Site-specific Swiss Embassy, Berlin (Germany) From 11/2001 to 01/2002 Event Invitation The installation takes place on a facade of the Swiss embassy in Berlin. An emblematic building for its situation, since it is placed between the Reichstag and the Bundeskanzleramt. The artpiece works two ways of communication very clear. The entire west wall will light up … Read More
Site-specific, Group Exhibition Kunstprojekte_riem, München (Germany) May 2000 Curated by Claudia Büttner Website of the Exhibition kunstprojekte_riem was an experiment being undertaken by the City of Munich to promote the creation of works of art at public sites in Messestadt Riem, a new suburb containing the city’s trade fair centre. The project was accompanying the genesis … Read More
Site Specific, Permanent installation Pferdemarkt (Anklam, Germany) From 1999 Organised by Marienburg Architekten + Ingenieure Produced by Marienburg Arienburg Architekten + Ingenieure In collaboration with Kai Mettelsiefen This sculpture profiles the historical and contemporary architectural elements that surround it. The shadows created by the sculpture during daytime become enmeshed with the architecture surrounding the square, … Read More
Fahr in Blau Group Exhibition, Site-specific Berlin From 16/04/1998 to 03/05/1998 Curated by Ioannis Savvidis and Florian Urban “Ride in Blue” is a project realized by the artist Chema Alvargonzalez for the exhibition STANDORTFAKTOR. The framework of the exhibition was a tour bus for which each of the participating artists designed a project relating to the … Read More
From the Faraway Nearby Group Exhibition, Site-specific SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico (United States of America) From 14/07/1995 to 08/10/1995 Event Invitation Link to the website exhibition Longing and Belonging was the inaugural exhibition at SITE Santa Fe. It included 31 international artists who all explore identities in global culture. This exhibition mirrored SITE’s mission of bringing … Read More
Site-Specific Galeria Carles Taché. Consell de Cent 331, Barcelona (Spain) From 20/12/1994 to 20/01/1995 Musical backdrop by Javier Hernando Event Invitation Tiempo de paso Passing sound, passing time. In the course of time moved by our consciousness to another reality that looks within us. Between the open window the eyes look inside us. Between the … Read More
Site-specific, Group Exhibition Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona (Spain) From 22/06/1994 to 31/08/1994 Curated by José Luis Brea Transformació, 1994 Methacrylate, iron and Neon 250 x 27 x 20 cm Collective exhibition with 45 young emerging Spanish artists. The show analysed the state of the domestic artistic creation scene in 1994 from an international perspective. The catalogue featured … Read More
Site Specific Malaparte House, Capri (Italy) 1994 Event organised by Galleria Pari & Dispari The piece develops in an interference line the between the arquitecture which is present and sequencial time in which it is involved. The house posseses an important significance as the limit architecture: it is on this limit that the work develops. … Read More
Site-specific, Group Exhibition Kunstspeicher Potsdam, Potsdam (Germany) From 26/06/1993 to 05/09/1993 Curated by Christoph Tannert Event Invitation Ausschuß is an installation by Chema Alvargonzalez within Fontanelle project, a group exhibition curated by Christopher Tannert in 1993. The exhibition is part of the celebrations of 1.000 th. anniversary of the city of Potsdam. Chema’s work is … Read More
Site-specific Spanish Embassy, Berlin (Germany) From 29/05/1992 to 31/07/1992 Curated by Dr. Claudia Buttner Event Invitation Chema Alvargonzalez’s Ceremony Award, Oficer’s Cross of the order of Civil Merit in 2012. The character of this building provides a framework for understanding an important theme in my work: the manifestation of time as a historical process and a … Read More