TRIPLE EXPANSION, Elena Bajo – Jane Benson – Sol LeWitt
Sep 7 – Nov 24, 2018
ELENA BAJO verwebt in ihrer künstlerischen Praxis auf komplexe Weise Kunst, Politik und Leben. Die Künstlerin vertritt eine universelle Definition des Feminismus und schafft inklusive Räume und Kunstwerke, in denen sich Menschen, Tiere und Pflanzen finden und in denen das Kognitive, das Spirituelle und das Körperliche gleichermaßen präsent sind.
ELENA BAJO studierte zunächst Pharmakologie, bevor sie sich der Kunst zuwandte. Nach einem Studium der Architektur in Barcelona erwarb sie 2005 ihren Master of Fine Arts an der Central Saint Martins School of Art London. Seit 2008 wurden ihre Arbeiten in zahlreichen internationalen Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen gezeigt, u.a. in der Kunsthalle São Paulo (BR), Jan Van Eyck Academie Maastricht (NL), FRAC Normandie Rouen (F), Kai 10 Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, 3rd Mardin Biennial, Mardin (TR). 2012 war ELENA BAJO Artist in Residence im BANFF Center, Alberta (CA), und bei der Platform3 in München, 2014 folgte eine Residenz im Lab 18th St Arts Center Los Angeles, USA. 2017 gewann ELENA BAJO für die Produktion eines Kunstwerks auf der ARCOMadrid den Audemars Piguet Award und 2018 wurde ihr in New York der Foundation for the Visual Arts Grant zugesprochen.
Die Basis der Arbeit von ELENA BAJO ist Anarchie als grundsätzliche geistige und moralische Haltung: „Anarchie ist […] eine radikale und kritische Wahrnehmung deiner Umgebung, die sich gegen das Etablierte richtet. Sie nährt sich aus dem Glauben, jeden zu respektieren und jedem sein Daseinsrecht zuzugestehen: Menschen, Tieren und Pflanzen. Es ist die Affirmation des Lebenden. In ihrem Kern ist sie kritisch gegenüber jeglicher Form von Macht und Unterdrückung.“
Ausgehend von dieser Grundeinstellung befasst sich ELENA BAJO mit Themen wie Raum, Politik, Feminismus oder ökologischem Bewusstsein. Den Referenzrahmen ihrer Installationen, Skulpturen und Performances bilden zumeist Texte oder andere Wissensquellen, die Eingang in ein Manifest finden, welches auf vorangegangenen Projekten aufbauend weiter wächst. Neben anarchistischen und feministischen Schriften rekurriert sie z.B. auf alternative Wissensformen und Praktiken, spirituelle Traditionen oder Paradigmen des ökologischen Aktivismus.
Konkreter Ausgangspunkt ihrer Werke ist der spezifische architektonische Raum, in dem ELENA BAJO jede ihrer Ausstellungen komponiert. Dabei bringt sie Objekte und Materialien, Körper und andere Akteure in einen nicht hierarchischen Zusammenhang. Zugleich verwebt sie Themen wie Arbeit, sozioökonomische Fragestellungen und magische Rituale mit Körpern, Performances und Materialien. Sie nennt dieses besondere Element ihrer künstlerischen Praxis „Anarchive“.
Weil sie ihre Arbeit als Prozess auffasst, in dem sich das Werk in einem ständigen Zustand des Entstehens und Neuverhandelns befindet, bezeichnet ELENA BAJO ihre Arbeitsweise als „Un-Choreographing“. Ihre Kompositionen aus Bewegungen und Körpern nennt sie „Anarchoreographien“, deren Bewegungsrichtungen nicht hierarchisch zu lesen sind und das Verständnis von Subjektivität und Kollektivität als konstantes Fließen im Raum vermitteln. Oft integriert sie auch schamanistische Riten und alchemistische Prozesse, weil diese besondere Veränderungen herbeiführen können: „This is essential to my work: anarchists, witches and artists share this desire for change.“
In ihren minimalistischen Arbeiten spielt das Material (z.B. Wellpappe, Stoff, Zement, Steine, Glas, Pflanzen) eine zentrale Rolle. Aufgeladen mit Bedeutung bildet es eine Brücke zu den Referenzen und Theorien, soll zugleich aber auch für sich stehen und verstanden werden können. Hier lotet die Künstlerin den Widerspruch aus: Zu entmaterialisieren und minimalistisch zu arbeiten, dabei dem Material dennoch so viel Raum einzugestehen, dass mit möglichst wenig Gesten viel Wirkung erzielt wird.
