Armando Andrade Tudela

Armando Andrade Tudela was born in 1975 in Lima, Perù.
After attending the Pontifical Catholic University of Perù, he moved to Europe where he studied at the Royal College of Art in London and at the Jan Van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht. He currently lives and works in Lyon.

The artist explores the intersecting interfaces between popular culture, politics and fine art. While frequently using the South American cultural and historical context as his starting point, on a deeper level Andrade Tudela’s work focuses on complex systems of translation and transference; how are aesthetic ideas assimilated and reactivated politically, or socially, at a local level? And more broadly speaking, how are ideas themselves embedded within the fabric of geography and physical topography?

He moves freely among a wide range of media and material. In his in-depth, research-driven projects, he frequently employs quasi-documentary techniques, such as recorded interviews and on-site photographic explorations, combining them with multiple references to history, politics and popular culture. At the same time, his drawings and objects combine visual directness and technical accomplishment with conceptual complexity.

By focusing on sites of temporal and geographic slippage, Andrade Tudela parses the hidden inner rhymes and subtle discordances within cultural history, ultimately undermining and even dismantling the cultural and historic framing structures his work examines.

Recent exhibitions include: No Despide luz, Museo de Arte de Lima – MALI, Lima, Chosen Memories, MoMA, New York; Itinerarios XXVII, Centro Botín, Santander and Burlador Burlado, Proyecto AMIL, Lima. He has represented Peru at the Gwangju Biennale 2024.

His work is part of some of the most important international institutional collections such as: Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museo de Arte de Lima – MALI, Lima; Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; MACBA, Barcelona; MoMA, New York; Tate, London; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Guggenheim Museum, New York.