Past
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Maciej Kość
Velvet Dawns 12 Sep - 8 Nov 2024 Maciej Ko ść (b. 2001 in Lodz, Poland) graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2024 and is now continuing his studies at the prestigious London’s Royal College of Art. Velvet Dawns is his first solo exhibition at VETA by Fer Francés where he was invited for a residency over... Read more -
Abraham Lacalle
El verdor terrible 12 Sep - 8 Nov 2024 “The attack at Ypres was overseen by the father of this new method of war, the Jewish chemist Fritz Haber [...]. Haber was declared a war criminal by the Allies, though they were no less keen in their use of gas than the Central Powers. He was forced to flee... Read more -
The Fire Keepers
Eduardo Sarabia y Lorena Peña 12 Sep - 8 Nov 2024 In different cultures, myths and legends have emerged to question how fire has come into the hands of humanity. In all of them, respect for this element as a creative force but also of destruction, is the center of each narrative in which wise characters, human or non-human, acquired mystical... Read more -
Ryan Travis Christian
WELL, HERE'S TO FEELING GOOD ALL OF THE TIME 12 Jun - 30 Aug 2024 Ryan Travis Christian (California, 1983) is a contemporary artist known for his densely detailed graphite drawings that combine witty observation with a vintage cartoon aesthetic. Born in Oakland, California, and currently based in the Chicago suburbs, Christian studied at Northern Illinois University. His works, which include amorphous characters, dizzying patterns... Read more -
Julio Galindo
LA RAVE DE DIOS 12 Jun - 30 Aug 2024 The work of ceramist Julio Galindo (Badajoz, 1988) is a platform from which he proposes a new mythology that explores terms such as the sacred, the spiritual and the religious. His pieces question concepts such as religiosity or sanctity, trying to update these notions from a contemporary point of view.... Read more -
Group Shoe 4
12 Jun - 30 Aug 2024 Curated by Mario Ayala Group Shoe 4 is a group exhibition curated by Mario Ayala, featuring works by 63 artists from his community of friends and collaborators. It is the fourth edition Group Shoe exhibition series, the first outside the United States, and features artists working in a variety of... Read more -
La Veta del Sur
Julio Galindo, Abraham lacalle, Cristina Lama, Juan de Morenilla, Manuel ocampo, Matías Sánchez, Santiago Ydáñez 10 - 28 Apr 2024 VETA by Fer Francés gallery presents 'La Veta del Sur', a fascinating exhibition that comes to Seville with the purpose of reformulating the Andalusian clichés and the different traditional manifestations of the capital of Andalusia. Seven artists, with diverse styles but united by a common look, invite us to rediscover... Read more -
Traces of Life: Global Figuration
Alex Becerra, Adrian Ghenie, Kang Haoxian, Yayoi Kusama, Cristina Lama, Liu Bin, Christian Rex Van Minnen, Juan de Dios Morenilla, Mr., Yoshitomo Nara,Erik Parker, Matías Sánchez, Devan Shimoyama, Henry Taylor 25 - 30 Mar 2024 Onfinitive Art Foundation, Hong Kong, and VETA by Fer Francés, Madrid, Spain, are pleased to announce their first collaborative exhibition; ‘Traces of Life: Global Figuration’ . Curated by Fer Francés the group exhibition presents contemporary figurative painting as refracted by 14 important and emerging painters who span several generations and... Read more -
Forever Young
Katherine Bernhardt, Javier Calleja, George Condo, Kaws, Yoshitomo Nara, Erik Parker, Marion Peck, Mark Ryden, Peter Saul, Kenny Scharf, Todd Schorr, Rose Wylie 6 Mar - 25 May 2024 VETA by Fer Francés is pleased to present Forever Young, a group exhibition that brings together works by some of the most prestigious artists in the contemporary art scene worldwide. Artists who have forged a celebrated and enduring career, maintaining over time a prolific, consistent body of work of exceptional... Read more -
Juan de Morenilla
Dog Bless You 6 Mar - 25 May 2024 Dog Bless You is the second solo exhibition of the artist Juan de Morenilla (Spain, 1992) at VETA by Fer Francés. The paintings, made specifically for the exhibition, draw from Flemish and Spanish baroque painting, enhancing these influences through contact with a personal universe reminiscent of comics or animated series... Read more -
