Victoria Colmegna

Victoria Colmegna (Argentina, 1986) lives and works in Buenos Aires.

"Victoria's work engages with the styles and dynamics that dominate closed systems like cliques self-critically reflecting the making of the ‘young’ artist’s oeuvre as a self abusive practice.

The work is always over-curated, populous, somewhat apocryphal, it’s transpersonal; as in things done by many. By mixing, committing, hosting, inviting, ordering, demanding, and begging different things from different people, she tries to find the cipher for selfhood's unresolved dilemma. The work frantically border- hops between textile design, fan item, family memorabilia and pharmaceutics and art commodity.

Her painting is photography based and recollects visual cues like a fashion police in a crime scene.

She's fascinated by psychology, alternative medicine, and kitsch."

Her work has been presented in several solo and two-person exhibitions, among which Victoria Colmegna & Tobias Kaspar, The Paris Agreement at Bonny Poon Conditions – Profil, Paris (2024); Enfant Gâté at Emanuela Campoli, Paris (2023); Superficial at PAGE, New York (2023); Manic Melancholy at Emanuela Campoli, Paris (2023); Present Future at Artissima, with Weiss Falk, Turin (2022); Love Needs Care at Weiss Falk, Zürich (2022); Mirror, Stage, Baby Introspective at schwarzescafé at LUMA Foundation/ Westbau, Zürich (2019); Isla Privada at MAMBA, Buenos Aires (2014).

Colmegna's work has been featured in various group exhibitions including Watercolours, Chapter III, Curated by Weiss Falk at XYZ, Tokyo (2023); Retail Apocalypse at Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal (2022); Buffers at CFA – Schiefe Zähne, Berlin (2021); Digital Gothic at Centre d’art Contemporain – la Synagogue de Delme, France(2019); Where do we go from here? curated by Anna Goetz at Salon Acmé, Mexico City (2019).