Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez is a Berlin-based artist whose work traverses the fault lines of societal structures, material memory, and cultural identity.
Born in Costa Rica to Colombian parents and raised between Medellín, Rotterdam, and the Ruhr area, her practice is shaped by a life lived across continents
and the ongoing tension between Colombian heritage and German reality
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Her sculptures, installations, and performances
probe the memory and origin of materials, drawing
out their latent histories and linking them to the
physical and social realities of industrial production,
technological advancement, and resource
extraction.
Ritualistic, archaic gestures intersect
with serially produced industrial
objects, evoking the uncanny fragility
that underlies even the most advanced
systems.
Her work thrives on collisions:
between body and object, function
and dysfunction, material and space.
These confrontations generate new
states of abstraction, opening a
charged field where meaning is both
destabilized and reconfigured.
Positioned within the discourses of material culture and
memory as well as postindustrial and postcolonial
conditions, Echeverri Fernandez reworks obsolete
objects, historical forms, and forgotten rituals to
propose alternative structures—
transformations that unsettle ideological inheritances
and reorder the possibilities of past, present, and future.
These confrontations generate new
states of abstraction, opening a
charged field where meaning is both
destabilized and reconfigured.
She studied at the Kunsthochschule Kassel under Urs
Lüthi, continued at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf as a
master student of Rosemarie Trockel, and completed her
MFA at the Royal College of Art in London. She has since
taught at university level, holding positions at RCA
London, Goldsmiths, Krabbesholm in Denmark, HfBK
Dresden, and the UdK Berlin.
Alongside her artistic practice, she
founded Changing Room, a Berlinbased project space and research
platform situated at the intersection
of performance, sound, and collective
inquiry. and critical research
Through symposia, workshops, and
transdisciplinary collaborations, it fosters experimental forms of knowledge
production, community engagement,
bridging artistic practice