EMAIL: ulara.org@gmail.com | BRUSSELS BE
EMAIL: ischa@artoffice.be | ISCHA TALLIEU, AGENT | BRUSSELS BE
Biography

Laura Colmenares Guerra is a Colombian artist based in Brussels. Her main axes of work are installation,sculpture, 3D graphics/printing & film.
Laura has a transversal research-based practice that implies long-term processes of creation. During these processes, she engages in transdisciplinary collaborations with people from different disciplines to create a strong conceptual and technical foundation for each work.
Her work explores the impairment between contemporary western societies and the living ecosystems, the environment and the inhabitants of the planet. This questioning drives her to conceive settings that relate to the politics of landscape and the notions of territory. She explores the constructions of the concepts of nature and natural and language as a foundation medium for reality.
In the field of interactive installation, Laura has developed works that use technology to create an immersive experience for the viewers. In these works, the viewer is encouraged to use his body to complete the work of art. Laura's use of technology aims at an increasing awareness at a deep body level, i.e. by breathing (Lungs [the Breather]); or through interaction with water valves (Lagunas) to make clear the impact and responsibility that as individuals and societies we have with the environment. In these works, the choice of interactive devices is based on the possibilities of deepening this understanding.
In parallel Laura has worked as a video performer, starting as a VJ in the early Techno scene of Bogota. This practice evolved into concrete experimental live audiovisual performances with musicians on stage, but as well into the creation of independent music-video pieces, that imply collaborations with musicians and composers but as well with various music labels.
Laura is currently, and since 2018 engaged in the conception of a body of work based on the geopolitical and neo-liberal extractivist practices striking in the territory of the Amazons basin.
Her work has recently been presented at:
The Centre Wallonie- Bruxelles (Paris, FR), The Alexander Kasser Theatre, Peak Performances (NJ, USA), at Kings Place (London, UK), The Glasgow school of arts (Glasgow, UK), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal, Canada, during the International Biennale of New Media Art, at festival Elektra-Mutek, EM15 (Montreal, CA), at the Cube - Centre for Digital Creation (Paris, F), the International Computer Music Conference (Huddersfield, UK), iMal, Center for digital cultures and technology, Sint-Lukasgalerie and at the Museum of Bozar (Brussels, BE), in between others. The Centre Wallonie- Bruxelles (Paris, FR), The Alexander Kasser Theatre, Peak Performances (NJ, USA), at Kings Place (London, UK), The Glasgow School of Arts (Glasgow, UK), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal, Canada, during the International Biennale of New Media Art, at festival Elektra-Mutek, EM15 (Montreal, CA), at the Cube - Centre for Digital Creation (Paris, F), the International Computer Music Conference (Huddersfield, UK), iMal, Center for digital cultures and technology, Sint-Lukasgalerie and at the Museum of Bozar (Brussels, BE), in between others.
Laura is member of Saloon Network Brussels
Grants
- 2021Production Grant | Rivers | Vlaamse Overheid
- 2020Production Grant | Rivers | FWB | Arts Numériques
- 2019Development Grant: Nations | Vlaamse Overheid
- 2018Conception Grant: Nations | FWB | Arts Numériques
- 2017Development Grant | Vlaamse OverheidDiffusion Grant | Lagunas | FWB | Arts Numériques
- 2016Promotion Grant | Lagunas | FWB | Arts NumériquesProduction Grant | Lagunas | FWB l Arts Numériques
- 2015Production Grant | Lagunas | Vlaamse Overheid
- 2014Conception Grant | Lagunas | FWB | Arts NumériquesDiffusion Grant | Lungs [the breather] | FWB