Für diese Ausstellung entwickelt ELENA BAJO ein Konzept, das unerwartete Blickwinkel auf Trinkwasserverschmutzung durch Medikamente und Plastikpartikel einnimmt. Rückstände, die durch illegal oder legal abgeleitete Arzneistoffe aus Haushalten und der Pharmaindustrie stammen, können durch farblich unterschiedene Testverfahren nachgewiesen werden. Solche Prozesse und damit zusammenhängende Materialien interpretiert sie im Hinblick auf utopische Szenarien, die sowohl zukünftige archäologische Forschungen, als auch spirituelle Handlungen sowie die Wiederverwertung pharmazeutisch wirksamer Substanzen z.B. in Hydrokulturen einbeziehen.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 Elena Bajo Dance of the Opium Poppies Matadero CRA Madrid ES
(Performance)
2020 Elena Bajo Dance of the Opium Poppies P.A.D Project, Wonder Valley, CA
US +Performance
2017 Elena Bajo The Owl of Minerva only Flies at Dusk (Urania’s Mirror) Parallel Oaxaca Mexico DF Mexico.
2017 Elena Bajo All Tangled Up in a Fading Star ArcoMadrid Audemars Piguet Award Madrid ES.
2016 Elena Bajo Throwing Car Parts from a Cliff before Sunrise Garcia Galeria Madrid ES
2016 Elena Bajo Victory Over the Sun D+T Project Gallery Brussels BE.
2015 Elena Bajo Isle of Innocence After Fordlandia Kunsthalle São Paulo Brazil (c).
2015 Elena Bajo Time is the Form of the Object Annex14 Zurich Switzerland.
2015 Elena Bajo and Michal Budny ArcoMadrid Annex14 Madrid ES.
2015 Elena Bajo and Rasmus Nilausen ArcoMadrid Garcia Galeria Madrid ES.
2014 Elena Bajo With Entheogenic Intent (Burn the Witch) 18th Street Arts Center LA US (c) (Performance).
2014 Elena Bajo Timeless Considerations Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina Kosovo (Performance).
2014 Elena Bajo A Universe comes into Being ARTIUM Basque Museum-Vitoria-Gasteiz ES (c) (Performance).
2014 Elena Bajo The Absence of Work D+T Project Gallery Brussels BE (c).
2014 Elena Bajo An Arbitrary Issue Garcia Galeria Madrid ES (c).
2013 Elena Bajo La Femme Radicale or The Point of No Return D+T Project Brussels BE.
2013 Elena Bajo Opening – Solo Objects D+T Project ARCO Art Fair Madrid ES.
2013 Elena Bajo BCC Brussels Cologne Contemporary Brussels BE.
2012 Elena Bajo The Absence of Work Curated by Marlene Rigler PLATFORM3 Munich DE (c).
2012 Elena Bajo Reconstructing of the Common D+T Project Brussels BE.
2012 Elena Bajo The Factory of Forms Manifesta Parallel Genk BE (c).
2012 Elena Bajo The Factory of Forms Jan Van Eyck Academie Maastricht NL (c).
2011 Elena Bajo The Pervasive Element Frieze Art Fair FRAME D+T Project London UK (c).
2011 Elena Bajo On Uncertain Terms S/T Center for Contemporary Art and Culture Berlin DE.
2010 Elena Bajo Performance Universal Flag Lake Dry Desert CA Los Angeles US (Performance).
2010 Elena Bajo The Object of A Movement D+T Project Brussels BE (c) (Performance).
2010 Elena Bajo The Moon is a Harsh Mistress The Woodmill London UK (c) (Performance).
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Liminal, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne, DE
2023 We don’t want to live in a Universe, We want to live in a Pluriverse!,
PRISKA PASQUER PARIS, FR
2022 Getting Lost on the Woods Twin Gallery Madrid ES
2021 Sleep and Altered States of Conscioussness Rosa-Luxemburg Platz
Kunstverein Berlin DE
2021 Aragon Park Public Sculpture Madrid ES
2021 Under the Surface Conde Duque Center Madrid ES
2021 NFT Priska Pasquer Cologne DE
2020 Ineditos: The thing of the Swamp: Critic(s) and Poetic(s) Casa Encendida
Madrid ES
2020 The Abyss of Uncertainty C.A.R.E LTD New York NY US
2020 COVID EXIT Posters Matadero Design Central Madrid ES
2020 Ineditos: La Cosa del Pantano: critica(s) y poetica(s)…La Casa Encendida
Madrid ES
2020 Stamps La Galerie Imaginaire Quito EC
2020 About Plants Casa Sarayu Mindo EC
2020 Drive By Art Public Art in a Moment of Social Distancing Long Island NY
US
2020 Drive By Art Public Art in a Moment of Social Distancing Los Angeles CA
US
2020 Poppy Studies Carajillo Nave Oporto ArcoMadrid ES
2020 Imagine La Galerie Imaginaire Quito EC
2019 Matadero Estudios Críticos: Microhabitables Matadero Madrid, Serpentine
Galleries, London, UK
2019 (Forthcoming) I want to know Now Center of Contemporary Art Complutense University Madrid ES.
