Artist Statement
My work is concerned with the question of how human perception differs from machine perception. Instead of looking at the world from fixed points, the point of view with two human eyes is fluid and consists of different, sometimes contradictory, perspectives.
For this endeavour, I paint what I see through transparent material (glass, mobile phone displays, computer screens, plexiglass, and most recently organza silk). During the process, my eyes move around the space, and as a result, the viewpoint becomes open, and the edges of the image curvy, reminiscent of the anatomy of our eyes.
I paint mostly on location and over months in long series. Each series deals with the relationship between people and sometimes abandoned, temporary or converted buildings.
In installing the works, I ask myself how painting can strongly transform the original architectural space through reduced resources and thereby influence human well-being.
CV
| 1991, Madrid Lives and works in Berlin | |
| Education | |
| 2020 |
Master of Fine Arts, Kunsthochschule Berlin with Nader Ahriman |
| 2019 |
Fine Arts, painting, at Kunsthochschule Berlin with Heiner Franzen, Friederike Feldmann, Werner Liebmann, Nader Ahriman |
| 2013 | Translation and Interpreting, Graduate work about intercultural mediation and literary translation about migrant literature, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. International MAEC Scholarship at Université de Montréal, Canada. Erasmus Scholarship at Universität Leipzig, Germany |
| Solo and duo exhibitions (selection) | |
| 2025 | Begegnungsbilder, Schiller-Library, Berlin |
| 2024 | Transparency and Invisibility, Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin |
| 2023 | Public Installation, St. Hedwig Hospital, Berlin |
| 2022 | «Auf… auf… und hinein» Kunst in der Landschaft, das Gute Leben, Kandel (duo exhibition with Marie Gouil) |
| 2021 | Rescate, Erlösung, Galerie Weisser elefant, Berlin |
| Group exhibitions (selection) | |
| 2025 | And going on, Dr.julius projects Nomadic Instincts, Matca Artspace, Cluj, Rumänien Radiant spring, Qgallery, Berlin Open studio, Ar_29, Berlin |
| 2024 | Portraits, Begegnungstätte Mitte, Berlin 8. Eb-Dietzsch-Kunstpreis für Malerei, Beratungscenter der Sparkasse Gera-Greiz Plenair Unter Wasser und Licht, Gutshaus Neukladow, Berlin Pavillon reoladed, Gutshaus Neukladow, Berlin Artspace Bremerhaven 2024, Bremerhaven Zoologischer Garten, Kunstverein Neukölln Anonyme Zeichner, Künstlerhaus Bethanien |
| 2023 | WERK-STÄTTEN, Kunstverein Neukölln, with Matthias Beckmann and Lars Maurmaier Powiedokie, Kaliska, Poland |
| 2022 | Under Construction, Brunnentreff, Berlin Stadt Land Fluss, AR29, Berlin |
| 2021 | Sonderlage III, Lage egal Liebe arbeit Kino, Rausproject Ipso facto, Kühlhaus, Berlin Sonderlage total, Lage egal Begehungen Chemnitz Offene Ateliers, Atelieretage Reinickendorf Begegnungsstätte Mehr Mitte, Berlin Mart Stam Preis, Galerie Parterre Under Kunstruction, Biels, St Gillis Waas Nachbarschaftszentrum «Bürger für Bürger» Berlin Kunstpreis Deutschland, Galerie Depelmann, Hannover Your touch makes the waves, Radio Cashmere, Berlin Mart Stam Preis, Marburger Kunstverein |
| 2020 | Förderpreis Junge Kunst, Rathaus Reinickendorf, Berlin A factory of one’s own, Heizkraftwerk Steglitz, BerlinIn to through out, Spoiler, Berlin Your foodprint, Heizkraftwerk Steglitz, BerlinAbschlussausstellung, Kühlhaus, Berlin (delayed) Mart Stam Preis, Künstlerraum Bethanien, Berlin (delayed)PHuN Symposium 2020, ASU, Arizona, USA |
| 2019 | Certamen Nacional de Grabado José Caballero, Las Rozas, Madrid Halbschatten II, Neukölln Arcaden, BerlinPerfekte Zustände, XLane, Berlin -188 + x(Balzac), Kunstverein Uelzen, UelzenFundraising Ausstellung mit 50 Künstler/innen der KHB Berlin, Galerie Irrgang, Berlin |
| 2018 | Certamen Nacional de Grabado Jose Caballero, Las Rozas, Madrid 948 Merkatua, mercado de las artes de Navarra, PamplonaEncuentros Jóvenes Artistas, Centro Huarte, Huarte Growing through the grids, Bar Babette, BerlinDrucksache, Galerie Pankow, Berlin Gestell, Erratum Galerie, Berlin |
