Elias Crespin Venezuela, b. 1965

 Elias Crespin started off his career as a computer science engineer in Caracas. His work on software programming inspired his first sculptural experimentations in 2002, leading to the creation two years later of his first work, Malla Electrocinética I, 2004. His practice is at the crossroads of kinetic art and robotics. It draws both from the history of geometric abstraction and his profound knowledge of computer programming, and questions the interactions of art and technology. Since 2008, he is based in Paris, France. In 2020, he inaugurated L’Onde du Midi, a permanent artwork commissioned by the Musée du Louvre for the museum’s galleries, hovering over 19th century stairs.

 

Crespin’s works feature in the collection of internationally renowned institutions, such as the Musée du Louvre, Paris, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, El Museo del Barrio, New York, the MALBA and the Museo de Bellas Artes of Buenos Aires. They were shown in important exhibitions at the Galeries du Grand Palais, Paris, the ZKM Center for arts and media, Karlsruhe, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, or the Musée de la Musique, Paris.

 

Selected Exhibitions

2025 – Continuum, Hacienda La Trinidad, Caracas, Venezuela

2024–2025 – Chronomorphosis, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden

2023 – Tempomorphosis, Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino Gallery, Houston

2023 – Cosmologies, Baró Galería, Palma de Mallorca

2022–2023 – Convergences, Galería RGR + Art, Mexico City; Vibrations,  Shanghai

2017 – Slow Motion, Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris

2015 – Geometric choreographies, Das Kleine Museum, Germany

2014 – Temps suspendu, Galerie de la Marine, Nice; Mobiles, Galerie Denise René, Paris

2012 – Parallels, Cecilia de Torres Ltd., New York; Et Op!, Musée en Herbe, Paris

2010 – Hiperficies, Ars Longa, Paris; Electrocinéticas, Canal Centro de Producción Cultural, Caracas

Collections

– Louvre Museum, Paris (L’Onde du Midi, permanent installation)
– Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (Grand HexaNet)
– Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
– El Museo del Barrio, New York
– MALBA – Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires
– Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
– Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris