ABOUT - JULIANA ROSAS

Juliana Rosas (* 1994) is an artist/designer, researcher, and illustrator, born in Bogotá, Colombia, and currently based in Basel, Switzerland. Her creative practice draws from various disciplines and media, characterized by an interdisciplinary approach. Through in situ projects, she explores themes related to urban contexts, migration, and cultural representations. She has collaborated with cultural institutions, community initiatives, and academic platforms across Latin America and Europe. These experiences have expanded her visual language and enabled her to develop projects that combine field research, archival work, cartography, and graphic storytelling.

Soy artista visual, diseñadora, investigadora e ilustradora, nacida en Bogotá, Colombia, y actualmente radicada en Basilea, Suiza.

Mi práctica se nutre de diversas disciplinas y medios, y se caracteriza por una aproximación interdisciplinaria. A través de proyectos in situ, exploro temas relacionados con contextos urbanos, migración y representaciones culturales. He colaborado con instituciones culturales, iniciativas comunitarias y plataformas académicas en América Latina y Europa. Estos cruces me han permitido expandir mi lenguaje visual y desarrollar proyectos que combinan investigación de campo, archivo, cartografía y narración gráfica.

Education

2023 – 2025 MA Transversal Design. Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW. Basel, Switzerland.

2012 – 2018 BFA Bachelor in Visual Arts. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogota, Colombia. Emphasis on Graphic Expression.

Publications

Rosas, Juliana. 2024. “The nostalgic places in the infrastructure of new beginnings”. Infrastructuring Orientations. Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW. https://criticalmedialab.ch/ixdm-distro-at-i-never-read-2024/
Rosas, Juliana. 2024. “Salvajitos en proceso de domesticación”. Cuadernos de Música, Artes Visuales y Artes Escénicas 19(2): 34-51. https://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/cma/article/view/38994/30499
Colectivo la Ñapa. Mompox Tierra de Sabores. Ministerio de Cultura. Colombia.
Rosas, Juliana. 2020. Drawing Drifts: Dialogues between the city, The Collective, and Art. Cuadernos Ciudadanos N 11. Observatory of Social Realities. Cali, Colombia.
Rosas, Juliana. Invented Communities: Artistic Practices for Contemporary Learning. Memories of the Research Meeting: De-formations of arts education. Lumen Gentium Catholic University Foundation. Cali, Colombia.
Rosas Rodriguez, Juliana. 2018. El Barrio, Affective recognition of familiar places based on artistic practices. Visual Arts Thesis. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia.
Rosas, Juliana, Sonia, Barbosa, Vanesa, Rodriguez and, Carlos Rivera. Fantasy as an Agent of Resistance. Artes La Revista. Vol. 17 N 24: 160-175. University of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia.

Group exhibitions (selected)

07/2024 To Dance on The Tables. Transbonahalle Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW. Basel, Switzerland

03/2020 Artificio. Cinemateca de Bogota, Bogota, Colombia.

02/2020 Plaza de la Discordia. Project Room. University of the Andes. Bogota, Colombia.

07/2019 Deformations of Arts Education. Centro Cultural del Banco de la Republica. Cali, Colombia.

09/2019 Domestika 2. Nodo San Felipe. Bogota, Colombia.

12/2018 Emergente IV Thesis exhibition. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Facultad de Artes. Bogota, Colombia.

08/2018 Arte y Territorios. UPTC Universidad Pedagogica y Tecnologica de Colombia. Museo de Arte. Tunja, Colombia.

2015/08 XV Salon Javeriano de Artes Visuales. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia.

09/ 2013 Bogota: Places – Non places. Escuela Taller de Bogota. Bogota, Colombia.

Residences

2021 Artistic Residence. El Boga Casa Taller. Mompox, Colombia. June 9 – July 9.

2019 Young and Emergent Artist. Pedagogical Laboratory. Arte Sumapaz, San Bernardo, CUN, Colombia. November 9-23.

Talks

5/09/2019 Speaker. Invented Communities: Artistic Practices for Contemporary Learning. 4th Meeting of Art Education Research Seedbeds: “Deformations of Arts Education”. Fundación Universitaria Catolica Lumen Gentium. Cali, Colombia.

3/05/2018 Speaker. The edges of the real and the possible. 3rd Meeting of Research Seedbeds for Arts Education. “Blurring the limits of arts education”. Coordinators: Juliana Rosas, Sonia Barbosa and Vanesa Rodríguez. Lumen Gentium Catholic University Foundation. Cali, Colombia.

3/04/2018 Speaker. Modus Operandi / School of Art. University of Los Andes. Bogota, Colombia.

Featured works and interviews