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Born in Colombia. Banished from the École des Beaux-Arts of Paris in 2009 — a necessary expulsion. Since then, Nieto (Nié-tôt... Nyet... No...) has devoted himself to the slow dismantling of identity through creation. Painter, musician, filmmaker, stage-phantom — but above all, fabricator of ghosts.
He does not make art. He incubates beings. Drunken foetuses, somnambulist prophets, idiots-saints — avatars birthed in isolation, nourished in fragile ecosystems, released only to exhibit their strange outputs like relics from a parallel asylum. These are not alter-egos. They are infestations.
Represented by Da-End Gallery in France and produced by À Tour de Minuit and Le Balcon, Nieto uses opera, cinema, and performance like others use absinthe — not to tell stories, but to hallucinate structures. Every image a spasm. Every scene a loophole in time. His baroque irony devours meaning with a grin.
Even advertising, that glossy theater of lies, has been contaminated. Since 2005, he has directed delirious visions for brands through Stink Films (Europe, Asia, Russia, South America) — camouflaged sabotage under the guise of commerce.
Nieto no longer seeks to be seen. He dreams of vanishing completely — leaving behind only his creatures, speaking in tongues, twitching in their little glass cages.
2023
Protospective Nieto
Galerie Da-End, Paris,
2022
Tragarse el universo, cagar una hormiga: esbozos de un taumaturgo constipado
ARTBO, Planetario de Bogotá, Colombie
2021
L'oiseau Faux Prophète
Galerie Da-End, Paris,
2019
L’Agneau Mystique (installation)
Marco Suárez-Cifuentes & Nieto
Eglise Saint-Eustache, Paris, FR
2018
Engloutir l’Univers, excrémenter une fourmi
Galerie Da-End, Paris, FR
Xiao Long Bao Hominum Salvator
performance and installation, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, PRC
2016
L’Apocalypse de Nieto (ou ébauches d’un thaumaturge constipé)
Galerie Da-End, Paris, FR
2011
Danse débile
Galerie Place Forte, Paris, FR
2010
Le perversionisme
Galerie Kamchatka, Paris, FR
Nieto Paranoid
Carmichael Lynch, Minneapolis, US
2019
L’envers du décor
Galerie Da-End, Paris, FR
Cabinet Da-End 09
Galerie Da-End, Paris, FR
Hokus Pokus
Gr_und, Berlin, DE
2018
Cabinet Da-End 08
Galerie Da-End, Paris, FR
2017
ISFF
(performance “Chimeras”) Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, FR
Galeristes #2
Galerie Da-End, Carreau du Temple, Paris, FR
Hybrid Identity
Imagine Science Film Festival, Caveat, New York, USA
13 Art Fair
Galerie Da-End, Les Docks – Cité de la Mode et du Design, Paris, FR
Salon d’été
Galerie Da-End, Paris, FR
Cabinet Da-End 07
Galerie Da-End, Paris, FR
2016
Galeristes
Galerie Da-End, Carreau du Temple, Paris, FR
START Art Fair
Galerie Da-End, Saatchi Gallery, Londres, UK
Portraits Empiriques
Imagine Science Films Festival, Paris, FR
YIA Art Fair #6
Galerie Da-End, Le Louise 186, Bruxelles, BE
Art Paris Art Fair
Galerie Da-End, Grand Palais, Paris, FR
Cabinet Da-End 06
Galerie Da-End, Paris, FR
2015
Petits drames (ou le bonheur invisible)
Galerie Da-End, Paris, FR
YIA Art Fair #5
Galerie Da-End, Paris, FR
Autofiction d’une collection : Ramus del Rondeaux
Galerie Polaris, FR Ramus Velato (performance), Galerie Polaris, FR
Papiers dessinés,
Galerie Da-End, Paris, FR
Salon de Montrouge
60ème édition, FR
2010
Group show #002
Collectif Anonyme, Galerie Kamchatka, Paris, FR
2009
Slick art fair
(conference), Galerie Kamchatka, Le 104 Centquatre, Paris, FR
2007
Nietopolis (show interactif)
Creators Series
Paris, FR
New York, Los Angeles, USA
2006
Collectif Anonyme
Galerie Kamchatka, Paris, FR
2025
UM ( court-métrage - 17 min )
