KRISTOFFER ARDEÑA KRISTOFFER ARDEÑA. Lives between Dumaguete (Philippines) and Madrid (Spain). Individual projects include: Museo Carrillo Gil, in Mexico, Selesar Sunaryo Art Space, Ruang Mes56 and Cemeti Art House (Indonesia), Vargas Museum and the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila (Philippines),Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo Museum (Madrid), La Conservera Centro de Arte Contemporáneo in Murcia), Spain. He has also participated in various collective projects, among them the 3rd Bucharest Biennale (Romania), 3rd Guangzhou Triennale (China), Konstholl C in Stockholm (Sweden), Caixa Forum in Barcelona and La Casa Encendida in Madrid, MUSAC in León (Spain), Casino Forum d’Art Contemporain (Luxembourg), Apexart in New York (USA), Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico) and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Medellin (Colombia). Currently developing the curatorial platform Moving Image Lab Filipinas (MILF) which experiments on video as an exhibition format with the goal of expanding and decentralizing the contemporary art scene outside of Manila and creating network and collaboration not only in the Philippines but in Southeast Asia as well as with Latin America and Spain. He is also developing a solo traveling exhibition that will go different museums in Europe and Asia that will be curated by Patrick Flores, director of the Vargas Museum (Philippines) and Menene Gras, director of Visual Arts of Casa Asia (Spain).
Found Geometry: Carving a Square on a Young Coconut Sculpture 20x16x23 cms. 2014 This sculpture consists of a young coconut with a square hole carved into it. The vendor at the fruit market in Dumaguete places a drinking straw inside the coconut and sells it as beverage. Once you finish drinking you give the coconut back to the vendor and he cuts it in half for you to eat the tender white meat inside. Exhibition format: Option 1: object Option 2: installation/expanded version Option 3: photograph (print medium, variable) Â
Configuring a Cube Using almost a Kilo of Calamansi (Citrofortunella microcarpa) Sculpture 24x24x24 cms. 2014 Exhibition format: Option 1: object (size, variable) Option 2: installation/expanded version Option 3: photograph (size and print medium, variable)
Spatial Relief: Banana Leaves with Bamboo sticks Sculpture 14x24x34 cms. approx. 2014 The idea of the material came from how in tropical countries, banana leaves are used as packaging material and bamboo is used to give shape or to seal it. Each sculpture is movable and can be positioned and configured as the viewer pleases. Exhibition format: Option 1: object Option 2: installation/expanded version Option 3: photograph (print medium, variable)
Configuring and Reconfiguring Clothes Sculpture Size, variable Series of 50 used clothes 2015
Expanding Emil's Experiment #1 Painting (acrylic and food coloring suspended inside a jar with water+cornstarch mixture) 13x6 cms diameter. 2015 Exhibition format: Option 1: object Option 2: installation/expanded version Option 3: photograph (print medium, variable)
Expanding Emil's Experiment #2 Painting (acrylic and food coloring suspended inside a jar with water+cornstarch mixture) 13x6 cms diameter. 2015 Exhibition format: Option 1: object Option 2: installation/expanded version Option 3: photograph (print medium, variable)
Ghost Painting 4006 (packaging category) Painting 19x14x17 cms. (flat) 2015
Ghost Painting 4003 (packaging category) Painting 18x22x23 cms. (flat) 2015
Ghost Painting 7006 (Toldo Category) Surface primer: textile, paint on textile 288x456 cms 2015
Ghost Painting 7004 (Toldo Category) Surface primer: textile, paint on textile 296x392 cms 2015
Ghost Painting 3002 (Toldos category) Painting 344x333 cms. (flat) 2015 Installation shot in a residential space
Ghost Painting 3005 (Toldos category) Painting 332x293 cms. (flat) 2015 Installation shot in a residential space