Through sculpture, drawing, and installation, Eduardo Basualdo’s practice (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1977) explores the boundaries between reality and fiction, perception and collapse. His work stems from elemental concerns linked to the Earth’s natural cycles, creating immersive experiences that evoke atmospheres of tension, suspension, or imminence. Basualdo conceives his works as devices of sensory and symbolic impact, capable of interrupting the accelerated ordering of everyday life and instating states of presence and contemplation.
Throughout his career, he has developed a poetics centered on raw materiality and the power of natural elements, emphasizing dramatic structures that evoke invisible forces, collective fragility, and the potential for disaster. For the artist, art should be direct—capable of capturing the viewer without relying on conceptual mediation—creating situations where the body and mind are fully present, disarmed, in immediate contact with the work. His interest in installation arises from the urgency to create experiences that elude the logic of consumption and distraction that defines daily life under neoliberalism. Elements such as metal bars, stones, ropes, and industrial materials acquire ambiguous meanings, functioning as visual metaphors for belief systems, failed contracts, and structures on the verge of collapse. Beyond political and philosophical concerns, his work also dialogues with theater and cinema, merging the visual and the performative to capture the viewer in a fictional, almost hypnotic temporality, in which sensory experience precedes analysis.
Recent solo exhibitions include: In Media Res, Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2025); Pupila, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina (2022); Corona in Eduardo Basualdo’s Imaginary Universe, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany (2021); Casa Naranja, Córdoba, Argentina (2020); La Cabeza de Goliat, Musée d’Art Contemporain Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France (2018); Arena, MuBE - Museu Brasileiro de Escultura e Ecologia, São Paulo, Brazil (2017).
Recent group exhibitions include: Under Construction, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany (2022); Recovering Histories, Recovering Fantasies, 2nd Bienal Sur, National Museum, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (2019); Immediately Before and Shortly After, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Hotel de Inmigrantes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2019); Picasso et l’Exil, Musée d’Art Contemporain Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France (2019); Secretos Compartidos, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2019); All the World’s Futures, 56th Venice Biennale (2015); XII Bienal de La Habana, Havana, Cuba (2015).
His work is part of collections such as: Musée d Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, France; Tiroche de Leon Collection, Israel; Juan y Patricia Vergez, Buenos Aires.