NEVVEN (SE)

NEVVEN is a non-profit hybrid art space conjoining a gallery and a publicly funded art organisation, located in Gothenburg since 2015. Founded and directed by curator Mattia Lullini & artist Alina Vergnano, NEVVEN promotes an intersectional perspective on the contemporary European art scene.

Curated for
CHART

For CHART 2023, NEVVEN will present a solo booth by Barcelona based Colombian artist Giorgio Celin, exhibiting a new body of paintings that continue to expand the artist's enchanting and thought-provoking imagery. A monumental installation will occupy the entirety of the booth's wall. Celebrating the beauty, queerness and complexity of the latinx-diaspora, Celin will be introduced by NEVVEN for the first time in Scandinavia with a memorable and elegant presentation, showcasing one of the most fascinating and relevant new voices in contemporary figurative painting.

Giorgio Celin (CO)

Giorgio Celin’s vibrant figurative paintings stem from his idiosyncratic living experiences, fantasies and memories, and explore themes of migration, belonging, queerness, intimacy and nostalgia. Characterised by bold figures and vivid colours, Celin’s canvases effortlessly capture and offer an alternative narrative to the stories of the Latinx diaspora.

Giorgio Celin (b. 1986, Barranquilla) has exhibited his work at Eve Leibe Gallery (London, 2022 and 2021), Galerie Kornfeld (Berlin, 2022), Untitled Art Fair (Miami Beach, 2022), Art Busan (2022), and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (2019) among others. Celin lives and works in Barcelona, Spain.

Quedate Aqui... El Amor Es Simple y a las Simples Cosas las Derora el Tiempo... [Stay Here... Love Is Simple and Time Destroys Simple Things...]

Oil on canvas
2023

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And I Wake Up Alone...

Oil on canvas
2023

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The iPad Drawing

Oil on canvas
2023

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Untitled

Oil on canvas
2023

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Two Figures in Pink

Oil on canvas
2022

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Dream in Montjuïc

Oil on canvas
2022

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“To behold his work is to fall into a moment, one charged with bombastic emotions and creatively reimagined settings.”

- From Giorgio Celin - Memory, Imagination and Emotion, Giorgio Celin interviewed by Isaac Crown Manesis, published on Metal Magazine.

Don’t Put KFC in Ur Paintings

Courtesy of the artist and NEVVEN