Carlos Aires

Lives and works in Antwerpen (Belgium) and Málaga (Spain)
Date & place of birth: 08-03-74 Ronda, Malaga, Spain

STUDIES and RESIDENCIES

1992-1997 Bachelor in Fine Arts, sculpture department, Faculty of Fine Art Alonso Cano of Granada. Spain.
1997-2000 Master in European Arts and Cultures. Leicester University (UK) and AVB, Tilburg (NL).
2000-2001 De Pont Atelier. De Pont Museum. Tilburg, The Netherlands
2001-2003HISK. Hoger Institute Schone Kunsten. Antwerpen, Belgium.
2004-2005MA in Photography. The Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio, USA.
2004-2008PhD in Arts (doctorandum). Faculty of Fine Art Alonso Cano of Granada. Spain.

EXHIBITIONS

1999     VI Biannual of Young European and Mediterranean Countries Artists. Roma. Italy. (Catalogue)
Instalaciones. Federico Garcia Lorca´s house. Valderrubio Granada.
Weg van Lourdes. Lourdes Church. Tilburg. The Netherlands.
Muestra Joven:Jovenes Creadores Andaluces. Palacio Episcopal. Malaga(catalogue)
Aduana 99. Biannual of Contemporary Art. Diputacion de Cadiz. Spain. (Catalogue)
DAGFRA. The Fabriek and Atelier Daglicht. Eindhoven.Nl.
2000     Salon Expositie. ABN-AMRO Bank. Tilburg. The Netherlands (Catalogue)
Textile 2000. Close to the body. AVB. Tilburg.
Moveri Project. Personal Atelier. Tilburg. (Catalogue)
Final Exhibition Master Program. Charlotte Landgoed. Tilburg (catalogue)
2001     Young Malaga Artists 2001. Ayuntamiento de Malaga.(catalogue)
Art Premier 2001. Dordrecht.(catalogue)
Kunst in the Keet. Krot & Co. Ossendrecht. The Netherlands(catalogue)
Interferences. De Overslag. Artixocla, Ghent, Belgium.(catalogue)
2002     Open Days. HISK. Hoger Institute for Fine Arts. Antwerp.
Continuara. Solo exhibition. Young Photographer Award. Caja San Fernando.Sevilla, Cadiz,     Jerez de la Frontera. Spain.
Gasthoff. Manifesta 2002. Frankfurt, Germany.
Mister Hyde. Solo exhibition. Palacio de Los Conde de Gabia. Diputacion de Granada. (catalogue)
2003     Unicaja Bank Awards. Sala Italcable. Malaga. (Catalogue)
Jóvenes Creadores Malagueños. Modalidad video. Ayuntamiento de Malaga. (Catalogue)
Open Ateliers. HISK. Antwerp. Belgium.
Sugar and Spice. Annie Gentils gallery. Antwerp.
V Convocatoria Jovenes Artistas.Luis Adelantado Gallery. Valencia. Spain.
La Realidad Contaminada. Zaragoza, Sevilla, Granada, Madrid, (Catalogue)
Hot. Censorated work. Tour&Taxis. Brussels. Belgium.
Very simple but very nice. Kokon gallery. Tilburg, The Netherlands.
2004 Go!. Espacio Liquido.Curated by Sally Gutierrez. Madrid. Spain.
After Hours. HISK. Antwerp. Belgium.(Catalogue)
Art Brussels. Kusseneers gallery. Brussels, Belgium.
Happily ever after. Solo show. Kusseneers gallery. Antwerpen, Belgium.
Art Chicago. Kusseneers gallery. USA.
1er International Short Film & Video Festival in Xiamen 2004. Xiamen, China
Orgay Madrid 04. Espacio Guides. Madrid.
Double Check .Re-Framing Space in Photography. Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje, Slovenia y Camera Austria, Kunsthaus Graz.
Desplazamientos.Parallel projects I Biannual of Contemporary Art of Seville. Caja San Fernando. Sevilla
Jovenes Creadores Andaluces 2004. Palacio Episcopal, Malaga (cat).
2005     Double Check .Re-Framing Space in Photography. Camera Austria, Kunshal, Graz, Austria.(cat.)