Beauties and beasts
Razvan Boar, Daniel Dobarco, Luis de la Fuente, Alex Gambin, Lisa Ivory, Maite y Manuel, Gema Quiles 6 Mar - 25 May 2024 Beauties and beasts is the first group exhibition curated by Juan de Morenilla at VETA by Fer Francés. The works gathered for this exhibition coincide in an approach to the aesthetic mythology created around the concepts of the beautiful and the grotesque, but from a perspective that does not confront... Read more -
Pintores de Pintores: VETA by Fer Francés at Plaza de Colón
Alex Becerra, Dis Berlin, Lisse Declerq, Jorge Galindo, Julio Galindo, Kang Haoxian, Maciej Kosc, Abraham Lacalle, Cristina Lama, Brendan Lynch, Bernhard Martin, Christian van Minnen, Juan de Morenilla, Manuel Ocampo, Matías Sánchez, Santiago ydáñez 4 - 10 Mar 2024 'Pintores de Pintores', an exhibition by VETA by Fer Francés brings to this emblematic space the work of several generations of creators with an exhibition featuring 16 artists who vindicate painting. Until 10 March, visitors will be able to admire the work of renowned artists who have also exhibited in... Read more -
Christian Rex Van Minnen
La luz atrapada 16 Nov 2023 - 21 Feb 2024 'Madrid is one of painting's Holy places, and it’s with a mixture of nervous humility and grateful excitement I present La Luz Atrapada at VETA by Fer Francés”. Christian Rex van Minnen has produced, during this past year and specifically for his first solo show at the gallery, a body... Read more -
Vincent Cy Chen
Nocturnal Moonrise 16 Nov 2023 - 21 Feb 2024 New York-based artist Vincent Cy Chen carefully weaves themes of sexuality, otherness, euphoria and spirituality into his illuminating sculptures. VETA by Fer Francés is pleased to present Nocturnal Moonrise, his first solo exhibition in Spain. Chen's work is at once seductive and menacing, beautiful and grotesque. Drawing inspiration from human... Read more -
Atanda Adebayo, Cristina Lama, Matías Sánchez, Santiago Ydáñez
Rostros 16 Nov 2023 - 21 Feb 2024 The group exhibition Rostros approaches the classic theme of the figurative portrait from the contemporary artistic practice of four different artists. Either from the unavoidable identity context from where it is produced, or attending to the pictorial work process itself as a generator of the work or, finally, from the... Read more -
Devan Shimoyama
A Closer Look 14 Sep - 8 Nov 2023 VETA by Fer Francés is pleased to present A Closer Look, the first exhibition of Devan Shimoyama (USA, 1989) at the gallery. Shimoyama is one of the most unique artists on the American scene today. His work explores themes related to queer, gender identity and race. Drawing on a wide... Read more -
Lisse Declercq
I Don't Shine if You Don't Shine 14 Sep - 8 Nov 2023 German-born, belgian artist Lisse Declercq is known for the visual pleasure within her artistic practice and for the specific methods in which she works. Declercq elaborated her painting techniques and foundations by watching makeup tutorials on Youtube. She bends this language to stage social selfies, an awareness of a certain... Read more -
Dis Berlin
Poemas Soñados 14 Sep - 8 Nov 2023 VETA by Fer Francés is pleased to present Poemas Soñados, the first exhibition of Dis Berlin (Spain, 1959) at the gallery, the result of a collaboration with the historic Guillermo de Osma gallery. Dis Berlin is one of the most important artists of contemporary Spanish figuration. Since his first exhibition... Read more -
Abraham Lacalle
Brilliant Pink 14 Jun - 6 Sep 2023 VETA by Fer Francés is pleased to present the third solo exhibition of one of the most outstanding figures of the Spanish contemporary art scene: Abraham Lacalle. Naming the title of the exhibition after a color is a transversal and meta-narrative approach to the theme of the exhibition: it means... Read more -
Bernhard Martin
La Misura dello Spirito 14 Jun - 6 Sep 2023 Bernhard Martin (1966, Hannover, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. He has exhibited his work in galleries and museums around the world, including solo exhibitions at the Thaddaeus Ropac and Thomas Schulte galleries, as well as at MoMA PS1 in New York and the Arario Museum in Seoul. For all... Read more -
