Biografia

Orlando R. Valdivieso comes from a family of artists from Colombia. He has a degree in Graphic Design and was awarded with a scholarship for two post-graduate degrees, one in Editorial Design and the other one in Cinema, both in Spain. He has been working on several different projects besides his studies, and has moved on to Berlin to reach new points of reference and keep building up the corpus of his work. His work has appeared in various collective exhibitions in Madrid and Barcelona, Portugal and in Colombia as well. He has worked with other artists and performers, and has collaborated with different cultural producers and architects co-creating spaces and events in multidisciplinary approaches for the development of public spaces. Orlando has also contributed with some of his pictorial work in some literature projects in Spain and more recently in Germany. Currently he is finishing an experimental documentary on a series called <> and how the concept came to life, among other projects. Meanwhile he keeps on working at new dripping projects, also doing workshops on figurative approaches to Abstract Expressionism.