- 2013Production Grant | eVanescens Vlaamse OverheidPromotion Grant | eVanescens | FWB | Arts Numériques
- 2009Conception Grant | Unstable Territories | FWBPromotion Grant | Lungs [the breather] | FWB
- 2008Production Grant | Lungs [the breather] | Vlaamse Overheid
Studies
- 2014 - 20153D | VFX | CompositingCGItrainer Belgique | Jean Yves Arboit
- 2009 - 2010Interactive MediaAcademie Beeldende Kunsten Anderlecht | Brussels (Belgium)
- 2006 - 2008TRANSMEDIA | Postgraduate Program in Arts + Media + DesignHogeschool Sint-Lukas | Brussels (Belgium)
- 1997 - 2002Master en Arts | Electronic Media & Arts of TimeUniversidad de los Andes | Bogotá (Colombia)
Work
- 2023Ríos Trilogy | Solo Exhibition | KultXL | Brussels (Belgium)R€¥€R$€ | Echoes From the Future - Tina Sauerlaender | MacKenzie Art Gallery (Canada) | Online Digital ExhibitionNucleus | 4n20 | Kortrijk (Belgium)Nucleus |La Bianyal 2023 | Mas Sobeies (Spain)ECDYSIS | Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño (Fuga) | Bogotá (Colombia)Ríos Trilogy | Capture #2 - Le Pavillon | Kikk Festival | Namur (Belgium)ECDYSIS | Elektra Gallery | Montreal (Canada)
- 2022Lagunas | Screening | IMT Gallery - Sluice Projects | London (UK)Lagunas - Screening | Festival Internacional de la Imagen | Bogotá (CO)Ríos (Caquetá) | Festival Internacional de la Imagen | Bogotá (Colombia)Festival Panoramic 2022 | Granollers + Barcelona (Spain)SELVA | Residency | Fondation Martell | Residencies in digital creation | Cognac (France)Ríos Trilogy | Residency | LabVerde | Manaus, Amazon State of Brazil (Brazil)Land/scape N.4 & Land/scape N.5 | Nadine – N0dine | Brussels (Belgium)Ríos Chapter I | Online Application | Cinemateca de Bogotá / Datos y relatos | Bogotá (Colombia)Land/scape N.1 | F.A.S.T- OHME | ULB |Brussels (Belgium)
- 2021Ríos (Caquetá & Juruá) | Sculptures | CODE IS LAW - Centre Wallonie Bruxelles | Paris (France)Ríos (Caquetá & Juruá) | Sculptures | EXTRACTIONS - A two Dogs Company | Brussels (Belgium)Simposio | Diálogos: Experiencias Cinemáticas Contemporáneas | Festival Internacional de la Imágen | Edición en líneaRíos + Land/scape N.4| Sculptures | Studio Zink | Brussels (Belgium)Lagunas | Screening | El Parqueadero - Banco de la republica - Grey Cube Projects | Bogotá (Colombia)
- 2020Lagunas | Screening | FIFF | Namur (Belguim)The Other Side of the River | Screening | Sonic Bite / Cryptic | Vimeo (On-line)
- 2019Lagunas | Interactive installation | Festival Nova XX |Paris (France)eVanescens | Audiovisual concert | Ars Musica | Brussels (Belgium)Beyond the Divide | Screening – Flagey - Deweekvandeklank - Brussels (Belgium)Beyond the Divide | Screening | Sound Art Gallery | Moscow (Russia)
- 2018Variations of Disarray | Screening | Madatac | Media LAB Prado | Madrid (Spain)Landscape N.1 & Landscape N.2 | Installation/Sculpture | Ateliers Mommen | Brussels (Belgium)eVanescens | Audiovisual concert | Synthposium 5: Art + A/V Programme | Moscow (Russia)Residence | Cristina Iglesias | Fundación Botín | Santander (Spain)Variations of Disarray | Screening | Ateliers Mommen | Brussels (Belgium)Lagunas | Interactive installation | BAM Festival | Liege (Belgium)The Exquisite Corpse Video Project V.6 | Screening | (Initiative of Kika Nicolela) | Clinic - Tokio (JP)The Exquisite Corpse Video Project V.6 | Screening | (Initiative of Kika Nicolela) | Le GIV- Montreal (CA)The Exquisite Corpse Video Project V.5 | Screening | (Initiative of Kika Nicolela) | Digital Arts Festival | Singularity Now | Athens (GR)
- 2017Lagunas | Interactive installation | Festival Voltaje | Bogotá (Colombia)eVanescens | Audiovisual concert | The Baltic Sea Cultural Centre du Son | Gdańsk (Poland)Beyond the Divide | Screening | Sound-Image 2107 | Greenwich (UK)Lagunas | Interactive installation | iMal | Brussels (Belgium)The Exquisite Corpse Video Project | Screening | (Initiative of Kika Nicolela) | The Local | New York (USA)Variations of Disarray | Screening | Garages Numériques-02 – Brussels (Belgium)Beyond the Divide | Screening | Франкотека - ул. Николоямская | Moscow (Russia)The Exquisite Corpse Video Project | Screening | (Initiative of Kika Nicolela) | Blue Magpie Experimental Film Series (Taiwan)The Exquisite Corpse Video Project | Screening | (Initiative of Kika Nicolela) | Videoformes Festival | Clermont-Ferrand (France)
