CurrentGroup Exhibition
Microdoses to Tame the Inner Hippopotamus
Édgar Jiménez, Camilo Restrepo, Carlos Castro, Manuel Barón
Starting November 6, 2025
Opening Reception: November 6, 2025
About the Exhibition
A new exhibition in Bogotá featuring 20 artists who offer a political critique of what the hippos represent. The show does not intend to be moralizing but invites people to see how such a paradoxical figure as Escobar's hippos can be the subject of a political critique. The exhibit features everything from oil paintings and graffiti to photographs and a unique cultivation of psychoactive mushrooms grown in hippo dung.
Curator
Santiago Rueda
Tags
Pablo Escobar legacyColombian hipposDrug war critiquePolitical artInvasive speciesNarcotraffickingHarm reductionContemporary Colombian artEnvironmental impactDrug policyHistorical memory