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Asunción Molinos Gordo
Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain, 2026
Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain, 2026
Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain, 2026
Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain, 2026
Galleries, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai UAE, 04.16.25 – 28.09.25.
Galleries, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai UAE, 04.16.25 – 28.09.25.
Galleries, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai UAE, 04.16.25 – 28.09.25.
Galleries, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai UAE, 04.16.25 – 28.09.25.
Galleries, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai UAE, 04.16.25 – 28.09.25.
Galleries, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai UAE, 04.16.25 – 28.09.25.
CA2M, Madrid, Spain, 2024.
CA2M, Madrid, Spain, 2024.
CA2M, Madrid, Spain, 2024.
CA2M, Madrid, Spain, 2024.
CA2M, Madrid, Spain, 2024.
CA2M, Madrid, Spain, 2024.
CA2M, Madrid, Spain, 2024.
10 Dec 2021 – 28 Feb 2022. XV Bienal de Cuenca. Curated by Blanca de la Torre. Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador.
10 Dec 2021 – 28 Feb 2022. XV Bienal de Cuenca. Curated by Blanca de la Torre. Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador.
10 Dec 2021 – 28 Feb 2022. XV Bienal de Cuenca. Curated by Blanca de la Torre. Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador.
10 Dec 2021 – 28 Feb 2022. XV Bienal de Cuenca. Curated by Blanca de la Torre. Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador.
10 Dec 2021 – 28 Feb 2022. XV Bienal de Cuenca. Curated by Blanca de la Torre. Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador.
10 Dec 2021 – 28 Feb 2022. XV Bienal de Cuenca. Curated by Blanca de la Torre. Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador.
2020. IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern. Curated by Sandra Moros.
2020. IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern. Curated by Sandra Moros.
2020. IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern. Curated by Sandra Moros.
2020. IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern. Curated by Sandra Moros.
2020. IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern. Curated by Sandra Moros.
2020. IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern. Curated by Sandra Moros.
2020. Jameel Arts Centre, Artist Garden Commission. Curated by Dawn Ross and Nadine El Khoury. Dubai, UAE.
2020. Jameel Arts Centre, Artist Garden Commission. Curated by Dawn Ross and Nadine El Khoury. Dubai, UAE.
2020. Jameel Arts Centre, Artist Garden Commission. Curated by Dawn Ross and Nadine El Khoury. Dubai, UAE.
2020. Jameel Arts Centre, Artist Garden Commission. Curated by Dawn Ross and Nadine El Khoury. Dubai, UAE.
2020. Jameel Arts Centre, Artist Garden Commission. Curated by Dawn Ross and Nadine El Khoury. Dubai, UAE.
2019. Delfina Foundation, London, United Kingdom. Curated by Dani Burrows.
2019. Delfina Foundation, London, United Kingdom. Curated by Dani Burrows.
2019. Delfina Foundation, London, United Kingdom. Curated by Dani Burrows.
2019. Delfina Foundation, London, United Kingdom. Curated by Dani Burrows.
2019. Delfina Foundation, London, United Kingdom. Curated by Dani Burrows.
2019. La construcción de lo posible (group show), XIII Bienal de la Habana, Cuba. Curated by Margarita González, Nelson Herrera, Margarita Sánchez, José Manuel Noceda, José Fernández, Ibis Hernández and Lisset Alonso.
2019. La construcción de lo posible (group show), XIII Bienal de la Habana, Cuba. Curated by Margarita González, Nelson Herrera, Margarita Sánchez, José Manuel Noceda, José Fernández, Ibis Hernández and Lisset Alonso.
2019. La construcción de lo posible (group show), XIII Bienal de la Habana, Cuba. Curated by Margarita González, Nelson Herrera, Margarita Sánchez, José Manuel Noceda, José Fernández, Ibis Hernández and Lisset Alonso.
2019. III Cervezas Alhambra Emerging Art in ArcoMadrid. Curated by Alicia Ventura.
2018. Submerged – On Rivers and Their Interrupted Flow (group show). CIC (Contemporary Image Collective), Cairo, Egypt. Curated by Andrea Thal y Ahmed Refaat.
2018. Submerged – On Rivers and Their Interrupted Flow (group show). CIC (Contemporary Image Collective), Cairo, Egypt. Curated by Andrea Thal y Ahmed Refaat.
