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Felipe Castelblanco

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Artist / Filmmaker / Lecturer MA Transversal Design IXDM, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW @hgkbasel_transversaldesign Founder @parasite_school

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👏🏻👏🏼👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿 FELIPE CASTELBLANCO FÜR AESTHETICA ART AWARD 2026 NOMINIERT 👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻

Felipe Castelblanco, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM) der HGK Basel, gehört mit seiner Arbeit «Tunda: A Quantic Plant and the Devil's Breath» (2025) zu den 20 Finalist:innen des renommierten Aesthetica Art Award 2026. Deren Arbeiten sind vom 17. Juli bis 15. November 2026 in der York Art Gallery zu sehen.

Das Mehrkanal-Video «Tunda: A Quantic Plant and the Devil's Breath» (Tunda: Eine Quantic-Pflanze und der Atem des Teufels) aus dem Jahr 2025 untersucht die miteinander verflochtenen Geschichten von Pflanzen und kolonialer Ausbeutung.

Wir sehen einen indigenen Mann, der aus dem kolumbianischen Amazonasgebiet in die Schweizer Alpen versetzt wird und zwischen Vision und Realität hin- und herdriftet. Er landet im Herbarium eines abgelegenen Museums und stösst dort auf botanische Artefakte, die mit der Engelstrompete (Brugmansia) in Verbindung stehen.

Diese Pflanze ist für die indigenen Heiler:innen der Kamnënstá in der kolumbianischen Anden-Amazonas-Region eine wichtige Lehrerin. In diesen Gemeinschaften glaubt man, dass sie die Fähigkeit besitzt, die Grenzen von Zeit und Raum zu überschreiten.

Das Werk verbindet Wissenschaft, Ethnomedizin und Ökologie und regt uns dazu an, unsere Sichtweise zu hinterfragen.

Felipe Castelblanco hat die Arbeit «Tunda: Quantic Plant and the Devil's Breath» im Rahmen des vom Schweizerischen Nationalfonds (SNF) finanzierten und am Institute Art Gender Nature (IAGN) der HGK Basel angesiedelten Forschungsprojekts «Plants_Intelligence. Learning Like a Plant» (2022–2025) realisiert. Die Arbeit wurde vom Haus für Medienkunst Oldenburg mit in Auftrag gegeben und von der Stiftung Niedersachsen unterstützt.

Wir gratulieren Felipe Castelblanco herzlich zu seiner Nominierung für diesen bedeutenden Kunstpreis und wünschen ihm weiterhin viel Erfolg!

ℹ️ Weitere Informationen ➡️ artprize.aestheticamagazine.com

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What an honor to receive the 2026 Aesthetica Art Prize from @aestheticamag for my film Tunda: A Quantic Plant and the Devil’s Breath! It has been an incredible journey shared with many friends and collaborators (human and non-human), including @ayenan888 and my family, as well as the incredible Borrachero plants and precious territories in Colombia, Switzerland and Germany to whom I dedicate this moment 🌎🌍🌏 huge thanks to @rcamaraleret @sofias.earth @azulgato @camilopachon @lydiazimmermann @azucenaolayasantos @juanalcastel @patricemkeenan @plants_intelligence @hgkbasel_fhnw @hgkbasel_institutkunst @hgkbasel_transversaldesign and the whole #aestheticamag team!!!! by @felipecastel

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We’re thrilled to share that our MA team member Felipe Castelblanco has been shortlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2026 with Tunda. 🌿

Tunda is a cinematic work developed within Plants_Intelligence. Learning Like a Plant, an SNSF-funded research project hosted by IAGN at HGK Basel FHNW.

Through his socially engaged practice, Felipe works across cinema, participatory methodologies, and territorial research, exploring more-than-human relations and collective ways of knowing.

As a lecturer in our MA Transversal Design programme at IXDM, Felipe brings these questions into the classroom, inviting students to approach artistic research as a collaborative, situated, and experimental practice.

Congratulations, Felipe, on this well-deserved recognition! ✨

Tunda will have its UK premiere at York Art Gallery, where the Aesthetica Art Prize exhibition runs from 17 July to 15 November 2026.

Tunda was realized within the framework of Plants_Intelligence. Learning Like a Plant, a research project funded by SNSF and hosted by IAGN HGK Basel FHNW. The work was co-commissioned by Haus für Medienkunst and supported by Stiftung Niedersachsen.

