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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 work is primarily focused on contemporary peasantry and the historical processes of cultural disruption. In her artistic practice, she questions the categories that define “innovation” in today’s dominant discourses, exploring the various forms of intellectual domination of the urban over the rural. Her understanding of small and medium-scale farmers is not limited to that of food producers, but extends to that of cultural agents, responsible both for perpetuating traditional knowledge and for generating new forms of learning to confront current challenges.
Molinos works with sculpture, installation, textile, photography, video, sound, and other media to examine the rural sphere. She has produced works on the transformation of agrarian labor, the impact of biotechnology, international food trade, transhumant architecture, peasant protests, the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) and the bureaucratization of territory, ancestral irrigation systems, and peasant forms of building wellbeing.
Her work has been exhibited at venues including Guggenheim (Bilbao, Spain); Collegium (Arévalo, Spain) Pompidou Museum (Málaga, Spain); Les Abattoirs Museum (Toulouse, France); 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); 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.
She has been part of the 1st Climate Biennale, Avilés, Spain (2026); the Biennale of Contemporary Keramics in Rhodes, Greece (2026); the XII Lanzarote Biennial (2024); the Prague Biennale and Helsinki Bienniales (2023); the Cuenca Biennial in Ecuador (2021); the XIII Havana Biennial (2019) and the Sharjah Biennial of 2015 where she won the Biennale Prize with her project WAM.
Her work is part of permanent collections including the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia; Thyssen-Bornemisza 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, Jordan; Aileen Getty Collection, US.
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.
Onda MX: Review On ‘De aquellos barros, estos lodos’ by Jimena Cervantes
“Thousands of years ago, a stone was born from the eruption of a volcano. Centuries later, it found a place among the foundations of a great city that time would turn into ruin. Today it survives, fragmented beneath my feet, on the floor of a gallery.” Continue reading the review of the exhibition by Asunción Molinos Gordo, in Onda MX.
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.
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
