Tomás Saraceno

Tomás Saraceno (1973) is an Argentinian

contemporary artist. He is best known for his large-scale, interactive installations and floating 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 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.

Awards

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.