Exhibitions

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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