2018 (Forthcoming) Los Angeles Municipal Gallery Los Angeles CA US (c).
2018 (Forthcoming) Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts New York NY US (Performance).
2018 (Forthcoming) Movement Research New York NY US (Performance).
2018 Hände haben eine tragische Hierarchie Curated by Fette Sans Five Car Garage Los Angeles CA US.
2018 I never thought I’d need so many people Garcia Galeria Madrid ES 2018 Universal Flag (…) La Galerie Imaginaire Brussels Belgium (Performance).
2018 The Pleiades (Anarchoreographies) Blue Project Foundation Barcelona ES (Performance).
2018 Itinerarios XXIV Visual Arts Grants Botin Foundation Centro Botin Santander ES (c)
2018 So Sieht der Hase Annex14 Zurich Switzerland.
2018 Manifesto: A Moderate Proposal Pitzer Art Galleries Los Angeles CA US (c) (Score for Performance).
2018 White Covers Frederic de Goldschmidt Collection Brussels Belgium.
2017 The Box Curated by Corazon del Sol Los Angeles US (Score for Performance, Choreography).
2017 Miart Art Fair Garcia Galeria Milan Italy.
2017 Modus Operandi Societe Brussels Belgium.
2017 Posters Frac Normandie Rouan Paris France.
2016 Aun 44th Salon Nacional de Artistas Co-curated by Inti Guerrero et all Pereira Colombia (c) (Performance).
2016 Take Up your Space Kai 10 Arthena Foundation, Dusseldorf, Germany (Performance).
2016 Scoping Scapes 18th Street Arts Center Los Angeles, CA, US.
2016 Not really really Frederic de Goldschmidt Collection Brussels Belgium.
2016 Scenes with Flat Objects Travesia Cuatro Gallery Guadalajara Mexico.
2016 ArcoMadrid Annex14 Madrid ES.
2015 Joshua Treenial Curated by Koan Jeff Baysa Joshua Tree CA US.
2015 Let Power Take A Female Form Talk: Corazon del Sol Paul McCarthy The Box Los Angeles CA US.
2015 LAXART 10 year Benefit Exhibition Los Angeles CA US.
2015 The Infinite Persistence of Matter ESPTV-Human Resources Los Angeles CA US (Performance).
2015 Plagiarizing the Future Curated by Andrea Rodriguez Hangar Lisbon Portugal (Performance).
2015 Universal Flag (Reloaded ) Swab Performance Curated by Juan Canela Barcelona SP (Performance).
2015 Trust The Palace Kunsthal Charlottenborg Curated by Sonia Dermience Copenhagen Denmark (c).
2015 The Gaia Effect Curated by Sara Belden Los Angeles CA US.
2015 Figment Angstrom Gallery Curated by David Quadrini Venice CA US.
2015 Mythologies 3rd Mardin Biennial Mardin Turkey.
2015 Theorem Curated by Octavio Zaya Mana Contemporary Art Center Newark NJ US.
2015 Movements Towards Formation Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin Germany.
2015 Sounds like Music D+T Project Gallery Brussels Belgium.
2015 Berlin, Berlin, Berlin Botschaft von Spanien Berlin Germany.
2014 With Entheogenic Intent Public Sessions curated by A Vikram 18th Street Arts Center LA US (c).
2014 The Absence of Work Artist Book LACA Los Angeles CA US.
2014 The Factory of Forms Artist Book FOR YOUR ART Los Angeles
2014 If I Can’t Dance It’s not my Revolution Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery Haverford College Philadelphia US (c).
