Biography

Enrique Muñoz García, born in Chile in 1969, is a photographer, multimedia artist, collector and curator. He studied art and drawing at the Universidad Católica of Chile. He has lived and worked in Switzerland since 1998. His work focuses on long-term personal and political projects as well as editorial work for various newspapers and magazines. Thematically, he concentrates on people and their complex relationship to society. Muñoz García's works bear witness to a subtle mixture of documentation and art. Er has exhibited his work at the Venice Biennale, the Istanbul Biennale, the Center for Fine Art Photography, USA, the Photomonth Festival, Poland, and the Centre PasquArt for the Bieler Fototage, among others.

Since 2012 Muñoz García has been part of the artist group Nine Dragon Heads and has participated in art symposia within the group at specific complex locations such as Aral Sea/Uzbekistan; Amazonas/Brazil and in the demilitarized zone in South Korea. He has received several international awards such as the Grimme Online Award, the Prix de la Photographie de Paris and the European Newspaper Award, as well as several nominations and grants for his projects.

As a curator, he is co-founder of the off space Lokal-int in 2006 and founder and curator of the public art space Juraplatz in 2010, where he has curated artists such as Joan Fontcuberta, Augustin Rebetez and Kurt Caviezel. Other curatorial work includes the exhibition "Women with Binoculars", realized in collaboration with the prestigious agency "Magnumphotos", a show that featured artists such as Martin Parr, Alex Webb and Mark Power among others.

As a collector, Enrique Muñoz García has an archive with more than 20 000 found photos. On this basis, he organized his personal exhibition "Women with Beetles" at the Volkswagen Museum in Wolfsburg, Germany, in 2015. The rest of the photographic material is currently being processed; new works such as "Christianisation in Africa / 1915-1930", "Fade Out, Cliches from the American Press / 2020, and others are being created.

In 2019 Enrique Muñoz García presented his multimedia work "Die Welt in Biel / Le monde à Bienne" at the invitation of the artist Thomas Hirschhorn as part of the "Robert Walser Sculpture" in Biel. "The world im Biel" is a series of more than 100 interviews based on the question Why did you come to Biel? This Work is since 2022 part oft he permanent exhibition oft he Neue Museum Biel NMB.

He has recently taught photography workshops within the Pasch project of the Goethe Institute in schools in South America, Tunisia, Oman, Morocco, Kasachstan and Egypt, making at the end of these courses, virtual exhibitions with works of the participating students.

Prizes

2015 «Grimme Online Award» First Prize. Germany
2015 «European Newspaper Award» First Prize. Germany
2013 «Prix de la Photographie Paris» First Prize. France
2013 «Swiss Photo Award» Second Prize, Reportage. Switzerland
2007 «Swiss Photo Award» Nomination. Switzerland
2006 «Kanton Bern Photo Award» Nomination. Switzerland

Exhibitions (Exerpt)

2023 Lakelive Festival / Parzival und Enrique Muñoz García / Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
2022 Die Welt in Biel / Le monde à Bienne / Dauerausstellung Neue Museum Biel NMB, Biel/Bienne
2022 Lady Xena / Salon curated by Adela Picon / Bern
2021 Avec Papiers / Halle Wytenbach, Biel/Bienne
2020 Newspapers, Lokal Int, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
2019 Neutral Nations / Solo Exhibition / Tiblis Georgien
2019 DMZ South Korea / Researche and Exhibition / Nine Dragon Heads, South Korea
2019 Women with Binoculars / MAGNUMPHOTOS curated by Enrique Muñoz García / Bieler Fototage,
2019 Die Welt in Biel / Le monde à Bienne / Robert Walser Sculpture by Thomas Hirschhorn, Biel/Bienne
2018 Beyond the horizon, Nine Dragon Heads Symposium, From Belem to Manaus, Brazil
2018 Hiro Kai, Casa Contemporanea, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2018 AutoMuseum Volkswagen, Women with Beetles, Wolfsburg, Germany
2017 15th International Istanbul Biennale / Backside of the News, Haydarpasa Terminal, Istanbul, Turkey
2016 Seeaf International Eco-Environmental Art Festival, Collective Exhibition, South Korea
2015 56 International Art Exhibition. La Biennale di Venezia, Collateral Event / Venice, Italy
2015 20 Years NDH, Nine Dragon Heads Symposium, South Korea
2014 JETZT KUNST N°4, Collective Exhibition, Marzili Bad, Bern, Switzerland
2014 PHOTO 14, Collective Exhibition, Maag Halle, Zurich, Switzerland
2014 Wondrous Indeed, Collective Exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, USA
2014 New Color Photography, Collective Exhibition, Black Box Gallery, Oregon, USA
2013 Marokko, Zirkus, Claude, Solo Exhibition, MAZ Galerie, Lucern, Switzerland
2013 Swiss Photo Award, Collective Exhibition, EWZ-Unterwerk Selnau, Switzerland
2013 Une Poétique du Temps, Collective ExhibitionManoir, Martigny, Switzerland
2012 The Protest that never ends, Artisterium, Collective Exhibition, National Museum, Tiblis, Georgien
2012 Bulb / Lokal Int. Portraits 2006-2007, Solo Exhibition, Espace Libre, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
2011 15. Journées photographiques de Bienne, Collective Exhibition, Centre PasquArt Biel, Switzerland
2011 International Art Symposium Nine Dragon Heads, Art Etage Gallery, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
2008 Swiss Photo Selection 10, Collective Exhibition, EWZ-Unterwerk Selnau, Switzerland
2007 Photomonth Festival, Collective Exhibition, Galerie Bunkier Sztuki, Krakau, Polen
2006 10. Journées photographiques de Bienne. Bieler Fototage, Centre PasquArt Biel, Switzerland
2006 Swixx Prohelvetia, Collective Exhibition, Zentralplatz, Biel/Bienne, Switzerla
2004 Morocco, Solo Exhibition, Leica Galerie, Nidau, Switzerland

Website

Official
https://www.enriquemunozgarcia.com

Die Welt in Biel / Le monde à Bienne
https://www.dieweltinbiel.ch
https://www.lemondeabienne.ch

Public Art Space JURAPLATZ
https://www.juraplatz.ch

Collaboration with the artist Parzival
https://www.modelsoldato.com

Workshops for Goethe Institut
https://www.kunstmatrix.com/de/enrique-munoz-garcia