Adrián Villar Rojas

In 2017 he was commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for a sculptural installation for its ongoing series of exhibitions of contemporary works on the institution's roof. Therein Villar Rojas created The Theater of Disappearance which is a dinner party like mash up sculptural outlay reproducing digitally scanned objects from the museum's own collection. This was one of four exhibitions sharing the same title, all of which opened within 2017 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria, at the National Observatory of Athens, commissioned and organized by NEON Organization, and the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles.

Villar Rojas' work The Most Beautiful of All Mothers was exhibited offshore in the Sea of Marmara off the island of Büyükada and in front of the Turkish home in exile of Leon Trotsky as part of the 2015 Istanbul Biennial. His effort was the most talked about work on social media of any effort at the exhibition.

In 2014 Villar Rojas represented Argentina at the 54th edition of the Venice Biennale with The Murderer of Your Heritage, a large scale installation located in the Artigliere in Arsenale. His project consisted of a group of oversized site-specific sculptures made of clay over a framework of cement, burlap and wood.

Adrián Villar Rojas' work has been exhibited at the Louvre Museum, MoMA PS1, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, the High Line, Moderna Museet, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Roof Garden Commission), Kunsthaus Bregenz, the National Observatory of Athens and the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. He has also participated in the New Museum Triennial, documenta 13 the 9th Shanghai Biennale in 2012; the 12 and 14 Istanbul Biennale in 2011 and 2015 and the 12th Biennale of Havana, Cuba, the 12th Sharjah Biennale in UAE in 2015 and the 6th Marrakesh Biennale in 2016.

Adrián Villar Rojas (born 1980 in Rosario, Argentina) is an Argentinian sculptor known for his elaborate fantastical works which explore notions of the Anthropocene and the end of the world. In his dream like installations he uses aspects of drawing, sculpture, video and music to create immersive situations in which the spectator is confronted with ideas and images of their imminent extinction.