2013 Rockaway to LA Waterhouse Project Gallery Los Angeles CA US.
2013 Ma Vie Prochaine Curated by Isabelle Le Normand Ceci N’est Pas Courtesy Los Angeles US.
2013 Original Doubt Plataforma Revolver Curated by A Rodriguez V Valentini Lisbon PT
2013 Zero Hours Art Sheffield.
2013 Sheffield UK.
2013 The Phylogenesis of Generosity Curated by Helena Producciones Berlin GE (c) (Performance).
2013 Vers une Hypothese Fort Du Bruissin Curated A Rodriguez Xll Lyon Biennial Lyon FR (c) (Performance).
2013 Material Conceptualism Der Trost der Dinge Anaant and Zoo Gallery Berlin GE (c).
2013 Throw a Rock and see what happens Curated by Juan Canela La Casa Encendida Madrid ES (Performance).
2013 The Cosmic Artisan Curated by Bastien Rousseau Siegfried Contemporary London UK.
2013 Can’t Hear my Eyes Curated by Niekolaas Lekkerkerk Nogueras Blanchard Madrid (c)
2013 Social Sound Curated by Lennard Dost VHDG Blokhuispoort Leeuwarden NL (c) (Perform Document).
2012 Artist Tower of Protest Curated by Cesar Garcia L.A, Public Domain Los Angeles CA US.
2012 Art in the Parking Space PST.
2012 Pacific Standard Time LAXART Los Angeles CA US (Performance).
2012 Art in the Parking Space RedCat CALARTS LAXART Los Angeles CA US (Performance).
2012 Who told you so? #2 Truth vs. Organization Onomatope Eindhoven NL.
2012 The Absence of Work Perform Program Curated by Burkhard Meltzer Liste 17 Basel CH (Performance).
2011 LAXART Benefit Exhibition Los Angeles CA US.
2011 Uncommon Places: Reinventing the Everyday Extra City Antwerp / ICI New York US.
2011 A Script for a Form PERFORMA 11 Biennial New York US (Performance).
2011 VESSEL-The Stone House Fringe BAS 7 Plymouth UK.
2011 Art in the Parking Space A One Year Long Project LAXART Los Angeles CA US.
2011 Art in the Parking Space PERFORM! NOW! LAXART Los Angeles CA US (Performance).
2011 Studies for an Exhibition Curated Mathieu Copeland DRAF London UK (Performance).
2011 Berlin:Metrospective 1 Program-Future Gallery Berlin Germany.
2011 Love Letters to a Surrogate Stage ll MUHKA Antwerp Belgium (Performance).
2010 Perform! Now!
2010 Human Resources Gallery Chinatown Los Angeles CA US (Performance).
2010 Universal Flag Joshua Tree CA Los Angeles US (Performance).
2010 Discretion/Determination Curated by Caroline Soyez-Pettithomme La Salle de Bains Lyon France.
2010 When A Tree Falls in the Forrest… Sølyst Skulpturpark Copenhagen (c).
2010 Love Letters to a Surrogate Torrance Art Museum Los Angeles CA US (c) (Performance).
2009 Registered White Columns New York.
2009 Bread and Roses 101 with Jon Cuyson University of Trash Sculpture Center New York US (Performance).
2009 EXHIBITION 211 Elizabeth St New York US (Performance Documentation).
2009 Haunting the City Le Roy Neiman Gallery Columbia University New York US.
2008 Vision Request A-Z West Andrea Zittel Los Angeles US.
2008 Wanderlust Curated by Laurie de Chiara Paul Kopeikin Gallery.
2008 VonJetz Bis Dann Goldrausch 08 Kunstraum Bethanien Berlin Germany.
2008 Public Improvisations curated by Luca Cerizza, Anna Daneri Fondazione Ratti Milan Italy (c) (Performance).
2008 Lost in Your Eyes Le Roy Neiman Gallery Columbia University New York US.
2008 Peekskill Project HVCCA Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art New York US.
2008 Destino Futuro Arte Madrid 6 curated by Oliva Maria Rubio Royal Botanical Garden Madrid.
Grants and Awards
2021 A/CE Spanish Culture ES
2021 European Keramic Work Center EKWC Oisterwijk NL
2021 Matadero Residencies Madrid ES
2021 Stipendium KulturProjekt Berlin DE
2020 Hopper Prize New York US
2018 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant New York NY US
2016-2018 Visual Arts Grant Fundacion Botin 2017 Spain Los Angeles-Mexico City US.
