Antonio Paucar
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Egon Investment Scores
Liquidity
2/10
How easily works can be bought and sold at auction
Institutional
8/10
Museum collections, biennials, and institutional recognition
Momentum
9/10
Recent price trends, gallery moves, and market buzz
Discovery
5/10
Undervaluation opportunity relative to peer artists
Risk
4/10
Investment risk factors — higher means more volatile
Market Position
- Comparables
- Peers
- Other Artes Mundi winners and shortlisted artists; Latin American performance artists working with indigenous knowledge systems; artists represented by mid-tier European galleries with museum validation
- Market Context
- Artes Mundi past winners include John Akomfrah, Theaster Gates, and Xu Bing - all achieved significant market recognition post-win
- Collector Base
- Private Collectors
- Limited public information; likely European and Latin American collectors
- Geographic Concentration
- Germany, Peru, UK (post-Artes Mundi), North America
- Institutional Collectors
- Primary collector base - major museums acquiring work
- Primary Market
- Availability
- Works available through primary galleries; MoMA owns 2 works suggesting institutional acquisition pathway
- Pricing Guidance
- Limited public pricing data. Works are primarily videos (editions of 5 + AP), performance documentation, and textile sculptures. Contact Galerie Barbara Thumm for current pricing. Historical context: artist's practice emphasizes site-specific performance and large-scale textile works that are labor-intensive and conceptually significant.
- Edition Structure
- Videos typically edition of 5 + 2 AP or 5 + 1 AP
- Gallery Representation
Location Gallery Relationship Berlin, Germany Galerie Barbara Thumm Primary representation since at least 2014 Not specified Ginsberg + Tzu Co-representation
- Auction History
- Notes
- Artist's practice aligns with Artes Mundi's support of 'practices that exist outside the pressures and prototypes of the art market' - suggesting primary market focus
- Status
- No public auction records found
- Market Trajectory
- Phase
- Pre-secondary market / Institutional building phase
- Momentum
- Strong upward - Artes Mundi win January 2026 represents major career milestone
- Price Catalyst Events
- Artes Mundi 11 Prize win (January 2026) - £40,000 prize, one of UK's most significant contemporary art awards
- MoMA acquisitions (2022 - 'Marcelinho' 2005, 'Guardián del Maizal' 2013)
- Major museum holdings announced 2025-2026
- Tier Classification
- Discovery
- Market Position
- Market Positioning
- Emerging artist with strong institutional validation but limited secondary market presence
Institutional Presence
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
New York, USAMontreal Museum of Fine Arts
Montreal, CanadaMuseum of Contemporary Art
São Paulo, BrazilMuseo de Arte de Lima (MALI)
Lima, PeruInstitut für Auslandsbeziehungen
Berlin and Stuttgart, GermanyWrocław Contemporary Museum
Wrocław, PolandAmgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
Cardiff, Wales- Exhibitions
- Biennials Fairs
Year Event 2013 Durrës International Biennale of Contemporary Art 2019 ARCO Madrid - Major Solo Exhibitions
Title Year Dates Venue Significance Weaving and Uniting Silenced Voices 2023 September 2 - October 28, 2023 Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin Major solo presentation at primary gallery (Re)Born from Volcanos 2024 November 15, 2023 - February 25, 2024 ifa Gallery, Stuttgart German institutional solo show Time Goes By (with Rebecca Horn) 2020 September 10 - October 11, 2020 ifa Gallery Berlin Two-person exhibition with mentor Rebecca Horn during Berlin Art Week movement matters 2014 March 23 - May 4, 2014 Kunstverein Göttingen — Antonio Paucar 2014 May 3 - June 21, 2014 Galerie Barbara Thumm — - Major Group Exhibitions
Title Year Dates Venue Significance Artes Mundi 11 2025-2026 October 24, 2025 - March 1, 2026 Artes Mundi 11 (Multiple venues across Wales) Won £40,000 first prize January 15, 2026; major UK biennial 15. Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach: The Vibration of Things 2022 June 4 - October 3, 2022 Alte Kelter, Fellbach, Germany Major German sculpture triennial No Linear Fucking Time 2021-2022 December 3, 2021 - May 20, 2022 BAK, Utrecht Important contemporary art institution Wall Works 2013-2014 November 29, 2013 - August 31, 2014 Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin Major German contemporary art museum
- Museum Collections
- Institutional Validation Notes
- Strong Tier 1 museum representation (MoMA, Montreal) plus significant European and Latin American institutional presence. Artes Mundi win significantly elevates profile.