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Felipe Castelblanco
Detrás la Noche /
Plant Movement(s)

@felipecastel During the #beyondconservation2022 residency, I spent time with plants during the day & through the darkness of the night. Equipped with special UV portable lamps that induce fluorescence and a multispectral camera capable to see beyond the human visual spectrum of light, I spent time crisscrossing layers of invisibility, shadow, & mystic nights in the primary. There, I was able to produce images that render subtle and sub-visible relations maintained among forest beings while in darkness, from plants positioning their leaves to capture the dim light of the day to spores, fungi, and pollen holding together a network of interactions. This work took place at @caminoverdetambopata, a living seed bank & a hugely important buffer zone where endangered Amazonia plants and trees are given space & time to thrive. Together, these images comprise a new photographic series that brings the viewer closer to a somewhat unfamiliar view of the rainforest: the night & all its rich encounters which often escape the human gaze.

Parallel to the photographs, I gathered footage & interviews with various hosts & experts, exploring the issue of plant intelligence & how plants become active in mobilizing human communities to part-take in restorative processes.

After the gold mining rush in Madre de Dios, scientists, land defenders, & Indigenous communities seem devoted to mitigating the damage caused by deforestation and mercury poisoning of soils, air, and rivers. Therefore, plant teachers like Bobinzana are called upon to teach us modes of plant-led remediation and worlding. In the process, these plants become co-conspirators poised with huge potential to mobilize together human & non-human communities in search of collective survival & against unprecedented anthropogenic challenges. These conversations, recordings, & visual research will result in a new film essay.

AIR Supported by @amazonaid in partnership with @aceerfoundation and @studio_verde_air

#artistfortheamazon #beyondconservation2022 #plantintelligence #Indigenouscommunities #artandscience #restoretheamazon #conservation #amazonrainforest by @felipecastel

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It’s a wrap!! My show “Counter Expeditions” at @hausformediaart closed a few days ago. As part of it I was able to premiere this installation, titled Tunda: The Quantic Plant and the Devil’s Breath” cinematic installation based on a film shot between Colombia’s Putumayo and the Swiss Alps, with Ayënan Quinchoa Juajibioy. Realized in the framework of the SNSF research project Plants_Intelligence, hosted by IAGN, HGK Basel. Tunda was co-commission by Haus für Medienkunst Oldenburg. Thanks to an amazing team and a sharp curatorial vision by @molinaribacsi 🫀🎥 @hgkbasel_fhnw @hgkbasel_institutkunst @plants_intelligence @_wildpalms_ @swissnationalsciencefoundation @lydiazimmermann @ayenan888 @sofias.earth @the_chus_martinez #CounterExpeditions #felipecastelblanco #plantsintelligence #Oldenburg #putumayo taken in Oldenburg, Germany by @felipecastel

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Closing on December 14th!!! From the micro to the macro, here is an another installation view of the work Inverted Oasis, as part of my solo show "Counter Expeditions" at @hausformediaart //// The works “Counter-Expeditions reimagines the act of journeying—not as conquest or discovery, but as a reciprocal and embodied exchange between travelers and places. @hgkbasel_fhnw @hgkbasel_institutkunst @plants_intelligence @_wildpalms_ @prohelvetia_southamerica @studio_verde_air @caminoverdetambopata // #CounterExpeditions #felipecastelblanco #plantsintelligence #Oldenburg by @felipecastel

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We're thrilled to show the artistic outputs of our SNF-funded project. This show includes films, drawings, photographs, smell, and installations by the artistic-research team @yvon.volk.art @julia_mensch_ @felipecastel and @rasasmite, as part of the show "Was wäre wenn? Vom Spekulieren und Handeln für die Zukunft" at @kornhausforum in Bern. The show runs from November 28 until February 01. @hgkbasel_fhnw @swissnationalsciencefoundation #plants_intelligence #artisticresearch taken in Kornhausforum Bern by @felipecastel

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Sneak peek! Almost 10 years in the making, opening today at @visartscenter 🌊 Driftless comes back to one of the first places it was screened (as a very early version and younger me).. Now in its full version for the first time in the US 🇺🇸 As part of the 10-year anniversary of the show “Frame and Frequency: Liquid Territories” curated by Frank McCauley. May 29 - July 19, 2026 by @felipecastel

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Last day of this show at @kornhausforum “Was wäre wenn” with @plants_intelligence in Bern. First stop of a swiss tour of my recent films. More to come! @hgkbasel_institutkunst by @felipecastel

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This fun, hectic and eventful year is ending with the lovely show curated by Ines Golbach titled “Inside the Amazon” which includes my film Rio Arriba [Upriver] at @kunsthausbaselland. Next stop: Athens 🇬🇷 in April 2022 taken in Kunsthaus Baselland by @felipecastel

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Around this time last year, I had the honor to be in the jury for the show Rundgang 50 Hertz 2022 at @hamburger_bahnhof in Berlin, featuring some of Germany’s most intriguing young artists concluding their studies. Among them @omgirlwtf @_stephjoyce and @clara_alisch I finally got a copy of the catalog, which includes thoughtful and provoking artworks + a new essay I wrote on artistic research and this nice picture of my work in the cover. Link to the essay in bio by @felipecastel

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