Javier GONZÁLEZ PESCE

Profile

Born in 1984. Lives and Works in Santiago, Chile. Graduated with a BA in Fine Art from ARCIS University, Chile in 2008, and an MA of Art in the public Sphere from EDHEA(Ecole de design et Haute école d'art du Valais), Switzerland in 2017. 
Visual Artist, art space director, curator, and University teacher. His work has been exhibited in countries in south, central and north America, Europe and Asia.
He has co-directed the independent art space Local Arte Contemporáneo in Santiago, Chile since 2011. Guided by the belief that art is a space where ideas and reality are entangled, he aims to enrich poetic and critical thinking through objects, sounds, and other modes of expression.

Recent exhibition:
2026 "Distant touch," D21, Santiago (upcoming)
2025 "Why to build if to destroy is faster," Amore, Basel
2024 "OPEN SITE9 'MUNDO'," TOKAS, Tokyo
2023 "Lo que se de mi cuerpo; Lo que mi cuerpo sabe de mi (What I know about my body; What my body knows about me)," Paijan, Trujillo, Peru
2022 "Museo en Campaña," Galería Gabriela Mistral, Santiago
2019 "Two Ways to Disappear Without Losing the Physical Form," Fonderie Darling, Montreal
2019 "Satellites and Wanderers," Points Center for Contemporary Art, Suzhou, China

Recent awards:
2025-2026 100 jour residency at Aristes en Residence, 2025-2026 Clermont Ferrand, France
2025 Pro Helvetia grant for residencies in EoFA (Geneva) + Vila Numa (La Chaux des Fonds), Switzerland
2019 Juan Downey Prize, Media Art Biennale, Chile
2019 "Juan Downey International Media and Audiovisual Arts Contest, The first prize in Video Art and Animation Category"

About works / performance

I conceive art as a sensitive activity, where thought, action, ideas, things and situations are complemented in the construction of meaning and experience. I conceive my work as an unfolded system of dispersed sensitive situations that claim connection, as in a constellation. The deployment of each of my projects proposes a reflection on scientific or natural phenomena and their link with human thought and sensibility. For a long period I worked focusing on the observation of forces of attraction (from love to gravity), deploying models of attractive systems. This has evolved into my current research, which is focused on investigating different human beliefs (from scientific to mythological) and how through these ideas we interact with the immediate world.