Delcy Morelos (*1967 in Tierralta, Colombia) transforms the Lokremise into a place not only to be viewed but experienced with all senses: an expansive, ephemeral installation made of recycled earth, used wood, and scent essence. With few materials and an almost black, monochromatic color scheme, she creates an intense environment where seeing, smelling, and moving coalesce into equivalent forms of perception.
Morelos’ practice is radically focused on material, space, and presence. Emerging from an Andean worldview – and in dialogue with Minimal Art and Conceptual Art – she develops a unique language between drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation. Natural materials are carriers of time, process, and transience.
At the center of the exhibition unfolds an expansive field of earthen mounds and painted wooden slats: stacked, layered, loosely piled – like farmland, topography, or archaeological traces. Walls and columns are coated with layers of earth; narrow paths lead through a dense atmosphere where nature connection, indigenous spirituality, and colonial heritage intertwine. Thus, our alienated relationship with nature becomes sensually perceptible – quiet, focused, and ultimately political.
Kunstmuseum St.Gallen is delighted to offer free admission throughout the exhibition period, made possible by generous sponsorship from SENN Resources AG.
Delcy Morelos was born in 1967 in Tierralta in the Córdoba region of Colombia and studied at the Cartagena School of Fine Arts. She lives and works in Bogotá.
Her works have been exhibited in numerous international solo exhibitions: El espacio vientre, MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (2025); Madre, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin (2025); Profundis, CAAC Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla (2024); Interwoven, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri (2024); El abrazo, Dia Chelsea, New York (2023); El lugar del alma, Museo Moderno, Buenos Aires; Between Rivers, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2024); Enie, Fundación NC-Arte, Bogotá (2018); Inner Earth, Röda Sten Konsthall, Göteborg (2018). In 2022, she participated with the installation Earthly Paradise at the 59th Venice Biennale in the exhibition The Milk of Dreams.
Morelos was awarded the Pérez Prize in Public Art & Civic Design (2024) and the ARTnews Awards Established Artist of the Year (2024).
Public tour with Delcy Morelos: Sunday, June 14, 2026, 12:30 PM, free entry
Please register at rsvp@kunstmuseumsg.ch.
The artist is available for interviews.
Press contact:
kommunikation@kunstmuseumsg.ch
Nadine Sakotic
Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Head of Communication, T +41 71 242 06 84
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