Carlos Escobar Lemus


Contemporary Artist ·


Working at the intersection of material, symbol, light and energy .

Contemporary Talismanic Systems

My work emerges at the intersection of material, symbol, and energy, forming structures that function as contemporary talismanic systems. Through mixed media — including electronics, organic elements, and industrial materials — I create hybrid forms that merge the technological with the ancestral, and the digital with the ritual.


These works are not representations, but active constructions that sustain a tension between the visible and the invisible.


Moving between painting, installation, and scenographic environments, my practice extends beyond the object into spatial experience. Each piece is forms part of a broader inquiry into how matter carries meaning, memory, and transformation, opening symbolic fields in which perception and interpretation remain in constant flux.


Fusion of Perspectives

Hong Art Museum, Chongqing, China

Group Exhibition · 18 Nov 2025 – 28 Feb 2026

A landmark international dialogue between Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

Selected Works

I · 140 × 100 cm · 2021 · Acryl, Mixed Techniques on Canvas, pan de oro

70 × 50 cm · 2022 · Acryl, Mixed Techniques on Canvas

31 × 24 cm · 2026 · Acryl, Mixed Techniques on Canvas

31 × 24 cm · 2026 · Acryl, Mixed Techniques on Canvas, pan de oro

45 × 38 cm · 2022 · Acryl, Mixed Techniques on Canvas

70 × 50 cm · 2025 · Acryl, Mixed Techniques on Canvas

80 × 60 cm · 2025 · Acryl, Mixed Techniques on Canvas

65 × 55 cm · 2022 · Acryl, Mixed Techniques on Canvas

„Yogi“ · 110 × 80 cm · 2018 · Acryl, Mixed Techniques on Canvas

Archive Interventions

Visionarios

Visionarios transforms archival photographs into hybrid figures that exist between memory and projection. Through layered interventions, the works reconfigure identity as a dynamic system—reactivating past imagery within a contemporary symbolic language.

Archivo V · 50 × 39 cm · 2024

Archivo I · 63 × 51 cm · 2018

Archivo IV · 43 × 32 cm · 2022

Archivo III · 45 × 33 cm · 2023

Techno-Organic Assemblages

These assemblages emerge from the collision between the organic and the technological. Circuits, minerals, and found materials are reassembled into living structures that suggest new forms of intelligence. Each work acts as a system in tension — part artifact, part signal — where matter is no longer passive, but charged with intention, memory, and transformation.

Assemblage I · 82 × 34 cm · 2026 · Mixed Techniques, found Objects on Wood

Assemblage II · 50 × 40 cm · 2026 · Mixed Techniques, found Objects on Wood

Assemblage V · 70 × 50 cm · 2021 · Mixed Techniques, found Objects on Canvas

Assemblage IV · 50 × 40 cm · 2026 · Mixed Techniques, found Objects on Wood

Assemblage III · 100 × 83 cm · 2025 · Mixed Techniques, Neon Light System on Canvas

Assemblage VI · 65 × 50 cm · 2026 · Mixed Techniques on Canvas

Symbolic Portraits / Talismans

Works that operate as active symbolic structures — where image, material, and energy converge into contemporary talismans.

These portraits move beyond representation into symbolic construction. The human figure becomes a carrier of layered systems, merging archetype, identity, and coded visual language into a perceptual device where image, memory, and meaning are continuously reconfigured.


Talisman I · 100 × 100 cm · 2022 · Oil, mixed media on canvas

Talisman II · 50 × 40 cm · 2014 · Oil, mixed media on canvas

Talisman IV · 55 × 46 cm · 2022 · Oil, mixed media on canvas

Talisman III · 2016 · Acryl, mixed techniques on 400gr paper

Talisman V · 60 × 45 cm · 2017 · Acryl, mixed techniques on metal

Talisman VII · 140 × 100 cm · 2024 · Acryl, mixed techniques on canvas

Installations & Spatial Projects

Works conceived beyond the object, engaging space, environment, and the body of the audience through symbolic architectural transformation.

sage, was ist da erwacht?

Grosse Halle, Bern, Switzerland · 2019 · Visual Direction & Scenographic Environment.

Coffee Break

Global Camp, Black Rock City — Burning Man, USA · 2019 · Installation

Convivencia

Grosse Halle, Bern, Switzerland · 2022 · Multidisciplinary Exhibition · Visual & Co-Artistic Direction

The Hacksters Projekt

AFS, Mural, Installation Projekt, The Hacksters Projekt — Bern, Switzerland · 2013

Moving Image

Film & Special Effects

Cañitas (2007) — Pyrotechnik & Hydraulische Systeme

Hasta el viento tiene miedo (2007) — Maskenbild & Meteorologische Phänomene

Biography

Carlos Escobar (b. 1984, Mexico) is a Swiss–Latin multidisciplinary artist based in Bern, Switzerland.

His practice explores the relationship between symbol, material, and energy through works that operate as contemporary talismans. Using organic materials such as obsidian, quartz, natural feathers, and metals, alongside technological elements and light systems, he bridges the ancestral and the contemporary.

Escobar’s artistic language draws on Latin American cosmologies, European contemporary art, and cross-cultural dialogue with Asia. His work investigates identity, transformation, and the relationship between body, memory, and invisible structures of perception.

He has presented internationally in Switzerland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and China. His recent participation in “Fusion of Perspectives” at the Hong Art Museum in Chongqing (2025–2026) marks an important step in expanding his presence within the global contemporary art scene.

CV

International Coverage

The solo exhibition Fusion of Perspectives at Hong Art Museum, Chongqing, China, received international press coverage highlighting the work, the scenographic environment, and its cultural significance as a bridge between Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

Hong Art Museum, Chongqing
Press Feature
Coverage of Fusion of Perspectives and its international context.

Chor-Konzerte
sage, was ist da erwacht
Grosse Halle, Bern (2019), Visual Direction / Scenography.

Grosse Halle, Bern
Convivencia
Künstlerische Co-Leitung.

Inquiries & Acquisition

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Location

Switzerland / International