Pedro Gómez Egaña is a Colombian artist born in 1976, who is currently based in Norway.
Trained both as a composer and visual artist at Goldsmiths College and the Bergen National Academy of Arts, his practice varies from performance, to sculpture, video, installation and sound works. Gómez-Egaña’s recent output is produced in the framework of Calligraphies, a 3 year project supported by the National Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowships programme. This project renders a series of pieces that explore of motion in relation to fundamental forces like gravity, repetition or catastrophe. His pieces often include compositions of text and phonographic material, as well as mechanical or video animations of simple drawings. Although his practice involves multiple technical resources and artistic disciplines it appears to construct worlds of particular simplicity.
From 2003 to 2006 Gómez-Egaña carried out a 3 year research project on the relationship between musicality and physicality sponsored by the British Council of England that rendered a variety of collaborative and solo exhibitions, performances and papers. His works and collaborations have been presented at art, music, and dance venues, such as the Hordalands Kunstsenter, the Marrakech Biennale 2009, Brussels Biennial 2008, FACT Liverpool, Rencontre International d’Art Performance de Quebec, Purcell Room at the Royal Festival Hall in London, Multipistes and 66East Amsterdam, Institute of Contemporary Art London, DareDare Montreal, Tanz Quartier Wien, BMIC London cutting edge series, L'appartement 22 Morocco and Kunstraum Kreuzberg-Bethanien, amongst others.
Gómez-Egaña has been guest and resident lecturer at the MA programme in visual arts at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Goldsmiths College London, Laban Centre London and the Bergen National Academy of Arts.
Amongst the awards and grants received are the Bildende Kunstneres Norway Award for "Swimming Sideways" in 2008, and for “Birds” in 2007, a nomination in 2009 for the Ernst Schering Art Award, the Performing Rights Society of England Creative Collaborations Award for “Mahler’s 5ths” in 2004, and the Colombian Ministry of Culture Research Grant for “Cunicula” in 2002.
Read more about Gomez-Egaña's practice in Bojana Bauer's text "of mechanics of the soul" here