Toronto International Film Festival, Galician Freaky Film Festival
2024
VOIX TONNERRE (court-métrage avec Denis Lavant, Music by Marco Suarez Cifuentes - 13 min ) Festival Côté Court (competition Art/Essai Vidéo), Pantin / Bogoshorts, Bogotá / Mubi Fest, Bogotá
2021
SWALLOW THE UNIVERSE ( court-métrage 12 min )
Festival International du Court Métrage, Clermont-Ferrand, France ( Prix spécial du Jury, compétition Labo.) / Animafest Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatie (Mention spéciale compétition court métrage, Animafest Zagreb) / Sundance Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA / TrickFilm festival, Stuttgart, Allemagne / Busan International short film festival, Busan, Corée du Sud / Tampere Film Festival, Tampere, Finlande / Côté court, (Festival international du Film Court) Pantin, France / Court métrange, Rennes, France / Festival du Film d’animation, Annecy, France / Hiroshima Animation, Hiroshima, Japon / Anifilm, Liberec, République Tchèque / PALM SPRINGS international short film festival, Palm Springs, USA / Landshut Short film Festival (Animation Award) / Sardinia Film festival (Premio Giulio Gianni) / Skepto Film festival (Skeptyricon Special Award)
I WILL WEAR YOUR BITCH TONGUE AS A TIE (Court-métrage 10 min) Fifigrot, Toulouse, FR
2020
WORLD’S AFFAIRS - ERRANCES DE FOURMI ( court-métrage 2 min )
Le Fils de l’Homme
(libretto and art direction) Opera by Marco Suárez-Cifuentes, ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE
2019
Samstag Aus Licht
(création visuelle) Opera by Karlheinz Stockhausen , Cité de la Musique, Paris, FR
L’Agneau Mystique
(libretto and art direction), Opera by Marco Suárez-Cifuentes, Théâtre de l’Athénée Louis-Jouvet, Paris, FR
Jakob Lenz
(stage direction and visuals) Opera by Wolfgang Rihm , Théâtre de l’Athénée Louis-Jouvet, Paris, FR
La Métamorphose
(direction of movie) Opera by Michaël Levinas, screened at Théâtre de l’Athénée Louis-Jouvet, Paris, FR
2018
Workshop
Multivision Festival , Ermitage museum, Saint-Pétersbourg, RU
Tétramorphes
(libretto and art direction) Opera by Marco Suárez-Cifuentes, Biennale de Venise, Teatro alle Tese, Venise, IT
Quatuor pour la fin du temps
(stage direction and visuals) Music by Olivier Messiaen , Auditorio León de Greiff, Bogotá, CO
2017
I will wear your bitch tongue as a tie
(video performance)
Imagine Science Film Festival, Caveat, New York, USA
Garras de Oro
(stage direction and visuals) Opera by Juan-Pablo Carreño , ciné-concert, Théâtre de l’Athénée Louis-Jouvet, Paris, FR
Tétramorphes
(libretto and art direction) Opera by Marco Suárez-Cifuentes, La Marbrerie, Montreuil, FR
Chimeras
(Performance), Imagine Science Films Festival, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, FR
Quatuor pour la fin du temps
(stage direction and visuals) Music by Olivier Messiaen , Théâtre de l’Athénée Louis- Jouvet, Paris, FR et Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, CO
Jakob Lenz
(stage direction and visuals) Opera by Wolfgang Rihm , Festival Dialoge, Stiftung Mozarteum, Salzbourg, DE
2016
Monologue for a mechanical spider
(stage direction and art direction) Music by Marco Suárez-Cifuentes , Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín; Festival de Danza de la Ciudad de Bogotà, CO ; Biennale Nemo, Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris, FR
2015
La Métamorphose
(stage direction and visuals) Opera by Michaël Levinas , Théâtre de l’Athénée Louis-Jouvet, Paris ; l’Avant Seine / Théâtre de Colombes, FR
Garras de Oro
(stage direction and visuals) Music by Juan-Pablo Carreño, cine-concert, Sala de conciertos BLAA, Bogotá ; Teatro Amira de la Rosa, Barranquilla ; Iglesia de San Pedro Claver- FICCI, Cartagena, CO
