OLAISMO. DIANGO HERNANDEZ STUDIO

Selected Public Collections

Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany | The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA | Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany | Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany | PAMM, Miami, USA | Artpace, San Antonio, USA | Museum of Fine Art Houston, Houston, USA | Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany | Kunstsammlung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany | Inhotim, Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Belo Horizonte, Brazil | Philara Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany | Sammlung Wemhöner | Jil Sander Collection | Andy Warhol Foundation Collection | Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy | CAB de Burgos, Burgos, Spain | Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France | Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein | Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany | Rheingold Collection, Düesseldorf, Germany | Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Germany | Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Leon, (MUSAC), Spain | Colección Bergé, Madrid, Spain.

DIANGO HERNANDEZ’S INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT

With over 1.4 million followers, Diango Hernández (@diango.hernandez) stands among the most followed contemporary artists today. As early as 2015, Hernández began using Instagram not merely as a communication platform but as an essential part of his creative process. Through this early and visionary engagement, he became one of the first pioneers to explore Instagram’s social and transformative power within the field of art.

For Hernández, Instagram became a studio without walls, a digital extension of his conceptual practice. “Instopia,” his term merging Instagram and utopia/dystopia, captures this shift—an ongoing reflection on how images, desire, and connectivity reshape artistic creation. “Instagram allowed me to make art that breathes in real time,” Hernández notes. “It’s not only a tool to share, but a place where beauty and longing circulate freely—where I can test the emotional temperature of an image.”

Through Instopia, Hernández turns everyday digital gestures—scrolling, liking, posting—into a poetic and critical language, transforming social media into what he calls “a permanent exhibition space where everyone is both visitor and artist.”

DIANGO HERNANDEZ’S REFLECTION ON ART

For Diango Hernández, art is an agent of change. It is not concerned with revisiting the past but with anticipating the future. His vision of art resists confinement—neither museums, books, nor archives can contain its living pulse.

“We are living through the greatest transformation I have experienced in my lifetime,” Hernández notes. “Today, whatever once held value because a few ‘authorized’ voices declared it so is falling apart.”

In this shifting landscape, he sees art as a vital, forward-looking force—one that listens attentively to the changes reshaping society. Through this sensitivity to transformation, art becomes not a reflection of what has been, but a participant in what is coming.