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Álvaro Urbano
As part of “Thus Waves Come in Pairs” at Ocean Space, San Lorenzo Church, Venice, Italy, 2023.
As part of “Thus Waves Come in Pairs” at Ocean Space, San Lorenzo Church, Venice, Italy, 2023.
As part of “Thus Waves Come in Pairs” at Ocean Space, San Lorenzo Church, Venice, Italy, 2023.
As part of “Thus Waves Come in Pairs” at Ocean Space, San Lorenzo Church, Venice, Italy, 2023.
As part of “Thus Waves Come in Pairs” at Ocean Space, San Lorenzo Church, Venice, Italy, 2023.
As part of “Thus Waves Come in Pairs” at Ocean Space, San Lorenzo Church, Venice, Italy, 2023.
Travesía Cuatro Guadalajara, Mexico. 2023.
Travesía Cuatro Guadalajara, Mexico. 2023.
Travesía Cuatro Guadalajara, Mexico. 2023.
Travesía Cuatro Guadalajara, Mexico. 2023.
Travesía Cuatro Guadalajara, Mexico. 2023.
Travesía Cuatro Guadalajara, Mexico. 2023.
Travesía Cuatro CDMX, Mexico. 2023.
Travesía Cuatro CDMX, Mexico. 2023.
Travesía Cuatro CDMX, Mexico. 2023.
Travesía Cuatro CDMX, Mexico. 2023.
Travesía Cuatro CDMX, Mexico. 2023.
Travesía Cuatro CDMX, Mexico. 2023.
Travesía Cuatro CDMX, Mexico. 2023.
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, which unfold throughout an experimental process. Often using architecture, fiction, theatre and heterotopia as points of departure, his mainly site-specific installations consider the space and its local inhabitants as possible actors or co-authors of a narrative.
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.
At the moment, he is presenting a site-specific installation and performance, Lunar Ensemble for Uprising Seas, with Petrit Halilaj at Ocean Space in Venice, with the support of TBA21 and Audemars & Piguet. His work is also part of a group show at Collegium, Arévalo, Spain, curated by Chus Martínez. Upcoming projects include a solo show at TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes in Spain, a solo show at SculptureCenter in NYC, and another solo at MUSAC, León, Spain.
He has recently presented his solo show GRANADA GRANADA divided in two parts distributed between Travesía Cuatro spaces in Guadalajara and Mexico City. He has also presented exhibitions and projects at Bergen Assembly, Norway; Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, US; La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain; 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, among others.
Álvaro Urbano and Petrit Halilaj have presented their collaborative work at Bally Foundation, Lugano, Switzerland; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany; Palacio de Cristal, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid; 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.
Urbano’s work is part of Collection Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin, TEA Tenerife, Spain, Colección Museo Jumex, Mexico City, and Fonds régional d’art contemporain Bretagne, Rennes, France.
Álvaro Urbano lives and works between Berlin and Paris.
ART BASEL 2023 | Travesía Cuatro
Travesía Cuatro will be located in Hall 2.1, Booth R8 at Art Basel, Messe Basel, Messeplatz 10, Switzerland.
Private days: June 13 – 14
Public days: June 15 – 18
Artists: Teresa Solar Abboud, Mateo López, Donna Huanca, Jose Dávila, Gonzalo Lebrija, Mariela Scafati, Jorge Méndez Blake, Milena Muzquiz, Sara Ramo, Jorge Eielson, Ana Prata, Eleonore Koch, John Isaacs, Álvaro Urbano.
THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA, Madrid | Álvaro Urbano
La Vida Breve (Ficus carica), 2023, by Álvaro Urbano, will be part of the unique display “Encounters: Works from the TBA21 Collection”. Thus, there will be a dialogue between the TBA21 Collection and the works of the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, where the exhibition will be on view from May 31 to October 9, 2023.
NOBEL PEACE CENTER, Oslo | Álvaro Urbano
Álvaro Urbano and Petrit Halilaj are presenting their work Forget-me-not as a permanent installation at the Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, due to its strong symbolic power about love, hope and forgiveness. Curated by KORO – Public Art Norway, the piece will be on view as of May 2nd, 2023.
GRANADA GRANADA Un Romancero
Artist: Álvaro Urbano
Author: Isabel Abascal
Design: Estudio Herrera
Travesía Cuatro
Guadalajara | CDMX | Madrid, 2023
Ever Since Night Falls
Artist: Álvaro Urbano
Authors: Álvaro Urbano and Joan Lee
ChertLüdde
Berlin, 2019
