Juan Andrés Marin
Bogotá, D.C., Bogotá
I explore what cannot be said—images where silence, gesture, and erasure reveal beauty beyond language.
Message
Juan Andrés Marín (Colombia, 2000) is a visual artist based in Bogotá. His work explores the tensions between beauty and suffering, memory and disappearance, through painting and works on paper. A Design graduate from Universidad de los Andes, he developed an approach that intertwines aesthetics and emotion, consolidated in his thesis Tattoo Performance: Amina.
In 2024, he completed a program in Modern and Contemporary Art and Design at MoMA. He was a finalist for the Jackson’s Art Prize 2025 and exhibited at Bankside Gallery (London), Galería Espacio Alterno, and the Uniandinos auction. He has also participated in Feria del Millón, Circuito de Arte de Cartagena, and was recognized by Galería Umbral as an emerging artist. His practice proposes images where the raw and the sublime coexist, creating spaces of contemplation, intuition, and silence.
Statement
I find spirituality in nature—in human nature—
in movement and stillness, in sound and silence.
In life and death. In compassion, in love, in calm.
Along the shifting edges of language.
My practice is a search to move beyond language and the limits of my own world. Through painting, sculpture, and video, I cross that threshold where words no longer hold, and something unnamed begins. My process involves observing and collecting images, videos, and raw memories—not to reconstruct what is seen, but to build what cannot be seen.
Figurative abstraction allows me to move past the confines of form and the human impulse to name in order to possess. My goal as an artist is to paint like a child, guided by intuition rather than translation—where each mark becomes a new language of its own. It is on that shore, where reasoning falls away, that I seek to simply observe and feel life as something that resists being spoken.