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Asunción Molinos Gordo
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 (b. 1979, Aranda de Duero, Burgos, Spain) is a researcher and visual artist strongly influenced by disciplines such as anthropology, sociology and cultural studies. She questions the categories that define “innovation” in mainstream discourses today, working to generate a less urban-centric way of understanding progress.
The main focus of her work is contemporary peasantry. Her understanding of the figure of the small or medium farmer is not merely as food producer but as cultural agent, responsible for both perpetuating traditional knowledge and for generating new expertise. She employs installation, photography, video, sound and other media to examine the rural realm driven by a strong desire to understand the value and complexity of its cultural production, as well as the burdens that keep it invisible and marginalized.
She has produced work reflecting on land usage, nomad architecture, farmers’ strikes, bureaucracy on territory, transformation of rural labor, biotechnology and global food trade.
Molinos Gordo won the Sharjah Biennial Prize 2015 with her project WAM (World Agriculture Museum) and represented Spain at the XIII Havana Biennial in 2019. In 2020 she was commissioned to create Art Jameel’s Artist Garden, in Dubai, where she presented the project In Transit: Botany of Journey. She was also part of the Cuenca Biennial in Ecuador curated by Blanca de la Torre in 2021.
Her work has been exhibited at venues including Springhornhof Kunstverein (Neuenkirchen, Germany); Art Jameel (Dubai, UAE); IVAM Institut Valencia d’Art Modern (Valencia, Spain); Victoria & Albert Museum (London, UK); Delfina Foundation (London, UK); ARNOLFINI (Bristol, UK); CCA (Glasgow, Escocia); The Townhouse Gallery (Cairo, EG); Darat Al Funun (Amman, JO); Tranzit (Prague, CZ); ART BASEL Miami Beach (US); Cappadox Festival (Uchisar-Turkey); The Finnish Museum of Photography (Helsinki, FI); Museo Carrillo Gil (Mexico); MAZ Museo de Arte de Zapopan (Guadalajara, MX); MUSAC (León, ES); CA2M (Madrid, ES); CAB (Burgos, ES); Matadero (Madrid, ES) and La Casa Encendida (Madrid, ES), among others.
Her work is part of public collections including ThyssenBornemisza Art Contemporary Foundation (TBA21), Vienna, Austria; Colección CA2M Comunidad de Madrid, Spain; Colección DKV, Spain; Fundación Calosa, Irapuato, Mexico;Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, US; The Khalid Shoman Collection Darat Al Funun, Amman, Jordania; Aileen Getty collection.
She obtained her B.F.A. from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where she also pursued her Master in Contemporary Art Theory and Practice. She is currently studying Anthropology and Ethnography at UNED (Spain).
Molinos Gordo lives and works in Madrid, Spain.
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.
MURAL.COM.MX: “Muestra Molinos arte contra la lógica del ‘progreso’” by Alejandra Carrillo
“In a research work related to the irrigation systems of the orchard of Valencia, of the Muslim peasant communities before the colonial wars and the construction of the Nation State of Spain, as well as the pre-Columbian peoples in Ecuador and in other parts of the world, she made ‘¡Cuánto río allá arriba!’, a series of sculptural pieces made of clay that are shown in the tapatía headquarters of Travesía Cuatro Gallery”. Continue reading on MURAL.
SPRINGHORNHOF KUNSTVEREIN | Asunción Molinos Gordo
Asunción Molinos Gordo opens Hunger machen «Making Hunger» at Springhornhof Kunstverein, Neuenkirchen, Germany. The exhibition showcases the result of her artist residency as the first recipient of the REISESTIPENDIUM Europe scholarship in Lower Saxony, funded by the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung and the state of Lower Saxony. On view until December 23 2022.
JAMEEL ARTS CENTRE | Asunción Molinos Gordo
Asunción Molinos will be part of the exhibition An Ocean in Every Drop at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, with a group of sculptures. On view until April 2, 2023.
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
