Antimundo is what exists beyond the known reality. It is a worldview for what escapes the logic of the dominant order. Not only the hidden and the forgotten, but also the yet-to-exist. It is a toolset for sensing and shaping other realities. The Antimundo manifests, for instance, in the rich light spectrum that our eyes cannot see, or in the deep intelligence of plants that we struggle to understand.
Studio Antimundo was founded by artist Oscar Santillán to turn this vision into a practice. It is a space that welcomes collaborations across disciplines, beings, and cosmologies. The studio moves between art, science, fiction, and ancestral knowledge, creating artworks that feel like forces from elsewhere. Studio Antimundo is envisioned as a matrix where diverse beings gather to imagine and test new realities.
Key collaborations and partner institutions include:
- Leiden University’s Biology Department (NL)
- Nietzsche Archive (DE)
- Maastricht University’s Science and Technology Studies (NL)
- KNAW – The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (NL)
- Leiden Astronomical Observatory (NL)
- Spark904, a chemistry startup based in Amsterdam (NL)
- Davis Center for AI, Colby College (US)
Oscar Santillán
Visual artist (based in The Netherlands)
I am an Ecuadorian artist whose journey began far from the traditional artworld. I grew up as a self-taught artist, fully committed to a sense of curiosity that was fed by books, films, friendships, and (mostly) failing in my early artistic experiments.
In those years, I co-founded the art collective Lalimpia (2002–2009), and began appreciating knowledge that comes from unexpected places.
In 2009, I received a scholarship to pursue an MFA in Sculpture at Virginia Commonwealth University in the US, graduating in 2011. After that, my work led me across borders and disciplines. In 2013, I was welcomed to The Netherlands as an artist-in-residence at the Jan van Eyck, a turning point that opened new doors, windows, and cracks. Since then, I’ve been part of programs such as Skowhegan (US), Ratti Foundation (IT), Delfina Foundation (UK), and others.
Solo exhibitions of my work include Mácula at MUAC (Mexico City), Zaratán at Melly Kunstinstituut (Rotterdam), NON at Galería Livia Benavides (Lima), The Andean Information Age at Copperfield (London), A Heavy Halo at RADIUS Center for Art and Ecology (Delft), among others. And, group exhibitions displaying my work include institutions such as LACMA, Los Angeles (US), Yokohama Triennale (JP), FRAC Île-de-france (Paris), IMMA, Dublin (IE), Museum Voorlinden (NL), Humboldt Forum, Berlin (DE), SongEun Art Space, Seoul (KR), NRW FORUM Düsseldorf (DE), Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (PL), among many others.
And, complementary to my artistic practice, I believe in the importance of artistic education in our societies. Currently, I am an advisor at De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL), a lecturer at Sint Joost, Breda (NL), and a guest professor at Espol, Guayaquil (EC).
Team
René Martínez > CG artist
Michael Vera > art production
Ema Jariso > art production
Andrea Galarza > coordinator
Pedro Castillo > 3D artist
Oswaldo Bonilla > associate maker