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Álvaro Urbano
Álvaro Urbano’s practice embraces a variety of media, from performance to spatial installations that unfold throughout an experimental process. Often used as points of departure in architecture, fiction, theatre, and heterotopia, his often site-specific installations consider the space and its local inhabitants as possible actors or co-authors of a narration.
He studied Interior Architecture at the ETSAM in Madrid and Fine Arts at the Institut für Raumexperimente, Universität der Künste in Berlin.
In 2014, Urbano received the Villa Romana Fellowship. He attended The Artists and Architects-in-Residence at MAK, Los Angeles, 2016/2017. He is currently a professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France.
Upcoming projects include a solo show at TEA Espacio de las Artes in Tenerife, Spain, and another in MUSAC, León, Spain.
Recent exhibitions and projects have been shown at Collegium, Arévalo, Spain; Bergen Assembly, Norway; at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, USA; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Art Basel Statements, Switzerland, with ChertLüdde; Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany; CAB, Brussels, Belgium; Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia; PAC, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany, among others.
Álvaro Urbano and Petrit Halilaj have presented their collaborative work at Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany; Palacio de Cristal, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid; Neue National Galerie, Berlin, Germany; Opéra Comique, Paris, France; Autostrada Biennale at the National Library, Prishtina, Kosovo; the 17th Quadriennale di Roma, the Biennale Gherdëina, in Ortisei, Italy and S.A.L.T.S., Basel Switzerland. They will be presenting a site-specific exhibition at Ocean Space by en TBA21 in Venice, Italy.
His work is part of Collection Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin, TEA Tenerife, Spain, Colección Museo Jumex, Mexico City, FRAC Bretagne, and FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, France.
Álvaro Urbano lives and works between Berlin and Paris.