Erik Parker
High Hopes 14 Jun - 6 Sep 2023 VETA by Fer Francés is pleased to present High Hopes, a major solo exhibition by artist Erik Parker. Born in 1968, Stuttgart, Germany, Parker was raised in Texas and, in the late 1990s, settled in New York, where he combined his art studies with gallery work until he was finally... Read more -
Manuel Ocampo
Cuadros para un manicomio 27 Apr - 17 Jun 2023 Cuadros para un manicomio is the first solo exhibition of Manuel Ocampo (Philippines, 1965) at VETA Gallery by Fer Francés. The title itself jokingly anticipates possible interpretations of the show and, this is so, due to the motley imaginary that the artist manages together with a planned and false lack... Read more -
Atanda Adebayo
This Water Knows our Story Part II 22 Feb - 20 May 2023 This is a project by the artist Atanda Quadri Adebayo, curated by Fer Francés and commisioned by VETA. The first part of this show took place in Makoko, a district of Lagos ( Nigeria ) and was the first solo show by the artist at this country. Makoko is the... Read more -
Elmer Guevara
(Dirty Realism: Otra Noche en L.A.) 22 Feb - 5 May 2023 VETA by Fer Francés presents the solo exhibition of Elmer Guevara as part of Dirty Realism: Otra Noche en L.A. Elmer Guevara (b.1990) was born and raised in Los Angeles and is currently working bicoastally in New York City. In the 1980s, his parents fled a war-torn El Salvador finding... Read more -
Eduardo Sarabia
Nuevos Hallazgos (Dirty Realism: Otra Noche en L.A.) 22 Feb - 5 May 2023 VETA by Fer Francés presents the solo exhibition of Eduardo Sarabia as part of Dirty Realism: Otra Noche en L.A. 'Nuevos Hallazgos' is the first solo exhibition by Eduardo Sarabia at VETA by Fer Francés. This proyect specially made for the gallery, implacates a vision of future. 'Nuevos Hallazgos' works... Read more -
Raul Baltazar
(Dirty Realism: Otra Noche en L.A.) 22 Feb - 5 May 2023 VETA by Fer Francés presents the solo exhibition of Raul Baltazar as part of Dirty Realism: Otra Noche en L.A. Raul Baltazar (b.1972, Los Angeles) is an artist who works through aesthetic notions given in Mesoamerican and Western culture. Baltazar often mixes performance, video, photography, drawing, painting, murals, and community-based... Read more -
Georgina Treviño
(Dirty Realism: Otra Noche en L.A.) 22 Feb - 5 May 2023 VETA by Fer Francés presents the solo exhibition of Georgina Treviño as part of Dirty Realism: Otra Noche en L.A. Georgina Treviño (1989, Mexico) is a multidisciplinary artist who works with the language of jewelry. She has worked with numerous fashion stylists such as Diana Hernandez with whom she collaborated... Read more -
María Maea
(Dirty Realism: Otra Noche en L.A.) 22 Feb - 5 May 2023 VETA by Fer Francés presents the solo exhibition of Maria Maea as part of Dirty Realism: Otra Noche en L.A. María Maea is a multidisciplinary artist working in production, installation and performance. Maea's creative approach is created and progresses through what she sees in the garden: cycles of life, death... Read more -
Gabriela Ruiz
(Dirty Realism: Otra Noche en L.A.) 22 Feb - 5 May 2023 VETA by Fer Francés presents the solo exhibition of Gabriela Ruiz as part of Dirty Realism: Otra Noche en L.A. Gabriela Ruiz (California, 1991) is a self-taught artist whose practice blends diverse forms of expression and media, including sculpture, video, painting, and apparel design. Strongly inflenced by growing up in... Read more -
Alex Becerra
(Dirty Realism: Otra Noche en L.A.) 22 Feb - 5 May 2023 VETA by Fer Francés presents the solo exhibition of Alex Becerra as part of Dirty Realism: Otra Noche en L.A. Working in painting, drawing, and sculpture, Alex Becerra (California, 1989) explores the way we view modernity, oftern chopped up into bits and sliced together. Rooted in the deep history of... Read more -
Michael Alvarez
(Dirty Realism: Otra Noche en L.A.) 22 Feb - 5 May 2023 VETA by Fer Francés presents the solo exhibition of Michael Alvarez as part of Dirty Realism: Otra Noche en L.A. Michael Alvarez (1983, Los Angeles) , is a figurative artist from Los Angeles, fascinated by human interactions, experiences and history. His paintings are inspired by his collection of visual artifacts,... Read more -
