Felipe Botero (born 1990) is a writer, philosopher and translator from Colombia. He took a B.A. in Philosophy (Universidad Nacional of Colombia) and an M.A. with Distinction in Philosophy and the Arts (Warwick, UK). Felipe has translated into Spanish texts by writers such as Conrad and Pessoa. He also had a monthly section on translation in Revista Arcadia, Colombia’s most important cultural magazine. A Greek Verse for Ophelia and Other Poems by Giovanni Quessep, Selected Poems from 1968 – 2017, was translated by Felipe Botero in collaboration with Ranald Barnicot and published by Out-spoken Press, in England, in November 2018.

Felipe worked as Executive Assistant for the project Botero in China: the design and production of Master Botero’s first official exhibition in main land China. The project was composed of two exhibitions, the first one in Beijing’s National Museum of China, from November 2015 to January 2016, and the second in Shanghai’s China Art Museum from January to May 2016. Among the responsibilities Felipe had in this project were the writing of speeches of Master Botero, managing of the press, writing articles about Master Botero’s work, translating past interviews and writing small pieces about each artwork present in the exhibition.

Additionally, Felipe was a founding member of Quinta, a six-member cultural collective that seeks to promote art made by young artists in Colombia and the world. Quinta has undertaken two projects so far: SubasArte, a young artists’ silent auction organized at the MAMBO (Bogota Museum of Modern Art) in August 2015 to raise money to build a Centre of Arts and Trades for young people of the Suba neighbourhood of Bogotá, planned to be constructed by the Fundación Suiza Colombiana; and a touring exhibition called Reproducibles, a thirty art-works show with unreleased works by young artists from Colombia and Iran that was presented in Bogotá, Pereira and Armenia in the course of 2017. This last project was made in association with Planeta Amor, a Foundation that provides health care and education to children and adolescents with HIV

After two years teaching Philosophy in the Jaime Garzón School, a public school in the Kennedy neighborhood in Bogotá administered by Alianza Educativa Foundation, Felipe is currently doing his Ph.D in Philosophy and Theater in the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.