Juan Tardivo is an Italo-Argentine contemporary artist based in Munich His practice investigates how bodies, identities and forms emerge through temporary configurations of relations. Working across painting, writing and drawing, he approaches painting as a mode of inquiry: a field in which colour, gesture, matter and space make visible questions that language alone cannot resolve. Rather than illustrating predetermined ideas, each work develops through a process of transformation in which one painting modifies the questions carried by the next.
Biography1986Born in Río Cuarto, Argentina.Lives and works in Munich, Germany.Works across Painting, writing, VideoArt.
Selected Exhibitions
Solo Show
2026 – In The Body Of Painting, My Collectif Galerie, Munich, Germany2025 –The Body Knows It Better, ZoomArtSpace 25, Munich, Germany 2019 – Il Taglio Della Montagna, Pop-up Gallery, Bologna, Italy2017 – Melanconia, Garden Gallery, Bologna, Italy
Group Show2025 – Shattered Echoes, Kunstlabor 2, Munich, Germany2025 – Biophilia, Feierwerk Farbenladen, Munich, Germany2024 – NEUZWO04, Konsum163, Munich, Germany2022 – Precious Emissions, MTL Arty Studio, Bologna, Italy2016 – Arte a palazzo – Galleria Farini Concept – Bologna, Italy
Selected Publications2026 — In The Body Of Painting, Ed. Cris International Swiss Art Company 2025 — Under My Skin, Ed. Osservatorioarma 2025 — Artbook Munich – ZommArtSpace 252012 — This Is Not a Book of Poetry, Ed. Dinamo Poetico
Selected Reading
Jean-Luc Nancy : L’Intrus Maurice Merleau-Ponty : SignsAlbert Camus: Le Mythe de Sisyphe. Essai sur l’absurdeGeorges Didi-Huberman: Ouvrir VénusFriedrich Nietzsche: Also Sprach ZarathustraPaul Valéry: CahiersGeorges Perec: La Vie Mode d’emploiCesare Pavese: Lavorare Stanca