Yorjander Capetillo Hernández

 

Born in 1982 in San Cristóbal, Cuba.
yorjanderc@gmail.com
Instagram: @yoe371

 

EDUCATION:
2009
-Degree in Set Design, Higher Institute of Art, Havana/Cuba
2008
-Graduate from Cátedra de Arte de Conducta (Course in Visual Arts from Higher Institute of Art, Given by the Performer Tania Brugueras)
-Course in Art Direction, International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños/Cuba
2004
-Graduate from National Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro
in painting, Havana/Cuba

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WORK EXPERIENCE:
Currently scenic painter at Theater Lübeck/ Germany

2020-2022
-Scenic painter at Staatsoper Hamburg/ Germany
2012-2016
-Professor at Higher Institute of Art in Set Design, Havana/Cuba
2012-2014
-Set designer at Entropia Theater, Havana/Cuba

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 SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2025
–Inter.Mezzo, Gallery 11, Itzehoe/Germany
2023
–Human Wing, Gallery Kontrapost, Lübeck/Germany
2017
–Anesthesia, Egbert Baqué Contemporary, Berlin/Germany
2015
–The Happiness Workshop, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart/Germany
–Monsters of my Machinery, Pabellón Cuba, Havana/Cuba
2012
–Monsters of my Machinery, Cultural Center Olöf Garden, Stockholm/Sweden
2004
–From Above, National Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro, Havana/Cuba
2002
–In Absence of the Father, La Moderna Poesía, Havana/Cuba

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 GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND MAIN ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES:
2024
–Discoverings, Gallery AC NOFFKE, Ratzeburg/Germany
-Hamburg Art Market (HAAM)
2018
–WERK.STOFF preis für Malerei, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg/Germany
2016
–Species Of Spaces 1974 – An Accommodation Of Retained And Forgotten Locations, Uppsala konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden (Book)
– International Art Exhibition NordArt 2016, Büdelsdorf/Germany (Catalogue)
–Facing the Future, Egbert Baqué Contemporary, Berlin/Germany
2015
–Eticos y Estéticos, Centro Internacional de Prensa, Havana/Cuba
2014
–International Art Exhibition NordArt 2014, Büdelsdorf/Germany (Catalogue)
2013
-Stage designer in The Doll Without Legs, Traspasos Escénicos Festival, La Habana/Cuba
2012
-IX Festival Internacional de Teatro Universitario, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales/Colombia
-Stage Designer in Entropía, Semana de Teatro Alemán, Habana/Cuba
2010
-10th Bienal de La Habana, (Cátedra de Arte de Conducta) Galería Habana, Havana/Cuba (Catalogue)
-Klara´s Anatomie, Semana de Teatro Alemán, Centro Cultural Bertolt Brecht, Havana/Cuba
2008
-Art Director of the short movie El Último de los Forajidos, International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños/Cuba
-Art Director of the short movie El Muerto Mendoza, International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños/Cuba
2007
-Group exhibition Masa crítica, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana/Cuba
2006
-Group exhibition of Stage Design, Higher Institute of Art, Havana/Cuba
-II Group exhibition of Stage Design Espacio Abajo, Teatro Nacional de Cuba, Havana/Cuba
2004
–Makarov, Casa Gaia, Havana/Cuba
2003
-8th Bienal de La Habana, Departamento de Intervenciones Públicas (DIP),Art Project from Higher Institute of Art, Havana/Cuba

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 AWARDS:
2019
-Residency at GLO´ART in painting, Lanaken/Belgium
2018
-Nominated for the WERK.STOFF preis für Malarei, Heidelberg/Germany
2015
-Residency at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Visual Arts, Stuttgart/Germany
2013
-Juan Francisco Elso Fellowship in Visual Arts, Havana/Cuba
2012
-Prize in Light Design, Festival Elsinor, Higher Institute of Art, Havana/Cuba
-Special Mention in set design, Festival Elsinor, Higher Institute of Art, Havana/Cuba