ARCO 2005. International Contemporary Art fair. Galeria Sandunga. Madrid (cat.)
Mensajes Cruzados. Parlamentar con lo real en el tiempo. Artium. Museo Arte Contemporáneo del País Vasco (Basque Museum of Contemporary Art). Alava Spain.
Photography Awards Purificación Garcia. Círculo de Bellas Artes. Madrid. itinerary (cat.)
Club Cube. Festiwal Sztuki KlubowejCCA, Centre for Contemporary Art, Varsovia, Poland
PhotoEspaña 2005. Descubrimientos. Plaza de Santa Ana. Madrid.
Prix de la Jeune Peinture Belga 2005. (Young Belgium Artists Awards 2004-2005). Palais des Beaux–Arts. Brussels, Belgium. (cat.)
Y Fueron Felices. Sala Siglo XXI. Museo de Huelva. Spain.(cat)
Nekad I Sad. Prodajna Galerija Beograd. Belgrade, Serbia y Montenegro (cat.)
Cataracts. Hitchcock Auditórium. OSU. Columbus, Ohio, USA.
2006     Carlos Aires, Jen Liu, Melvin Moti, Elodie Pong. Galleria Laurin. Zurich, Switzerland.
Y Fueron Felices. Solo show. Galeria Sandunga. Granada, Spain
Presentation Tester, book + DVD. Arteleku. San Sebastian.Spain. (cat.)
25 Pieces, Europart. Public Art Projects on the occasion of Austria’s presidency in the European Union in 2006. Vienna, Austria.(cat.)
Blessed are the merciful. Colective. Feigen Gallery. New York. USA.
Dark Tales. Cokkie Snoei Gallery. Rótterdam, The Netherlands.
Tina-B. This is not another Biennial. Prague Contemporary Art Festival. Nova Sin. Praga. Check Republic.
KunstRai. Internacional Fair of Contemporary Art. Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Amsterdam, Nl.
Pepo Ruiz y Carlos Aires. Javier Marin Gallery. Málaga.
Colección Instituto Andaluz de la Juventud. Sala Amadis, Comunidad de Madrid. Madrid (cat.)
EuroPART/25peaces. MOMENTUM. Vienna, Austria.
Leere & Vision. MARTA-museum. Herford, Germany (cat.)
Summer show. Aeroplastics Contemporary Gallery. Brussels, Bélgium.
Eutopia 06. Festival of Young European Artists. Public Projects. Córdoba. (cat)
10 años Beca Manuel Rivera. Palacio de los Condes de Gabia. Granada. (cat)
The Sock Strategy. Bank El Monte. Sevilla (cat.)
As hard as it can get. Individual. Brakke Grond. Amsterdam
Emergentes. FIL. Feria Internacional del libros. MUSA. Museo de las Artes. Guadalajara, Mexico. (cat)
Hisk@Lineart. Lineart. Internacional Art Fair. Gent, Bélgica. (cat)
2007 Arco 2007. Galería Sandunga. Madrid. (cat)
Art Rotterdam. International Art Fair. Aeroplastics gallery. Rotterdam.
Kunstlokkal. Collective show. Indian Caps Kunstkamers. Curated by Bob Verelst. Antwerpen, Bélgica
Art Brussels 2007. Aeroplastics contemporary gallery. Brussels, Belgium. (cat)
A day without sunshine is like night. Aeroplastics Contemporary gallery. Brussels, Belgium.
Phychic Realities. Lundbeck Austria. Viena, Austria.
Docks Art fair. 9th Lyon Bienal of Contemporary Art. Lyon, France.
Rare Essence. Galería Aeroplastics Contemporary. Bruselas, Bélgica
Objeto de Réplica. Colección VII. Artium. Vitoria.
Monsters. Galería Art Extra. Johanesburgo. South Africa.
Love is in the air. Collective. EXPRMNTL galerie. Toulouse. Francia
El Pensamiento en la boca. Una exposición sobre arte y cocina. Caja San Fernando. Jerez. (cat)
2008 The Trickster. Art Extra Gallery. Johanesburgo. South Africa.
Art Rotterdam. Aeroplastic Contemporary. Rotterdam, The Nertherlands.
Generación 2008 Awards. Caja Madrid. La Casa Encendida.Intinerante. Itinerant. (cat.)
