Born in 1973 in Tucumán, Argentina.
He studied architecture at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires and received postgraduate degrees from the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes Ernesto de la Cárcova, Buenos Aires (2000) and the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste -Städelschule-Frankfurt am Main (2003). In 2009, he attended the International Space Studies Program at the NASA Ames Center in Silicon Valley CA, and that same year received the prestigious Calder Award.
Among his numerous exhibitions since the late 1990s, Saraceno’s solo presentations include: Cisternerne, Copenhagen (2020); Palazzo Strozzi, Florence (2020); MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon (2018); Fosun Foundation, Shanghai (2018); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018); Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore (2017); Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires (2017); SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (2016); Solutions COP21, Grand Palais, Paris (2015); 21er Haus, Vienna (2015); Cheorwon Peace Observatory, DMZ Cheorwon-gun (2014); K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Ständehaus, Düsseldorf (2013); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2012); Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2012); Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2011); Kemper Art Museum at Washington University, St. Louis (2011); MACRO Museum of Modern Art, Berlin (2011). Louis (2011); MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome (2011); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2009); Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (2009); Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg (2009); Barbican Art Centre, London (2006).
He has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including: EXPO 2025, Osaka (2025); Castello di Rivoli (2024); Philharmonie, Paris (2022); Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2022); Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires (2022); CCK, Buenos Aires (2021); The Shed, New York (2021); Serpentine Gallery, London (2021); Villa Borghese, Rome (2020); Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (2019); Musée du Louvre, Paris (2015); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015); M+, Hong Kong (2013); KUNSTEN, Aalborg (2010); Barbican, London (2009); among others.
Tomás Saraceno has participated in numerous festivals and biennials, such as the first Enova Biennial, Langfang (2024) – The Gangwon Triennial (2024) – The Thailand Biennial,, Chiang Rai (2023) – The Aerocene Foundation for the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale Architettura (2020); the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2019), and the 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2009).
He lives and works in Berlin.
Individual exhibitions
2026
Interwoven, New Taipei City Art Museum , Taiwan.
2025
tomás saraceno i, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany.
2024
ANIMA∞LE, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy.
Worldings , Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark.Complementarities, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China. Curated by Yan Shijie.
Live(s) on Air, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
Life of Webs, Espace Muraille, Geneva, Switzerland. Curated by Laurence Dreyfus.
2023
Tomás Saraceno in Collaboration: Web(s) of Life, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK. Curated by Lizzie Carey -Thomas & Chris Bayley.
Tomás Saraceno: Entangled Air, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, USA. Curated by Somesh Roy.
2022
Tomás Saraceno: Ocean(s) of Air, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Curated by Emma Pike and Olivier Varenne.
Tomás Saraceno: Particular Matter(s), The Shed, New York, USA. Curated by Emma Enderby.
Silent Autumn, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA.
2021
Inter+Play Season 2, Towada Art Center, Towada, Japan. Curated by Kodama Kanazawa and Meruro Washida.
We do not all breathe the same air, neugerriemschneider gallery, Berlin, Germany.
AnarcoAracnoAnacroArcano, Parco Archeologico della Neapolis, Syracuse, Italy. Curated by Paolo Falcone.
Du Sol au Soleil, Domaine des Etangs, Massignac, France. Curated by Rebecca Lamarche – Vadel.
2020
Song for the Air, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany. Curated by Martin Faass.
Moving Atmospheres, Garage Atrium Commission, Moscow, Russia. Curated by Iaroslav Volovod.
Event Horizon, Cisternerne, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curated by Sara Hatla Krogsgaard.
Aria, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy. Curated by Arturo Galansino.
Fly with Aerocene Pacha, a project by Tomàs Saraceno, produced by the Aerocene Foundation for CONNECT, BTS, curated by DaeHyung Lee, Seoul, South Korea. Human free-flight, Salinas Grandes, Argentina; Film screenings and exhibition “Vuela con Aerocene Pacha,”, Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires.
2019
Algo -r(h)i(y)thms, Esther Schipper Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
Tomás Saraceno, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea.
Tomás Saraceno, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
2018
ON AIR, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. Curated by Rebecca Lamarche -Vadel.
Albedo, Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genoa, Italy.
Solar Rhythms, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA.
A Thermodynamic Imaginary, MAAT, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal. Curated by Pedro Gadanho and Rita Marques.
Aerographies, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China.
2017
Gravitational Waves, Z33, Genk, Belgium. Curated by Jan Boelen.
Entangled Orbits, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA. Curated by Kristen Hileman.
Event Horizon, Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Our Interplanetary Bodies, Asia Culture Centre, Gwangju, South Korea. Curated by Sung Won Kim.
Aerosolar Journeys, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland. Curated by Sabine Schaschl.
How to entangle the universe in a spider web, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Curated by Victoria Noorthoorn.
Re -opening In Orbit, K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf, Germany. Curated by Juliane Von Herz.
Aerosolar Journeys, Wilhelm -Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany. Curated by René Zechlin.
2016
Stillness in Motion. Cloud Cities, SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA. Curated by Joseph Becker.
163,000 Light Years, MARCO, Museum for Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico. Curated by Gonzalo Ortega.
