Espacio El Dorado is a contemporary art gallery established in 2015 in the neighborhood of La Macarena in Bogotá, Colombia. The gallery is made up of four spaces that are in continuous dialogue with one another. The garden, as the space that links together the four exhibitions, hosts Black Box, the entrance to the Annex, En blanco and the store, as well as the building El Dorado.

El Dorado, the main building, has three floors and each with particular architectural qualities. The first is Black Cube, an unfinished space with unpaved sand floors, that allows for the structure to show through. The second is White Cube, presented as a neutral space, which is completely isolated from its surroundings. Finally, Grey Cube has a window facing outwards, generating a partial contact of the exhibited work with the exterior.

The name of the gallery comes from the legend of El Dorado and borrows the imaginary of this mythical place of abundant riches. A utopia, that results fictitious due to its own impossibility. Espacio El Dorado seeks to materialize artistic imaginaries whose ambition resembles, in a certain way, the conception of the mythical golden  city. The colonial origins of the legend allude to the constant dialogue between Espacio El Dorado and its Colombian context. In that sense, the purpose of the gallery is the realization of these ambitious ideas, apparently impossible, which can profoundly alter the identity of the artist, the space, and the surrounding local art scene.

The gallery considers artists as social subjects and critics of their surroundings. There are three generations of artists represented in the gallery: the first of them work since the 90’s, the second generation within the 60’s and 70’s, and the last one since the 2000’s. The exhibitions are works developed in situ and are the result of an interdisciplinary dialogue. Accompanied by varied contents and texts, they incite questions open to error and experimentation.

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