Marcelo Von Schwartz

Marcelo von Schwartz is an Argentinean film director, architect, art photographer and sound architect. His work is known for focusing on the dark side of the things. He has worked on over 15 film/video art projects, and recently released feature film Dark Bridge Binaural Brainwaves, which utilizes the hypnotic qualities of binaural beats for heightened cinematic effect.

Creative journey
Marcelo von Schwartz completed his studies at the University of Buenos Aires in architecture and went on to study filmmaking under David José Kohn, one of the most influential Argentine filmmakers and a precursor to the Argentine Nouvelle Vague of the 60s (one of the "60s generation").
In the 1990s he moved to Barcelona, where he started his career as a producer and filmmaker. After working as Art Director and Production Designer on various independent films, he wrote and produced the 35mm Neo-expressionist short film Phoenix. The film competed in over 30 festivals worldwide, winning recognition and prizes.

In 2014 released the Binaural Brainwave version of his movie Dark Bridge, his first long feature film, entirely shot in Thailand. It is significant in being the first feature film to include a mixed Theta Binaural Brainwave through the e...

Style of work - Photography

“Marcelo von Schwartz art has an infallible sense of composition, a refinement of form, a distinct harmony, and an inner discipline. His “Architectural photographs of nonexistent spaces” -as he defines them- reflect a tension inherent in representing three-dimensions on a two-dimensional surface. Unlike Renaissance painters who strived to reproduce a world in which image and reality were indistinguishable, von Schwartz recognizable images systematically contain many references to utopian-and dystopian- architectures.

Von Schwartz took delight in a kind of deceit, desiring his viewers to derive the same sensation as when entertained by a magician or a visionary architect. His art is a journey of discovery where images become a continuous play of interwoven impossible spaces and perspectives. Marcelo von Schwartz helps us see new relationships between point, surface and spaces. His special worlds are both strange and possible in an imaginary near future.

At the same time, von Schwartz is capable of concocting potent images with near-universal appeal -something to which more fine artists would aspire. At a time when banality is ruling the art scene, von Schwartz -frequently inspired by universes w...

Art Exhibitions/Art Events
2021 Bangkok Dreamscapes. River City Bangkok
2019 [October] Metropolis. The Bangkok Club, Bangkok  
2018 [October] Art Takes SoHo [Collective] The Untitled Space, Tribeca, New York
2018 [September] SPACES [Collective] Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi Architecture Biennale Venice
2018 [April] Bangkok Dreams Solo exhibition Continent Gallery Bangkok
2017 [October] ESCAPE Solo Exhibition RMA Institute Bangkok
2017 [May] Tokyo International Art Fair Japan
2015 Epokalypto, Bangkok Slideluck I, [New York] The Space, Bangkok
2012 Dark Cabaret Photo Book Launch, Warp Studio, Bangkok
2011 Dark Bridge [Feature film, 90’], Premiere at Puchon Fantastic Festival, Seoul
2010 Art Videos for RECOIL World Tour, SELECTED/Strange Hours 2010-11, US-Europe
2007 [H]opening and Trayectos Extremos, Off Loop, Nau Ivanow, Barcelona
2006 [H]opening, [video-art] ARCO Madrid, Jacobo Carpio Gallery Miami
2005 Trayectos Extremos [video-art], Miami Art Fair, Segovia-Isaacs Gallery Barcelona
2004 Imaginary Landscapes, [Photography] Galeria Segovia-Isaacs, Barcelona
2003 New Figuration [Photography] Galeria Segovia-Isaacs, Barcelona
2001 Gaudi Moving [Video Art], Casa Mila, Fundacio Caixa de Catalunya, Barcelona
1998 Phoenix [Art sho...