Bryan Ali Sánchez
(Dirty Realism: Otra Noche e L.A.) 22 Feb - 5 May 2023 VETA by Fer Francés presents the solo exhibition of Bryan Ali Sanchez as part of Dirty Realism: Otra Noche en L.A. Bryan Ali Sanchez, born in San Diego, California, is a painter whose work examines and highlights the inequalities between social classes and cultural differences, to which he adds his... Read more -
Jaime Muñoz
(Dirty Realism: Otra Noche en L.A.) 22 Feb - 5 May 2023 VETA by Fer Francés presents the solo exhibition of Jaime Muñoz as part of Dirty Realism: Otra Noche en L.A. Jaime Muñoz was born in Los Angeles, and received a B.A. in Fine Art from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2016. He currently lives and works in... Read more -
Erick Medel
(Dirty Realism: Otra Noche en L.A.) 22 Feb - 5 May 2023 VETA by Fer Francés presents the solo exhibition of Erick Medel as part of Dirty Realism: Otra Noche en L.A. Erick Medel (b.1992, Puebla, Mexico) is an artist who works with embroidery, an uncommon technique nowadays, with which he represents the everyday life of Los Angeles from the point of... Read more -
Diana Yesenia, Mario Ayala, Sayre Gómez, Alfonso González JR
(Dirty Realism: Otra Noche en L.A.) 22 Feb - 5 May 2023 It is a pleasure to present Dirty Realism: Another Night in L.A., a set of twelve exhibitions by artists from Los Angeles and the surrounding area. This exhibition is part of a survey that began with the exhibition Los AngelitXs, curated by Fer Francés in 2021. A study of a... Read more -
Kang Haoxian
Eye of Medusa 15 Dec 2022 - 4 Feb 2023 ‘Eye of Medusa’ the second solo show by Kang Haoxian (China, 1989) at the gallery. Kang Haoxian’s works are inspired by the atmosphere of Los Angeles, where the artist lived for a while. In his own words “Los Angeles is a place to party for everyone of any hierarchy. It... Read more -
Atanda Adebayo
This water knows our story 26 - 27 Nov 2022 We are pleased to announce the opening of 'This water knows our story' in Makoko, an informal settlement of Lagos (Nigeria). This is a VETA project by Nigerian artist Atanda Adebayo, curated by Fer Francés and the artist’s first solo show in Nigeria (Africa) which will continue at the gallery... Read more -
Julio Galindo
Post - Apocalipsis 30 Sep - 11 Nov 2022 'Post-apocalipsis' is the second solo show by Julio Galindo in VETA by Fer Francés. The exhibition poses an allegory about what the near future could be like if the human being were to become extinct, questioning our existence and the mark we leave as a species in the world and... Read more -
Santiago Ydáñez
El último baño 30 Sep - 30 Nov 2022 'El último baño' presents Santiago Ydáñez's first oil paintings which, in the words of the writer and curator Luis Francisco Pérez, 'possess a rare and very attractive quality that I would define as that of a narrative condition of the image, but trying to specify a little more I would... Read more -
ATLAS RCR
Un itinerario por once obras 17 Jun - 17 Sep 2022 'ALTAS RCR. An itinerary through eleven works' is the first show by RCR Arquitectes at VETA by Fer Francés. The exhibition is a journey through the most outstanding projects of this prestigious studio, winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2017. Among them, we can highlight the renovation project of VETA... Read more -
OPS, El Roto, Andrés Rábago
Tres en uno 10 Jun - 3 Sep 2022 It may not be easy to accommodate three artists as different as OPS, El Roto and Rábago in a common space. However, as soon as his work is analysed, the viewer will find within them a link, a common air. Something that keeps them situated in concentric orbits. At a... Read more -
Theresa Chromati
VETA Residency, Interlude in Crusted Wounds 12 May - 30 Jul 2022 VETA by Fer Francés is pleased to present the first solo show by Theresa Chromati (Baltimore, USA, 1992) in Spain entitled Interlude in Crusted Wounds. The show presents an intimate new suite of work created during Chromati’s residency in Madrid. Chromati’s work expands the traditional boundaries of painting through fragmented... Read more -
Atanda Quadri Adebayo
