Adolfo Bimer

Santiago, Chile
*1985
Visual artist

Residency Period: Jun 9 - Jul 9, 2026

Adolfo Bimer works across painting, sculpture, and installation, and moving between the pictorial and the sculptural – the abstract and figurative – to unsettle health sciences’ representations of the human body. Drawing on his experience as a long-term companion to a chronically ill family member, Bimer’s work examines how medical institutions can erode individuals’ sense of personhood.

The artist reflects on how medicine shapes our perceptions of identity, illness, wellness, as well as human corporeality itself. His integration of medical tools and technologies (like bloodwork microscope slides) into the artistic practice strives to refigure the cold, clinical sphere as affective and sensorial. In these creative changes of contexts, Bimer reclaims the personal within the often bureaucratic, dehumanising healthcare system – or, conversely, creates a visual language for the detachment of the medical field.