DIANGO HERNÁNDEZ


1970 born in Sancti Spiritus, Kuba, lives and works in Dusseldorf, Germany
1994 Degree at Havana Superior Institute of Design


SOLO SHOWS

2009 "Losing you tonight: Flying Memories", FIAC Paris, Galerie Michael Wiesehöfer
2009 "Losing you tonight", 6th Rubens-Award for Contemporary Art, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen/Germany 10/2009 - 4/2010
2009 "La era está parienda un corazón", Galeria Pepe Cobo, Madrid, Spain
2009 "TH-INK", Alexander and Bonin, New York
2008 "out-of-place artifacts (OOPArt)" Galerie Michael Wiesehöfer & Galerie Barbara Thumm Berlin
2008 "inspire me, again" Stella Lohaus Gallery Antwerp, Belgium
2008 "Diamonds and Stones: My Education", Federico Luger Gallery, Milan
2007 "Objects of Ridicule", Alexander and Bonin, New York
2007 "Power Pencil", Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Rovereto, Italy
2007 "Swans without a Lake", Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
2006 "Revolution", Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
2006 "Dictators", Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne
2006 "Spies", Alexander & Bonin, New York
2006 "Traitors", Galeria Pepe Cobo, Madrid
2005 "The Museum of Capitalism", Altes Museum, Mönchengladbach, Germany
2005 "Waiting", Statement Art Forum Berlin, Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Berlin, Germany
2005 "Palabras", Arco Art Fair, Project Booth Pepe Cobo Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2005 "Revantgarde", Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Rovereto, Italy
2004 "Democracy", Kunstverein Arnsberg (with Boris Michailov), Germany
2004 "Amateur", De Vleeshal, Middelburg, Netherlands
2003 "Amateur", Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne, Germany
2002 "Sweet Home", Espacio Aglutinador, Havana, Cuba*
2001 "Mousepads and Screensavers", ArtPace Foundation fo Contemporary Art, San Antonio, Texas*
2001 "Network Transmission / Summer Days", Adamski Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne, Germany*
1999 "Esta cerca es provisional: evite ser requerido/This is a provisional Fence:
1999 Keep Out", Center for the Development of the Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba*
1997 "Hiking Raffle", Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada*
1997 "Hormigon armado/Reinforced Concrete", Center for the Development of the Visual Arts, Havana*
1996 "Agua con azucar y La muestra provisional/Sugar Water and The Provisional
1996 Show", Center for the Development of the Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba*
1996 Museo de Arte Contemporaneo y Diseffo (MACD), San José, Costa Rica*
1995 "Bésame Habana", Centro de Arte y Diseño, Havana, Cuba*


GROUP SHOWS (selected)

