Exhibition “Einsichten: Visarte Zürich & Friends"

Visarte Zurich is once again organizing a major exhibition at the Photobastei at the end of the year. Entitled "Insights 2023: Visarte Zürich & Friends", the exhibition brings together over 200 artists and works that provide an insight into Zurich's diverse art scene. It is curated by Nicolas Bischof, Tanja Breu, Clare Goodwin, Lorenzo E. Metzler, Sandi Paucic, Len Schaller.

I participate with a ceramic sculpture from the project-in-progress “Unsere Zeit” (Our Time).

The exhibition is part of the tradition of annual exhibitions that Visarte Zurich has initiated and successfully organized for several years. The exhibition brings a presentation of works by Visarte Zürich members, and additional guests, exhibition spaces and individual positions who have been invited to present their own curatorial program.

Private viewing at Ruettimann Contemporary, Zurich

I am showing a selection of works on the weekend of March 3 & 4, at their pop-up space at Weststrasse 145 in Wiedikon.

The presentation will include drawings from my "Periscope" series, the recent ceramic work "Ceramic World N.2", and the altar piece "Ruega por Nosotros" that I created in Spain in 2019. This work has never been exhibited before.

Address
Pop Up: Westrasse 145, 8003 Zurich

Private viewing times
- Friday March 3, from 15 - 20 H
- Saturday March 4, from 12 - 19 H


/ Wine & prosecco will be served on both days as long as available.
/ The artist will be present.

The gallery is concurrently featuring works by Aoife Dunne, Claudia Kübler, Simon Lederberger, Hannah Parr, and Valentina Pini across the two floors of their 150m2 space.

* Additional viewing times by appointment.
www.ruettimanncontemporary.com

“Ceramic World N.2”, 2021

Exhibition El Cuerpo de Nuestro Tiempo / The Body of Our Time

Space 2B
September 12th - October 12th 2019
* Opening 12th September 2019
Calle Benigno Soto 14
28002, Madrid, España

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"New languages, environments, cultures, ways of socializing... I have taken my body and my head to new routines over the years, in an almost schizophrenic search for, or escape from, an identity that I cannot identify. Born and raised in Madrid, I have lived in New York, Amsterdam, Barcelona, London, Shanghai, Brussels... and now in Zurich. I can't discern if I belong here or there, if I'm returning or leaving, every time I come to Madrid, or each time I return to Zurich."

In El Cuerpo de Nuestro Tiempo the artist Alicia Velázquez (Madrid, 1969) proposes to temporarily inhabit the space in which series of ritualistic works establish a dialogue with and through time. Quotidian, intimate and also unknown presences, mirrors of a foreign identity that poses questions while searching for her own.

“Nuevos idiomas, entornos, culturas, maneras de socializar… He llevado mi cuerpo y mi cabeza a nuevas rutinas a lo largo de los años, en una - casi esquizofrénica - búsqueda, o escapada, de una identidad que no consigo identificar. Nacida y crecida en Madrid, he vivido en Nueva York, Ámsterdam, Barcelona, Londres, Shanghai, Bruselas… y ahora en Zúrich. No llego a discernir si pertenezco aquí o allá, si estoy de vuelta o yéndome, cada vez que vengo a Madrid, o cada vez que regreso a Zúrich.”

En El Cuerpo de Nuestro Tiempo la artista Alicia Velázquez (Madrid, 1969) propone habitar temporalmente el espacio en el que series de trabajos ritualísticos establecen un diálogo con y a través del tiempo. Presencias cotidianas, íntimas y también desconocidas, espejos de una identidad ajena que lanza preguntas mientras se busca a sí misma. 

WMIT GOES LONDON

November 2016

While Making It Together to be featured in 3 upcoming events:

Photo by Tarek J. Waked for AVA (Alicia Velázquez Atelier)

Photo by Tarek J. Waked for AVA (Alicia Velázquez Atelier)

EXHIBITION

While Making It Together will be part of the large group exhibition Adapt-r. 

"This ground-breaking and challenging exhibition is the conclusion of a four-year international research initiative, funded by a major EU grant, and aims to provide rare insights through an extraordinary range of 35 creative practitioners from around the globe." (excerpt from AmbikaP3 announcement, full content here)

Ambika P3, University of Westminster
27 November to 18 December 2016, Daily, 10am – 6pm • Admission: Free
Exhibition Opening Wednesday 23 November 2016 18:30 - 20:30

PERFORMANCE

After an intimate series of making moments with each of my Brussels colleagues at a time, the current sculpture travels to London, where I invite every person part of Adapt-r program to participate in a social performative (and silent) act of wrapping. Together we will wrap the current, chair-sized sculpture, to its temporary home during AmbikaP3 exhibition: a table.

University of Westminster,  35 Marylebone Road. NW1 5LS
Sunday 27 November, 4.15pm
Right after the plenary session of Practice Research Symposium. 

PRESENTATION

I will be giving my third PhD in-progress presentation in the upcoming Practice Research Symposium. This time my focus will be While Making It Together, one work to be the lens from which to look through my practice.  

University of Westminster,  35 Marylebone Road. NW1 5LS
Saturday 26 November, 9.30am