ABOUT
PAVEL AGUILAR
b. 1989 in Tegucigalpa, lives and works between Honduras, Basel and Zürich.
Pavel Aguilar (Tegucigalpa, 1989) lives and works in Tegucigalpa, Honduras with periods between Basel and Zürich, Switzerland.
Trained as a classical violinist at the National School of Music in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, he obtained a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana and an MFA from the Institut Kunst Gender Natur in Basel, Switzerland. Aguilar's artistic work is transdisciplinary, situated at the intersection of music and visual arts.
His diverse Latin American background—born and raised in Honduras, with periods of living and working in Mexico and Colombia—has significantly influenced his work.
Exploring fragility and memory, recognizing the body as our first territory and its environment, through the fusion of image, music, and sound.
His work is part of the public collections of Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany; Kunst (Zeug)Haus in Rappersville-Jona, Switzerland; Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (MAMM); Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO) in Colombia; Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo (MADC) in San José, Costa Rica among others.
In 2020, Aguilar got the Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt werkbeiträge in Basel; Finalist for the Swiss Performance Art Award in 2021; finalist for Contemporary Talents at François Schneider Foundation (FR) in 2022 and nominated for the Swiss Art Award 2023.
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