GONZALO BARAHONA explores the relationship between science and art. He works in various media such as painting, drawing, sculpture and scenography. He completed his studies in Santiago de Chile (Diploma in Visual Arts) and in Hamburg (MA Film, Animation).
His most recent work is the hyper-realistic animal masks that Gonzalo Barahona has been making for more than 10 years in the collective ‘El Cuco Projekt’.
Research themes:
Relationship between painting and mathematics
the translation of scientific phenomena and paradigms through representation
Relationships and paradoxes between human beings and animals

Recent works:

2024 Group exhibition ‘How to create a Seed’ Painting and Sculpture, Gallery ‘Gelbe Tonne’ Berlin

2024 Presentation of the dance performance ‘Mata Dora’ at the Alte Feuerwache, Cologne, Germany, in which Gonzalo Barahona made the masks, stage design and visual concept.

2022 Awarded the Dance/Theatre Prize NRW Germany with the piece ‘CAPTCHA’ in which Gonzalo Barahona made the masks, set design and visual concept.