ABOUT
Portrait by Tobias Brust
Daniel Correa Mejía, born in 1986, is a visual artist from Medellin, Colombia. Daniel was raised between Colombia, Brasil, and Mexico. Currently he lives, and works in Berlin.
Correa Mejía practice combines painting, drawing, sculpture, and writing to mine imagery from his own subconscious and mythologize the landscape of his interior world. His highly symbolic figures personify various emotional states, becoming one with their scenery as contemporary society fades away and sacred, primordial knowledge is uncovered. Juxtaposing rich ultramarine with vibrant red on rough jute canvas, Mejía invokes the complimentary nature of masculine and feminine energies to summon the divine power of contrasting forces.
EXHIBITIONS
2023
Soy el dueño de mi casa, PPOW, New York – Solo
Contra/retrato, mor charpentier, Bogotá – with: Lawrence Abu Hamdam, Fredi Casco, Malo Chapuy, Chen Chin-Yuan, Dora Jeridi, Teresa Margolles, Óscar Muñoz, Sylvie Selig
Lucrecia, mor charpentier, Paris – Solo
Outer view, inner world, Maureen Paley, Morena di Luna, Hove - with: John Ahearn, Felipe Baeza, Alexandra Bircken, Kaye Donachie, Geoffrey Farmer, Lubaina Himid, Peter Hujar, Reverend Joyce McDonald, Behrang Karimi, Paul P., Wolfgang Tillmans, Rigoberto Torres, Donald Urquhart, Gillian Wearing, Jane and Louise Wilson, Issy Wood
When the firebird flies, Kunstverein Meissen, curated by Nicola Petek - with: Šeila Kamerić, Radu Oreian, Aline Schwörer, Sofiia Yesakova
2022
I’m Not Your Mother, PPOW, New York - with: Grace Carney, Jasper Francis Cropsey, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jacci Den Hartog, Brook Hsu, Hortensia Mi Kafchin, Nohemí Pérez, Carolee Schneemann, Mira Schor, TARWUK, Robin F. Williams
Cuerpos en gravedad, mor charpentier, Bogotá – with: Carlos Motta
Our land just like a dream, MACAAL Museum, Marrakech – with: Joël Andrianomearisoa, Said Afifi, Mohamed Anzaoui, Mo Baala, Farid Belkahia, Mohamed Ben Ali Rbati, Meriem Bouderbala, Hassan El Glaoui, Mohamed Fquih Regragui, Hicham Gardaf, Mohamed, a.o.
Solo presentation, Art Basel Hong Kong, mor charpentier, Hong Kong
Life in an ivory tower, curated by Jack Siebert, New York - with: Amanda Balwin, Louise Bonnet, Alejandro Cardenas, Mark Ryan Chariker, Nicolas Fernandez, Jack Jubb, Scott Kahn, Jenny Morgan, Larissa De Jesús Negrón, Ariana Papademetropoulos, Ernesto Renda, Kyle Staver, Emma Webster, Jess Westhafer, a.o.
2021
Here Come The Suns, curated by Uwe Henneken, Berlin - with: Sky Glabush, Ugo Rondinone, Mary Herbert, Barry McGlashan, Amy Lincoln, Kevin McNamee-Tweed, Vidya Gastaldon, Lucas Pertile, Renato Ordenes San Martin, David Brian Smith, Seth Birchall, Peter Böhnisch, Jakob Steen, Angela Lane, Henrik Hakanson, Nikolaus List, Wolfgang Ganter, Thomas Groetz, Vinna Begin, Olafur Eliassson, Uwe Henneken, Ondrej Drescher
Terra Nostra, mor charpentier, Bogotá - with: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Kader Attia, Chen Ching-Yuan, Bouchra Khalili, Teresa Margolles, Carlos Motta, Oscar Muñoz, Uriel Orlow, Liliana Porter, Charwei Tsai
Amor y Agua, Public Gallery, London - Solo
Days of Heartbreak, curated by Nicola Petek, Pony Royal, Berlin - with: Marjan Banjasadi, Peter Böhnisch, Daniela Elorza, Christopher Colm Morrin, Oska Gutheil, Ekin Su Koç, Flo Maak, Kate MccGwire, Hortensia Mi Kafchin, Dennis Scholl, Anna Steinert, Juliette Sturlese, a.o.