2010 "Touched", Liverpool Biennial 2010
11. Triennale der Kleinplastik Fellbach bei Stuttgart
"THE NEW DÉCOR", Hayward Gallery London
"Languages and Experimentations", MART Rovereto
"Star City, The Future Under Communism", Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, U.K.
"Golden Times", Haus der Kunst Munich, Germany (in prep.)
2009 "Revolutionen des Alltäglichen", Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (in prep.)
"ev + a 2009, Reading the City", Limerick City, Ireland
ZONA MACO, Mexico City
"CAMBIO DE ACEITE", Pepe Cobo y cía, Madrid, Spain
2008 "Kongress der Futurologen", ICA Dunaujvaros, Hungary
"Arise! ye starvelings...", Pallas Contemporary Projects Dublin, Ireland
"Articulações" Fábrica da Cerveja, Faro, Portugal
"BAGHDAD/SPACE COG/ANALYST" Frith Street Gallery London/UK (curated by Andrew Renton)
"Wessen Geschichte", Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg
2007 "Como vivir juntos", Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile
"Andrzej Wroblewski 1927-1957/Project", The National Museum in Warsaw, Poland
"Connected", Altes Museum Mönchengladbach, Germany
"Mr. President", University Art Museum, Albany, NY/USA
"Made in Germany", Kunstverein Hannover (in prep.)
2006 Sao Paolo Biennial
"Zones of Contact", Biennial of Sydney
"Biennale Cuvée", O.K. Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz
2005 "Always a little Further", Arsenale, 51. Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
"Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht", ZKM/Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe
"Roboter", Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim
"Biwak", Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne, Germany
"Opening", Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Rovereto, Italy
"Nuovo Segnale", Federico Luger Gallery, Milano, Italy
2004 "Flesh at War with Enigma", Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
"doku/fiction. Mouse on Mars - reviewed & remixed", Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
"Jahresgaben 2004", Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany
"Jahresgaben 2004",Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
"In Ictu Oculi", Pepe Cobo Gallery, Sevilla, Spain
"Wildlife 04 final", Sommerpalast, Neuss, Germany
"Bookies", M29 Brückner + Richter, Köln, Germany
"Mideo/Fear", Pepe Cobo Gallery, Sevilla, Spain
"With Eyes of Stone and Water", Gallery 3,14, Bergen, Norway*
2003 8. Havana Biennial, Cuba
"Stretch", Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, Canada*
2002 „Prophets of Boom. The Schürmann Collection", Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany*
"With Eyes of Stone and Water", Helsinki Art Museum, Finland*
"Atravesados. Deslizamientos de identidades y géneros", Fundación Telefónica. Madrid, Spain*
"FITAC". VIII foro sobre teoría del Arte Contemporáneo. Monterrey, México.*
"La Huella Múltiple", Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales. Habana, Cuba*
2001 "Short Stories" La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano, Italy*
"Un dia como otro cualquiera/A day like any other day", 7. Havana Biennial, Cuba*
"I am Cuba Double play”, Tirana Biennale. Tirana, Albania*



2000 "La conjuncion de la nada/The conjunction of nothingness"
Center for the Development of the Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba*
1999 "CUBA", Presentl. Barbican Centre, London, UK*
"Thinking Aloud", Camden Art Centre, London, UK
1998 "Antennas: Network Transmission/Taxi-Limosina. Provisional Utopias",
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen/Kunsthaus Berlin, Germany*
"Il Salon de arte cubano contemporanso", Center for the Development of the Visual Arts/Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam/CENCREM/Fototeca de Cuba. Havana, Cuba*
"Thinking Aloud", Hayward Gallery, London; Kettle's Yard, Cambridge;Cornerhouse,Manchester*
"Entropy at Home", Schürmann Collection, Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany*
"The Campaign Against Living Miserably", Royal College of Art, London, UK*
1997 "The Russian mountain", 3. Manifestation Internationale Vidéo et Art Électronique, Montreal, Can*
"Rompiendo los moldes", 6th Havana Biennial, Cuba*
1996 "Ultimas Noticias", Galería de Matanzas, Cuba*
1995 "Una de cada clase - Next Generation Show" Centro de Arte y Diseño, Habana, Cuba*

* as "Ordo Amoris Cabinet (OAC)"


AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2009 Rubens-Förderpreis der Stadt Siegen, Germany
2007 Artist in Residence, FRAC de la Loire, France
2005 Artist in Residence, Mönchengladbach, Germany
2001 ArtPace, Artist in Residence, San Antonio, Texas, USA
1998 Artist in Residence, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
1997 Artist in Residence, "Apocalypso", Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada



