Otto Berchem

Steve Turner is pleased to present Tropical Buren, a solo exhibition by Bogotá-based Otto Berchem. The exhibition combines Berchem’s observations of the lush tropical foliage that surrounds him in Colombia and his interest in the rigor of Daniel Buren’s geometric paintings. Berchem’s practice frequently involves the study of codes and methods of classification, and by combining Buren’s orderly stripes with elements from exotic flora, Berchem creates a hybrid of his own, part conceptual, part natural.

Otto Berchem (born 1967, Milford, Connecticut) received an MFA from Edinburgh College of Art (1994), with further studies at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam (1995-1996). He has had solo exhibitions at Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam; Galeria Pilar, São Paulo; Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels and Bis-oficina de proyectos, Cali, Colombia. Tropical Buren was recently featured at Frieze, New York by Instituto de Visión, Bogotá, where it was honored with the Frieze Stand Prize. Berchem lives and works in Bogotá.

Born 1967 Milford, Connecticut, USA
Lives and works in Bogotá

Education

1995-96 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam
1994 MFA, Edinburgh College of Art
1990 BFA, Parsons School of Design, New York
1989 Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, Connecticut

Solo Exhibitions

2015
Impenetrable, Galeria Pilar, São Paulo
Impenetrable (Brussels), Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels
Clip-Clapper, Bis oficina de proyectos, Cali, Colombia
2013
Revolver, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
2011
Blue Monday, La Central, Bogotá
2009
What is seen and what is not seen, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
2004
Survivor, Sleeper, Edinburgh
2003
The 16th Minute, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
Going Public, Galerie Display, Prague
Everything I know about Liverpool I saw on TV, Fact, Liverpool
2002
Going Public, Iff, Houston
2001
Art Statements, ArtBasel 32, Basel
2000
The Dating Market, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
1998
Make Over, Casco, Utrecht, Netherlands
It’s not my fault, Ziegler, Groningen, Netherlands
1997
Back to back they faced each other, with Volkert Post, Louise de Haan Galerie, Haarlem
1995
boys will be boys, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
As Good As New, with Ross Sinclair, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam

Selected Group Exhibitions

2016
Still Future, Hidden Door, Edinburgh
Ediciones Eco 2, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City
2015
2015 Theorem, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City
Beyond Borders, Beaufort 2015, Belgium
The Doument, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
Tabula Rasa, Galleria Ca D’Oro, New York
2014
Sucursal 32 – La Ene en Malba, Malba, Buenos Aires
We’re so very Miami, Diablo Rosso, Panama City
Quelques mesurzs d’écart, l’Espace Culture de l’Université de Lille, Lille, France
This secret world that exists right there in public, Rampa, Istanbul
2013
Horizontal, La Central, Bogota
Hanging Participles, Marshall Arts, Memphis
Fuera de sitio, Project Rooms Art Lima, Lima
Les Pleiades – 30 ANS DES FRAC, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse
Le Futur Commence Ici, FRAC/AP2, Dunkirk, France
2012
Time Capsule, La Maison des Arts, Malakoff, France
You Are Not Alone, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok
FlowerCastle, Kasteel Keukenhof, Lisse, Netherlands
Popo de Paris, Galerie Sultana, Paris
Etat de Veille, Jousse Entreprise, Paris
Stem Terug! Vote Back!, De Appel, Amsterdam
Jardin de Esculturas, El Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporaneo (NuMu), Guatemala City
2011
Material Apparatus, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville
Out of Storage, Timmerfabriek, Maastricht, Netherlands
You Are Not Alone, Miró Foundation, Barcelona
Munt en Missie, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
2010
More to Love, Casa Asia, Barcelona and Madrid
Contemporary Global, Sotheby’s, Amsterdam
This is Not Our Cup of Tea, Sāo Paolo Bienal, São Paulo
Flower Salon, Museum van Loon, Amsterdam
2009
The Art and Collections of Acmea, NP3, Groningen, Netherlands
Tipos Moviles, 2nd Poly/Gaphic Triennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2008
Nothing to declare, 4th Triennale of Contemporary Art, Friedrichshafen, Germany
More to Love, The Art Center, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
More to Love, Chiang Mai University Art Center, Chiang Mai
2007
The Dating Show, 3rd Ward Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Night at the Museum or What Betty Boop Saw, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Choix d’artistes, Institut Néderlandais, Paris
Sur la Route, S.M.A.K., Gent
2006
Give(a)way, EVA International, Limerick, Ireland
Branding, Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt – Centre d’Art, Biel, Switzerland
Steiler Konter, Magazin4 – Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
2005
Radio Days, De Appel, Amsterdam
The Suspended Moment (H & F Collection), Crac Alsace, Altkirch, France,
Istanbul, 9th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
2004
Revolving Doors, Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid
PR 04 [tribute to the messenger], M&M proyectos, San Juan/Rincon, Puerto Rico
Planet B, Magazin/Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
TV Today, Montevideo, Amsterdam
2003
Gnome Sweet Gnome, Keukenhof/SKOR, Lisse, Netherlands
Appropriated Spaces, Kunstverien Wolfsburg, Germany
Happy Together, Tirana Biennale, Tirana, Albania
24/7, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania
2002
A’dam & Eve (Amsterdam Revisited), De Appel Amsterdam
P_A_U_S_E, 4th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
Sculptura 02, Falkenberg, Sweden
La vie devant soi/Life ahead of you, Frac Languedoc Rousellon, Montpellier, France
2001
Audit, Casino, Luxembourg
Revolving Doors, Apex Art, New York Projects
24×24, Exedera, Hilversum, Netherlands
Lecture Lounge, Clocktower gallery, New York
Intercom, Parplufabriek, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Being Together, Marres, Maastricht, Netherlands
2000
Manly, Art in General, New York
Domestic Loneliness, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
John, I’m Only Dancing, Margaret Harvey Gallery, St. Albans, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Central Screening, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
The Biggest Games in Town, Kunstlerwerkstatt, Munich
Threesome, Begane Grond, Utrecht, Netherlands
Home is where the heart is, Museum van Loon, Amsterdam
Same as last year, Proposition Gallery, Belfast, Ireland
1999
Panorama 2000, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
Multiples x3, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Failure, W139, Amsterdam
Loneliness in the City, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
It looks like rain… , Royal College of Art, London
Hair Styling, Toasting Agency, Paris
1998
Dangleberry, Rozengracht 207-c, Amsterdam
Moments in Time, De Melkfabriek, Den Bosch, Netherlands
619 KBB 75, Mobile 2000, Berlin
Video-apero, ERGO, Rennes, France
1997
It always jumps back, and finds its way, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam
Perish, Duende, Rotterdam, Netherlands
European Couples, and Others, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
619 KBB 75, Mobile 2000, Paris
Play, Ziegler, Groningen, Netherlands
Mobile TV, le Consortium, Dijon, France
1996
Fucking biscuits, and other drawings, Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam
host, OB Projects, Amsterdam
Art for People, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Looking Awry, Ambassade du Brésil, Paris
1995
Video Arte Hoy, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela
Fairytale in the supermarket, Museum of Education, fotofeis, Glasgow, Scotland
1994
New Art in Scotland, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland
AERIAL ‘94, AERIAL Public Art Projects, Edinburgh, Scotland

