poetic Justice proposes two large-scale pink giraffe sculptures for Franz-Mehring-Platz 1 in Berlin. Installed within the public space of the square, the sculptures introduce an unexpected presence into a site shaped by…→ View
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Trabajos Inacabados
Value Magnifiers
Wildpalms
Curated by: Jorge Sanguino
Value Magnifiers brings together pencil drawings based on details taken from banknotes from different countries. Portraits, animals, monuments, landscapes and symbolic motifs are redrawn directly onto the wall, detached…→ View
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Trabajos Inacabados
Who Cleans the World? I & II
Wildpalms
Curated by: Jorge Sanguino
Who Cleans the World? takes its title from Françoise Vergès' writings on the invisible forms of labour that sustain contemporary societies.The work consists of tablecloths covered with recycled black rubber, a material…→ View
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Trabajos Inacabados
Vögelperspektive
Wildpalms
Curated by: Jorge Sanguino
Bird's Perspective originated as a performative procession and video installation in Cologne. The project began with the story of Jambga, a young Cameroonian man who died in the city in 1898 after being brought 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 soap bars against a wall. The soaps were collected between 2020 and 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, when washing hands became one of the few…→ View
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Competition Villa Liegnitz
An Undeniable Weight
Villa Liegnitz
This temporary installation occupies the principal reception room of Villa Liegnitz with a large brick structure that temporarily blocks access to the space. Constructed from recycled bricks salvaged from demolished…→ View
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Proposal for REAKTOR Saal
Tausendundeine Nacht
REAKTOR
One Thousand and One Nights is an immersive audio and video installation that brings together stories, songs and myths narrated by migrants living in Germany in their native languages. Distributed throughout the space,…→ View
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Competition Kunst am Bau für das Finanzministerium (Room 4)
Die Abwesenheit, die spricht
This proposal for the Art in Architecture competition at the German Federal Ministry of Finance transforms the building's structural columns into a distributed archive of memory.Sixteen concrete columns, corresponding…→ View
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Narcissus
Minus 20 Degrees
Projected onto the façade of one of the sites proposed for the open call, the installation consists of a continuously growing list of names drawn from existing documentation of migrant deaths at Europe's external…→ View
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Koloniale Kontexte
Black Gold
Schloß Charlottenburg
Curated by: Carolin Alff
This proposal temporarily transforms the courtyard monument of Elector Frederick William I by burying it with a large mound of shredded tyre rubber. Rising around the equestrian statue, the black mass partially engulfs…→ 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
Landmark (Ned's Point Fort) forms part of the ongoing Landmark series, which uses red-and-white barrier tape commonly associated with construction sites and restricted areas to create temporary interventions in…→ View
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Topography (I)
The Grid
Curated by: Eva Nieuweboer
Topography (I) consists of a series of stone-like blocks cast from melted glass schnapps bottles collected in the streets of Berlin.Discarded after consumption and largely unnoticed in public space, these small bottles…→ View
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Vogelperspektive
Q18
Curated by: Michael Stockhausen
Bird’s Perspective is a performative procession and video installation developed in Cologne. The project takes as its point of departure the story of Jambga, a young Cameroonian man who died in the city in 1898 after…→ View
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Quarantine Diaries
Art Link
Curated by: Rebecca Strain, Martha McCulloch
Quarantine Diaries brings together more than 3,000 photographs of used bars of soap submitted by people from cities across the world during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic.→ View
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Mein Kiez Mein Atelier
Ghost Station
The Cabins
Curated by: Eva Nieuweboer
Ghost Station is an exact replica of an empty billboard located on the platform of Moritzplatz underground station in Berlin. Constructed from interlocking wooden boards and framed as a free-standing structure, the…→ View
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Mein Kiez Mein Atelier
Topography (I)
The Cabins
Curated by: Eva Nieuweboer
Topography (I) consists of a series of stone-like blocks cast from melted glass schnapps bottles collected in the streets of Berlin.Discarded after consumption and often left where they fall, these small bottles become…→ View
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Mein Kiez, mein Atelier
Landmark
The Cabins
Curated by: Eva Nieuweboer
Landmark is an ongoing series of site-specific interventions using red-and-white barrier tape, a material commonly employed to mark temporary conditions in architecture and construction. Each intervention responds to an…→ View
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Mein Kiez, mein Atelier
Topography (II)
The Cabins
Curated by: Eva Nieuweboer
Topography (II) consists of hundreds of small glass schnapps bottles suspended from the ceiling in a precise grid. Collected over several years in the neighbourhood where the artist lives, the bottles are traces of…→ View
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Mein Kiez, mein Atelier
Between Heaven and Earth
The Cabins
Curated by: Eva Nieuweboer
Between Heaven and Earth emerged from the long-term collection of feathers found throughout the city. Gathered from streets, courtyards and overlooked urban corners, these fragments became traces of the multiple forms…→ View