- Awards and Recognition
Year Location Significance Award 2026 — One of UK's most significant contemporary art awards; past winners include John Akomfrah, Theaster Gates, Xu Bing Artes Mundi 11 Prize 2013 — — LARA (Latin American Roaming Art) 2013 Germany — Arts Foundation of the City of Bonn 2011 Germany German art prize Zeitsicht-Kunstpreis
Career & Biography
- Career
Period Activity Pre-2000s Traditional artisan background, beekeeping in Peru 2005 Completed postgraduate studies at UdK Berlin, began professional art career 2011 Won Zeitsicht-Kunstpreis (German art prize) 2013 Won LARA (Latin American Roaming Art) award with residency at Metropolitan Museum of Manila; Arts Foundation of the City of Bonn award 2014-2023 Regular exhibitions at Galerie Barbara Thumm and international venues; MoMA acquisitions 2019 Residency at Matadero Madrid within framework of ARCO 2022 Residency at ÖRES, Finland (Örö island) 2023 Major solo exhibition at Galerie Barbara Thumm Berlin 2024 Exhibition at ifa Gallery Stuttgart 2025-2026 Shortlisted for Artes Mundi 11; won prize January 15, 2026 (£40,000) - Identity
- Languages
- Speaks Wanka Limay (Quechua Wanka), Spanish, German, English
- Current Locations
- Lives and works between Berlin, Germany, and Huancayo, Peru
- Cultural Background
- Indigenous Andean heritage; grew up in family that made traditional figures and masks; worked as beekeeper in Peru for many years before studying art
- Notable Personal Project
- Currently restoring grandparents' abandoned adobe house in Peru to transform into independent art school and museum - funded by Artes Mundi prize
- Artistic Context
- Creates unique artistic language through performances, sculptures and video works drawing on Andean culture; addresses contemporary conflicts, assassination of indigenous leaders, environmental threats, and surveillance technology; establishes dialogues between Andean and indigenous knowledge in critical tension with Western culture
Artistic Profile
- Evolution
- Critical Evolution
- Increasing recognition of practice's political urgency and poetic sophistication; Artes Mundi win marks transition from emerging to mid-career recognition; jury noted work 'exists outside pressures of art market' - positioned as artist-activist rather than market commodity
- Influences
Influence Type Body-centered performance, poetic use of materials, vulnerability and strength in art Direct mentor Hand-weaving techniques, alpaca wool, ritual making processes Cultural heritage Concepts like Ayni (reciprocity), cyclical time, sacred geography Philosophical foundation Body as political site, endurance, ritual Art historical lineage Conceptual approaches to indigenous cultures Academic mentor - Themes and Subjects
- Andean cosmology and indigenous knowledge systems
- Environmental destruction and climate crisis (glacier loss, mining damage)
- Assassination of indigenous leaders and environmentalists
- Surveillance technology and state violence
- Colonial extraction and historical violence
- Water scarcity and privatization
- Reciprocity and community (concept of 'Ayni')
- Memory and forgetting
- Body as archive and site of resistance
- Dialogue between cultures (Andean/Celtic, Indigenous/Western)
- Alpaca wool spirals (representing cyclical Andean time vs. linear Western time)
- Clay footprints (marking presence, connection to earth)
- Blood text (sacrifice, testimony, indigenous suffering)
- Straw/wheat installations (agricultural life, sustenance)
- Mountain imagery (Huaytapallana - sacred Andean site)
- Water vapor (vulnerability, scarcity, life force)
- Handstands (inversion, different perspective, effort)
- Movements and Periods
- Influenced Artists
- Too early in career to assess direct influence, but practice contributes to growing decolonial performance art discourse
- Art Historical Positioning
- Part of contemporary Latin American performance art examining indigenous knowledge systems; aligned with decolonial thinking and ecological art practices; bridges conceptual performance tradition (via Rebecca Horn) with indigenous Andean ritual and material culture
- Techniques and Mediums
- Signature Techniques
- Hand-weaving alpaca wool in meditative, ritual performancesUse of own blood as drawing/writing mediumBarefoot walking performances connecting to earthHandstand performances leaving clay footprintsIntegration of Quechua language and conceptsUse of traditional Andean materials and methods
Critical Reception
- Critical Reception
- Academic Context
- Positioned within Latin American performance art tradition; connected to decolonial and ecological thinking; studied under Rebecca Horn placing him in lineage of body-centered conceptual performance
- Catalogue Raisonne
- No catalogue raisonné identified
- Publications and Media
- Major Publications
Date Significance Context Publication January 16, 2026 Leading international art publication Major coverage of Artes Mundi Prize win The Art Newspaper January 2026 Major US art publication Coverage of Artes Mundi win and practice ARTnews January 2026 / October 2025 Leading contemporary art magazine; in-depth artist questionnaire Artes Mundi coverage and questionnaire feature ArtReview January 2026 — Artes Mundi prize coverage Artnet News January 2026 — Prize coverage Hyperallergic January 2026 — Art world news coverage Ocula
Gallery & Representation
- Fair Presence
- Tier
- Mid-level international fairs with primary gallery
- Documented Fairs
- ARCO Madrid 2019 (residency program)Gallery Weekend Berlin (multiple years with Galerie Barbara Thumm)
- Representation
- Past Gallery Relationships
- Note
- Known for memorable installation 'Shoes that break the silence' at Nit de L'Art 2008
- Year
- 2011
- Gallery
- Galería Maior
- Location
- Palma de Mallorca, Spain
- Exhibition
- The flow of thought
- Geographic Reach
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