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Teresa Solar Abboud
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaundengo, Torino, Italy, 2025.
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaundengo, Torino, Italy, 2025.
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaundengo, Torino, Italy, 2025.
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaundengo, Torino, Italy, 2025.
MACBA Museu d’arte Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain, 2024.
Photo by Miquel Coll
MACBA Museu d’arte Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain, 2024.
Photo by Miquel Coll
MACBA Museu d’arte Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain, 2024.
Photo by Miquel Coll
MACBA Museu d’arte Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain, 2024.
Photo by Miquel Coll
MACBA Museu d’arte Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain, 2024.
Photo by Miquel Coll
High Line, New York, USA. Courtesy of the artist and Travesía Cuatro. Photography by Daniel Forero.
High Line, New York, USA. Courtesy of the artist and Travesía Cuatro. Photography by Daniel Forero.
High Line, New York, USA. Courtesy of the artist and Travesía Cuatro. Photography by Daniel Forero.
High Line, New York, USA. Courtesy of the artist and Travesía Cuatro. Photography by Daniel Forero.
High Line, New York, USA. Courtesy of the artist and Travesía Cuatro. Photography by Daniel Forero.
Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain, 2024.
Photography by Roberto Ruiz
Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain, 2024.
Photography by Roberto Ruiz
Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain, 2024.
Photography by Roberto Ruiz
Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain, 2024.
Photography by Roberto Ruiz
Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain, 2024.
Photography by Roberto Ruiz
Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain, 2024.
Photography by Roberto Ruiz
Hayward Gallery, London, UK, 2024
Travesía Cuatro at Art Basel 2024 Unlimited. Basel, Switzerland, June, 2024.
Travesía Cuatro at Art Basel 2024 Unlimited. Basel, Switzerland, June, 2024.
Travesía Cuatro at Art Basel 2024 Unlimited. Basel, Switzerland, June, 2024.
Travesía Cuatro at Art Basel 2024 Unlimited. Basel, Switzerland, June, 2024.
Travesía Cuatro at Art Basel 2024 Unlimited. Basel, Switzerland, June, 2024.
Travesía Cuatro at Art Basel 2024 Unlimited. Basel, Switzerland, June, 2024.
Hayward Gallery, London, UK, 2024
Hayward Gallery, London, UK, 2024
Hayward Gallery, London, UK, 2024
Kuntshalle Lissabon, Lisbon, PT, 2023.
Kuntshalle Lissabon, Lisbon, PT, 2023.
Kuntshalle Lissabon, Lisbon, PT, 2023.
Kuntshalle Lissabon, Lisbon, PT, 2023.
Kuntshalle Lissabon, Lisbon, PT, 2023.
Kuntshalle Lissabon, Lisbon, PT, 2023.
Kuntshalle Lissabon, Lisbon, PT, 2023.
Kuntshalle Lissabon, Lisbon, PT, 2023.
Arsenale. International exhibition “The Milk of Dreams”
59th Venice Biennale 2022, curated by Cecilia Alemani.
Arsenale. International exhibition “The Milk of Dreams”
59th Venice Biennale 2022, curated by Cecilia Alemani.
Arsenale. International exhibition “The Milk of Dreams”
59th Venice Biennale 2022, curated by Cecilia Alemani.
Arsenale. International exhibition “The Milk of Dreams”
59th Venice Biennale 2022, curated by Cecilia Alemani.
Arsenale. International exhibition “The Milk of Dreams”
59th Venice Biennale 2022, curated by Cecilia Alemani.
1646, La Haya, Netherlands, 2022.
1646, La Haya, Netherlands, 2022.
1646, La Haya, Netherlands, 2022.
1646, La Haya, Netherlands, 2022.
1646, La Haya, Netherlands, 2022.
1646, La Haya, Netherlands, 2022.
1646, La Haya, Netherlands, 2022.
Liverpool Biennial 2021.
Curated by Manuela Moscoso.
Photos by Mark McNulty and Colin McPherson
Liverpool Biennial 2021.
Curated by Manuela Moscoso.
Photos by Mark McNulty and Colin McPherson
Liverpool Biennial 2021.
Curated by Manuela Moscoso.
Photos by Mark McNulty and Colin McPherson
Liverpool Biennial 2021.
