Mateo Chacón Pino

The Colombian-Swiss art historian, curator and author Mateo Chacón Pino has curated projects in art spaces, museums, galleries and farms in Switzerland, the Netherlands and Germany. He participated in The Curatorial and Artistic Thing at the sixtyeight art institute in Copenhagen and the Curatorial Program at De Appel, Amsterdam.
Mateo Chacón Pino currently lives in Kassel and works as a research assistant at the documenta Institute and at the University of Kassel in the Department of Art and Society, under Prof. Dr. Liliana Gómez.
In his dissertation "The Distinction of Art & Nature" he questions the epistemic time of art history in the light of the Anthropocene and problematizes the concept of contemporary art in the context of the exhibition. He completed his master's thesis in 2021 at the University of Zurich under Prof. Dr. Bärbel Küster on the role of state art funding for the understanding of art using the case study of the SüdKulturFonds in Switzerland. Further research interests include the social and epistemological conditions of art, the history of knowledge and philosophy of art history, as well as the problem area of aesthetics and sustainability. His work is motivated by the question of the role of art in the transformation to a sustainable society.
Together with Friederike Schäfer he is co-initiator of the research group "Exhibition Ecologies" and he is a member of the Creative Climate Leadership Switzerland network, which is led by Julie's Bicycle.

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