Feldmalerei, organized by Jana Jedermann, Rohlstorf - with: Emma Adler, Guillaume Airiaud, Dean Annunziata, Isabelle Fein, Philip Grozinger, Rae Hicks, Nikolaus List, Timur Lukas, Mannuel Resch, Anna Steinert, Juliette Sturlese, a.o.
American Boy, mor charpentier, Paris (Online) - with: Alexander Apóstol, Paz Errázuriz, Teresa Margolles, Carlos Motta and Rossângela Rennó
Night Watch, Winter Street Gallery, Edgartown - with: Ivan Forde, Maryam Hoseini, Marcus Jahmal, Quentin James McCaffrey, Larissa De Jesús Negrón, Rachel Rossin
Male Nudes: a salon from 1800 to 2021, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo - with: Soufiane Ababri, Tarsila do Amaral, Fernando Marques Penteado, Larry Clark, Jean Cocteau, Adriano Costa, Tom of Finland, Wilhelm Von Gloeden, Xie Lei, Patricia Leite, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Robert Mapplethorpe, Paulo Nazareth, Antonio Obá, Rodolpho Parigi, Solange Pessoa, Jack Pierson, Francis Picabia, Luiz Roque, Osmar Schindler, Sacha Schneider, Paula Siebra, Sarah Lucas, Wolfgang Tillmans, Erika Verzutti, Andy Warhol, Bruce Weber, Maya Weishof, Shota Nakamura, a.o.
El Camino más Largo, MAMM Museum of Modern Art, Medellín - with: Daniel Álvarez, Camila Botero, Pablo Gómez Uribe, Astrid González, Dámaxo Henao Salazar, Alejandra Jaramillo Paba, Gloria Jaramillo, Juno, Inty Maleywa, Azul y Lindy Márquez, Mayra Moreno, Mónica Naranjo Uribe, José Sanín, Gustavo Toro, a.o.
2020
Soy Hombre: Duro Poco y Es Enorme La Noche, Fortnight Institute, New York - Solo
Winter Solstice, Fortnight Institute, New York (Online) - with: Katelyn Eichwald, Mary Herbert, Chris Ohh, Peter Shear, Chioma Ebinama, Carmen Winant, Trube Viken, Stacy Leigh, Carlos Rodriguez, Cheri Smith, a.o.
Mind So Fast, Body So Slow, Lukas Trobert, Berlin Weekly, Berlin – Invited by Lukas Trobert - with: Lacy Barry, Andrea Baštýřová, Ulrike Buhl, Carolin Eidner, Wolfgang Ganter, Konstanze Habermann, Hanakam & Schuller, Verena Issel, Caro Jost, Annelies Kamen, Evelyn Loschy, Rascal Operations, Katarína Poliačiková, Betti Scholz, Chiara Wettmann
Uferhallen Manifest, Guest Artist at Peter Böhnisch Studio, Berlin – with: Peter Böhnisch and Craig Stewart
Landscapes of the South, Mendes Wood DM, New York – with: Frans Post, Friedrich Hagedorn, Henri Nicolas Vinet, Nicolau Antonio Facchinetti, Giovanni Battista Castagneto, Tarsila do Amaral, Alberto da Veiga Guignard, Alfredo Volpi, Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato, Jose Pancetti, Miguel Bakun, Patricia Leite, Federico Herrero, Adriano Costa, Marina Perez Simão, Alvaro Barrington, and Lucas Arruda
2019
Zuhause, Pony Royal, Berlin – With: Peter Böhnisch, Daniela Elorza
Zwei Alter: Jung, Galerie Crone, Berlin – with: Tom Anholt, Kamille Bischof, Werner Büttner, Amoako Boafo, Emmanuel Bernstein, Walter Dann, Andrej Dubravsky, Rainer Setting, Georg Herold, Leiko Ikemura, Aneta Kajzer, Melike Kara, Martin Kippenberger, Helmut Middendorp, Sophie Reinhold, Hubert Schmalfix, Andreas Schulze, Thomas Schütte, Erik Stars, Rosemarie Trocken, Nazim Ünal Yilmaz, Schar Zukerkman, a.o.