2018. Submerged – On Rivers and Their Interrupted Flow (group show). CIC (Contemporary Image Collective), Cairo, Egypt. Curated by Andrea Thal y Ahmed Refaat.
2018. CAB (Centro de Arte de Burgos, Fundación Caja de Burgos), Burgos, Spain.
2018. CAB (Centro de Arte de Burgos, Fundación Caja de Burgos), Burgos, Spain.
2017. Festival of Political Photography. Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland. Curated by Tiina Rauhala.
2017. Festival of Political Photography. Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland. Curated by Tiina Rauhala.
2017. MAZ (Museo de Arte de Zapopan), Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico.
2017. Festival of Political Photography. Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland. Curated by Tiina Rauhala.
2017. Festival of Political Photography. Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland. Curated by Tiina Rauhala.
2015. Sharjah Biennial 12. Sharjah Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
2015. Sharjah Biennial 12. Sharjah Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
2015. Sharjah Biennial 12. Sharjah Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
2015. Sharjah Biennial 12. Sharjah Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
2012. Installation in Artellewa Art Space, Cairo, Egypt.
2012. Installation in Artellewa Art Space, Cairo, Egypt.
2012. Installation in Artellewa Art Space, Cairo, Egypt.
2012. Installation in Artellewa Art Space, Cairo, Egypt.
2008. Nomad Architecture Intervention, Guzmán, Burgos, Spain.
2008. Nomad Architecture Intervention, Guzmán, Burgos, Spain.
2008. Nomad Architecture Intervention, Guzmán, Burgos, Spain.
2008. Nomad Architecture Intervention, Guzmán, Burgos, Spain.
Asunción Molinos Gordo is a researcher and visual artist whose practice is deeply informed by anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. Her work focuses on contemporary peasantry and the historical processes of cultural disruption.
Her artistic practice challenges the categories that define “innovation” within dominant contemporary discourses, exploring the various forms of intellectual domination exercised by urban perspectives over rural realities. She understands small- and medium-scale farmers not merely as food producers, but as cultural agents responsible both for preserving traditional knowledge and for generating new forms of expertise to confront today’s challenges.
Working across sculpture, installation, textiles, photography, video, sound, and other media, Molinos examines the rural sphere. Driven by a strong desire to understand the value and complexity of its cultural production, as well as the forces that keep it isolated and marginalized, she has developed projects addressing the transformation of agricultural labor, the impact of biotechnology, the international food trade, transhumant architecture, peasant protests, the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the bureaucratization of territory, ancestral irrigation systems, and peasant approaches to building collective well-being.
In 2015, Molinos received the Sharjah Biennial Prize for her project WAM (World Agriculture Museum) and represented Spain at the 13th Havana Biennial in 2019. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid; Centre Pompidou Málaga; Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai; The Townhouse Gallery, Cairo; Darat al Funun, Amman; Arnolfini Centre for Contemporary Arts, Bristol; tranzit, Prague; Cappadox Festival, Uçhisar, Turkey; the Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki; MUSAC, León; CAB, Burgos; Matadero Madrid; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; and CA2M, Madrid, among others.
Her work is held in the collections of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; TBA21–Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary; CA2M; MUSAC; Museo del Traje; the Museum of History of Madrid; the Art Jameel Collection; The Khalid Shoman Collection; the Aileen Getty Collection; and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, among others.
She is currently represented by Travesía Cuatro (Madrid, Spain; Guadalajara, Mexico).
Molinos holds a BFA from the Complutense University of Madrid and an MA in Theory and Practice of Contemporary Fine Arts from the same institution. She also completed further studies in History and Anthropological Methodology at UNED–Escuelas Pías.
Wafaa El Nil, 2017. Ritual doll, egyptian cotton. 156 x 55 x 55 cm.
A Mayúscula, b minúscula, 2017.
Fayoum Ceramics.
21 x 23 x 3 cm each, 180 x 70 x 27 cm installation.
A Mayúscula, b minúscula.
2017.
Fayoum Ceramics.
21 x 23 x 3 cm each, 180 x 70 x 27 cm installation.
Profile of debt, 2017. Comb profilometer coated in 24k gold, 3 microns. 8 x 13 x 2cm.
Lake Burullus, 2017.
