Nicolas Rupcich

Born in 1981 in Santiago, Chile
Lives and works in Leipzig, Germany

Nicolás Rupcich received his BFA from the Universidad Finis Terrae and his MA from the Universidad de Chile, He also is a Cross Media Graduate of the Mac-PC Academy. Between 2013-2015 thanks to a DAAD scholarship he did his Meisterschüler studies in Medienkunst at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (Leipzig, Germany).
Rupcich works primarily with photography, video and installation, his work is focused in the characteristics of the image in our time, mainly in the production systems of digital images, using its aspects and material conditions as thematic elements. Subjects which are related to the construction of an artificial environment can often be found, where the concept of “image” is involved, either on the configuration of our environment or as well in behaviour of our society.

Individual Exhibitions
2014 – Falso Reflejo – Galería Concreta, Santiago, Chile
2012 – Imagen Exportable –  Espacio Flor, Santiago, Chile
2012 – ML, Die Ecke gallery – Santiago, Chile
2011 – Grand Celebration – Galería Casa E, Valparaíso, Chile
2008 – Territorio Diseñado – Galería Die Ecke, Santiago, Chile
2006 – Automático – Galería Die Ecke, Santiago, Chile
2006 – Berlínmiami – Galería  H10, Valparaíso, Chile

Group Exhibitions
2014 – Ars Electronica Festival, Best of Animation – Film/VFX, Linz, Austria
2014 – Algo es Algo –  Galería Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile
2014 – V_kunst –  Galerie Maurer, Frankfurt, Germany
2014 – Of Landscape  –  Reverse, New York, USA
2013 – Cynetart – Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden, Germany
2013 – 11th Media Arts Biennale –  National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile
2012 – Contaminaciones Contemporáneas – MAC, Santiago, Chile
2012 – Grenner on the Other Side – Kallio Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
2012 – Transmediale – Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2011 – 28th Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Video Fest –  Kassel, Germany
2011 – Tenebrae, La Oscuridad –  CeAC, Santiago, Chile
2011 – Dislocación – Jura Platz, Biel/Bienne, Suiza
2010 – Contaminaciones Contemporáneas – MAC USP, Sao Paulo, Brasil
2010 – Extraterritory – Quien, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010 – Chili, l’envers du décor – Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, Francia
2009 – 7º Bienal del Mercosur – Projetáveis, Porto Alegre, Brasil
2009 – Trienal de Chile – El Terremoto de Chile, Santiago, Chile
2009 – Constellations – Beijing Bienale 798, Beijing, China
2007 – Festival de video Mini-Max – Apetit Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina