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Tomás Saraceno (1973) is an  Argentinian _cc781905-5cde- 3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_

contemporary artist . He is best known for his large-scale, interactive  installations  and floating_cc781905-5cde-3194- bb3b-136bad5cf58d_sculptures, and for his  interdisciplinary  approach to art. With his practice he explores new, sustainable ways of sensing and inhabiting the environment, the result of research into the origins of the  observable universe ,  arachnology _cc781905-5cde- 3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_and the potential future for airborne dwelling.

Saraceno launched the  Aerocene Foundation  in 2015; an open-source, community project for artistic and scientific exploration of environmental issues. Relating to arachnology research, Saraceno is the first person to have scanned, reconstructed and re-imagined spiders' woven spatial habitats, and possesses the only three-dimensional spider web collection in existence.

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2019, The Golden Madonnina,  The Design Prize  - In the artistic realm;

2010, 1822-Kunstpreis;

2009, Alexander Calder Prize;

2003-2004, Fondo Nacional de las Artes-Argentina/IUAV Venice-Italy;

2003-2004, Hessische Kulturstiftung Award and Residency in Rotterdam;

-2003, 16. Bundeswettbewerb des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (1st prize).

collections

Miami Art Museum , Miami, FL, USA.

Museum für Moderne Kunst , Frankfurt, Germany.

Klassik Stiftung Weimar , Weimar, Germany.

Museum of Modern Art , New York, USA.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , San Francisco, CA, USA.

Walker Art Center , Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Nationalgalerie , Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Bonniers Konsthall , Stockholm, Sweden.

The National Gallery of Denmark , Copenhagen, Denmark.

Esbjerg Kunstmusem , Esbjerg, Denmark.

Istanbul Modern Art Museum , Istanbul, Turkey.

Hamburger Bahnhof  – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany.

Boros Collection , Berlin, Germany.

The Collection of Juan Vergez, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

BSI Art Collection, Switzerland.

Mudam Museum of Modern Art Grand-Duke Jean , Luxembourg.

Collezione La Gaia, Busca, Italy.

Fondazione Pierluigi and Natalina Remotti, Camogli, Italy.

Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy.

Fondazione Edoardo Garrone, Genoa, Italy.

Luma Foundation , Zürich, Switzerland.

Reykjavik Art Museum , Reykjavik, Iceland.

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