Antimundo is a cybernetic matrix where science, fiction, and non-human perspectives converge. It is a worldview—a toolset for sensing and generating realities that do not conform to the dominant world order. Rather than merely exposing the limits of normative reality, Antimundo encourages a movement beyond them.
At its core, Antimundo investigates the shadows cast by modernity—particularly the futures that modernity fails to imagine. It does not reject science, but instead critiques the exclusions that have shaped it: non-Western knowledges, Indigenous cosmologies, and entire geographies that have historically been omitted from scientific discourse. Through this lens, Antimundo becomes a practice of remembering—of bringing back into awareness those elements pushed to the margins.
Studio ANTIMUNDO encompasses the artistic practice of Oscar Santillán and the network of collaborative energy that shapes it. We are committed to re-inventing the artist studio as a decentralized, transdisciplinary, and—more importantly—a welcoming space for diverse beings to encounter the unknown.
Rather than a fixed place, Studio Antimundo is a porous structure that hosts collaborations across disciplines and species, engaging with both speculative and scientific modes of inquiry.
The ideas driving Antimundo have been enriched by Oscar’s collaborations with scientists and researchers. These partnerships have shaped a ‘sci-art’ understanding within the studio’s work.
Notable collaborators 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), where Oscar was artist-in-residence (2018–2019)
Oscar Santillán
Visual artist (based in Ecuador and The Netherlands)
I am a visual artist whose practice departs from a transdisciplinary approach—connecting diverse scientific fields, ancestral cosmologies, and non-human perspectives—in order to participate within the wondrous complexity and ongoing conflicts of our planet.
This approach has led me to collaborate with scientists, software programmers, Indigenous thinkers, anthropologists, sci-fi writers, and biologists. Their intellectual generosity continues to shape my practice and expand the ways in which I engage with the emerging future.
My education began in the early 2000’s as a self-taught artist in my native Ecuador. Those formative times were deeply shaped by working within collective environments, in this regard I was one of the co-founders of the art collective Lalimpia (2002-2009).
Throughout the years those experiences have remained alive in my practice in the form of collaborations with scientists and other curious minds. In 2011 I obtained an MFA in Sculpture from VCU—Virginia Commonwealth University, in the US; and, consequent fellowships have allowed me to be an artist-in- residence at Skowhegan (US), Jan van Eyck (NL), Ratti Foundation (IT), Delfina Foundation (UK), and Leiden Astronomical Observatory (NL). And, I have also held a Senior Fellow position at Colby College (US) where I developed an experimental project along with the Davis Center for AI. Currently, in addition to my artistic practice, I work as an advisor for De Ateliers (NL) and as a professor at Sint Joost’s ‘Art and Research’ program.
Solo exhibitions include NON (Nuevos Órganos Naturales), Galería Livia Benavides; Lima, PE (2025). The Andean Information Age, Copperfield; London, UK (2024). A Heavy Halo, RADIUS Center for Art and Ecology; Delft (NL). ZONDA, Llano; Mexico City, MX (2023). A Breathing Mountain, Galleria Tiziana di Caro; Naples, IT (2021). Shadows travel at the speed of light, Château La Borie; Solignac, FR (2021). 13.0.0.0.0, PARQUE Galería; Ciudad de México, MX (2019). Oscurana, Château La Borie; Solignac, FR (2018).
Mácula, MUAC; Mexico City, MX (2017). Una Cierta Edad del Mundo, Galerie Mazzoli; Berlin, DE (2017). Asterism, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, NL (2017). Zaratán, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art; Rotterdam, NL (2016); Codex, Metales Pesados. Santiago de Chile, CL (2016). The Messenger, Spazio Calderara; Milan, IT (2015). To Break A Silence Into Smaller Silences, Copperfield; London, UK (2015). On Hesitation Marks, Kunstraum; Munich, DE (2013). Lucerna, Fundación ODEON; Bogota, CO (2012); among others.
Group exhibitions include Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama; LACMA, Los Angeles; NRW FORUM, Düsseldorf; SongEun Art Space, Seoul; Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar; Zadkine Museum, Paris; FRAC Île-de-france, Paris; IMMA—Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Rochechouart Musée d’art contemporain, Rochecho art; Album Arte, Rome; STUK, Leuven; Trienal Poligráfica, San Juan; Castlefield Gallery, Manchester; National Dutch Dance Festival—Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Socrates Park, New York; Humboldt Forum, Berlin; CAC—Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; among many others.
Team
René Martínez > CG artist
Michael Vera > art production
Ema Jariso > art production
Andrea Galarza > coordinator
Pedro Castillo > 3D artist
Oswaldo Bonilla > associated maker