2014
All we need is slaves
(workshop and direction movie), Festival Kinomoscow, Moscou, RU
Plip / Scratched Shadows
(stage direction and visuals) Music by Pedro Garcia Velasquez, Le Rocher de Palmer, Cenon, FR
Métacinéma appliqué
(performance), Festival Multivision, Saint-Pétersbourg, RU
2013
Catboom
(workshop and video installation), Musée Erarta, Saint-Pétersbourg, RU
Pierrot lunaire
(stage direction and visuals) Opera by Arnold Schoenberg , Opéra, Théâtre de l’Athénée Louis-Jouvet, Paris, FR
Paroles et musique
(stage direction) Libretto by Samuel Beckett , Théâtre de l’Athénée-Louis-Jouvet, Paris, FR.Garras de Oro
(stage direction and visuals) Music by Juan-Pablo Carreño, Ciné-concert, Église Saint-Eustache, Paris, FR
2012
Sus Mus
(musical performance), Le Balcon aux Enfers, Les Voûtes, Paris, FR
Plip / Scratched Shadows
(stage direction and visuals) Music by Pedro Garcia Velasquez, Paris Quartiers d’été, Les Voûtes, Paris, FR
Sus Mus
(musical performance), Imagine Science Films Festival, Dublin, UK
2010
Lazarov
(video performance), Rooftop film Festival, New York, USA
Finger fighter
(video performance), Festival du Film de Séoul, KO
Minneapolis
(video performance)
Carmichael Lynch, Minneapolis, US
2007
Nietopolis
(interactif show), Festival Creator Series, Paris, FR ; New York, Los Angeles, USA
A la baguette
(video performance), Festival international du court-métrage, Clermont Ferrand, FR
2006
Far West
(video performance), Sagunt Short Film Festival, ES ; Odense International Film Festival, DK ; European Animated Film Festival Balkanima, Belgrade, SRB & ME
2005
Carlitopolis
(video performance), 28 Meg@ d’Art, Villeurbanne, FR ; e-magiciens, Valenciennes, FR ; Festival international du court-métrage, Clermont Ferrand, FR ; Anima, Bruxelles, BE ; Clap98, Sens, FR ; Les Etranges Nuits du Cinema, La Chaux de Fonds, CH ; Festival des Très Courts, Gentilly, FR ; Cinémaginaire, Argelès s/ Mer, FR ; Diba: Digital Barcelona Film Festival, ES ; Animago, Stuttgart, DE ; Expresion en Corto, Mexico, MX ; Fresh Film Fest, Prague, CZR ; Jajal International of Shorts of Humor, Saragossa, ES ; La Boca del Lobo, Madrid, ES ; FEC_ REUS, European Short Film Festival of Reus, ES ; Odense International Film Festival, DK
contact
nieto.nieto.nieto@gmail.com
biography
Born in Colombia. Banished from the École des Beaux-Arts of Paris in 2009 — a necessary expulsion. Since then, Nieto (Nié-tôt... Nyet... No...) has devoted himself to the slow dismantling of identity through creation. Painter, musician, filmmaker, stage-phantom — but above all, fabricator of ghosts.
He does not make art. He incubates beings. Drunken foetuses, somnambulist prophets, idiots-saints — avatars birthed in isolation, nourished in fragile ecosystems, released only to exhibit their strange outputs like relics from a parallel asylum. These are not alter-egos. They are infestations.
Represented by Da-End Gallery in France and produced by À Tour de Minuit and Le Balcon, Nieto uses opera, cinema, and performance like others use absinthe — not to tell stories, but to hallucinate structures. Every image a spasm. Every scene a loophole in time. His baroque irony devours meaning with a grin.
Even advertising, that glossy theater of lies, has been contaminated. Since 2005, he has directed delirious visions for brands through Stink Films (Europe, Asia, Russia, South America) — camouflaged sabotage under the guise of commerce.
Nieto no longer seeks to be seen. He dreams of vanishing completely — leaving behind only his creatures, speaking in tongues, twitching in their little glass cages.