Projects

2015
Venceremos, Museo Arte Modero Medellin, Medellin
2014
A Flag para La Ene, Museo la Ene, Buenos Aires
2000-07
The Dating Market, Lindeman supermarket, Amsterdam, Manor Supermarket, Basel,
Shinsegae Supermarket, Gwangju, South Korea, Konsum supermarkt, Falkenberg,
Sweden, RIMI supermarkets, Vilnius, Lithuania,
Morton Williams University Supermarket, NY, NY
1998
Make Over, Blvd. 48
1997-98
Out of sight, out of mind, Hazenstraat 21, Amsterdam
The Green Room, Amsterdam
Chit Chat, Almanac 8.0, Amsterdam 1 TV, Amsterdam
1995
The Otto Berchem Show, Amsterdam

Curatorial Projects

1996
Host, OB Projects
Wish You Were Here, De Appel

Bibliography

2013
Littérature, Collection FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, FRAC NPC
2011
You Are Not Alone, Art Aids, Fundacio Miro, Barcelona
2010
Global Contemporary, Sotheby’s, Amsterdam
2008
More to Love, Art Aids
Nothing to Declare, 4th. Triennale of Contemporary Art
2007
The Suspended Moment, H+F Collection
The Dating Show, 3rd Ward Gallery
Sur la Route (Een Tour van Kunstenaars), S.M.A.K., Gent
Choix d’Artistes, Instituit Neerlandais
2006
Give(a)way, EV+A,
Kunsteditie voor Duchenne, Rijksakemie vbk
The Suspended Moment, Tadu Contemporary Art, Bangkok
2005
Radio Days, De Appel, Amsterdam
The Suspended Moment (H & F Collection), Crac Alsace, Altkirch, France,
Global Tour, W139, Amsterdam
Istanbul, 9th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
2004
Revolving Doors, Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid
PR 04 [tribute to the messenger], M&M proyectos, San Juan/Rincon, PR
Divine Heroes, Minoriten Kultur, Graz
Planet B, Magazin 4 Vorarlberger Kunstverein /Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
2003
Happy Together, Tirana Biennale, Tirana
2002
P_A_U_S_E, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
Sculptura 02, Falkenberg, Sweden
La vie devant soi/Life ahead of you, Frac Languedoc Rousellon, Montpellier
2001
Audit, Casino, Luxembourg
2000
It’s Not My Fault (solo catalogue), published by Artimo Foundation
1999
Panorama 2000, Central Musuem, Utrecht
1997
It always jumps back and finds its way, De Appel
1994
New Art In Scotland, CCA, Glasgow