Bio

Raúl Hott is a Chilean architect, researcher, and healing artist. He designs environments, experiences and tools for shifting consciousness. The aim of these is to provide an integrated comprehension of reality, through a vision of unity and interconnectedness. His investigation spans psychology, eastern philosophies, ephemeral architecture, sound, and ecological regeneration.

His projects have delved extensively into the politics of affection, in order to develop care strategies and generate tools that help transform existential risk into existential hope. These methodologies seek to activate processes of re-humanization and vitality: learning to love in the Capitalocene. Raúl holds an MFA in New Forms from Pratt Institute, and he was a fellow resident of Capacete in Athens as part of Documenta 14’s public program.

His work and collaborations have been featured at Kunsthal Gent (Belgium), Centro de Residencias Artísticas Matadero Madrid (Spain), Mécènes du Sud (France), HALLE14 (Germany), Point Centre for Contemporary Art (Cyprus), Ed. Varie Gallery (NY), Trestle Gallery (NY), Blackburn 20/20 Gallery (NY), Art in Odd Places Festival (NY), Espacios Revelados (Chile), and Centro de Creación y Residencia NAVE (Chile), among others.

Timeline Projects

Radiante, 2020–Present
Santiago, Chile

Efecto-Afecto, 2018–Present

Madrid, Spain

The Great Arousal, 2017–2018

Athens, Greece

La Unión, 2015–2016

Santiago, Chile

The Open Body, 2013

New York, US

EDUCATION

2013 Master of Fine Arts in New Forms, Pratt Institute, New York.
2009 Architecture, Universidad Finis Terrae, Santiago, Chile.

FURTHER EDUCATION

2021 Instituto Bioalkimia, ENOC ‘Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness’, Online.
2020 SFSIA Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, ‘Care, Caring and Repair in Cognitive Capitalism’, Online.
2020 AfA Artists for Artists Masterclass, ‘Radical Care’, Online.
2017 Capacete Athens, Public Program Documenta 14, Athens, Greece.

PRESENTATIONS

2022 (5) Radiante Center, Nein – Sc(è)ene #10, Kunsthal Gent, Ghent, Belgium.

2018 (4) The Affective Experience, E.M.M.A - Mystery of Love, Spazio Speciale, Palermo, Italy.

2018 (3) Reclaiming Pleasure, The Great Arousal, Beton 7, Athens, Greece.

2017 (2) Collective Joy, The School of Everything, Public Program Documenta 14, Parko Eleftherias, Athens, Greece.

2017 (1) Forces, Open Encounters, Capacete Athens, Circuits and Currents, Athens, Greece.

COLLABORATIONS

2022 Making Milpa with Diego Gutierrez-Valladares, Zamek Culture Centre, Poznan, Poland.

2021 How to Love Many in Many Ways with Engy Mohsen and Gabriel Hensche, Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

2021 Exercises for the Digital Age with Gabriel Hensche, The Ignorant Schoolmaster, Goethe Institut Hanoi, Vietnam.

2017 The Garden with Jenny Marketou, Goethe Institut Athens, Athens, Greece.

2016 Bank of No with Noah Fischer, Joulia Strauss, Nurtane Karagil, and Csaba Nemes. First Action: Produced by A.G. Leventis Gallery and Point Centre for Contemporary Art in the framework of “Life Zone – Life Point” by Pawel Althamer in Nicosia, Cyprus. Second Action: Produced in the context of the exhibition “Terra Mediterranea: In Action” at HALLE14, Leipzig, Germany.

2015 Futuro Local – 1st Local Encounter with LOCAL, Espacio Recoleta IF, Santiago, Chile.

2014 Failure’s Island with Kaloyan Ivanov, Art in Odd Places Festival, NY.

RESIDENCIES, GRANTS AND AWARDS

2019 Artist Residency, Centro de Creación y Residencia NAVE, Santiago, Chile.
2018 Artist Residency, E.M.M.A - Mystery of Love, Centro de Residencias Artísticas Matadero Madrid, Spain.
2018 Artist Fellowship, E.M.M.A - Mystery of Love, The Gathering, Palermo, Italy.
2017 Artist Fellowship, Motel Capacete Fellowship, Motel Producciones, Santiago, Chile.
2017 Fondart, Circulación Internacional, Consejo de la Cultura y las Artes, Santiago, Chile.
2017 Artist Residency, Comunidad Acción - Revuelo, Concepción, Chile.
2013 Winner 'Best of Brooklyn' GoPark Photo Contest, City of New York Parks & Recreation Department, NY.
2013 Artist Residency, The Wassaic Project, NY.
2013 Education Fellowship, The Wassaic Project, NY.
2012 International Student Scholarship, Office of International Affairs (OIA), Pratt Institute, NY.
2012 Graduate Scholarship, Department of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, NY.
2011 Graduate Scholarship, Department of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, NY.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 (Re-)sentir tous les jours. Techniques de résistance, OpenSpace, Nancy, France.
2020 (Re-)sentir tous les jours. Techniques de résistance, Mécènes du Sud, Montpellier, France.
2016 Meerschmerz–Może Współdzielne, HALLE14, Leipzig, Germany.
2016 Espacios Revelados/Changing Places, Santiago, Chile.
2015 Antidote, Mykonos Biennale, Mykonos Island, Greece.
2015 Hang Together: Collaborative Work & Practices, Pratt Institute Library, NY.
2014 Urban Factors (300 seconds), The Toronto Design Offsite Festival, Toronto, Canada.
2014 Last Saturdays Program, Maxon Mills, The Wassaic Project, NY.
2013 The Aesthetics of Engagement, Pratt Institute, NY.
2013 Pratt Graduate Fine Arts 2013 Exhibition, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY.
2013 Fountain Art Fair 2013, The Armory, NY.
2013 Silhouette, Blackburn 20/20 Gallery, NY.
2012 Silence and Noise, Brooklyn Zen Center, NY.
2012 Excavation: Memory, Ed. Varie Gallery, NY.
2012 I Pick You First Series, The BackPack Gallery, NY.
2012 Crisis – D9 Collective, Dekalb Gallery, NY.
2012 La Ropa Sucia Se Lava En Casa, Schmall Gallery, NY.
2012 Beta: Round Forty, Steuben Gallery, NY.
2012 The BackPack Gallery at Governors Island Art Fair, The BackPack Gallery, NY.
2012 Two-Sided Act, Trestle Gallery, NY.
2011 Fracture, Steuben Gallery, NY.

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