- 2016See You Later | Audiovisual concert | PEAK Performances | Alexander Kasser Theater | Montclair, New Jersey (USA)eVanescens | Audiovisual concert | Botanique | La Semaine du Son | Brussels (Belgium)The Exquisite Corpse Video Project | Screening | (Initiative of Kika Nicolela) | Top Schillerpalais | Berlin (Germany)
- 2015Variations of Disarray | Monumental projection/Screening | CityLight | Transnumériques | Mons (Belgium)GIFT | Audiovisual concert l Chapelle de Boondael | Brussels (Belgium)eVanescens | Audiovisual concert | Musicacoustica | Beijing (China)eVanescens | Audiovisual concert | YU GONG YI SHAN | Beijing (China)Cryptic | Oliver Coates | Audiovisual concert | Kings Place | London (UK)Cryptic | Oliver Coates | Audiovisual concert | The Glasgow School of Arts | Glasgow (UK)
- 2014UNRAVEL | Screening | Festival Video Movimiento | Universidad Javeriana | Bogota (Colombia)Lungs [the breather] | Interactive installation | La Balsamine | Brussels (Belgium)Beyond the Divide | Audiovisual concert | World Music Days | Wroclaw (Poland)Beyond the Divide | Audiovisual concert | Audio Art Festival | Wroclaw (Poland)eVanescens | Audiovisual concert | Festival Elektra/Mutek | Montreal (Canada)Lungs [the breather] | Interactive Installation | International Digital Arts Biennial (BIAN) | Montreal (Canada)eVanescens | Audiovisual concert | NIME 2014 | London (England)Beyond the Divide/Oracular/Unravel | Screening | Deweekvandeklank | Brussels (Belgium)Beyond the Divide | Audiovisual concert | Flagey | Deweekvandeklank | Brussels (Belgium)
- 2013Lungs [the breather] | Interactive installation | BOZAR | Brussels (Belgium)eVanescens | Audio-visual concert | International Contemporary Music Festival ARS Musica 2013 | Brigittines | Brussels (Belgium)Persona | Theater | LaborGras | Berlin (Germany)
- 2012eVanescens | Audio-visual concert | LE CUBE | Centre for Digital Creation | Issy-les-Moulineaux (France)Oracular | Video | Gallery VanderA | Brussels (Belgium)Beyond the Divide | Audio-visual concert | Space Senghor | Brussels (Belgium)Vanescens | Audio-visual concert | Musiques Nouvelles | Mons (Belgium)
- 2011(IN)Pulses | Audio-visual concert | Gare Numérique de Jeumont | FranceBeyond the Divide | Audio-visual concert | ICMC, University of Huddersfield | UK
- 2010Beyond the Divide | Audio-visual installation | Vlaamse Scriptieprijs | Royal Academy of Science & Arts | Brussels (Belgium)Lungs [the breather] | Interactive installation | CitySonics | Mons (Belgium)De Vogel en het net | Audio-visual installation | Erasmus Museum | Brussels (Belgium)Lungs [the breather] | Interactive installation | Sint-Lukasgalerie | Brussels (Belgium)Unstable Territories | Interactive installation | iMal | Brussels (Belgium)
- 2009Lungs [the breather] | Interactive installation | Beirut (Lebanon)Percept | Performance | Centre des Arts Enghien-Les-Bains, Bains Numériques #4 | Enghien-Les-Bains (France)
- 2008Lungs [the breather] | Interactive installation | PING! Festival | Mallorca (Spain)Lungs [the breather] | Interactive installation | NADINE | Brussels (Belgium)
- 2007Golden Delicious | Video | Urban Trajectories | Brussels | Rotterdam | Mexico
- 2006BogotaLab | Video installation/performance | Plan06 | Köln (Germany)
- 2003Self-Portrait | Interactive installation | Contradance | Brussels (Belgium)
- 2002Ajna’s Journeys | Interactive Video Installation | Los Andes University | Bogotá (Colombia)Ajna’s Journeys | Interactive Video Installation | Alliance Français | Bogotá (Colombia)