Juan Carlos RodrÍguez Torres

Lives in Bogotá (CO), born in Caracas (CO).

Juan Carlos Rodríguez is a visual artist, teacher, community activist and cultural manager. In 1989, he graduated from the Cristóbal Rojas School of Arts and studied at the Latin American Theological University of Costa Rica. He has worked on creation experiences carried out in community, productive and artistic spaces, and exhibited part of these processes in international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennial in 1998; the Havana Biennial in 2009; Artists in Trance, held at Rice University, Houston in 1996; Ibero-American art from the end of the century, presented at the Generalitat of Valencia, Spain in 2001, and which later toured Buenos Aires and Recife; in the triennial of Chile in 2011. In this same year, he participated as a speaker at the 42nd Biennial of Colombia, Cartagena, presenting his conference Prácticas de Creación desde la Implicancia and on this occasion the Ministry of Culture of Colombia reissues his book Con la Salud sí se Juega, where he presents some of his ideas and proposals, signed jointly with Zurisaday Cordero and Víctor Cárdenas 'Cuni'. In 2018, he published his artist's novel Petra Narcisa, which is part of a multimedia project entitled Cuatro Veranos.

About M HKA / Mission Statement

The M HKA is a museum for contemporary art, film and visual culture in its widest sense. It is an open place of encounter for art, artists and the public. The M HKA aspires to play a leading role in Flanders and to extend its international profile by building upon Antwerp's avant-garde tradition. The M HKA bridges the relationship between artistic questions and wider societal issues, between the international and the regional, artists and public, tradition and innovation, reflection and presentation. Central here is the museum's collection with its ongoing acquisitions, as well as related areas of management and research.

About M HKA Ensembles

The M HKA Ensembles represent our first steps towards initiating the public to today's art-related digital landscape. With the help of these new media, our aim is to offer our artworks a better and fuller array of support for their presentation and public understanding.