Gabriel Alonso is a Visual Artist, formed between Madrid, Berlin, and New York. In his works, through various formats such as installation, sculpture, photography or video, he investigates contemporary relationships between aesthetics, science and postnature. His latest projects explore post-romantic assemblies of the natural, activating a change of perspective regarding the relationships between archeology, geology and human culture.
In 2020 he founded the Institute of Postnatural Studies, a platform for research and creation from which to discuss new approaches to artistic practice through political ecology, post-natural aesthetics, and new ethics of creation that contribute to the definitive dissolution of the nature-culture binomial.
His work has been exhibited in different galleries and international exhibitions, such as Matadero 2019 (Madrid), John Doe Gallery 2018 (New York), IIAF2018 (New York), Poor Media Leuven 2016 (Belgium), Espacio Las Aguas 2015(Madrid) , Mila Gallery 2014 (Berlin) among others. He has been an assistant professor at the Barnard College of Columbia University (Nyc) and in the Master in Advanced Architecture of ETSAM, and has given several conferences indifferent international institutions, museums and universities.In 2020, he received Creation Grant from the Madrid City Council for his project The Mammalian Retina. In 2015, he received the FAD award for his publication Desierto, and in 2016, he was awarded one of the prestigious Graham Foundation for the Fine Arts Grants.
SOLO SHOWS
2020
It feeds on countless hungers, Gomeznarro - Madrid, SP
2018
An Archaeology of Containment, JohnDoe Gallery, N. York, USA
2018
Olho de Inseto, Lisboa, PT
2018
All Earth was but one thought, One Eyed, Nueva York, USA
2018
An alternative history of matter, Feria Internacional de Arte Independiente, Nueva York, USA
2017
There is no outside, Space 231, Nueva York, USA
2017
Articular lo Natural, Espacio Lago, Madrid, SP
2016
La ciudad Adentro, Espacio Las Aguas, Madrid, SP
2012
Première, Galería Raquel Ponce, Madrid, SP
2012
Première, Pinacoteca de Munich, Munich, GER
2011
Nektar, Mila Gallery, Berlin, GER
GROUP SHOWS
2019
Eco-Visionaries: Art for a Planet in Emergency, curated by Pedro Gadanho & Mariana Pestana, Matadero. Madrid, SP
2019
Petra, Museu de Menorca, Menorca, SP
2019
OffArco, Espositivo & Pasto Galeria, Madrid, SP
2018
Documents (To Come), Sala de Exposiciones Arquería de Nuevos Ministerios, Madrid, SP
2018
Becoming, Spanish Pavilion at Venice Bienale, Venecia, IT
2018
Iaaf, International Independent Art Fair, Nueva York, USA
2017
Triangular at SEA(S), Kefalonia, GR
2016
Poor Media, KU[N]ST Leuven vzw, NL
2015
Soft fossile records, Parentesis, COAM, Madrid, SP
2015
Collapse, La casa Encendida, Madrid, SP
2012
International UF, Centro Centro, Madrid, SP
2012
Argonautas Inanes, CA2M, Pic–nic sessions, Madrid, SP
2011
Gestern träumte Ich das nichts passiert, Neuköln Kunstfestival, Berlin, GER
PUBLICATIONS AND SELECTED WRITINGS
2019
Critical Postnatural Geologies, Bartlebooth: Beyond Human
2019
Broken Nature:
XXI Triennale de Milano, Green Glass Rocks and Red Clouds: Postnuclear Media Objects of the Anthropocene, Milán, IT
2015
Desierto #4 Money, SP
2014
Desierto #3 28º CELSIUS, SP
2014
Desierto #2 PARTYTOPIAS, SP
2014
Heterotope, SP-GER
2014
Emergency Spaces, Revista COAM. Madrid, SP
2013
Desierto #1 TRANCE, SP