Enrique Ramírez
Biography
Born in 1979 in Santiago (Chile), lives and works between Paris and Santiago.
Enrique Ramírez is a Chilean artist who graduated from Le Fresnoy. His films, installations and photographs, full of poetry, question history and the contemporary world, with the sea as a recurring element in his creations. The works of Enrique Ramírez are like the symbol of a fragile glow, which refers to the state of the world, helping us to understand the challenges of humanity. The frontality of his images, the way they seize us due to the luminous proximity of a body or a sail floating on the surface of the water; a drifting cross pointing to the sky, establish the possibility of a touch, sensitive, almost perceptible. Enrique Ramírez manages to absorb a part of his surroundings, his environment, and holds us in the splendour of the images: emotion, feeling and presence come to occupy the space, highlighting it.
In 2023, three works by Enrique Ramírez joined the collections of the Centre Pompidou (Paris). His work are in prestigious collections such as the Pinault Collection (Paris); MoMA (New York); Kadist Foundation (Paris, San Francisco); Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration (Paris); MAC-VAL (Vitry); Pérez Art Museum (Miami); Museo Ampáro (Puebla); The Ama Foundation (Santiago), Fundación Engel (Santiago), Collection Itaú cultural (São Paulo), Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos (Santiago); Fonds d'art contemporain - Paris Collections; FRAC (PACA, Bretagne, Nouvelle- Aquitaine).
Enrique Ramírez's work has been exhibited at the International Pavilion of the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017; Parque de la Memoria (Buenos Aires) ; UQAM Gallery (Montreal) ; Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la photographie (Arles) ; Le Grand Café - Centre d'art contemporain (Saint-Nazaire) ; Kunsthalle Bielefeld (Germany) ; Museo Amparo (Puebla); Centro Nacional de arte Contemporáneo (Santiago); Palais de Tokyo (Paris); Museo de la Memoria (Santiago); Kadist (San Francisco); Jeu de Paume (Paris); Museo de Bellas Artes (Santiago); Centre Pompidou (Paris); Center for Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv).
He has been nominated for the Prix Marcel-Duchamp, the SAM Price and the Meurice Price. He has received the Prix de la Découverte from the Friends of the Palais de Tokyo and the Beyond Memory Prize for the video Brises.
In 2022, Enrique had a major solo exhibition at Le Fresnoy in dialogue with works from the Pinault collection (curated by Caroline Bourgeois, Pascale Pronnier and Enrique Ramírez).
Enrique Ramírez's work has been exhibited at International Pavillion at the 57th Venice Biennial in 2017; Parque de la Memoria (Buenos Aires); UQAM Gallery (Montreal); Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la photographie (Arles); Le Grand Café - Centre d'art contemporain (Saint-Nazaire); Kunsthalle Bielefeld (Germany); Centre Pompidou (Paris); Jeu de Paume (Paris) ; Museo Amparo (Puebla); Centro Nacional de arte Contemporaneo (Santiago) ; Palais de Tokyo (Paris) ; Museo de la Memoria (Santiago) ; Kadist (San Franciso) ; Museo de Bellas Artes (Santiago); Center for Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv)
He was nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize, SAM prize and the Meurice Prize. He won the Discover prize of Amis du Palais de Tokyo & Beyond Memory Prize for the Brises video.
His work is part of prestigious collections as Pinault Collection (Paris) ; Centre Pompidou (Paris) ; MoMA (New York) ; Kadist Art Foundation (San Francisco) ; Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration (Paris) ; MAC-VAL (Vitry) ; Pérez Art Museum (Miami) ; Museo Ampáro (Puebla) ; The Ama Foundation(Santiago), Fundación Engel (Santiago), Collection Itaú cultural (São Paulo), Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos (Santiago) ; Fonds d'art contemporain - Paris Collections, FRAC (PACA, Marseilles ; Bretagne, Rennes ; Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux).
In 2022 Enrique has a major solo show at Le Fresnoy in dialogue with works from the Pinault collection (cur. Caroline Bourgeois, Pascale Pronnier, Enrique Ramírez).
Selected works








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Gallery exhibitions
Museum exhibitions





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Videos
EXHIBITION
Incertains, Exhibition Centre Pompidou, Prix Marcel Duchamp 2020
EXHIBITION
Enrique Ramirez, Exhibition Jusque là, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, 2022
CONVERSATION
Conversation about the works : Enrique Ramirez I Palais de la Porte Dorée
EXHIBITION
"Gestus I atto: rifare il corpo" avec une performance d'Enrique Ramirez au Teatrino.
Press

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Donde la memoria se funde con la imaginacion
2023

télam digital
Argentina y Chile entrelazados en una muestra poética que captura lo político
2023

The Art Newspaper
Mémoire vive
2023

Elle
The Memory Palace
2023

CambodgeMag
Récits poétique avec Enrique Ramirez
2022

arterritory
Around Video in Lille
2022

Quotidien de l'art
3 questions à Sybille du Roy
2022

De Tijd
Oude gelddrukkerij herleeft als kunsthal
2022
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Publications
Enrique Ramírez : À la recherche du vent perdu
Publisher: Editions Toluca
2023

jusque-là
Publisher: DILECTA
2022

Jardins Migratoires - Êtres/Lieux
Publisher: l'École nationale supérieure de la photographie d'Arles et la galerie de l'UQAM
2022

Los durmientes
Publisher: Metales Pesados
2018
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Los Durmientes [mar dulce]
Publisher: Centro Cultural MATTA Embajada de Chile en Argentina
2016

El tiempo, el animo, el mundo
Publisher: Museo Amparo
2015

Restos de mar
Publisher: Die Ecke Arte Contemporaneo
2015

Océan
Publisher: ÉDITIONS PYLÔNE
2013
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