| 2017 |
Böse Blüten, Projektraum Bethanien, Berlin. |
| 2016 | Certamen Nacional de Grabado José Caballero, Las Rozas, Madrid Encuentros Jóvenes Artistas, La Ciudadela, PamplonaQuelltext, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam Per Anhalter, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, BerlinMissread Art Book fair, Akademie der Künste, Berlin |
| 2015 | Die Vermessung der Zeit, Hermanshof Vöcksen, Hannover Ravensbrück, 10. Europäische Sommer-Universität RavensbrückArt Book Fair, Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin Capilatus, Haus des Berliner Rundfunks, Berlin |
| 2014 | Unerhörte Räume, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin Yo no soy de Tepito, Tepito es mío, Morgenrot Café, Berlin |
| Prizes, scholarships and residencies | |
| 2025 | Residency Kunstverein Landkunstleben, Brandenburg |
| 2024 | Residency Leopoldplatz, Bezirksamt Mitte von Berlin 8. Eb-Dietzsch-Kunstpreis für Malerei (nominiert) Artspace Bremerhaven 2024 Plenair im Gutshaus Neukladow, Berlin |
| 2023 | Brückenstipendium, Bauhaus Universität Weimar |
| 2022 | Residenz Künstlerhaus Edenkoben Kickstarter-Zuschuss für Absolvent:innen von Kunsthochschulen, Neustart Kultur, Stiftung Kunstfonds Residency Powidokie, Kaliska, Polen Ausstellungsförderung, Dezentrale Kulturarbeit Reinickendorf |
| 2021 | Residency Begehungen Chemnitz |
| 2020 | Neustart Kultur-Stipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds |
| 2019 |
Mart Stam Preis |
| 2018 |
Artistic residency in Centro Huarte, Navarra, for a project of mapping of artistic agents |
| 2016 | Second prize in Encuentros jóvenes artistas, Gobierno de Navarra Mittenmang Projektförderung |
| 2015 |
Deutschlandstipendium, Mart Stam Stiftung Sans Papiers, artistic residency, Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium |
| 2005 |
First prize is in Ateneo de Badajoz «El Quijote y sus personajes» Junta de Extremadura, Spain |
| 2004 |
First prize in II Concurso de Dibujo y Pintura de Navarra Megaprix Diario de Navarra, Spain First prize in Concurso de Dibujo sobre la Verdura Megaprix Diario de Navarra y la Orden del Volatín de Tudela, Spain First prize in «La ciudad.sin mi coche!» Ayuntamiento de Pamplona, Spain |
| 2003 | First prize in Itinerarios Culturales de Navarra Educación de Gobierno de Navarra, Spain First prize in Concurso de Dibujo sobre Minusvalías Físicos de Navarra, Spain First prize in «Edutranqui-Tranqui, vive deportivamente» Gobiernode Navarra, Spain First prizein Concurso de Dibujo Carrefour, Madrid,Spain. |
| 2002 |
Second prize in «Día del árbol 2002» Ayuntamiento de Pamplona, Spain First prize in Concurso «Dibuja Pamplona», Ayuntamiento de Pamplona,Spain First prizein Tarjetas navideñas «Navidad 2002», Ayuntamiento de Pamplona,Spain |
| 2001 |
First prize in «Día del árbol 2001», Ayuntamiento de Pamplona, Spain Second prize I Concurso «Dibuja Pamplona», Ayuntamiento de Pamplona,Spain Third prize in Tarjetas navideñas «Navidad 2001», Ayuntamiento de Pamplona,Spain |
| Work in collections | |
| Collection Hüppi (DE), Lühling (DE), Wyszynski (DE), Kowacka (PL), Mora (ES), Alfaro (ES), Johnson (USA) | |
| Publications | |
| 2020 |
«In to through out», self-published by all exhibiting artists on the occasion of the exhibition In to through out at Spoiler, Berlin |
| 2019 | «Mart Stam Katalog», Mart Stam Stiftung |
| 2020 |
Drucksache, Tendenzen zeitgenössischer Druckgrafik, Gallerie Pankow |
| 2016 |
«Quelltext», Textem Verlag, Gerrit Gohlke (BKV Potsdam), Prof. Friederike Feldmann and Alexander Wagner Die Ver messung der Zeit», Universität Hannover |
| Press | |
| 2019 |
Art in Berlin: https://www.art-in-berlin.de Berliner Woche: https://www.berliner-woche.de |
| 2018 |
Designbote: https://designbote.com Artconnect: https://www.artconnect.com Centro Huarte: https://www.centrohuarte.es |
| 2017 | 2 2023 2022 |
| 2016 |
BKV Potsdam: http://www.bkv-potsdam.de Textem DE: http://www.textem.de 20 Minutos: https://www.20minutos.es La información: https://www.lainformacion.com Diario de Navarra: https://www.diariodenavarra.es |