2018 Foundation for the Visual Arts Grant New York US.
2017 MadridArco Audemars Piguet Award for the Production of an artwork Madrid Spain.
2015 Mobility Grant AC/E (PICE) Accion Cultural Spain Mardin Biennial Mardin Turkey.
2015 Grant AC/E Accion Cultural Spain Kunsthalle Sao Paulo Brazil.
2014 Artist in Residence Lab 18th St Arts Center Los Angeles US.
2012 Artist in Residence Platform3 Munich Germany.
2012 Artist in Residence BANFF Center 23 Studio Time Geoffrey Farmer Alberta Canada.
2011 Grant AC/E Accion Cultural Spain S/T Center for Contemporary Art and Culture Berlin Germany.
2010 Grant Artist in Residence SEACEX Accion Cultural Spain The Woodmill London UK.
2008 Artist in Residence International Studio and Curatorial Program ISCP New York US.
2008 Fellowship Goldrausch 08 Künstlerinnenprojekt Berlin Germany.
2008 Fellowship Fondazione Antonio Ratti ACVA Yona Friedman Como Milan Italy.
2008 Fellowship Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Maine US.
2005 Scholarship Fundacion Marcelino Botin Gabriel Orozco Taller Villa Iris Santander Spain.
In her artistic practice, ELENA BAJO interweaves art, politics and life in a complex web. The artist represents a universal definition of feminism and creates inclusive spaces and artworks occupied by people, animals and plants, in which cognitive, spiritual and physical elements are present in equal measure.
ELENA BAJO initially studied pharmacology before switching to art. After studying architecture in Barcelona, she obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree at the Central Saint Martins School of Art in London in 2005. Since 2008, her works have been featured in numerous international individual and group exhibitions, including in the São Paulo Museum of Art (BR), Jan Van Eyck Academie Maastricht (NL), FRAC Normandie Rouen (F), Kai 10 Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf (DE) and 3rd Mardin Biennial, Mardin (TR). In 2012, ELENA BAJO was the Artist in Residence in the BANFF Center, Alberta (CA), and at Platform3 in Munich. This was followed in 2014 by a residence in the Lab 18th St Arts Center in Los Angeles, USA. In 2017, ELENA BAJO was presented with the Audemars Piguet Award for the production of a work of art at ARCOMadrid and recently with the Foundation for the Visual Arts Grant in New York.
ELENA BAJO’s work is based on anarchy as a fundamental mindset and moral stance: “Anarchy is […] a radical and critical perception of one’s environment, directed against established norms. It feeds on the belief that everyone should be respected and has a right to exist – people, animals and plants alike. It is the affirmation of the living. At its core, it is critical of any form of power and oppression.”
Based on this outlook, ELENA BAJO explores themes such as space, politics, feminism and environmental awareness. The frame of reference used in her installations, sculptures and performances is generally composed of texts or other sources of knowledge, cut up into a Manifesto text that accumulates from previous projects. Besides anarchistic and feminist writings, she references alternative forms of knowledge and practices, spiritual traditions or paradigms of environmental activism.
The concrete starting point of ELENA BAJO’s works is the specific architectural space in which she composes each of her exhibitions. In doing so, she brings together objects and materials, bodies and other players in a non-hierarchical context. At the same time, she interweaves themes such as work, socio-economic questions and magic rituals with bodies, performances and materials. She calls this unique element of her artistic practice “anarchive”.
Because she sees her work as a process in which the artwork is in a constant state of generation and renegotiation, ELENA BAJO describes her approach as “un-choreographing” which translates into her way of composing with movement and bodies, what she calls “anarchoreographies”, non hierarchical trajectories used as a tool to articulate a sense of subjectivity and collectivity and the creation of a space in constant flux. In addition, she often integrates shamanistic rites and alchemistic processes because these can give rise to particular changes: “This is essential to my work: anarchists, witches and artists share this desire for change.”
In her minimalist works, the material (e.g. corrugated board, fabric, cement, stones, glass, plants) plays a central role. Loaded with significance, it builds a bridge to the references and theories, but should also be capable of making an impact and being understood in its own right. Here, the artist plumbs the depths of the inherent contradiction: dematerialising and working minimalistically yet allowing the material enough space for it to maximise its impact with a minimum of gestures.
