Beatrice Morales

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Beatriz Morales (* 1981 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican artist who lives and works in Berlin , Germany and Mexico City, Mexico . One focus of Morales' work is color field painting in the tradition of Clyfford Still , an American pioneer of abstract expressionism .

Life

Beatriz Morales has Lebanese and Zapotec roots. In 2018, as part of her artistic research, the artist took part in a two-month residency program of the Beirut Art Residency in Beirut , in the course of which she dealt with the possibility of artistically interpreting the ruins that the Lebanese civil war had left in the city. Morales presented their work on site u. a. at an artist talk at the Sursock Museum for Contemporary Art.

Morales' Wonderland II was shown as part of the Biennale for Contemporary Art in a year-long traveling exhibition in Mexico. The Biennale opened in August 2016 at the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Oaxaca de Juaréz and ended in August 2017 at the Museo Rufino Tamayo Mexico City.

In August 2019, the Museo de la Cancillería in Mexico City opened Hidden Truth, the artist's first solo exhibition in a museum. Beatriz Morales presented the art supplement of the German business magazine Capital with the title Die Kunst - Women in Art on the cover of the magazine throughout Germany (print circulation: 130,000). The publication of the magazine was complemented by the Foreign Affairs exhibition on Gallery Weekend in Berlin, which was curated by Lorena Juan from the team at the Boros Collection in Berlin . In March 2019, the Museum of Contemporary Art Museo Fernando García Ponce - MACAY in Mérida (Mexico) announced a solo exhibition of Morales' works for January 2020 on an area of ​​700 m².

For exhibitions, Morales regularly works with the Austrian musician and producer Benjamin Zombori.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2020 Museo de Arte Contemporaneo MACAY, Merida, Mexico
  • 2019 Drexel Galeria, Monterrey, Mexico
  • 2019 Museo de la Cancilleria, Mexico City, Mexico
  • 2017 Bosshardt / Siekemeier, Basel, Switzerland
  • 2017 Galeria Obra Negra, Mexico City, Mexico (Curated by Michel Blancsubé)
  • 2015 Bosshardt / Siekemeier, Basel, Switzerland
  • 2014 Bosshardt / Siekemeier, Basel, Switzerland
  • 2012 Tapir Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  • 2009 TAKT, Sensitivo. Berlin, Germany
  • 2009 Fondo de Cultura Economica Rosario Castellanos, Mexico City, Mexico
  • 2006 Salone del Gusto, Turin, Italy
  • 2006 Universitá di Scienze Gastronomiche, Pollenzo, Italy
  • 2001 Casa Lamm Salon Proust, Mexico City, Mexico

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2019 Foreign Affairs, Berlin, Germany
  • 2017 Biennial of Contemporary Art Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
  • 2017 Forum Art and Architecture, Essen, Germany
  • 2016 Biennial of Contemporary Art Museo Rufino Tamayo, Oaxaca, Mexico
  • 2014 Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
  • 2013 AU Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  • 2012 Berliner Liste 2012, Berlin, Germany
  • 2011 Bloom, Art Fair Cologne (catalog), Germany
  • 2011 Print Studio, Berlin, Germany
  • 2011 TAPIR Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  • 2010 Berliner Kunstsalon 07 Takt Gallery, Berlin (catalog), Germany

Art fairs

  • 2019 Dallas Art Fair (with Drexel Galería, Monterrey)
  • 2017 Zona Maco (with Galería Obra Negra, Mexico City)

literature

  • 'El mundo en las manos. Creadores mexicanos en el Extranjero '(Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, 2015. Official website for publication )
  • "Die Kunst - Women in Art". Art supplement Capital, May 2019, published by Inpact Media Verlag.

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personal data
SURNAME Morales, Beatrice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city