ABOUT CRIS
CRISTIAN DAMIAN GONZALEZ LAHMANN
• MA – Master in Immigration and Interculturality
• Immigration and Intercultural Mediation Specialist
• BA – Bachelor in International Relations
🏅 LAUREATE ARTIST ACADEMY OF ARTS-SCIENCES-LETTRES PARIS, FRANCE
Founding President of Foundation Tierra de Paz, Switzerland and CEO – Chief Executive Officer in Rhythmmm Gallery of New York, USA.
International analyst, curator, poet, and author, he is a contemporary art curator and artist who merges the study of art, interculturality, and technology to create humanistic exhibitions for the global art scene. His work integrates original artworks, digital animations, and virtual reality galleries, combining them with emerging technological tools and artificial intelligence to deliver immersive experiences. He has traveled extensively, researching, working, and visiting over 70 countries across five continents, receiving recognition from governments, universities, and communities for his humanitarian, artistic, ecological, and social contributions.
• ART EXHIBITIONS, AWARDS & CURATORSHIP:
– BASEL, SWITZERLAND / Jun 2023
– DUBAI, UAE / Nov 2023
– BOGOTA, COLOMBIA / Dec 2023
– ZURICH, SWITZERLAND / Jan 2024
– NEW YORK, UNITED STATES / Apr 2024
– BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA / Jul 2024
– PARIS, FRANCE / Oct 2024
– HUMAN PLANET VIRTUAL GALLERY / Dec 2024
– MÜNICH, GERMANY / Feb 2025
– NEW YORK, UNITED STATES / Apr 2025
– BRASILIA, BRAZIL / Jul 2025
– XI’AN, BEIJING & SHANGHAI, CHINA / Jun & Jul 2025
– 798 ART DISTRICT BEIJING, CHINA / Sep 2025
– SILK ROAD FESTIVAL XI’AN, CHINA / Oct & Nov 2025
ART CONCEPT
BE FREE, BE TRUE, BE YOU
PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY AND INTERCULTURALITY
The artistic, literary and academic creations of my professional work seek to understand, explore and express wonder at the various spheres of human existence and its relationship with nature and the universe. Color, words and shapes merge to invite the viewer to investigate the themes that run through the life of the planet’s societies.
ART MANIFESTING IDEAS, CONCEPT AND MAKING VISIBLE DEEP REALITIES: MIGRATIONS, CLIMATE CHANGE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, BIODIVERSITY, PEACE AND INTERCULTURALITY.
◉ 5% of the value of each painting is donated to the communities and projects of the NGO Earth of Peace.
Cris’s Beyond Time is an interdisciplinary exhibition that will be presented in June and July 2025 in China: Beijing, Shanghai and Xi’an. It consists of three interconnected layers: Paintings, Poetry, and Audiovisual Virtual Reality.
The exhibition opening will take place at Liangbaolou Gallery, Xi’an Museum, China, with the collaborative participation of local and international artists and scholars. Cris’s artworks evoke profound reflections on the essence of time, existence, life, and death through large-format abstract acrylic paintings on canvas. These paintings, in turn, give rise to a virtual reality experience with digital animations and original music.
The accompanying book for this project is being published by Calambur Publishing House in Barcelona, Spain. Beyond Time is a poetic journey through time, memory, and existence. With 38 poems in Spanish and English, plus a selection in Chinese, the book explores the fleeting and the eternal, love, life, death, and the essence of being. From tributes to great thinkers to profound introspection, the author invites readers into a dialogue with the past, present, and future, challenging the linearity of time in each verse.
Beyond Time is an artistic exploration that transcends the linearity of time, inviting the viewer to immerse themselves in an experience where past, present, and future converge in a single moment. Through color, abstraction, and visual fragmentation, each work becomes a reflection of our perception of time—fleeting, eternal, mutable. This exhibition is not only meant to be observed but felt, challenging the traditional notion of time and opening a space for introspection and wonder.
ARTIST: CRISTIAN DAMIAN GONZALEZ LAHMANN
CURATOR: TINGYI MARIA HUANG
The Rhythmmm Gallery New York presents the exhibition “Human Planet” by Cris during the month of April 2024 in Manhattan. The work consists of 3 interdisciplinary layers: Painting, Literature and Audiovisual focused by the theme Human Rights, Environment and Interculturality.
In April 2024, New York City witnessed a groundbreaking artistic experience. The HUMAN PLANET exhibition offered a deep immersion into the cultural, social, and emotional dimensions of humanity. Today, that experience is immortalized in an exclusive limited-edition book: HUMAN PLANET NEW YORK 2024 by Cris, produced for Cris International Swiss Art Company in Switzerland. From Rockefeller Center in New York, the official launch of Cris’s new exhibition book (Limited Edition of 100 copies) will take place online and globally on April 30, 2025, one year after the Human Planet Exhibitions in Manhattan.
This book is a work of art in itself. It is a bridge between the artwork, the viewer, and the city that hosted it. It is an experience that transcends time and space—reviving, page by page, the sensations, colors, words, and emotions that resonated throughout the halls of the Consulate of Argentina and the Saphira & Ventura Gallery.
This limited edition (only 100 copies!) is a work of art in itself:
* It brings together paintings, curatorial texts, poems, philosophical reflections, and photographs from the events – including never-before-seen moments from my days in New York.
* It’s an artistic journey through human rights, environmental consciousness, and intercultural dialogue.
* A creation designed for collectors, contemporary art enthusiasts, and all those who believe in art as a transformative experience.
My productions as a contemporary artist integrate virtual reality and the metaverse. Recent exhibitions have merged three interdisciplinary layers: painting, literature and audiovisual projection, linking the study of music, architecture, poetry, virtual reality, dance, animations and painting, centered and articulated around the theme of human rights, the environment and interculturality.
The paintings, both in the real world and in virtual reality, in the latest exhibitions are in acrylic on canvas and combine abstract and conceptual art styles.
All my current and future works develop in the real physical world through traditional fine art materials: acrylic paints, oils and inks on stretchers; and in parallel, I create the works in the metaverse with the use of new technologies, artificial intelligence and augmented reality, producing the original NFTs and animations of each work which are incorporated into my Virtual Reality Gallery.
🏅 LAURATE ARTIST OF THE ARTS, SCIENCES AND LETTERS ACADEMY
On Sunday, October 6, 2024, Cris received the Diploma and the Bronze Medal from the Academic Society of Arts, Sciences and Letters of Paris in a beautiful ceremony held at the Intercontinental Hotel in the French capital.
This international recognition was granted to Cris for his artistic career and distinguishes his career and the contribution of his work in the world of arts and culture by the iconic Paris Academy of Arts, Science and Letters.
Cris is the founder of the international NGO Earth of Peace Foundation, dedicated to strengthening peace, climate action, human rights, and children’s rights.
He served as president for a decade, leading educational, cultural, and social impact initiatives benefiting over 10,000 people in 50+ countries and 75 cities, overseeing international programs on peace, migration, and interculturalism, and managing 20 cultural programs with more than 400 activities. He facilitated global collaborations with over 100 institutions to promote peace and social awareness and now guides a new generation of leaders continuing the organization’s mission and vision.
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