Rubén Grilo (born 1981 in

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) is a Spanish contemporary artist based in Berlin. His practice includes

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

animation Animation is a filmmaking technique whereby still images are manipulated to create moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Animati ...

sound installation Sound art is an artistic activity in which sound is utilized as a primary time-based medium or material. Like many genres of contemporary art, sound art may be interdisciplinary in nature, or be used in hybrid forms. According to Brandon LaBell ...

and

digital media In mass communication, digital media is any media (communication), communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital content can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, an ...

Education

He studied Fine Arts at the

University of Barcelona The University of Barcelona (official name in ; UB), formerly also known as Central University of Barcelona (), is a public research university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was established in 1450. With 76,000 students, ...

and is an alumnus of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (2011–2012). He was the recipient of the ''Visual Art Grants'' by the Fundación Botín (2013).

Work

Grilo has exhibited his work in several institutions and galleries such as

Fundació Joan Miró The Fundació Joan Miró ( ; English: Joan Miró Foundation, Centre of Studies of Contemporary Art) is a modern art museum honoring the life and work of the Spanish artist Joan Miró, located on the hill called Montjuïc in Barcelona, Catalonia ( ...

- Espai 13,

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(2016), Union Pacific Gallery,

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(2016), Hildesheim Kunstverein (2014), Bard Centre for Curatorial Studies in Annandale-on-Hudson,

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(2011) and Galería NoguerasBlanchard, among others. His work includes several collaborations such as with artist

Spiros Hadjidjanos Spiros Hadjidjanos (born 1978 in Athens, Greece) is a contemporary artist living in Berlin. His work includes sculpture, photography, and digital media. Education Hadjidjanos has studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (2002–07), Leiden U ...

in CA2M (2014) and Metaphysics-VR for the ZKM Center for Art and Media,

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(2017–18). In 2014 he curated an exhibition at Future Gallery Berlin titled ''Twenty Thousand Years of Yarn'' in which he exhibited a mix of artworks and artifacts made by artists, corporations and natural phenomena. During the 9th

Berlin Biennale The Berlin Biennale (full name: Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art) is a contemporary art exhibition, which has been held at various locations in Berlin, Germany, every two to three years since 1998. ...

(2016) he launched a commercially available non-drying

oil paint Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil. Oil paint also has practical advantages over other paints, mainly because it is waterproof. The earliest surviving ...

called ''Everfresh'', made in collaboration with Kremer Pigmente.

References

External links

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