Artist Yorjander Capetillo Hernández

Yorjander Capetillo Hernández

Artist from Germany

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About the artist Yorjander Capetillo Hernández

Yorjander Capetillo Hernández has earned his bachelor’s degree in set design from the Universidad de las Artes, Havana/Cuba and studied painting at the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, Havana. Further, he has participated in graduate courses in art direction at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión, San Antonio de los Baños/Cuba and was part of the Cátedra de Arte de Conducta program organized by the artist Tania Bruguera. In Cuba he works as a Professor of stage design at the Universidad de las Artes. His works have been exhibited internationally in solo and group shows, such as amongst others Species Of Spaces 1974 - An Accommodation Of Retained And Forgotten Locations, Uppsala konstmuseum, Uppsala/Sweden (2016), Éticos y Estéticos, Centro Internacional de Prensa, Havana (2015), The Happiness Workshop, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart/Germany (2015), Monstruos de mi Maquinaria, Pabellón Cuba, Havana (2015), or at the International Art Exhibition NordArt in Büdelsdorf/Germany (2016 and 2014). Yorjander is winner of the Juan Francisco Elso Fellowship in Visual Arts (2014), a fellowship from Akademie Schloss Solitude (2015) and he is nominated for the WERK.STOFF painting award (2018)

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  • Community member since May 9th, 2020
  • Kind of fine art:Painting

Exhibitions

2017 -Anesthesia, Egbert Baqué Contemporary, Berlin/Germany 2015 -The Happiness Workshop, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart/Germany -Monstruos de mi Maquinaria, Pabellón Cuba, Havana/Cuba 2012 -Monstruos de mi Maquinaria, Cultural Center Olöf Garden, Stockholm/Sweden 2004 -Desde Arriba, Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, Havana/Cuba 2002 -En Ausencia del Padre, La Moderna Poesía, Havana/Cuba

Education

2009 -Degree in Set Design, Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana/Cuba 2008 -Graduate from Cátedra de Arte de Conducta (Course in Visual Arts from Instituto Superior de Arte, Given by the Performer Tania Brugueras) -Course in Art Direction, Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de San Antonio de los Baños/Cuba 2004 -Graduate from Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro in painting, Havana/Cuba

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