For the TRIPLE EXPANSION exhibition, ELENA BAJO is developing a concept that analyses unexpected perspectives on pharmaceutical and plastic pollutants in tap water that come from legal and illegal drugs flushed down the toilet or from discarded industrial wastewater. She interprets the detection of such toxic residues by the means of laboratory reagents as a starting point for speculations about their possible role in future archeological research or spiritualism, or in utopian scenarios of drugs’ recycling and hydroponics.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 Elena Bajo Dance of the Opium Poppies Matadero CRA Madrid ES
(Performance)
2020 Elena Bajo Dance of the Opium Poppies P.A.D Project, Wonder Valley, CA
US +Performance
2017 Elena Bajo The Owl of Minerva only Flies at Dusk (Urania’s Mirror) Parallel Oaxaca Mexico DF Mexico.
2017 Elena Bajo All Tangled Up in a Fading Star ArcoMadrid Audemars Piguet Award Madrid ES.
2016 Elena Bajo Throwing Car Parts from a Cliff before Sunrise Garcia Galeria Madrid ES
2016 Elena Bajo Victory Over the Sun D+T Project Gallery Brussels BE.
2015 Elena Bajo Isle of Innocence After Fordlandia Kunsthalle São Paulo Brazil (c).
2015 Elena Bajo Time is the Form of the Object Annex14 Zurich Switzerland.
2015 Elena Bajo and Michal Budny ArcoMadrid Annex14 Madrid ES.
2015 Elena Bajo and Rasmus Nilausen ArcoMadrid Garcia Galeria Madrid ES.
2014 Elena Bajo With Entheogenic Intent (Burn the Witch) 18th Street Arts Center LA US (c) (Performance).
2014 Elena Bajo Timeless Considerations Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina Kosovo (Performance).
2014 Elena Bajo A Universe comes into Being ARTIUM Basque Museum-Vitoria-Gasteiz ES (c) (Performance).
2014 Elena Bajo The Absence of Work D+T Project Gallery Brussels BE (c).
2014 Elena Bajo An Arbitrary Issue Garcia Galeria Madrid ES (c).
2013 Elena Bajo La Femme Radicale or The Point of No Return D+T Project Brussels BE.
2013 Elena Bajo Opening – Solo Objects D+T Project ARCO Art Fair Madrid ES.
2013 Elena Bajo BCC Brussels Cologne Contemporary Brussels BE.
2012 Elena Bajo The Absence of Work Curated by Marlene Rigler PLATFORM3 Munich DE (c).
2012 Elena Bajo Reconstructing of the Common D+T Project Brussels BE.
2012 Elena Bajo The Factory of Forms Manifesta Parallel Genk BE (c).
2012 Elena Bajo The Factory of Forms Jan Van Eyck Academie Maastricht NL (c).
2011 Elena Bajo The Pervasive Element Frieze Art Fair FRAME D+T Project London UK (c).
2011 Elena Bajo On Uncertain Terms S/T Center for Contemporary Art and Culture Berlin DE.
2010 Elena Bajo Performance Universal Flag Lake Dry Desert CA Los Angeles US (Performance).
2010 Elena Bajo The Object of A Movement D+T Project Brussels BE (c) (Performance).
2010 Elena Bajo The Moon is a Harsh Mistress The Woodmill London UK (c) (Performance).
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 We don’t want to live in a Universe, We want to live in a Pluriverse!,
PRISKA PASQUER PARIS, FR
2022 Getting Lost on the Woods Twin Gallery Madrid ES
2021 Sleep and Altered States of Conscioussness Rosa-Luxemburg Platz
Kunstverein Berlin DE
2021 Aragon Park Public Sculpture Madrid ES
2021 Under the Surface Conde Duque Center Madrid ES
2021 NFT Priska Pasquer Cologne DE
2020 Ineditos: The thing of the Swamp: Critic(s) and Poetic(s) Casa Encendida
Madrid ES
2020 The Abyss of Uncertainty C.A.R.E LTD New York NY US
2020 COVID EXIT Posters Matadero Design Central Madrid ES
2020 Ineditos: La Cosa del Pantano: critica(s) y poetica(s)…La Casa Encendida
Madrid ES
2020 Stamps La Galerie Imaginaire Quito EC
2020 About Plants Casa Sarayu Mindo EC
2020 Drive By Art Public Art in a Moment of Social Distancing Long Island NY
US
2020 Drive By Art Public Art in a Moment of Social Distancing Los Angeles CA
US
2020 Poppy Studies Carajillo Nave Oporto ArcoMadrid ES
2020 Imagine La Galerie Imaginaire Quito EC
2019 Matadero Estudios Críticos: Microhabitables Matadero Madrid, Serpentine
Galleries, London, UK
2019 (Forthcoming) I want to know Now Center of Contemporary Art Complutense University Madrid ES.
2018 (Forthcoming) Los Angeles Municipal Gallery Los Angeles CA US (c).
2018 (Forthcoming) Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts New York NY US (Performance).
2018 (Forthcoming) Movement Research New York NY US (Performance).
