Entry
Free, drop-in
Dates
Sat 5 & Sun 6 July 2025
Hours
11am–4pm
Location
The Terrace
Turner Contemporary
Draw and doodle on giant canvases on the Terrace, part of Oscar Murillo's Social Mapping project, a celebration of collective spirit anchored by the exercise of drawing and mark-making.
OSCAR MURILLO is inviting people from around the world to take part in drawing sessions as part of an international collaborative artwork for the 36th São Paulo Biennial. These sessions are part of an ongoing project titled Social Mapping, a celebration of collective spirit anchored by the exercise of drawing and mark-making.
Feel free to draw and doodle on blank canvases with pens, pencils, crayons and more. At the end of the session, the canvases will be collected and sent to Brazil to be installed on scaffolding structures in São Paulo's Ibirapuera Park. Visitors to the park will then paint on top of these marked canvases in a gathering of voices from around the world.
About Oscar Murillo
OSCAR MURILLO (b. 1986, La Paila, Colombia) has developed a multifaceted and challenging practice that spans painting, collaborative projects, video, sound and installation. Through each body of work, the artist probes ideas of collectivity and shared culture, demonstrating a commitment to the power of material presence alongside complex meditations on contemporary society.
A focus on the social dimension that sits on the border between performance and events is also central to Murillo’s practice. He often invites collaborators to participate in generative moments of collective energy: creating vast collaborative paintings with over 70,000 participants in the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, walking through New York or travelling between UK cities carrying mateos (traditional papier-mâché figures made in Colombia), hosting a cleaners’ party at the Serpentine Gallery, painting swathes of linen black in community centres, or holding a runway performance, open to the public, in a 14th century building in Venice. Each of these projects point to a perpetual curiosity into notions of global social and economic exchange, community, and collaboration.
Recent solo presentations include Espirítus en el pantano, MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico (2025), The flooded garden, Tate Modern, London part of UNIQLO Tate Play (2024); Masses, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium (2024); and Together in Our Spirits, Fundação Serralves, Porto, Portugal (2023-24). Other past solo exhibitions have been held at KM21, The Hague, Netherlands (2021-22), Fondazione Memmo, Rome, Italy (2021-22), Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK (2019); and Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2017-18). In 2019, Murillo was one of four artists to collectively win the prestigious Turner Prize. His works are held in numerous public collections, including Tate Modern, MoMA, and Fondation Louis Vuitton.
Murillo earned his BFA at the University of Westminster in 2007 and his MFA from the Royal College of Art in 2012. In 2023 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Westminster.
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