Curated by Manuela Moscoso.
Photos by Mark McNulty and Colin McPherson Photography by Colin McPherson (@germanocean)
Liverpool Biennial 2021.
Curated by Manuela Moscoso.
Photos by Mark McNulty and Colin McPherson
Liverpool Biennial 2021.
Curated by Manuela Moscoso.
Photos by Mark McNulty and Colin McPherson
2019. (group show). La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain. Curated by Tania Pardo.
2019. (group show). La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain. Curated by Tania Pardo.
2019. (group show). La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain. Curated by Tania Pardo.
2019. CA2M (Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo), Madrid, Spain. Curated by Beatriz Alonso y Carlos Fernández Pello.
2019. CA2M (Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo), Madrid, Spain. Curated by Beatriz Alonso y Carlos Fernández Pello.
2019. CA2M (Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo), Madrid, Spain. Curated by Beatriz Alonso y Carlos Fernández Pello.
2019. CA2M (Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo), Madrid, Spain. Curated by Beatriz Alonso y Carlos Fernández Pello.
2019. Index Foundation (The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation), Stockholm, Sweden.
2019. Index Foundation (The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation), Stockholm, Sweden.
2019. Index Foundation (The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation), Stockholm, Sweden.
2019. Index Foundation (The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation), Stockholm, Sweden.
2018. Der Tank (Kunst Institut Basel), Switzerland. Curated by Chus Martínez.
2018. Der Tank (Kunst Institut Basel), Switzerland. Curated by Chus Martínez.
2018. Der Tank (Kunst Institut Basel), Switzerland. Curated by Chus Martínez.
2018. Der Tank (Kunst Institut Basel), Switzerland. Curated by Chus Martínez.
2018. Der Tank (Kunst Institut Basel), Switzerland. Curated by Chus Martínez.
2018. Der Tank (Kunst Institut Basel), Switzerland. Curated by Chus Martínez.
2018. Abierto x obras. Matadero Madrid (Centro de Creación Contemporánea), Spain.
2018. Abierto x obras. Matadero Madrid (Centro de Creación Contemporánea), Spain.
2018. Abierto x obras. Matadero Madrid (Centro de Creación Contemporánea), Spain.
2018. Abierto x obras. Matadero Madrid (Centro de Creación Contemporánea), Spain.
2018. Abierto x obras. Matadero Madrid (Centro de Creación Contemporánea), Spain.
2017-2019. IX KölnSkulptur, Cologne, Germany. Curated by Chus Martínez.
2017-2019. IX KölnSkulptur, Cologne, Germany. Curated by Chus Martínez.
2015. The Green Parrot, Barcelona, Spain.
2015. The Green Parrot, Barcelona, Spain.
2015. The Green Parrot, Barcelona, Spain.
2015. The Green Parrot, Barcelona, Spain.
2014. Matadero Madrid (Centro de Creación Contemporánea), Spain.
2014. Matadero Madrid (Centro de Creación Contemporánea), Spain.
2014. Matadero Madrid (Centro de Creación Contemporánea), Spain.
2014. Matadero Madrid (Centro de Creación Contemporánea), Spain.
2012. CA2M (Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo), Madrid, Spain. Curated by Tania Pardo.
2012. CA2M (Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo), Madrid, Spain. Curated by Tania Pardo.
2012. CA2M (Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo), Madrid, Spain. Curated by Tania Pardo.
The work of Teresa Solar Abboud (1985. Madrid, Spain) is based on the morphology of speech and, by extension, of thought. Concepts such as resistance, insulation, tightness and immunity are developed through a multidisciplinary production focused on sculpture and drawing, and based on the creation of multi-layered narratives. Throats, pores, hatches, tongues, pipes, her pieces are charged with connotations of connectivity and flow. Hers is a practice full of words and organs that create words: a chatty work that doubts itself but nevertheless wants to talk.
