Tomas Saraceno has studied both art and architecture. Employing techniques such as installation, sculpture and photography, the artist explores the organic conditions and structures of our world. Inspired by architects and theoreticians such as Richard Buckminster Fuller, Peter Cook, Yona Friedman and other visionaries, Tomás Saraceno examines how scientific innovations can develop new ideas for a more sustainable society. Tomas Saraceno’s work comprises concepts of how art may build dreams for the future. He has the courage to let art propose new utopias in harmony with architecture and science.
Tomas Saraceno was born in 1973 in Argentina and lives and works in Frankfurt. He has participated in numerous exhibitions world-wide, including solo presentations at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA, 2009; the Mudam, Musée d’Art Moderne, Luxemburg, 2009; and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, 2008. He participated in the 53rd Venice Biennale 2009 and group exhibitions at the Barbican, London, 2009; Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, 2009; and Life Forms at Bonniers Konsthall, 2009.