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An Homage to Roger Casement
Seringueiro
Commissions Sculpture Dublin
This proposal for the O'Connell Plinth is dedicated to Sir Roger Casement, whose investigations into the atrocities committed during the rubber booms of the Congo and the Amazon exposed some of the most violent…→ View
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Proposal for Fragmentos Arte y Memoria
Smoke Curtain
Fragmentos Espacio de Arte y Memoria
Cortina de Humo (Smoke Screen) was developed for Fragmentos, the counter-monument created by Doris Salcedo in Bogotá. The installation revisits the events of 6 November 1985, when, as the Palace of Justice burned during…→ View
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Ornament und Verbrechen
Ornament and Crime consisted of two large-scale billboards installed at the intersection of Potsdamer Straße and Kurfürstenstraße in Berlin, a site whose street names still recall the feudal and monarchical structures…→ View
Wayúu Columns
Untitled
with Wayùu Community
Developed together with members of the Wayúu community as an intervention within one of the buildings they collectively inhabit and use. From the beginning, the project was carried out in collaboration with local…→ View
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Kunst am Bau
Haunted by the Absence
Developed for the 28th anniversary of German reunification, this proposal temporarily inserts twelve additional columns into the openings of the Brandenburg Gate. Matching the dimensions and appearance of the existing…→ View
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Eine Mündliche Erzählung von Migranten
Tausendundeine Nacht
with the support of Andrea Ideli
Thousand and One Nights is a sound and video installation developed through workshops and collaborations with migrants living in Germany. The project brings together stories, songs, myths and personal narratives shared…→ View
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Circles and Cycles
Landmark
Plattenbauvereinigung
Curated by: Sarah Ambrosi
Landmark is an ongoing series of site-specific interventions using red-and-white barrier tape, a material commonly employed to mark temporary conditions in architecture and construction. Each intervention responds to an…→ View
Solo Shows, Colaboration
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International Decolial Monument Competition. Berlin
Beacon of Truth
with Jean Ulrick Désert
Research: Mokia Laisin
LICHT der Wahrheit (Beacon of Truth) was developed with Jean Ulrick Désert for the entrance plaza of the Global Village in Berlin. The installation combines texts embedded in the pavement with a sculptural street lamp…→ View
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International Decolial Monument Competition. Berlin
Beacon of Truth
with Jean Ulrick Désert
Research: Mokia Laisin
LICHT der Wahrheit (Beacon of Truth) was developed with Jean Ulrick Désert for the entrance plaza of the Global Village in Berlin. The installation combines texts embedded in the pavement with a sculptural street lamp…→ 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 brings together a series of sculptures, photographs and video works developed through a research project connecting the astronomical observatories of Bogotá and Berlin.→ 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 brings together a series of sculptures, photographs and video works developed through a research project connecting the astronomical observatories of Bogotá and Berlin.→ View
Group Shows
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Abyss
Swan Park
Curated by: Adriana Valderrama
Abyss is a site-specific installation developed for Art in the Park IV in Buncrana, Ireland. Conceived for the ruined structure known as O'Doherty's Keep, the work transforms the entire interior courtyard into a large…→ View
Developed for the gallery’s 50th anniversary exhibition, the exhibition design approached the institution as part of a wider territory connecting the city of Ustka, its community, the Baltic Sea and the histories…→ View
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Gläsern
Topography (I)
Schloß Biesdorf
Curated by: Harald Theiss
Topography (I) consists of a series of stone-like blocks cast from melted glass schnapps bottles collected in the streets of Berlin.Discarded after consumption and largely unnoticed in public space, these small bottles…→ View
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Gläsern
Tavsan Kani
Schloß Biesdorf
Curated by: Harald Theiss
Tavşan Kanı (Rabbit Blood) brings together 36 Turkish tea glasses arranged throughout the exhibition space, transforming a familiar object of everyday life into a fragile architectural landscape.→ View
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Overview Effect
Historic Riese Cobbler Store in Beelitz
Curated by: Roberto Uribe-Castro
with Artist:
Andrea Acosta
Jakob Argauer
Jean Ulrick Désert
Anna Julia Fridbjornsdottir
Manaf Halbouni
Leonid Keller
Roberto Uribe-Castro
Overview Effect was a group exhibition developed for the historic Riese cobbler store in Beelitz. Taking its title from the phenomenon experienced by astronauts when viewing Earth from space, the project explored…→ View
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Berliner Schlüssel
Curated by: Roberto Uribe-Castro
Der Berliner Schlüssel consists of three original "Berlin keys" received by the artist when moving to the city in 2009. Following the replacement of the locks in his house, the keys lost their practical function and…→ View
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ZNE
Seringueiros
Ufer Hallen
Curated by: Adrienne Goehler
Seringueiros consists of a series of sculptures made from pulverised recycled tyre rubber. Their forms reproduce the interior volume of buckets traditionally used to collect latex in the Amazon rainforest.One sculpture…→ View
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Rabbits Blood
Tavşan kanı
