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Alvaro Urbano
Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, United States. Dec 4, 2021 – Feb 26, 2022.
Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, United States. Dec 4, 2021 – Feb 26, 2022.
Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, United States. Dec 4, 2021 – Feb 26, 2022.
Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, United States. Dec 4, 2021 – Feb 26, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro Madrid, 09 Sep – 20 Nov 2021.
Travesía Cuatro Madrid, 09 Sep – 20 Nov 2021.
Travesía Cuatro Madrid, 09 Sep – 20 Nov 2021.
Travesía Cuatro Madrid, 09 Sep – 20 Nov 2021.
TEA Tenerife Space of Arts, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, July 2, 2021 – September 26, 2021.
Autostrada Biennale, The National Library of Kosovo “Pjetër Bogdani”, Prishtina, Kosovo, 2021.
Autostrada Biennale, The National Library of Kosovo “Pjetër Bogdani”, Prishtina, Kosovo, 2021.
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy, October 30, 2020 – July 18, 2021.
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy, October 30, 2020 – July 18, 2021.
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy, October 30, 2020 – July 18, 2021.
Curated by Adam Budak, Ortisei, South Tyrol, Italy, 2020
Curated by Adam Budak, Ortisei, South Tyrol, Italy, 2020
La Casa Encendida, Madrid, curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy.
28 February 2020 – 10 January 2021
La Casa Encendida, Madrid, curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy.
28 February 2020 – 10 January 2021
La Casa Encendida, Madrid, curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy.
28 February 2020 – 10 January 2021
La Casa Encendida, Madrid, curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy.
28 February 2020 – 10 January 2021
La Casa Encendida, Madrid, curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy.
28 February 2020 – 10 January 2021
Two raccoon costumes, various trash objects, fabric Dimensions variable
ARCOmadrid Special Projects with ChertLüdde, 2020 & I DREAMED I WAS A HOUSE, Casino Luxembourg Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg. Group exhibition curated by insitu collective, 2019
ARCOmadrid Special Projects with ChertLüdde, 2020 & I DREAMED I WAS A HOUSE, Casino Luxembourg Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg. Group exhibition curated by insitu collective, 2019
ARCOmadrid Special Projects with ChertLüdde, 2020 & I DREAMED I WAS A HOUSE, Casino Luxembourg Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg. Group exhibition curated by insitu collective, 2019
Art Basel Statements with ChertLüdde, 2019
Art Basel Statements with ChertLüdde, 2019
Art Basel Statements with ChertLüdde, 2019
Presented by Storefront for Art and Architecture, August 2020
The Playground Project – Outdoor Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 2018
The Playground Project – Outdoor Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 2018
Part of “Welcome to the Jungle”, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 2018
Part of “That Time”, Cycle Music and Art Festival. Curated by Eva Wilson Kópavogur, Iceland, 2016
Solo show, ChertLüdde, Berlin, 2017
Solo show, ChertLüdde, Berlin, 2017
Solo show, ChertLüdde, Berlin, 2017
Solo show, ChertLüdde, Berlin, 2017
Solo show, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, 2017
Solo show, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, 2017
Festival of Future Nows – 2nd Edition, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, 2017
Villa Empain, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, 2016
Villa Empain, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, 2016
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 2016
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 2016
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 2016
Festival of Future Nows – 1st Edition, Neue Nationalgalerie, 2014
Festival of Future Nows – 1st Edition, Neue Nationalgalerie, 2014
Mole Antonelliana, National Cinema Museum of Turin, curated by Treti Galaxie, 2016
Mole Antonelliana, National Cinema Museum of Turin, curated by Treti Galaxie, 2016
Art & Nature. Walking with Senses, curated by BAU (Simone Mair, Lisa Mazza, Filipa Ramos), Merano – Dorf Tirol, Italy, 2016
Art & Nature. Walking with Senses, curated by BAU (Simone Mair, Lisa Mazza, Filipa Ramos), Merano – Dorf Tirol, Italy, 2016
Art & Nature. Walking with Senses, curated by BAU (Simone Mair, Lisa Mazza, Filipa Ramos), Merano – Dorf Tirol, Italy, 2016
W.L.G.T.D.W.I (What’s Love Gotta Do With It), Group Exhibition, S.A.L.T.S., Basel, 2015
W.L.G.T.D.W.I (What’s Love Gotta Do With It), Group Exhibition, S.A.L.T.S., Basel, 2015
W.L.G.T.D.W.I (What’s Love Gotta Do With It), Group Exhibition, S.A.L.T.S., Basel, 2015
W.L.G.T.D.W.I (What’s Love Gotta Do With It), Group Exhibition, S.A.L.T.S., Basel, 2015
W.L.G.T.D.W.I (What’s Love Gotta Do With It), Group Exhibition, S.A.L.T.S., Basel, 2015
Villa Romana, Florence, 2013 & Ärger im Paradise (Trouble in Paradise), Group Exhibition curated by Rein Wolfs, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 2015
Villa Romana, Florence, 2013 & Ärger im Paradise (Trouble in Paradise), Group Exhibition curated by Rein Wolfs, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 2015
Villa Romana, Florence, 2013 & Ärger im Paradise (Trouble in Paradise), Group Exhibition curated by Rein Wolfs, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 2015
Pavillon Social Kunstverein in Lucca, 2014/2015
Pavillon Social Kunstverein in Lucca, 2014/2015
Pavillon Social Kunstverein in Lucca, 2014/2015
Garden of Villa Romana, Florence, 2014
Garden of Villa Romana, Florence, 2014
Installation at Chert Gallery, 2015
Glassauge, Berlin.
Installation at Chert Gallery, 2015
Alvaro Urbano’s practice embraces a variety of media, from performance to spatial installations that unfold throughout an experimental process. Often using as points of departure 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. His work invites dialogue between entities in newly conceived environments – conflicts between reality and fiction that redefine and render time-space situations.
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.
Recent exhibitions and projects have been shown at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York; 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.
Alvaro Urbano and Petrit Halilaj have presented their collaborative work at Autostrada Biennale at the National Library, Prishtina, Kosovo; the 17th Quadriennale di Roma, Italy the Biennale Gherdëina, in Ortisei, Italy and S.A.L.T.S., Basel, Switzerland.
His work is part of Collection Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin and Colección Jumex, Mexico City.
Alvaro Urbano lives and works in Berlin.
STOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE, NY | Alvaro Urbano
The exhibition The Great Ruins of Saturn by Alvaro Urbano is open at Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street, New York, NY, until March 12, 2022.
AUTOSTRADA BIENNALE, PRISHTINA, KOSOVO | Alvaro Urbano
Alvaro Urbano and Petrit Halilaj present Forget Me Not, an installation at the National Library of Kosovo “Pjetër Bogdani”, Prishtina as part of the Autostrada Biennale in collaboration with Manifesta 14. On view from 1 July 1 until 11 September 2021.
TEA TENERIFE ESPACIO DE LAS ARTES, ES | Alvaro Urbano
Álvaro Urbano takes part in the group exhibition Jardín Satélite at TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, curated by Silvia Navarro, from July 2 un til September 30, 2021.
Ever Since Night Falls
Artist: Alvaro Urbano
Authors: Alvaro Urbano and Joan Lee
ChertLüdde, Berlin 2019
