Juan Camilo Alfonso ~ aka. Fonso (1987, Bogotá) is a Colombian visual artist.

Participatory projects in public space, mural painting, printing techniques and performances are at the core of his practice.

Based on the understanding of historical memory as a means to rebuild broken social fabrics, his projects call for social interactions to support reconciliation processes in different contexts such as urban and rural Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Western Sahara, the Mexico - US Border, Germany, and France. In 2019, he graduated with honours from the Master's programme Art in Context at the Berlin University of the Arts - UdK Berlin. He has worked for more than ten years as a pedagogue in Germany, Colombia and different countries in Latin America.

Currently he is part of the working group of the station urbaner kulturen of the nGbK in Hellersdorf, a member of the MAL Crew in Colombia, co-founder of ilali Studio, an artistic collective studio in Berlin and lastly the founder and leader of the Red KunstCol, a network of colombian artist and cultural workers in Germany.

Images by Valentina Alfonso