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Teresa Solar Abboud
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.
CA2M, Madrid, Spain, 2024.
CA2M, Madrid, Spain, 2024.
CA2M, Madrid, Spain, 2024.
CA2M, Madrid, Spain, 2024.
CA2M, Madrid, Spain, 2024.
CA2M, Madrid, Spain, 2024.
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.
Teresa Solar Abboud’s imaginary 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. Throat, pore, hatch, tongue, pipe, her pieces are populated with connotations of connectivity and flow. Hers is a practice full of words and full of organs that create words: a talkative 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 expressive sphere. She takes up the space with pieces of very different size and materiality: clay, found objects and human symbols coexist in her work. 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. She interprets the clay as a metaphor for 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 with which to tell stories of self-protection and isolation.
Her current solo exhibition at CA2M in Madrid will travel to MACBA in Barcelona in 2024 and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Torino in 2025, and it will be accompanied by the publishing of her first monograph. In 2024 she will also open a major commission at The High Line in New York City.
She participated 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 participated in KölnSkulptur #9 curated by Chus Martínez in Cologne (2017-2019).
Recent solo shows include venues such as the Hayward Gallery in London, UK; 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 in Berlin; Kunstverein München; and La Casa Encendida, Madrid.
Her work is part of public collections such as: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 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 Córcega, France, among others.
Teresa Solar Abboud lives and works in Madrid, Spain.
MAZ, Zapopan | Teresa Solar Abboud & Jorge Méndez Blake
Ficciones. Narratividad en el arte contemporáneo is the exhibition curated by Ferran Barenblit at MAZ, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, in Jalisco, Mexico. The exhibition will be open from November 29, 2024 to April 20, 2025. 2025. This show includes works by Jorge Méndez Blake and Teresa Solar Abboud.
ART BASEL, Miami Beach 2024 | Travesía Cuatro
Travesía Cuatro will be at booth D22 at Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach, at the Convention Center, Miami Beach, Florida.
Private days: December 4 – 5
Public days: December 6 – 8
Artists: Álvaro Urbano, Teresa Solar Abboud Donna Huanca, Manuel Solano, Ana Prata, John Isaacs, Jorge Méndez Blake, Milena Muzquiz, Willa Wasserman, Sara Ramo, Ángela de la Cruz, Jorge Eielson, Eleonore Koch and Gonzalo Lebrija
KUNTSHALLE LISSABON, Lisboa l Teresa Solar Abboud
Quinze Anos de Amor na República dos Pangolins is the group exhibition at Kuntshalle Lissabon, in Lisbon, Portugal, featuring Teresa Solar Abboud. The exhibition curated by Filipa Ramos will be open until December 14, 2024.
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.
