Biography
Casa Kolacho is a collective of artist-educators founded in Medellín in 2013 in tribute to Héctor 'Kolacho' Pacheco, a rapper from Comuna 13 murdered in 2009. Based in the heart of the San Javier district, the house brings together graffiti artists, musicians and dancers from Comuna 13 — once one of Latin America's most violent neighborhoods, and over the past fifteen years one of the continent's largest open-air museums.
Their practice connects mural painting, hip-hop, breakdance, photography and pedagogy: free weekly workshops are offered to local children to pass on the codes of street art as an alternative to urban violence. The collective also runs the Graffitour 13, a guided walk that drew nearly 20,000 visitors per week before the pandemic.
Their best-known pieces — including 'Las Tres Marías' and the series of elephants waving white flags in memory of the 2002 Operación Orión — are now part of Medellín's collective imagination and illustrate Comuna 13's urban transformation through art.
Their practice connects mural painting, hip-hop, breakdance, photography and pedagogy: free weekly workshops are offered to local children to pass on the codes of street art as an alternative to urban violence. The collective also runs the Graffitour 13, a guided walk that drew nearly 20,000 visitors per week before the pandemic.
Their best-known pieces — including 'Las Tres Marías' and the series of elephants waving white flags in memory of the 2002 Operación Orión — are now part of Medellín's collective imagination and illustrate Comuna 13's urban transformation through art.
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