Ori 23 Feb - 25 May 2022 'Ori' is the first show by Atanda Quadri Adebayo at VETA by Fer Francés. In his own words 'everyone has a path in the journey of life. We were born without choices. However, when, where, how and from whom we were born are variables for the probability of what our... Read more -
Cristina Lama
Vigilia 23 Feb - 25 May 2022 Cristina Lama has a singular artistic world which turns between figurative and abstract paintings. In the first ones, she generates scenographic compositions, while her abstract works are composed by colour spots. Her artwork is characterized by the expressiveness and speed of gesture, so she works with fresh oil, applying high... Read more -
Juan de Morenilla
Fairy tales 23 Feb - 25 May 2022 Morenilla’s work focuses on the creation of an alternative world arising from the idea of the “absurd”. This is understood as a gesture that despises velocity, that opposes profitability and the utilitarianism of efficiency and productivity models. His work is a space where the logic of a vital line is... Read more -
STILLZ
Ignore your heroes 23 Feb - 25 May 2022 The artistic project of STILLZ, pseudonym behind the 22-year-old Colombian-American Matías Vásquez, consists of a series of Polaroids of artists with whom he has been involved, both personally and professionally. All the photos in this series are taken with a Polaroid Big Shot from the 1970s, a huge camera that... Read more -
Etel Adnan
Landscapes 23 Feb - 25 May 2022 Writer and artist Etel Adnan began painting in the early 1960s. Widely known for her poetry, novels and plays, she moved fluidly between the disciplines of writing and art and was a leading voice of contemporary Arab-American culture. Her elemental colour field compositions exude an intense energy, recalling the late... Read more -
Brendan Lynch
Yesterday, then today, then tomorrow, then the next, and the next 23 Feb - 25 May 2022 The artist practice of Brendan Lynch developed from a dialogue between the aesthetics defined by the high culture and the aesthetics of a more widespread common culture. He works across a range of mediums, focusing on material abstractions in graphite and aluminium on wood, tie-dyed canvases, and drawings and spray... Read more -
Kang Haoxian
With feelings in silence 23 Feb - 25 May 2022 Kang Haoxian’s works are inspired by the atmosphere of Los Angeles, where the artist lived for a while. Tanned characters from Beverly Hills pass through his paintings, having fun at multiple parties. To capture these environments in the most spontaneous way possible, Haoxian uses the airbrush as an artistic medium.... Read more -
Julio Galindo
La liturgia de las aves 23 Feb - 25 May 2022 The work of ceramist Julio Galindo is a platform from which he proposes a new mythology that explores terms such as the sacred, the spiritual and the religious. His pieces question concepts such as religiosity or sanctity, trying to update these notions from a contemporary point of view. His intention... Read more -
Santiago Ydáñez
Villa de Livia 23 Feb - 25 May 2022 In 2018, during his stay at the Academy of Spain in Rome, Santiago Ydáñez took on the challenge of performing an interpretation of the frescoes in the hypogeal room of Villa de Livia, an excellent example of Roman garden painting. Discovered in 1863, in the Villa di Livia in Prima... Read more -
Abraham Lacalle
A La Calle 26 Nov 2021 - 12 Feb 2022 Utinam nonumy aliquip ne vim, no nihil dicam est. Velit nonumy invidunt cu sed, te mei ocurreret consectetuer. Stet iuvaret nec at, ut suas vocent prodesset nam. Mel libris phaedrum ad. Dicit possit luptatum qui an. Velit nonumy invidunt cu sed, te mei ocurreret consectetuer. Stet iuvaret nec at, ut... Read more -
Matías Sánchez
Huesos De Santo 26 Nov 2021 - 12 Feb 2022 Matías Sánchez's works are full of contemporary iconography, texts, forms and color, creating very complex compositions. His search is not one of a story teller but rather an architect of forms, diluting the differences between abstraction and figuration. Read more -
Santiago Ydáñez
Intermedio 26 Nov 2021 - 12 Feb 2022 Santiago Ydáñez (Spain, 1967) is currently one of the Spanish artists with the greatest international recognition, with a figurative language that has given him great visibility on the contemporary scene. Art history is one of the main sources of Ydáñez’s iconography. Read more
