Oscar Murillo. Collective Osmosis
March 14, 2026 – August 9, 2026
COMING SOON
From 14.03.2026 renowned contemporary artist Oscar Murillo will take over the spaces at DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam with his project Collective Osmosis, a celebration of mark-making creating moments of exchange between his paintings, installation works, and the work of Claude Monet. For Murillo, the scientific metaphor of osmosis, the process by which water particles move through a semi-permeable boundary with the aim of reaching a state of equilibrium, can be seen as a model for opening the museum, building bridges between the indoor and outdoor space, between the museum and the city, as well as between Potsdam and the world. The exhibition also marks the first collaboration between DAS MINSK and Museum Barberini, with works by Oscar Murillo on display at both institutions.
“Oscar Murillo succeeds in pushing forward the discourse around painterly practices, breaking down visible and invisible boundaries, and redefining social and economic cycles. His work reconceives the possibilities of community-building and Collective Osmosis becomes a lived intellectual and practical experiment in fostering exchange and counteracting inequalities. Oscar Murillo’s choice of Claude Monet as an accomplice in this project, who translated light and landscape into beloved works of radiant color, is a congenial move. He not only succeeds in expanding his own frame of reference, but also in getting closer to an idea of universal human community via images and acts which live in our collective imagination,” comments Anna Schneider, director of DAS MINSK, about the artist’s manifold project for Potsdam.
“Monet and his paintings are a vessel through which I understand paradox. On the one hand, Monet’s works are a representation of universally celebrated aesthetics - gesture, scale, color, harmony, and joy - but on the other, Monet’s experience as a human being, and the cataracts he suffered from, allow me to see cosmic anguish and darkness through metaphor. The heavily textured and layered paintings that I work on are a direct result of these ideas, ideas which circumvent and flee into pixels of nothingness.”
Oscar Murillo, 2025
Oscar Murillo, surge (social cataracts), 2025, oil, oil stick, and spray paint on canvas in three parts, overall 250 × 750 cm
|Courtesy of the artist © Oscar Murillo. Photo: Tim Bowditch & Reinis Lismanis