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Álvaro 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
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.
EL PAÍS: “Barragán and Lorca fall in love in Mexico City” by Daniel Alonso Viña
“Álvaro Urbano imagines at Travesía Cuatro gallery an encounter between the two artists through the plants that populated the gardens of one and the poems of the other”. Continue reading on El País México.
MAGASIN CNAC GRENOBLE I Álvaro Urbano
‘Hands as Drawers’ is the installation by Álvaro Urbano that is now showing as part of the group exhibition La Position de l’amour at Magasin CNAC, Grenoble, France. Curated by Celine Kopp, the exhibition will be open until March 12, 2023.
STOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE, NY | Álvaro Urbano
The exhibition The Great Ruins of Saturn by Álvaro Urbano is open at Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street, New York, NY, until March 12, 2022.
GRANADA GRANADA un Romancero
Artist: Álvaro Urbano
Author: Isabel Abascal
Travesía Cuatro
Guadalajara | CDMX | Madrid, 2023
Ever Since Night Falls
Artist: Álvaro Urbano
Authors: Álvaro Urbano and Joan Lee
ChertLüdde
Berlin, 2019
