Oscar Murillo Meets Monet: Collective Osmosis at the MINSK and Museum Barberini

A Major Exhibition Meets Monet: Collective Connecting Impressionism, Global History, and Contemporary Art to highlight its distinctive approach and attract interest.

Through August 9, 2026, Colombian-born artist Oscar Murillo transforms the MINSK into a space of movement and collective imagination, encouraging visitors to feel part of an evolving artistic dialogue.

Presented alongside an intervention at the Museum Barberini, this collaboration between MINSK and the Museum Barberini is a rare opportunity to experience a dialogue between past and present, French Impressionism and contemporary global art, making the exhibition even more compelling for visitors.

Murillo Meets Monet

With Collective Osmosis, Oscar Murillo reactivates Monet’s luminous imagery, inviting visitors to feel curious and inspired by this dialogue between past and present.

Murillo explores perception as a dynamic, living process, inviting visitors to reflect on how perception shapes our understanding of beauty, history, and power in a connected world.

Two Museums, One Expansive Encounter

The exhibition across both venues offers an engaging journey, encouraging visitors to feel part of a collective exploration of Murillo’s work and its dialogue with Monet.

The combined tour connects both parts of the exhibition, guiding visitors through Murillo’s layered artistic strategies and his powerful reinterpretation of Monet. The experience reveals how Impressionism can be reimagined today, not as a closed chapter of art history, but as a living visual language still capable of speaking to a fractured, interconnected world.

A Contemporary Artist with a Global Practice

Oscar Murillo is internationally recognized for a restless, itinerant practice that moves across painting, works on paper, sculpture, installation, live actions, collaborative projects, video, and public events. His work often resists fixed categories, drawing instead on movement, displacement, labor, community, and the circulation of images and materials across borders.

Murillo’s projects have been presented at leading institutions around the world, including Tate Modern in London, Fundação de Serralves in Porto, WIELS in Brussels, and Kunsthalle Wien. In 2019, he was one of four artists awarded the Turner Prize, one of the most prestigious honors in contemporary art.

Why This Exhibition Matters

Collective Osmosis is more than an exhibition. It is an invitation to rethink how images travel, how histories overlap, and how art can connect different times, places, and ways of seeing. By bringing Monet into dialogue with Murillo, the project opens a space where Impressionism is no longer only about atmosphere and light. It becomes a question of perception, power, and shared experience.

For visitors, the exhibition offers a rare opportunity to encounter one of today’s most compelling contemporary artists in conversation with one of the most influential figures in modern painting.

Key InformationExhibition: Oscar Murillo: Collective Osmosis

Venues: the MINSK and the Museum Barberini

Dates: March 14 to August 9, 2026

Featured Dialogue: Oscar Murillo and Claude Monet