Ana Laura Aláez

Ana Laura Aláez (Bilbao, 1964) is a Basque artist. She is one of the most renowned contemporary artists in Spain. She defines herself as an "emotions architect", as she transforms all her life into art, depicting her feelings in her artworks. One of her first exhibitions took place in 1992, in Fundació Joan Miró's Espai 10, in Barcelona. Alberto Peral, another Basque artist, was also featured in this exhibition.

Biography Aláez became popularly known in 1992, with an exhibition named Superficie ("surface"), held in Fundació Joan Miró's Espai 10. In this exhibition, Aláex showed three objects (Catwoman, Pantalón preservativo, and Mujeres en zapatos de plataforma) which were between pop art and gender critics, close to the performance art that became popular in the seventies.

Exhibitions Selected solo exhibitions:

2007 Unknowns. Mapping Contemporary Basque Art, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao K-stains, Casa Asia, Barcelona Lab Project, Sarjah Museus, United Emirates Marie's story, Space C*, Seoul

2006 Architecture of sound, Museo banco de la República, Bogotá Bambi, Mercat de La Boqueria, Barcelona

2005 Goodbye horses (kiss the frog - the art of transformation), National Museum, Oslo K-stains, Spanish Embassy, Seoul Cosmo Cosmetic, Space C*, Seoul She is in fashion, Bilbao Black metal/pink t-shirt, Galeria Moisés Pérez de Albéniz, Pamplona

2004 Superficiality, Biennial of Korea Hell disco, Taidemuseo Tennispalatsi, Helsinki, Spanish Culture Centre, Mexico Signale der Kleidung, Contemporary Art Centre, Podewil, Berlin

2003 Beauty cabinet prototype, Palais de Tokyo, Paris The Royal Trip, PS1, MoMA, New York City

2002 Sound recording room, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin Brothel, Kiosko Alfonso, La Coruña

2001 Brothel, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona Dance & Disco, Arena Gallery, Chicago Pink Room, Liquid Sky, Sain room, Biennale di Venezia

2000 Dance & Disco, Espacio Uno, Museo Reina Sofia Liquid Sky, Biennal de Buenos Aires

1999 Project Room, Arco’99 Brothel, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; Pusan Metropolitan Art Museum (Korea)

1998 Prototype studio for an artist of the new millennium, Pontevedra Biennial

1997 She astronauts, Sala Montcada, Barcelona She in the outer space, Istanbul Biennial

1996 Krystal y attyla, Área II, Rekalde, Bilbao

1992 Surface, Espai 10, Fundació Joan Miró

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