2018
Oscar Murillo participated in two biennials in summer 2018: The 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, and the 2nd Industrial Art Biennial in Croatia.
10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art June 9–September 9, 2018
Titled We don’t need another hero (after a Tina Turner song) and curated by Gabi Ngcobo, the tenth edition of the biennale was "a conversation with artists and contributors who think and act beyond art as they confront the incessant anxieties perpetuated by a willful disregard for complex subjectivities." In the courtyard of the Akademie der Künste, Murillo created an installation involving the industrial process of baking bread, evoking ideas around consumption and the basic sustenance of life.
Ngcobo and Murillo werein conversationat Haus der Kunst in Munich earlier this year as part of Capsule 07, a survey of new work by Murillo accompanied by a major publication.
2nd Industrial Art Biennial July 21–October 28, 2018
The 2nd Industrial Art Biennial in Croatia, titled On the Shoulders of Fallen Giants, included Murillo’s The Institute of Reconciliation (2018). This work, based on previous installations, included twenty hanging black canvases and a group of twenty effigies on plastic chairs at the Temple of Augustus in Pula, Croatia.
In its various iterations, The Institute of Reconciliation pays tribute to "grief and mourning, but not to something specific," the artist has said, as "a manifestation of an attitude, which is larger than one’s own self."