Diego Palacios

Chilean artist Diego Palacios (1983) began working as a painter in 2014. As an autodidact Palacios has acquired painting independently. For four years he has been intensively and continuously dealing with the theory and practice of painting. He is fascinated by the artistic skills of the old masters and studies their approach meticulously.

Palacios got an insight into the art world of Chile, where he made his first experiences with painting and worked in the studio of an artist friend. When he moved to France in 2008 - first to Paris, then to the countryside in the south of France - he came into contact with the art scene there and got to know new approaches in the field of painting. At that time, Palacios was still working in another profession - the wine trade. However, his interest in the arts already existed and grew more and more over the years until Palacios finally decided to turn his passion into a career. Although the artist never went to an art academy, he went through his own personal school by working in various places around the world and taking every opportunity to learn from the artistic demands and events there. He participated in artist residencies in Sweden and Scotland before he decided in early 2018 to move t...

Autodidact,
small apprentship at Guillermo Lorca's Studio

EXHIBITIONS

STILLES LEBEN, Affenfaust Galerie, Hamburg, Germany, March 2020

ROTARY CLUB charity auction sale (Deloitte), Hamburg, Germany, November 2019

F**AKE, X-PON Art Gallery, Hamburg, Germany, August 2019

THIS IS W, Mario Kreuzberg Gallery, Berlin, May 2019

DISCOVERY ART FAIR, with fellow artist Penny Monogiou, Cologne, April 2019

SCHÖNES UNBEHAGLICHES SCHULDGEFÜHL, solo exhibition, Wahlkreis Kulturbüro Die Linke, November 2018

ACCROCHAGE, Ely Dobritz Gallery, Leipzig, September 2018, with fellow artist Chloe Tallon

HERBSTRUNDGANG, Spinnerei, Leipzig, group exhibition with LIA, September 2018 as guest artist

SUMMER HEAT, Spinnerei, Leipzig, group exhibition with LIA, July 2018

LEIPZIG IN HAMBURG, Greskewitz Kleinitz gallery, Hamburg, May - June 2018

RUNDGANG SPINNEREI All you cant eat exhibition, LIA, Leipzig, Germany, April 2018

TROIS PEINTRES, salle socio-culturelle Papillon, Rhone-Alpes Region

SOLSTICE, group exhibition, Taverne Gutenberg, Lyon, June 2016

PORTES OUVERTES, LA VACHE BLEUE, Quai de l'Oise, Paris, 2015

SOUTHSIDE STUDIOS, exhibition with fellow artist Chloe Tallon, Glasgow, Scotland, 2014

ART RESIDENCIES

LEIPZIG INTERNATIONAL ART PROGRAMME (LIA), Leipzig, German...