Solar Bell Ensemble, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA. CAC Director Raphaela Platow.
Aerocene, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany.
Many suns and worlds, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium. Commissioned by the
Vanhaerents family.Dark Cosmic Web, Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy.
Cloud City installation, Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Campbell Art Park, Oklahoma City, USA.
2015
Aerocene , Solutions COP21, Grand Palais, Paris, France, United Nations Climate Change Conference COP21.
Aerocene, Espace Muraille, Geneva, Switzerland. Curated by Laurence Dreyfus, Caroline and Eric Freymond.
Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore. Curated by Ute Meta Bauer and Anca Rujoiu.
Becoming Aerosolar, Haus21er, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Mario Codognato.
14 Billions (Working Title), SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway. Curated by Else – Brit Kroneberg.
Hybrid solitary… semi -social quintet… on cosmic webs…, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA.
2014
Cosmic Jive, Tomás Saraceno: The Spider Sessions, Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy. Curated by Ilaria Bonacossa and Luca Cerizza.
Iridescent Planet, Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genoa, Italy.
Real DMZ Project, Cheorwon Peace Observatory, DMZ, South Korea. Co-curated by Sunjung Kim and Nikolaus Hirsch.
2013
In Orbit, K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf, Germany. Curated by Marion Ackermann and Susanne Meyer -Büser.
Social .. Quasi Social .. Solitary .. Spiders … On Hybrid Cosmic Webs, Esther Schipper Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
Tomás Saraceno, Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2012
Cloud City, Roof Garden Installation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Curated by Anne L. Strauss.
On Space Time Foam, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy. Curated by Andrea Lissoni.
Cloud Cities, Maison Hermès, Tokyo, Japan. Curated by Rodrigo Alonso.
Tomás Saraceno, Taidehalli Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland. Curated by Maija Koskinen.Air-Port -City/Cloud Cities, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA.
2011
Cloud Cities, Hamburger Bahnhof -Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Britta Schmitz.
Cloud -Specific, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, USA. Curated by Meredith Malone.
Cloudy Dunes. When Friedman Meets Bucky On Air-Port -City, MACRO, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy. Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero.
Labor, K20 Grabbeplatz, Nordrhein -Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany. Director Marion Ackermann.
2010
Cloud Cities: Connectome, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA.
14 Billions (working title), Bonniers Konsthall , Stockholm, Sweden. Contributors: Sara Arrhenius, Helena Granström, Jeffrey Kastner, Hans-Ulrich Obrist.
Cloud -Cities, Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genoa, Italy.
Tomás Saraceno, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK. Curated by Alessandro Vincentelli.
Sculpture project ROSSMARKT3, Frankfurt, Germany. Curated by Juliane von Herz.
Tomás Saraceno: Lighter than air, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, USA. Curated by Yasmil Raymond.
From Camogli to San Felipe, spiders weaving stars, Fondazione Pierluigi e Natalina Remotti, Camogli, Italy.
Tomás Saraceno, Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2009
Tomás Saraceno: Lighter than air, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA. Curated by Yasmil Raymond.
Tomás Saraceno, MUDAM Musée d‘Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg (in the framework of the cycle «Habiter»). Commissioned by Marie -Noëlle Farcy.
Cloudy House, Andersen’s Contemporary, Berlin, Germany.
2008
Galaxies forming along filaments, like droplets along the strands of a spider webs, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA.
Cloudy Dunes, Fondazione Garrone, Genoa, Italy.2007
Opening, AEREA Christian Larsen, Stockholm, Sweden.
Biosphere MW32 Air -Port -City, Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genoa, Italy.
Air-Port -City, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands.
Microscale, Macroscale and Beyond: Large-Scale Implications of Small -Scale Experiments, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA.
2006
Air-Port -City, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA.
Cumulus, Barbican Art Centre, London, UK.
On Water, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain.
Cloudy Dunes_Air -Port -City, Attitudes – espace des arts contemporains, Geneve, Switzerland.
Infinitive Actives, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany.
2004
On -Air, Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genoa, Italy.
2003
In-migration, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
2000
612 Planetas, Parque Planetario, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1998
Luces de estrella, Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Ernesto de la Cárcova, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Awards
2022
Premio Konex de Platino, Visual Arts Prize. Argentina.
2019
Golden Madonnina, Design Prize. Italy.
2010
1822 -Kunstpreis. Germany.
2009
Alexander Calder Prize. France / USA.
2003 -2004
Fondo Nacional de las Artes. Argentina.
IUAV Venice -Italy. Italy.
2003 -2004
Hessische Kulturstiftung Award and Residency in Rotterdam. Netherlands.
2003
16. Bundeswettbewerb des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (1st prize). Germany.
Scholarships and Residences
2016
Goethe -Institut, London, UK.
RAVE residency, Villa Manin, Udine, Italy.
2014 – 2015
Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES), Paris, France.
2012 – ongoing
MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST), Cambridge, USA.
2010
Atelier Calder in Saché, France, (Recipient of Calder Price and Calder Residency).
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA.
2003 – 2004
Hessische Kulturstiftung, Rotterdam, Netherlands.