Eduardo Basualdo (b. 1977 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a multimedia artist best known for his enigmatic large-scale sculptures that draw on literature, philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, and film.
All images Courtesy of the artist and PSM, Berlin.
His early training as an actor and puppeteer forms the basis of his mastery and continues to serve his imagination in installation-based work, for which he works with uncanny objects and built environments that unsettle viewers’ relationships to space.
Victoria Noorthoorn, who curated his most recent solo exhibition in the Buenos Aires Museum of Moden Art, previously described his work as follows: “Basualdo’s works will, whether we want to or not, train our eye to perceive what is not there, what lies beyond. In his works (in his worlds) there is always more than meets the eye: and what does meet the eye is there to lead it towards this dimension of the yet unseen. However much there might be, there is always more: a chink in an otherwise solid door, some extra space and emptiness behind or beyond the continuous lines of everyday life, the ghostly image of what lies beneath the table or behind the wall, the visible shadow of the hidden blade. His art constructs a peepshow into other worlds.”
Installation view, Eduardo Basualdo, The End of Ending, 2012, PSM, Berlin. Courtesy of the artist and PSM, Berlin. Image: Hans-Georg Gaul.Installation view, Eduardo Basualdo, Incisive, 2016, PSM, Berlin. Courtesy of the artist and PSM, Berlin. Image: Eduardo Basualdo.Installation view, Eduardo Basualdo, Incisive, 2016, PSM, Berlin. Courtesy of the artist and PSM, Berlin. Image: Eduardo Basualdo.Installation view, Eduardo Basualdo, Immediately Afterwards and Shortly Before, 2019, BIENALSUR, MUNTREF Centro de Arte Contemporáneo y Musei de la Inmigración, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Courtesy of the artist. Image: Jimena Salvatierra.Installation view, Eduardo Basualdo, Shedding, 2020, Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto, Canada. Courtesy of the artist and PSM, Berlin. Image: Laura Findlay.Installation view, Eduardo Basualdo, Pupila, 2022-2023, Museo Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Courtesy of the artist and Museo Moderno, Buenos Aires. Image: Josefina Tommasi.Installation view, Eduardo Basualdo, Pupila, 2022-2023, Museo Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Courtesy of the artist and Museo Moderno, Buenos Aires. Image: Josefina Tommasi.Installation view, Eduardo Basualdo, Pupila, 2022-2023, Museo Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Courtesy of the artist and Museo Moderno, Buenos Aires. Image: Josefina Tommasi.Eduardo Basualdo, Oración, 2016, Ink and dry tip on paper, 29.7 x 42 cm. Courtesy of the artist and PSM, Berlin. Eduardo Basualdo, Rompa el día (Break of Day), 2016, Metal bars, synthetic enamel, 150 x 200 cm. Courtesy of the artist and PSM, Berlin.Installation view, Eduardo Basualdo, All the World’s Future, 2015, curated by Okqui Enwezor, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy. Courtesy of the artist. Image: Eduardo Basualdo.Eduardo Basualdo, Grito III (Shout), 2015, Metal, graphite on paper, variable dimensions, paper 110 x 75 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Image: Philippe Servent.
Detail, Eduardo Basualdo, Incisive, 2016, Graphite on paper, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and PSM, Berlin. Image: Hans-Georg Gaul. Eduardo Basualdo, Infinito, 2016, Graphite on paper, 40 x 30 cm. Courtesy of the artist and PSM, Berlin.Installation view, Eduardo Basualdo, Reflujo, 2014, Centro Cultural de la Memoria H. Conti, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Courtesy of the artist and PSM, Berlin. Image: Delfina Gil Soria - CCMHC.
