Oscar Murillo, surge (social cataracts), 2025, oil, oil stick, and spray paint on canvas, in three parts, overall 250 × 750 cm, detail. Courtesy of the artist © Oscar Murillo. Photo: Tim Bowditch & Reinis Lismanis
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30 April 2026
Magazine América Latina
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Oscar Murillo: Collective Osmosis
In his new project at DAS MINSK (Germany), the Colombian artist Oscar Murillo creates a dialogue between his abstract paintings and Impressionist works by Claude Monet.
In Collective Osmosis, Murillo brings his work into exchange with visitors and Monet’s paintings, drawing on the french artist’s late-life experience with cataracts and shifting vision. This altered perception becomes both an allegory for societal neglected spots and a way to rethink Impressionism through the politics of seeing and not-seeing. The artist actives both the interior and exterior spaces of the Museum, transforming it into a place of exchange.
Oscar Murillo: Collective Osmosis is on show until August 9, 2026.
DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam
Max-Planck-Straße 17
14473 Potsdam, Germany
Visiting hours: Wednesday to Monday, 10 am – 7 pm
Installation view of Oscar Murillo: Collective Osmosis, DAS MINSK/Museum Barberini, 14th March-9th August 2026. Photo: Tim Bowditch
Installation view of Oscar Murillo: Collective Osmosis, DAS MINSK/Museum Barberini, 14th March-9th August 2026. Photo: Tim Bowditch
Oscar Murillo, A song to a tearful garden, part of the 36th São Paulo Biennial, Not All Travellers Walk Roads—Of Humanity as Practice, Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, Brazil, September 6, 2025–January 11, 2026. Courtesy of the artist © Oscar Murillo. Photo: Reinis Lismanis
Installation view of Oscar Murillo: Collective Osmosis, DAS MINSK/Museum Barberini, 14th March-9th August 2026. Photo: Tim Bowditch
Installation view of Oscar Murillo: Collective Osmosis, DAS MINSK/Museum Barberini, 14th March-9th August 2026. Photo: Tim Bowditch
Oscar Murillo, disrupted frequencies (United States, Japan, Colombia), 2013–2025, oil, oil stick, ballpoint pen, fountain pen, graphite, felt tip pen, highlighter pen, permanent marker, paint, crayon, staples, natural pigments, debris, and other mixed media on canvas, 180 × 200 cm. Courtesy of the artist © Oscar Murillo. Photo: Tim Bowditch & Reinis Lismanis
Installation view of Oscar Murillo: Collective Osmosis, DAS MINSK/Museum Barberini, 14th March-9th August 2026. Photo: Tim Bowditch
Installation view of Oscar Murillo: Collective Osmosis, DAS MINSK/Museum Barberini, 14th March-9th August 2026. Photo: Tim Bowditch
Oscar Murillo (b. 1986 in La Paila, Colombia) works across painting, participatory projects, video, sound, and installation, examining ideas of collectivity and shared culture while foregrounding material presence and a critical perspective on contemporary society. His large-scale participatory commission The flooded garden, inspired by Claude Monet’s pond in Giverny, was presented in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in summer 2024; in 2023 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Westminster, and in 2019 he was one of four recipients of the Turner Prize.
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