Delcy Morelos Unveils New Exhibition
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Delcy Morelos
Las formas de la sombra (The Forms of the Shadow)
March 21–July 12, 2026, LOK by Kunstmuseum St.Gallen
Delcy Morelos transforms the Lokremise with a work that is to be physically experienced, not just viewed: an expansive yet ephemeral installation composed of recycled earth, used natural wood, and scent essence. With few materials and a dark, almost monochrome palette, she creates an immersive environment in which seeing, smelling, and moving are equally valuable modes of perception.
Morelos’ practice is radically focused on material, space, and presence. Rooted in an Andean worldview and in dialogue with Minimal and Conceptual Art, she has developed a distinctive language that is expressed via drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation. Earth, clay, spices, and plant fibres serve as carriers of time, process, and transience.
At the heart of the exhibition lies a wide field of earthen mounds and painted wooden slats that are stacked, layered, and loosely heaped. The scene calls to mind farmland, topography, archaeological traces. Walls and columns are covered with layers of earth; narrow pathways lead through a condensed atmosphere in which the feeling of being close to nature is accompanied by evocations of Indigenous spirituality and the legacies of colonialism. Our estranged relationship with nature becomes sensorially tangible in a quiet yet concentrated and profoundly political way.
The Kunstmuseum St.Gallen is pleased to once again offer free admission for the entire duration of the exhibition. This is made possible by the generous sponsorship of SENN Resources AG.
The exhibition opening will take place on Saturday, March 21, 2026, at 1:00 p.m., in the presence of the artist. Following the official opening speeches, an artist talk will provide insights into her work and artistic practice.
Delcy Morelos was born in 1967 in Tierralta, Córdoba, Colombia. She studied at the Cartagena School of Fine Arts and lives and works in Bogotá.
Her work has been presented in numerous international solo exhibitions, including: El espacio vientre, MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (2025); Madre, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin (2025); Profundis, CAAC Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain (2024); Interwoven, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri (2024); El abrazo, Dia Chelsea, New York (2023); El lugar del alma, Museo Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2022); Between Rivers, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2024); Enie, Fundación NC-Arte, Bogotá (2018); and Inner Earth, Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden (2018). In 2022, she participated in the 59th Venice Biennale with the installation Earthly Paradise in the exhibition The Milk of Dreams.
Morelos has received the Pérez Prize in Public Art & Civic Design (2024) and the ARTnews Award for Established Artist of the Year (2024).
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Press Conference with Delcy Morelos:
March 19, 2026, 11:00 a.m.
LOK by Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Grünbergstrasse 7, 9000 St.Gallen, Switzerland
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Press Contact: kommunikation@kunstmuseumsg.ch
Nadine Sakotic Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Head of Communications, T +41 71 242 06 84
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