In recent years, Solar Abboud has developed large-format installations in which families of sister sculptures vary in shape and size, creating complex ecosystems of thought. The reflection about the great stories of progress in contemporary society are opposed to micro- narratives that have to do with her own body: sports injuries, stuttering and daily transits through her city are a fundamental part of her language. She takes up the space with pieces of very different size and materiality: clay, found objects and human symbols coexist. Teresa Solar Abboud approaches these relationships from an organic sensibility, as if they were bodily functions, but she also accentuates the complex system of relationships in the industrial world, where hybrid forms of existence that combine organic and synthetic properties are constantly being produced, and reproduced. She understands the clay as a metaphor of the relationship of mankind with the geological mantle on which our civilizations lay, and thus creates —through the intrinsic insulating qualities of the material— cavernous systems that tell stories of self-protection and isolation.
Her first retrospective, Sueño Máquina de Pájaro, was on view at MACBA (Barcelona) and is accompanied by her first artist’s monograph. It is the second chapter of her solo show at CA2M (Madrid), the third will take place at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Torino) in April 2025. Among her latest projects are Birth of Islands at The High Line NYC (New York), and was part of the group show When Forms Come Alive at Hayward Gallery in London (2024).
She took part in the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Cecilia Alemani (2022). In 2021 she took part in the Liverpool Biennial curated by Manuela Moscoso with a public art installation at Exchange Flags titled Osteoclast. She also took part in KölnSkulptur #9 curated by Chus Martínez in Cologne (2017-2019).
Recent solo shows include Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon; 1646, The Hague; Matadero, Madrid; Index Foundation, Stockholm; Der TANK, Institut Kunst in Basel. She has taken part in group shows at Pinchuk Foundation, Kiev; Museo de Arte Abstracto, Cuenca, Spain; Centro Conde Duque, Madrid; Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain; Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain; CA2M, Madrid; Haus der Kunst, Münich, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander; Maxxi, Rome; General Public, Berlin; Kunstverein, München; and La Casa Encendida, Madrid.
Her work is part of public collections such as: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain; TBA21 Thyssen- Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Madrid, Spain; Colección Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain; Colección CA2M – Comunidad de Madrid, Spain; Colección MAEC Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación, Madrid, Spain; Colección Fundación Coca-Cola, Madrid, Spain, and the Colección Museo FRAC Corse, France, among others.
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino | Teresa Solar Abboud
Bird Dream Machine is the third chapter of Teresa Solar Abboud’s retrospective. This exhibition is now on view at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, in Torino, Italy, and will be on view until October 12, 2025.
Kunsthaus Hamburg | Teresa Solar Abboud
Teresa Solar Abboud will be part of the group exhibition Over Land and Sea curated by Anna Nowak, which tells the migratory history of humanity, its present and its future, at the Kunsthaus Hamburg, in Germany. The exhibition will be on view from April 6 to July 7, 2025.
IMPULSE, review: “Tu sombra sustituida” by Lodoe Laura
“Solar Abboud engages with not only the human, but also the geologic, the parasitic, the marine, the animal, and the mythical, citing a symbiosis and shared biological constitution that emerges from the soil.” Read the complete review in IMPULSE.
TERESA SOLAR ABBOUD
Artist: Teresa Solar Abboud
Texts by Tania Pardo, Claudia Segura, Irene Calderoni, Chus Martínez, Manuela Moscosoand a interview between the artist and Cecilia Alemani.
CA2M & This Side Up
Spanish| English
When Forms Come Alive: Sixty Years of Restless Sculpture
Artists: Teresa Solar Abboud y otros.
Authors: Ralph Rugoff and Natalie Rudd
The Hayward Gallery, London, UK, 2024
English
The Happy Fact. A popular mechanics of feelings.
Artist: Teresa Solar
Authors: Tania Pardo, Josep Maria Esquirol, Esther Gatón, Eva Rowson.
La Casa Encendida de Fundación Montemadrid, 2019.
Colección de Arte Banco Sabadell / Banco Sabadell Art Collection
Contemporary Artists III
Artists: Jose Dávila, Teresa Solar
Author: Miquel Molins.
Banco Sabadell, 2020.
KölnSkulptur #9 : La fin de Babylone, mich wundert, dass ich so fröhlich bin !
Artist: Teresa Solar
Editors: Chus Martínez, Stiftung Skulpturenpark Köln.
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2020.
Itinerarios XXII : renderizando la realidad
Artists: Teresa Solar, Sara Ramo
Authors: Alexandra Laudo, Benjamin Weil.
Fundación Botín, Santander, 2016.
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.