PUBLICATIONS

2009 "Ordinary Revolutions", Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
2008 "out-of-place artifacts (OOPArt)", Galerie Michael Wiesehöfer Cologne/Barbara Thumm, Berlin
2007 "Swans Without a Lake", Neuer Aachener Kunstverein
2006 "Zones of Contact", Sydney Biennial
2005 "Always a Little Further", 51. International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venedig
2005 "revantgarde", Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, New York (Monograph)
2004 "doku/fiction: Mouse on Mars: Reviewed & Remixed", Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Berlin, Germany
2002 "Cuba - with Eyes of Stone and Water", Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki
2002 Winzen, Matthias (Hrsg.), "Prophets of Boom: Collection Schürmann", Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Köln, Germany
2001 "Short Stories", La Fabrica del Vapore, Milano, Italy
2001 "Dreaming Red - Creating ArtPace", ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas, USA
2001 Block, Holly, “Art Cuba: The Next Generation”, New York, USA
2001 "Atravesados. Deslizamientos de identidad y género", Havanna, Cuba
1999 Eligio, Antonio (Tonel), "Esta cerca es provisional / Evite ser Requerido", (This is a Provisional Fence / Keep Out), Edition: Ordo Amoris Cabinet, Havana, Cuba
1999 Hernandez, Orlando, "Trabajando Pa'l Inglé", Barbican Centre, London, UK
1998 "Provisorische Utopien", Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
1998 Yedgar, Ariella, "The Campaign against living Miserably", Royal College of Art, London, UK
1997 Hernandez, Helmo, "Hormigón Armado" (Reinforced Concrete), Edition: Ordo Amoris Cabinet
1997 "Utopian Territories: New Art from Cuba", Vancouver, Canada

ARTICLES/REVIEWS

2010 Catrin Lorch, "Diango Hernández, Losing You Tonight" in: frieze, no. 129, march 2010
2006 Simone Neuenschwander, Diango Hernández, "Conversation", Kunsthalle Basel 04, Jan. 2006, Basel, Switzerlland
2005 Revuelta, Laura, "Diango Hernández", ARCO 05, Madrid
Tomasini, Marco, "Hernández in Biennale", l'Adige, May 31, Trento, Italy
Anke Kempkes, "Palabras", Always a Little Further. 51st International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy
2004 León, Dermis Pérez, "Diango Hernández: Amateur", Art Nexus No. 52, Volume 3/2004, USA
2001 Eligio, Antonio (Tonel), “Culture and Society in the Work of Cuban Artists.” In "Art Cuba:
The New Generation", New York
2001 Quinones, Paul, "Short Stories: La Fabrica del Vapore, Milano", Flash Art 2001, Italy
2000 Fernandez, Frencis, '’Rusty Scope’ from Cornell to Resnor', Arte Cubano 3
2000 Rodriguez, Hilda, “Espacios para una comunicaciòn deseada”, Arte Cubano 3
1999 Grant, Simon, "Imagination at full stretch", Evening Standard, May 12, London, 1999
1999 Fuentes, Elvis, “Tan lejos tan ‘cerca”, La Gaceta de Cuba, No. 8
1999 Eligio, Antonio, "Esta cerca es provisional / Evite ser Requerido", Revista La Gaceta de Cuba
1999 Eligio, Antonio (Tonel), “Por la Habana en Limosina” La Gaceta de Cuba, No. 6, S. 22
1999 Hunt, Ian, “Thinking Aloud”, Art Monthly, February
1998 Greess, Gabriela, "Überlebenskunst", Süddeutsche Zeitung, July, Germany
1998 Becker, Wolfgang, "Provisorische Utopien", Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany
1997 Moya, Nelson, “Agua con Azucar y Muestra Provisional 1 en el MADC”, Fanal 14, Spain
1996 Molina, Juan Antonio, “Ordo Amoris. Hacia un diseño pragmatico”, La Gaceta de Cuba, No. 4
1995 Alberdi, Virginia, “The Next Generation”, Arte Cubano 2


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Galleria d'Arte Moderna Palazzo Forti, Verona
MART - Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen/Germany
Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Belo Horizonte
Rheingold Collection, Mönchengladbach
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Collection of Contemporary Art of the Federal Republic of Germany
FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Leon, (MUSAC)
Collectión Bergé, Madrid