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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.
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.
She created the interior design project Geometrical Life, with César Rey and Daniel Holc. She is also Girls on Film's singer, and works with a musician named Ascii.disko. In 2003 she published Flúor, a book with pictures and texts where she depicted her deepest aesthetic thoughts.
Exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions:
2007
Unknowns. Mapping Contemporary Basque Art, Guggenheim Museum BilbaoK-stains, Casa Asia, BarcelonaLab Project, Sarjah Museus, United EmiratesMarie's story, Space C*, Seoul
2006
Architecture of sound, Museo banco de la República, BogotáBambi, Mercat de La Boqueria, Barcelona
2005
Goodbye horses (kiss the frog - the art of transformation), National Museum, OsloK-stains, Spanish Embassy, SeoulCosmo Cosmetic, Space C*, SeoulShe is in fashion, BilbaoBlack metal/pink t-shirt, Galeria Moisés Pérez de Albéniz, Pamplona
2004
Superficiality, Biennial of KoreaHell disco, Taidemuseo Tennispalatsi, Helsinki, Spanish Culture Centre, MexicoSignale der Kleidung, Contemporary Art Centre, Podewil, Berlin
Sound recording room, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, BerlinBrothel, Kiosko Alfonso, La Coruña
2001
Brothel, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, BarcelonaDance & Disco, Arena Gallery, ChicagoPink Room, Liquid Sky, Sain room, Biennale di Venezia
2000
Dance & Disco, Espacio Uno, Museo Reina SofiaLiquid Sky, Biennal de Buenos Aires
1999
Project Room, Arco’99Brothel, 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, BarcelonaShe in the outer space, Istanbul Biennial
1996
Krystal y attyla, Área II, Rekalde, Bilbao
1992
Surface, Espai 10, Fundació Joan Miró
Publications
Aláez, Ana Laura (2008). Ana Laura Aláez: using your guns. León: MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León. ISBN 9788881586752.
Arell, Berndt (curator) (2004). Fuck art, let's dance. Ana Laura Aláez. Madrid: Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior. ISBN 8496008681.
Martínez, Rosa (et al.) (1997). She astronauts (1st ed.). Barcelona: Fundació "la Caixa". ISBN 8476645791.
Sáenz de Gorbea, Xabier (ed.) (1997). Ana Laura Aláez (1st ed.). [Vitoria-Gasteiz]: Eusko Jaurlaritzaren Argitalpen Zerbitzu Nagusia = Servicio Central de Publicaciones del Gobierno Vasco. ISBN 8445711881.