solo eXbhibitions
2023
Protospective Nieto
Galerie Da-End, Paris,
2022
Tragarse el universo, cagar una hormiga: esbozos de un taumaturgo constipado
ARTBO, Planetario de Bogotá, Colombie
2021
L'oiseau Faux Prophète
Galerie Da-End, Paris,
2019
L’Agneau Mystique (installation)
Marco Suárez-Cifuentes & Nieto
Eglise Saint-Eustache, Paris, FR
2018
Engloutir l’Univers, excrémenter une fourmi
Galerie Da-End, Paris, FR
Xiao Long Bao Hominum Salvator
performance and installation, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, PRC
2016
L’Apocalypse de Nieto (ou ébauches d’un thaumaturge constipé)
Galerie Da-End, Paris, FR
2011
Danse débile
Galerie Place Forte, Paris, FR
2010
Le perversionisme
Galerie Kamchatka, Paris, FR
Nieto Paranoid
Carmichael Lynch, Minneapolis, US
selected group exhibitions
2019
L’envers du décor
Galerie Da-End, Paris, FR
Cabinet Da-End 09
Galerie Da-End, Paris, FR
Hokus Pokus
Gr_und, Berlin, DE
2018
Cabinet Da-End 08
Galerie Da-End, Paris, FR
2017
ISFF
(performance “Chimeras”) Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, FR
Galeristes #2
Galerie Da-End, Carreau du Temple, Paris, FR
Hybrid Identity
Imagine Science Film Festival, Caveat, New York, USA
13 Art Fair
Galerie Da-End, Les Docks – Cité de la Mode et du Design, Paris, FR
Salon d’été
Galerie Da-End, Paris, FR
Cabinet Da-End 07
Galerie Da-End, Paris, FR
2016
Galeristes
Galerie Da-End, Carreau du Temple, Paris, FR
START Art Fair
Galerie Da-End, Saatchi Gallery, Londres, UK
Portraits Empiriques
Imagine Science Films Festival, Paris, FR
YIA Art Fair #6
Galerie Da-End, Le Louise 186, Bruxelles, BE
Art Paris Art Fair
Galerie Da-End, Grand Palais, Paris, FR
Cabinet Da-End 06
Galerie Da-End, Paris, FR
2015
Petits drames (ou le bonheur invisible)
Galerie Da-End, Paris, FR
YIA Art Fair #5
Galerie Da-End, Paris, FR
Autofiction d’une collection : Ramus del Rondeaux
Galerie Polaris, FR Ramus Velato (performance), Galerie Polaris, FR
Papiers dessinés,
Galerie Da-End, Paris, FR
Salon de Montrouge
60ème édition, FR
2010
Group show #002
Collectif Anonyme, Galerie Kamchatka, Paris, FR
2009
Slick art fair
(conference), Galerie Kamchatka, Le 104 Centquatre, Paris, FR
2007
Nietopolis (show interactif)
Creators Series
Paris, FR
New York, Los Angeles, USA
2006
Collectif Anonyme
Galerie Kamchatka, Paris, FR
art Projects
2025
UM ( court-métrage - 17 min )
Toronto International Film Festival, Galician Freaky Film Festival
2024
VOIX TONNERRE (court-métrage avec Denis Lavant, Music by Marco Suarez Cifuentes - 13 min ) Festival Côté Court (competition Art/Essai Vidéo), Pantin / Bogoshorts, Bogotá / Mubi Fest, Bogotá
2021
SWALLOW THE UNIVERSE ( court-métrage 12 min )
Festival International du Court Métrage, Clermont-Ferrand, France ( Prix spécial du Jury, compétition Labo.) / Animafest Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatie (Mention spéciale compétition court métrage, Animafest Zagreb) / Sundance Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA / TrickFilm festival, Stuttgart, Allemagne / Busan International short film festival, Busan, Corée du Sud / Tampere Film Festival, Tampere, Finlande / Côté court, (Festival international du Film Court) Pantin, France / Court métrange, Rennes, France / Festival du Film d’animation, Annecy, France / Hiroshima Animation, Hiroshima, Japon / Anifilm, Liberec, République Tchèque / PALM SPRINGS international short film festival, Palm Springs, USA / Landshut Short film Festival (Animation Award) / Sardinia Film festival (Premio Giulio Gianni) / Skepto Film festival (Skeptyricon Special Award)
I WILL WEAR YOUR BITCH TONGUE AS A TIE (Court-métrage 10 min) Fifigrot, Toulouse, FR
2020
WORLD’S AFFAIRS - ERRANCES DE FOURMI ( court-métrage 2 min )
Le Fils de l’Homme
(libretto and art direction) Opera by Marco Suárez-Cifuentes, ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE
2019
Samstag Aus Licht
(création visuelle) Opera by Karlheinz Stockhausen , Cité de la Musique, Paris, FR
L’Agneau Mystique
(libretto and art direction), Opera by Marco Suárez-Cifuentes, Théâtre de l’Athénée Louis-Jouvet, Paris, FR
Jakob Lenz
(stage direction and visuals) Opera by Wolfgang Rihm , Théâtre de l’Athénée Louis-Jouvet, Paris, FR