Istanbul Artist Residency
Curated by: Özge Yılmaz
Tavşan Kanı (Rabbit Blood) was conceived for the Akaretler Row Houses in Istanbul, a nineteenth-century housing complex designed by the Armenian architect Sarkis Balyan to accommodate workers from the nearby Dolmabahçe…→ View
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The Allien Every Day
Topography (I)
Spoiler
Curated by: Jakob Argauer, Mgada Mai, David Möller, Frederic Spreckelmeyer,
Topography (I) consists of a series of stone-like blocks cast from melted glass schnapps bottles collected in the streets of Berlin.Discarded after consumption and often left where they fall, these small bottles become…→ View
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Affecting Memory
Images of Rubber
Deutscher Künstlerbund
Curated by: Oscar Ardila and Stefan Krueskemper
Images of Rubber transforms one of the gallery's largest windows into a photographic surface built from laser-cut MDF elements and a waterproof paint made from pulverized car tyres.The image depicts Roger Casement and…→ View
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Redraw Tragedy
Seringueiros
Künstlerforum
Curated by: Natalia Wehler
with fotos by Rolf Sachse
Seringueiros takes its title from the traditional rubber tappers who harvest wild latex in the Amazon rainforest. During the rubber boom of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these workers collected…→ 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 large nest constructed from charred branches is accompanied by eight frottages made in Góis on sheets found in an abandoned paper factory. Placed directly against burned tree trunks, the paper received their textures…→ View
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Either/Or: Those Remote Days
Quarantine Diaries
Suning Art Museum
Curated by: Celyn Bricker, Evelyn Wang & Lulu Wang
For the exhibition Either / Or – Those Remote Days at the Suning Art Museum in Shanghai, Quarantine Diaries was presented through a selection of photographs depicting the bars of soap preserved by the artist's mother,…→ View
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Büro für kuratorische Fürsorge & kollektives Experiment
Value Magnifiers
Quartier am Hafen
Curated by: Michael Stockhausen
Value Magnifiers brings together pencil drawings based on details taken from banknotes from different countries. Portraits, animals, monuments, landscapes and symbolic motifs are redrawn directly onto the wall, detached…→ View
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BÜRO für kuratorische Fürsorge und kollektives Experiment / Phase 2
Vogelperspektive
Quartier am Hafen
Curated by: Michael Stockhausen
Following the procession and video installation Bird's Perspective, the mobile projection device used during the project was presented as an autonomous installation at BÜRO für kuratorische Fürsorge und kollektives…→ View
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Enterventionale 2020
Landmark
Museum Alexander Koenig
Curated by: Julia Krings and Michael Stockhausen
Landmark is an ongoing series of site-specific interventions using red-and-white barrier tape, a material commonly employed to mark temporary conditions in architecture and construction. Each intervention responds to an…→ View
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Enterventionale 2020
O Jehovah Quam Ampla Sunt Tua Opera
Bonn University
Curated by: Julia Krings and Michael Stockhausen
O Jehovah, Quam Ampla Sunt Tua Opera! temporarily displaced five taxidermy specimens from the collection of the Alexander Koenig Museum in Bonn to the chapel of the University of Bonn. Their place in the museum was…→ View
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The PDF Project
Landmark
Exgirlfriend Berlin
Curated by: Jason Lazarus
Landmark is an ongoing series of site-specific interventions using red-and-white barrier tape, a material commonly employed to mark temporary conditions in architecture and construction. Each intervention responds to an…→ View
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Entre los días y las cosas
Topography (I)
Colombian Embassy
Curated by: Oscar Ardila
Topography (I) consists of a series of stone-like blocks cast from melted glass schnapps bottles collected in the streets of Berlin.Discarded after consumption and often left where they fall, these small bottles become…→ View
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And Even Dust Can Burst into Flames
Topography (I)
Volume
Curated by: Lynn Busch
Topography (I) consists of a series of stone-like blocks cast from melted glass schnapps bottles collected in the streets of Berlin.Discarded after consumption and often left where they fall, these small bottles become…→ View
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Third Berlin Becher Trienale
Value Magnifiers
Berlin Glas e.V
Curated by: Julius Weiland
Value Magnifiers brings together six banknotes from different countries, each placed behind a whisky tumbler filled with water.Rather than functioning as currency, the banknotes become images. The water-filled glasses…→ View
The Law of the Market
Ghost Station 2012
Freies Museum
Curated by: Stefan Koppelkamm
Ghost Station is an exact replica of an empty billboard located on the platform of Moritzplatz underground station in Berlin. Constructed from interlocking wooden boards and framed as a free-standing structure, the…→ View
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La Belle Alliance show
Viktoria
Weißensee Kunsthochschule
Curated by: Maren Strack, Frederic Schröder, Stephan Mörsch
While the angel sculpture at Berlin's Mehringplatz was temporarily removed during renovation works, this intervention reconstructed its silhouette using discarded bottle caps collected in the surrounding streets.→ View
Aleph
Weißensee Kunsthochschule
Curated by: Fritz Balthaus
with Wi-Yi Lauw
The Aleph is a site-specific sound installation developed for the former chocolate factory that today houses Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin.Hidden beneath the building lies a buried Wasserlöscher, a water reservoir…→ View
