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Josè Madrigal Despaigne

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Born in: Ciego de Ávila (Cuba) on 3 June 1991.

Currently living: Halle (Germany).

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Aspirant to Meisterschülerstudiums/Kunst at the Burg Giebichentein Kunsthochschule. University of Art and Design. Halle, Germany (2021-2023). Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of the Arts (ISA), National School of Art, Havana, Cuba (2012-2017). Exchange, DAAD scholarship. Studies at "Alanus Hochschule für Kunst und Gesellschaft", Alfter, Bonn, Germany, class Prof. Andrea Sunder-Plassmann, (2016). Graduated in painting from the Provincial Academy of Fine Arts "Raúl Corrales", Ciego de Ávila, Cuba, (2006-2010). Develops her work from performance, video and installation. Transdisciplinary artist who focuses his work on the processual character, the search for meaning and the poetic sense of art. His artistic creation and poetics point to a socio-individual concern, related to a self-referential and intimate discourse; gestures that he structures as testimonies of himself from a narrative perspective, a method that allows him to work with concepts such as psychological introspection, the reality-fiction relationship, raciality and identity. SOLO EXHIBITIONS// 2020/ “WILLKOMMEN” (Remix from exhibition “LA ERA DE HANS HAACKE HA TERMINADO!” of visual artist Luis Gómez). Gallery “Procesual Art Studio”. Havana, Cuba. 2017/ “D A T O”. Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales (CDAV). Havana, Cuba. 2016/ “Recent Work" (with Salome Garcia Bacallao), Künstlerforum Bonn, Bonn, Germany. 2015/ “Moan, gallery“El Mejunje”,Centro cultural “El Mejunje”, Santa Clara , Cuba. 2011/ “MAPAS -revelando mundos-”, studio-gallery “René Rodríguez”, Ciego de Ávila, Cuba. GROUP EXHIBITIONS// 2022/ Jahresausstellung. Metall? Metall!. Burg Giebichentein Kunsthochschule. University of Art and Design. Halle, Germany. // Wolfen "Cinema". Festival OSTEN. Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany. 2018/ “Und Nacht War” - “senseLAB X”. Gallery of the Facultad de Artes Visuales, “Universidad de las Artes” (ISA). Havana, Cuba. 2016/ “Superficie", colateral exhibition to “Noviembre Fotográfico”, gallery Altamira, Havana, Cuba. // “Rundgang”,  Alanus Hochschule für Kunst und Gesellschaft, Alfter, Germany. //“Performance-KunstmitPAErsche", Künstlerforum Bonn, Bonn, Germany. 2015/ “Ejercicios”, exhibition of a workshop by Luis Camnitzer, colateral exhibition to the 12th Havana Bienal, Havana, Cuba.  // “¡Ojalá!”, Künstlerforum Bonn, Bonn, Germany. // “Zip I”, Ludwig Foundation, Havana, Cuba. 2014/ “El tercer hombre”, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales (CDAV), Havana, Cuba. 2013/ “VIR”, Castillo Árabe del Parque Metropolitano, Havana, Cuba.

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