Fish head and tail belonging to the trays used commonly by egyptian elites in the 1950s, to serve the fish’s body ready to eat.
90 x 20 x 3 cm
Cultivando Desierto, 2017.
Paint on silk drawing from an aerial photograph of the Bahariya desert.
290 x 136 cm.
Buy the rumor, sell the news, 2014. Neón. 26 x 75 cm.
Cultivando Desierto, 2017.
Paint on silk drawing from an aerial photograph of the Bahariya desert.
290 x 136 cm.
Banco, 2014. Digital photograph on paper 120 x 85 cm.
Dumping, 2014. Serigraphed jute sacks, slings, carabiner. Variable dimensions.
Climate Biennial, Avilés | Asunción Molinos Gordo
Asunción Molinos Gordo is participating in the first edition of the Climate Biennial, Rehearsing the Unexpected, which will be on view in Avilés, Asturias, Spain, from June 12 to September 20, 2026. The Climate Biennial is a meeting space open to the public. It is a place where people and organizations from very different backgrounds come together to reflect, converse, imagine, and debate the great challenges of our time.
Guggenheim, Bilbao | Asunción Molinos Gordo
Asunción Molinos Gordo is participating in the group exhibition Artes de la Tierra (Arts of the Earth), which offers a reinterpretation of the transformations that artistic practices have undergone in recent decades against the backdrop of an increasingly evident and overwhelming environmental crisis. The exhibition, which is being held at the Guggenheim Bilbao, will be open to the public from December 5, 2025, to May 3, 2026.
ONOMATOPEE, Amsterdam | Asunción Molinos Gordo
Curated by Silvia Franceschini, Hydrographies is the second group exhibition in the five-year program Systems and Territories presented at Onomatopee, Amsterdam. The exhibition includes works by Asunción Molinos Gordo and it will be on view from June 6th to August 24th, 2025.
DÉJÀ VÉCU
Artist: Asunción Molinos Gordo
Texts by Andrea Pacheco González, Daniel Gil-Benumeya, Anouar Majid, Gabriela Wiener and Asunción Molinos Gordo.
CA2M & Clara Sancho Studio, 2024
Spanish |English
Hunger Machen
Artists: Asunción Molinos Gordo
Authors: Gustavo Duch, Anne Kersten and Asunción Molinos Gordo
Kunstverein Springhornhof in collaboration with State of Lower Saxony and Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung
2023
English and German
COMO SOLÍAMOS… Asunción Molinos Gordo
Artists: Asunción Molinos Gordo
Authors: Nuria Enguita, Sandra Moros, Ferran Esquilache, Asunción Molinos Gordo, Enric Navarro. Poema Ibn Jafaya
IVAM, Spain, 2021
English, Spanish, Valencian
XIII Bienal de la Habana. La construcción de lo posible.
Artists: Jorge Méndez Blake, Sara Ramo, Asunción Molinos Gordo
Authors: Norma Rodriguez Derivet, Nelson Herrera Ysla, Ticio Escobar, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, etc.
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam y ArteCubano Ediciones, Havana, 2019.
Bajo la superficie (miedos, monstruos, sombras)
Artists: Teresa Solar, Sara Ramo, Asunción Molinos Gordo
Authors: Javier Martín-Jiménez, Bea Espejo, Agustín Fernández Mallo, Marián López Fdez. Cao, Marta Echaves, Aurora Fernández Polanco, Marta Labad.
Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Condeduque, Madrid, 2021.
IN TRANSIT: Botany of a Journey
Artist: Asunción Molinos Gordo
Authors: Andrea Pacheco González, Antonia Carver, Dawn Ross, Nadine El-Khoury, Asunción Molinos Gordo
Art Jameel, Dubai, 2021
FOOD: Bigger than the plate
Artist: Asunción Molinos Gordo
Authors: Kathrin Böhm, Center for Genomic Gastronomy, Catherine Flood, Mateusz Halawa, Herkes Için Mimarlik, Fabio Parasecoli, Richard Pell, Barbara Penner, May Rosenthal Sloan, Sonja Stummerer and Martin Hablesreiter, Deborah Sugg Ryan
V&A Publishing, London, 2019
Politics of Food
Artist: Asunción Molinos Gordo
Editors: Aaron Cezar and Dani Burrows
Delfina Foundation and Sternberg Press, 2019