2018 Hände haben eine tragische Hierarchie Curated by Fette Sans Five Car Garage Los Angeles CA US.
2018 I never thought I’d need so many people Garcia Galeria Madrid ES 2018 Universal Flag (…) La Galerie Imaginaire Brussels Belgium (Performance).
2018 The Pleiades (Anarchoreographies) Blue Project Foundation Barcelona ES (Performance).
2018 Itinerarios XXIV Visual Arts Grants Botin Foundation Centro Botin Santander ES (c)
2018 So Sieht der Hase Annex14 Zurich Switzerland.
2018 Manifesto: A Moderate Proposal Pitzer Art Galleries Los Angeles CA US (c) (Score for Performance).
2018 White Covers Frederic de Goldschmidt Collection Brussels Belgium.
2017 The Box Curated by Corazon del Sol Los Angeles US (Score for Performance, Choreography).
2017 Miart Art Fair Garcia Galeria Milan Italy.
2017 Modus Operandi Societe Brussels Belgium.
2017 Posters Frac Normandie Rouan Paris France.
2016 Aun 44th Salon Nacional de Artistas Co-curated by Inti Guerrero et all Pereira Colombia (c) (Performance).
2016 Take Up your Space Kai 10 Arthena Foundation, Dusseldorf, Germany (Performance).
2016 Scoping Scapes 18th Street Arts Center Los Angeles, CA, US.
2016 Not really really Frederic de Goldschmidt Collection Brussels Belgium.
2016 Scenes with Flat Objects Travesia Cuatro Gallery Guadalajara Mexico.
2016 ArcoMadrid Annex14 Madrid ES.
2015 Joshua Treenial Curated by Koan Jeff Baysa Joshua Tree CA US.
2015 Let Power Take A Female Form Talk: Corazon del Sol Paul McCarthy The Box Los Angeles CA US.
2015 LAXART 10 year Benefit Exhibition Los Angeles CA US.
2015 The Infinite Persistence of Matter ESPTV-Human Resources Los Angeles CA US (Performance).
2015 Plagiarizing the Future Curated by Andrea Rodriguez Hangar Lisbon Portugal (Performance).
2015 Universal Flag (Reloaded ) Swab Performance Curated by Juan Canela Barcelona SP (Performance).
2015 Trust The Palace Kunsthal Charlottenborg Curated by Sonia Dermience Copenhagen Denmark (c).
2015 The Gaia Effect Curated by Sara Belden Los Angeles CA US.
2015 Figment Angstrom Gallery Curated by David Quadrini Venice CA US.
2015 Mythologies 3rd Mardin Biennial Mardin Turkey.
2015 Theorem Curated by Octavio Zaya Mana Contemporary Art Center Newark NJ US.
2015 Movements Towards Formation Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin Germany.
2015 Sounds like Music D+T Project Gallery Brussels Belgium.
2015 Berlin, Berlin, Berlin Botschaft von Spanien Berlin Germany.
2014 With Entheogenic Intent Public Sessions curated by A Vikram 18th Street Arts Center LA US (c).
2014 The Absence of Work Artist Book LACA Los Angeles CA US.
2014 The Factory of Forms Artist Book FOR YOUR ART Los Angeles
2014 If I Can’t Dance It’s not my Revolution Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery Haverford College Philadelphia US (c).
