Marcos Calvari
Artist, musician, cultural manager, and educator.
Director of Casa Intermitente, a self-managed space in Mar del Plata dedicated to residencies, workshops, and contemporary art exhibitions.
His background in music and architecture has been key to developing a body of work more concerned with temporal rather than spatial qualities. Thus, the documentation of processes, the apprehension of universal data, systems that tend toward maximums or minimums, totalities, distances, pragmatism, alchemy, contrast, the all, the almost all, and the almost nothing have become the raw materials that traverse his diverse experiments.
In these inquiries, he has explored multiple languages and materialities: installation, sound art, video, drawing, printmaking, and digital art. His work does not maintain a formal aesthetic linearity; rather, each idea finds its own materialization. It is the varied possibilities of dialogue with the viewer that construct his work.
For this, disturbance, boredom, and doubt are indispensable.
He believes in ideas and their deformations.
He believes in scientific inventions and pataphysical feats.
He believes in art that serves no purpose.
He believes in empiricism.
He believes in uncertainty.
In 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2016, he received the Creation Grant from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes (FNA). In 2018, he was awarded the Formadores Grant from the FNA for the project Chapa Chapa at Casa Intermitente. In 2015, he was selected for the Workshop Grant for Art Analysis and Project Development in Visual Arts organized by the Centro Cultural Kirchner (CCK) in collaboration with the FNA, a program led by Daniel Besoytaorube, Fernando Farina, Santiago García Navarro, Pablo Ziccarello, Matías Duville, and Nicolás Robbio. In 2007, he co-founded the collective PAAAR, with which he received several national and international awards in architecture competitions and open calls.
Abroad, he has exhibited his work in various cities across America, Europe, and Asia: Berlin (Germany), Punta del Este (Uruguay), New York (USA), Washington (USA), London (UK), Camagüey (Cuba), Puerto Vallarta (Mexico), Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Vigo, Seville, Cuenca, Córdoba, Santander, Segovia, and Madrid (Spain), Damascus (Syria), Beirut (Lebanon), Istanbul (Turkey), and São Paulo (Brazil).
In Argentina, he has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including: Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires (2025); Museo MAR, Mar del Plata (2024); Bienalsur 2025 (Museo Franklin Rawson, San Juan); Bienalsur 2023 (University of Los Comechingones, Merlo); Bienalsur 2021 (Museo MAR, Mar del Plata); Museo Víctor Roverano, Quilmes (2013); Museo Basilio Donato, Sunchales (2023); Bienal de Artes Visuales de Bahía Blanca (2016, 2013, and 2012), where he received Jury Mentions in the last two editions; Centro Cultural San Martín and Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires (2016); Complejo Museográfico Udaondo, Luján (2023); Museo E. Pettoruti, La Plata (2022); Emergentes 2016, CEC, Rosario (2016); Bienal del Fin del Mundo 2015, Mar del Plata; LXIV Salón Nacional de Rosario, Museo Castagnino + Macro (2011); Premio Fundación Andreani (Traveling Exhibition, 2011); 99° Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales, Palais de Glace (2010); Currículum Cero ’09, Ruth Benzacar Gallery (2009).
He has given seminars, lectures, and workshops at the National University of Rosario, University of Palermo, National University of Mar del Plata, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Mar del Plata, and Museo MBA-MAC de Bahía Blanca. He has also served as a juror in prestigious art salons and competitions, including the Provincial Young Art Salon E. Pettoruti and the Bienal de Arte Joven in Buenos Aires.
Between 2013 and 2018, he directed Galería Perenne, co-producing works with Roberto Echen, Raúl Flores, Fabián Burgos, Héctor Borges, Gabriela Golder, and Yamandú Rodríguez, among others.
Since 2015, he has co-directed Casa Intermitente alongside Florencia Silva.
He currently lives and works in Mar del Plata, Argentina.