La Métamorphose
(direction of movie) Opera by Michaël Levinas, screened at Théâtre de l’Athénée Louis-Jouvet, Paris, FR
2018
Workshop
Multivision Festival , Ermitage museum, Saint-Pétersbourg, RU
Tétramorphes
(libretto and art direction) Opera by Marco Suárez-Cifuentes, Biennale de Venise, Teatro alle Tese, Venise, IT
Quatuor pour la fin du temps
(stage direction and visuals) Music by Olivier Messiaen , Auditorio León de Greiff, Bogotá, CO
2017
I will wear your bitch tongue as a tie
(video performance)
Imagine Science Film Festival, Caveat, New York, USA
Garras de Oro
(stage direction and visuals) Opera by Juan-Pablo Carreño , ciné-concert, Théâtre de l’Athénée Louis-Jouvet, Paris, FR
Tétramorphes
(libretto and art direction) Opera by Marco Suárez-Cifuentes, La Marbrerie, Montreuil, FR
Chimeras
(Performance), Imagine Science Films Festival, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, FR
Quatuor pour la fin du temps
(stage direction and visuals) Music by Olivier Messiaen , Théâtre de l’Athénée Louis- Jouvet, Paris, FR et Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, CO
Jakob Lenz
(stage direction and visuals) Opera by Wolfgang Rihm , Festival Dialoge, Stiftung Mozarteum, Salzbourg, DE
2016
Monologue for a mechanical spider
(stage direction and art direction) Music by Marco Suárez-Cifuentes , Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín; Festival de Danza de la Ciudad de Bogotà, CO ; Biennale Nemo, Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris, FR
2015
La Métamorphose
(stage direction and visuals) Opera by Michaël Levinas , Théâtre de l’Athénée Louis-Jouvet, Paris ; l’Avant Seine / Théâtre de Colombes, FR
Garras de Oro
(stage direction and visuals) Music by Juan-Pablo Carreño, cine-concert, Sala de conciertos BLAA, Bogotá ; Teatro Amira de la Rosa, Barranquilla ; Iglesia de San Pedro Claver- FICCI, Cartagena, CO
2014
All we need is slaves
(workshop and direction movie), Festival Kinomoscow, Moscou, RU
Plip / Scratched Shadows
(stage direction and visuals) Music by Pedro Garcia Velasquez, Le Rocher de Palmer, Cenon, FR
Métacinéma appliqué
(performance), Festival Multivision, Saint-Pétersbourg, RU
2013
Catboom
(workshop and video installation), Musée Erarta, Saint-Pétersbourg, RU
Pierrot lunaire
(stage direction and visuals) Opera by Arnold Schoenberg , Opéra, Théâtre de l’Athénée Louis-Jouvet, Paris, FR
Paroles et musique
(stage direction) Libretto by Samuel Beckett , Théâtre de l’Athénée-Louis-Jouvet, Paris, FR.Garras de Oro
(stage direction and visuals) Music by Juan-Pablo Carreño, Ciné-concert, Église Saint-Eustache, Paris, FR
2012
Sus Mus
(musical performance), Le Balcon aux Enfers, Les Voûtes, Paris, FR
Plip / Scratched Shadows
(stage direction and visuals) Music by Pedro Garcia Velasquez, Paris Quartiers d’été, Les Voûtes, Paris, FR
Sus Mus
(musical performance), Imagine Science Films Festival, Dublin, UK
2010
Lazarov
(video performance), Rooftop film Festival, New York, USA
Finger fighter
(video performance), Festival du Film de Séoul, KO
Minneapolis
(video performance)
Carmichael Lynch, Minneapolis, US
2007
Nietopolis
(interactif show), Festival Creator Series, Paris, FR ; New York, Los Angeles, USA
A la baguette
(video performance), Festival international du court-métrage, Clermont Ferrand, FR
2006
Far West
(video performance), Sagunt Short Film Festival, ES ; Odense International Film Festival, DK ; European Animated Film Festival Balkanima, Belgrade, SRB & ME
2005
Carlitopolis
(video performance), 28 Meg@ d’Art, Villeurbanne, FR ; e-magiciens, Valenciennes, FR ; Festival international du court-métrage, Clermont Ferrand, FR ; Anima, Bruxelles, BE ; Clap98, Sens, FR ; Les Etranges Nuits du Cinema, La Chaux de Fonds, CH ; Festival des Très Courts, Gentilly, FR ; Cinémaginaire, Argelès s/ Mer, FR ; Diba: Digital Barcelona Film Festival, ES ; Animago, Stuttgart, DE ; Expresion en Corto, Mexico, MX ; Fresh Film Fest, Prague, CZR ; Jajal International of Shorts of Humor, Saragossa, ES ; La Boca del Lobo, Madrid, ES ; FEC_ REUS, European Short Film Festival of Reus, ES ; Odense International Film Festival, DK