In Dialogue: Oscar Murillo and Claude Monet

Beginning March 14, 2026, Colombian-born artist Oscar Murillo will activate the interior and exterior spaces at DAS MINSK, transforming the museum into a lively experiment of exchange and community. The exhibition project marks the first collaboration between DAS MINSK and Museum Barberini, with works by Oscar Murillo on view in both venues. 

In the project Collective Osmosis, Murillo creates a dialogue between his abstract paintings, visitors, and Impressionist works by Claude Monet. The starting point is Murillo’s engagement with the French painter’s life, work, and reception. In his later years, Monet suffered from cataracts, gradually losing his eyesight until undergoing surgery, which led to changes in his paintings’ composition and coloration. Murillo considers the artist’s shift in perception as both an allegory for the blind spots in our society and a catalyst for imagining new realities. 

Murillo has created a set of new paintings for the exhibition, on view at both DAS MINSK and Museum Barberini. At DAS MINSK, three of Monet’s iconic serial paintings from the Museum Barberini´s Hasso Plattner Collection—the London Houses of Parliament, Grainstacks, and the Water Lilies at Giverny—enter into dialogue with Murillo’s Frequencies series. A new, large-scale triptych entitled surge (social cataracts) will be on view in the collection presentation of Impressionist painting at the Museum Barberini. 

Oscar Murillo (b. 1986 in La Paila, Colombia) works across painting, participatory projects, video, sound, and installations. Murillo’s large-scale participatory commissioned work, The flooded garden, inspired by Claude Monet’s pond in Giverny, was exhibited in Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London, during the summer of 2024. In 2019, he was one of four artists to share the renowned Turner Prize.