Oscar Murillo: Social Mapping
6. June 2026, 13:00 – 16:00
Overbeck-Gesellschaft

Be Part of an International Work of Art: The Overbeck-Gesellschaft invites you, as part of the Hanseatic Culture Festival in Lübeck on June 6 from 1 to 4 pm, to take part in the art project “Social Mapping” by Oscar Murillo at the Overbeck-Gesellschaft.

In 2025 as part of the 36th São Paulo Biennial, Oscar Murillo presented a series of collaborative paintings in Ibirapuera Park. Ahead of the installation, the artist invited members of his international community—studio colleagues, friends, family and curators—to join a global mark-making project the artist titled, Social Mapping.
As part of this, canvas travelled to 25 countries around the world, installed on the streets in Brazil, in sports recreation grounds in Tanzania and Cameroon and across community centres from the Ivory Coast to London. In each place, people of all ages were invited to draw and congregate in an act of collective mark-making.

This year, on the occasion of Murillo’s exhibition at DAS MINSK in Potsdam, the project will expand into a nationwide Social Mapping initiative across Germany. Canvases produced in each federal state will circulate through DAS MINSK over the course of the exhibition.
These works will later be installed onto a scaffolding structure on the Terrace of the museum and further activated through painting by visitors.

Extending the context of formal exhibition spaces, the canvases become an embodiment of the passage of time, of the flow of people and of the geographical markers that connect us; rooted in transnational–or translocal–relationships and exchanges.
This initiative builds on Murillo’s recent solo exhibition Espíritus en el pantano, which was presented at MARCO, Monterrey, and later at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, and has its origins in his 2024 Tate commission, THE FLODDED GARDEN.