Studio visit with Andrés Ramírez Gaviria in conversation with Heike Eipeldauer
At the studio of Andrés Ramírez Gaviria
The exact address will be shared upon registration
20 October 2026, 6.30pm
Join us for a studio visit with Andrés Ramírez Gaviria, offering insights into his artistic practice and current projects. Together with curator Heike Eipeldauer, he will discuss the ideas, methods and questions that shape his work.
The tour will be held in English.
Limited places available, please register at: events@phileas.art
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Andrés Ramírez Gaviria is an artist born in Bogotá, Colombia, who has been based in Vienna for over two decades. His work explores the intersections of science, technology, language, and history. Grounded in long-term research, his conceptual practice examines how systems of knowledge are constructed, transmitted, and interpreted. Drawing on diverse methodologies and historical references, he creates work that invites alternative modes of perception and thought.
Gaviria’s work has been exhibited at Kunsthaus Graz; BA CA Kunstforum Vienna; Lentos Museum Linz; Kunsthaus Dresden; GAMeC in Bergamo; La Casa Encendida in Madrid; and the Museum of Modern Art and the Museo de Arte del Banco de la República in Bogotá, as well as at the Sonambiente and Transmediale festivals in Berlin and the Caribbean Biennial in Santo Domingo, among others.
He is the recipient of the transmediale.06 Award and the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Emerging Artist Award. In 2014, Gaviria co-founded Sigmund, and in 2017 Anna, two non-profit exhibition spaces in Vienna, together with Norbert Pfaffenbichler. He is also co-editor with Yuki Higashino of the annual publication Agency. -
Heike Eipeldauer (born 1978) studied art history and law with a focus on cultural law in Vienna and Dijon. Since 2020 she has been a curator at mumok, where she recently curated the highly acclaimed exhibition Medardo Rosso: Inventing Modern Sculpture (2024–25), which won the ART Curator Award for the best exhibition of 2024, and subsequently moved to Kunstmuseum Basel (co-curated there by Elena Filipovic).
Eipeldauer served as deputy general director at mumok from 2024 to 2025, and headed the collection department at the Leopold Museum, Vienna, from 2018 to 2019. Earlier in her career, from 2004 to 2017, she worked as curator at the Kunstforum Vienna. Over the course of her career, she has curated and co-curated over forty exhibitions in collaboration with various artists, colleagues and institutions such as S.M.A.K., Ghent, Tate Modern, London, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, LaM – Lille Métropole or Kunsthaus Zurich, including Georges Braque (2008), Olga Chernysheva (2009), Birgit Jürgenssen (2010–11), Meret Oppenheim (2013–14), Georgia O’Keeffe (2016–17), Love in Times of Revolution. Artist Couples of the Russian Avant-garde(2015–16), James Welling: Metamorphosis (2017), Oskar Kokoschka: Expressionist, Migrant, European(2019), Modernism on Parade (2021–22), Huang Po-Chih. Blue Elephant (2021–22), Collaborations (2022), Mapping the 60s (2024–25), and, most recently, Kazuna Taguchi: I’ll never ask you (2025) which was selected as one of Artforum’s “Best Exhibitions of 2025.” Alongside her teaching activities as a visiting professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Eipeldauer, who holds academic qualifications in art history and law, regularly serves on international juries and is the editor and author of numerous publications on modern and contemporary art.
Photos: Lea Sonderegger