2013 Rockaway to LA Waterhouse Project Gallery Los Angeles CA US.
2013 Ma Vie Prochaine Curated by Isabelle Le Normand Ceci N’est Pas Courtesy Los Angeles US.
2013 Original Doubt Plataforma Revolver Curated by A Rodriguez V Valentini Lisbon PT
2013 Zero Hours Art Sheffield.
2013 Sheffield UK.
2013 The Phylogenesis of Generosity Curated by Helena Producciones Berlin GE (c) (Performance).
2013 Vers une Hypothese Fort Du Bruissin Curated A Rodriguez Xll Lyon Biennial Lyon FR (c) (Performance).
2013 Material Conceptualism Der Trost der Dinge Anaant and Zoo Gallery Berlin GE (c).
2013 Throw a Rock and see what happens Curated by Juan Canela La Casa Encendida Madrid ES (Performance).
2013 The Cosmic Artisan Curated by Bastien Rousseau Siegfried Contemporary London UK.
2013 Can’t Hear my Eyes Curated by Niekolaas Lekkerkerk Nogueras Blanchard Madrid (c)
2013 Social Sound Curated by Lennard Dost VHDG Blokhuispoort Leeuwarden NL (c) (Perform Document).
2012 Artist Tower of Protest Curated by Cesar Garcia L.A, Public Domain Los Angeles CA US.
2012 Art in the Parking Space PST.
2012 Pacific Standard Time LAXART Los Angeles CA US (Performance).
2012 Art in the Parking Space RedCat CALARTS LAXART Los Angeles CA US (Performance).
2012 Who told you so? #2 Truth vs. Organization Onomatope Eindhoven NL.
2012 The Absence of Work Perform Program Curated by Burkhard Meltzer Liste 17 Basel CH (Performance).
2011 LAXART Benefit Exhibition Los Angeles CA US.
2011 Uncommon Places: Reinventing the Everyday Extra City Antwerp / ICI New York US.
2011 A Script for a Form PERFORMA 11 Biennial New York US (Performance).
2011 VESSEL-The Stone House Fringe BAS 7 Plymouth UK.
2011 Art in the Parking Space A One Year Long Project LAXART Los Angeles CA US.
2011 Art in the Parking Space PERFORM! NOW! LAXART Los Angeles CA US (Performance).
2011 Studies for an Exhibition Curated Mathieu Copeland DRAF London UK (Performance).
2011 Berlin:Metrospective 1 Program-Future Gallery Berlin Germany.
2011 Love Letters to a Surrogate Stage ll MUHKA Antwerp Belgium (Performance).
2010 Perform! Now!
2010 Human Resources Gallery Chinatown Los Angeles CA US (Performance).
2010 Universal Flag Joshua Tree CA Los Angeles US (Performance).
2010 Discretion/Determination Curated by Caroline Soyez-Pettithomme La Salle de Bains Lyon France.
2010 When A Tree Falls in the Forrest… Sølyst Skulpturpark Copenhagen (c).
2010 Love Letters to a Surrogate Torrance Art Museum Los Angeles CA US (c) (Performance).
2009 Registered White Columns New York.
2009 Bread and Roses 101 with Jon Cuyson University of Trash Sculpture Center New York US (Performance).
2009 EXHIBITION 211 Elizabeth St New York US (Performance Documentation).
2009 Haunting the City Le Roy Neiman Gallery Columbia University New York US.
2008 Vision Request A-Z West Andrea Zittel Los Angeles US.
2008 Wanderlust Curated by Laurie de Chiara Paul Kopeikin Gallery.
2008 VonJetz Bis Dann Goldrausch 08 Kunstraum Bethanien Berlin Germany.
2008 Public Improvisations curated by Luca Cerizza, Anna Daneri Fondazione Ratti Milan Italy (c) (Performance).
2008 Lost in Your Eyes Le Roy Neiman Gallery Columbia University New York US.
2008 Peekskill Project HVCCA Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art New York US.
2008 Destino Futuro Arte Madrid 6 curated by Oliva Maria Rubio Royal Botanical Garden Madrid.
Grants and Awards
2021 A/CE Spanish Culture ES
2021 European Keramic Work Center EKWC Oisterwijk NL
2021 Matadero Residencies Madrid ES
2021 Stipendium KulturProjekt Berlin DE
2020 Hopper Prize New York US
2018 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant New York NY US
2016-2018 Visual Arts Grant Fundacion Botin 2017 Spain Los Angeles-Mexico City US.
2018 Foundation for the Visual Arts Grant New York US.
2017 MadridArco Audemars Piguet Award for the Production of an artwork Madrid Spain.
2015 Mobility Grant AC/E (PICE) Accion Cultural Spain Mardin Biennial Mardin Turkey.
2015 Grant AC/E Accion Cultural Spain Kunsthalle Sao Paulo Brazil.
2014 Artist in Residence Lab 18th St Arts Center Los Angeles US.
2012 Artist in Residence Platform3 Munich Germany.
2012 Artist in Residence BANFF Center 23 Studio Time Geoffrey Farmer Alberta Canada.
2011 Grant AC/E Accion Cultural Spain S/T Center for Contemporary Art and Culture Berlin Germany.
2010 Grant Artist in Residence SEACEX Accion Cultural Spain The Woodmill London UK.
2008 Artist in Residence International Studio and Curatorial Program ISCP New York US.
2008 Fellowship Goldrausch 08 Künstlerinnenprojekt Berlin Germany.
2008 Fellowship Fondazione Antonio Ratti ACVA Yona Friedman Como Milan Italy.
2008 Fellowship Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Maine US.
2005 Scholarship Fundacion Marcelino Botin Gabriel Orozco Taller Villa Iris Santander Spain.