Guest Artist at Peter Böhnisch Studio, Eigenbedarf Uferhallen, Berlin – with: Peter Böhnisch, Olaf Hajek, Christian Hellmich, Nicolas Ponton, Gerd Rohling, Alexander Skorobogatov, Craig Stewart, Alexandra Bretter, Julius Weiland, a.o.
2018
Abrazos, Pony Royal, Berlin – With: Alexandra Bisbicus, Daniela Elorza
Off Beat aus der Klasse Leiko Ikemura, Schaufenster, Berlin – with: Leiko Ikemura, Johanna Hochholzer, Iman Rezai, Sahar Zukerman, Walker Brengel, Olli Pippo, Lisa Wang, Juni Kim, Michael Wutz, Fritz Bornstück, Toni Mauersberg, Zurab Shekelashwili, Emmanuel Bornstein, Lennart Grau, Rona Kobel, Helena Petersen, Dargelos Kersten, a.o.
Anonymous Drawings, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
2016
Tú & Yo, Pony Royal, Berlin – with: Daniela Elorza
Über Farbe und Form hinaus, Leuchtturm, Berlin – with: Rural Moser, Aurélie Pertusot, Deborah S. Phillips, Paco Vallejo.
2015
Recommended by, Easy!upstream, Munich
Die Klarheit, Colombian Embassy, Berlin – Solo
Delta15, Waterwork Falkenstein, Hamburg – with: Andrea Becker-Weimann, Patricia Detmering, Dorothea Dorn, Elisa Goldammer, Sakura Hada, Almut Hilf, Adrian Höllger, Philip Pichler, Jenny Schäfer, Heiko Wommelsdorf, a.o.
Klasse Leiko Ikemura, Rundgang, UdK, Berlin
A Place Never Found, Pony Royal, Berlin – with: Shua Brotherton
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PRESS & PUBLICATION
Artishock, Soy el dueño de mi casa, P.P.O.W, 2023
The Steidz, ARCO Madrid: 3 jeunes peintres qui explorent la masculinité, 2022
Juxtapoz, review by Sasha Bogojev for Amor y Agua, Public Gallery, London, 2021
KubaParis, Amor y Agua, Public Gallery, London, 2021
Days of Heartbreak, curated by Nicola Petek, Exhibition catalog, Nicola Petek, 2021
Ocula, ARCO Madrid Highlights, 202
Male Nudes: a salon from 1800 to 2021, Exhibition catalog, Mendes Wood DM
Art Maze Magazine, Interview by Rebecca Irwin, 2021
Coeur et Art, Interview by Esther Harrison, 2021
Soy Hombre: Duro Poco y Es Enorme La Noche, Artist book, Fortnight Institute, 2020
Art Viewer, Solo Exhibition at Fortnight Institute, 2020
Artnet, Editors`Picks, Cristina Cruz, November, 2020
Artnet, Editors`Picks, Cristina Cruz, February, 2020
Art Verge, Interview by Yannis Kostarias, 2019
yngspc, Interview by Kathe Mothes, 2019
Art Maze Magazine, Interview, 2019
Art Maze Magazine, Summer Issue, Curated by Chris Sharp, 2019
Widewalls, 2016