Now or Die. Spac Collection. Hotel de Vielle. Liège. Belgium
Pulse. Contemporary Art Fair. Kinz, Tillou + Feigen gallery.| New York USA.
Art Brussels. Aeroplastics Contemporary. Brussels, Belgium.
Espejos del alma. El retrato fotográfico en la España de nuestros días. Itinerante. Red Itiner. Concejalía de Cultura de la Comunidad de Madrid. (cat.)
The No problem show. 1st floor gallery. Antwerpen
Balelatina. Hot Art Fair. Galeria Sandunga . Basel
Unicaja Bank Awards. Palacio Episcopal. Málaga. (cat)
Boys of summer. Colective. Monique Meloche gallery. Chicago. USA.
Urbana 08. Sandunga gallery. Granada (cat.)
Deadly seriously. Colective. Exprmntl Gallery. Toulouse. France
Rock my Religion. Domus Artium Contemporary Art Museum. Salamanca, Spain (cat)
Scope. Sandunga Gallery. London. UK. (cat)
FotoMiami. Solo Project Room. Sandunga and ADN galleries. Miami. USA. (cat)
Uit-thuis-eten, Spanish artists in Holland. Spanish Embassy. The Hague. The Netherlands (cat)
Slick. ADN gallery. Paris, France.
Premios Jovenes Creadores Andaluces. Young Andalucian Artists Awards. Palacio Episcopal.Itinerant.(cat)
2009Arco. Feria de Arte Contemporáneo. Galería Alvaro Alcazar y Sandunga. IFEMA, Madrid
Danzad, danzad, malditos. Exposición individual. Galería ADN. Barcelona.
Maco. Feria de Arte Comtemporaneo. Galeria Alvaro Alcazar. Mexico DF. Mexico
How innocent is that? Pavilion Unicredi. Bucharest Biennale. Romania
Volta.Galeria ADN. Basilea, Suiza.
JERK OFF. Festival des Cultures Alternatives.Paris, Francia.
IIª Muestra de Videarte Andaluz SURVIDEOVISIONES. Espacio Iniciarte, Sevilla.(cat)
Eutopía 09. IIª Muestra de Videarte Andaluz. Filmoteca de Andalucía. Córdoba (cat)
Non si uccidono così anche i cavalli?: Galería Allegra Ravizza, Milán, Italia.
Scarpia. Proyectos en espacios públicos. El Carpio, Córdoba.
ALTERARTE. Festival de Arte Emergente. Museo Arqueológico. Murcia
Fuori_Nonluego. Novalis Contemporary Art. Turín, Italia (cat)
Coleccion de fotografía Alconbedas. Centro Andaluz de la Fotografía. Almeria (cat)
Procesos del Paisaje. Sala de exposiciones Caja Sol. Jerez. Itinerante (cat)
Project room. Art Jaen.
2010 That´s all Folks. Stadshallen, Brujas, Bélgica. (cat)
Arte Fiera. Galeria ADN. Bolonia (Italia)
Arco 2010. Galería ADN y Alvaro Alcazar. IFEMA, Madrid.
Kontroversen. Kunst Haus Wien. Museum Hundertwasser. Viena, Austria (cat)
Hong Kong Internation Art Fair. Alvaro Alcazar gallery. Hong Kong, China.
Cinema X: I like to watch. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Canada. Montreal, Canada. (cat)
Pena, Penita, Pena. Solo exhibition. Galería Alvaro Alcazar. Madrid (cat)
Maco. Contemporary Art Fair. Galería Alvaro Alcazar, Mexico city (cat)
Parcour Saint Germain. In colaboration with Sonia Rykiel. Paris (cat)
Volta 6. Contemporary Art Fair. Adn gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
Arte Fiera. Contemporary Art Fair. Adn gallery. Bologna, Italy.
ViennaFair. Contemporary Art Fair. Mario Mauroner Gallery, Vienna, Austria.
Tardor de l’art festival. Adn gallery, Barcelona, Spain (cat)
After Post. Mas alla de la fotografía. Espacio Iniciarte. Junta de Andalucía. Sevilla. (cat)
Dreams. Collective exhibition. Mario Mauroner gallery. Salzburg, Austria.
Artium Collection. Based on real events. Artium Contemporary Art Museum, Vitoria (cat)

Coming up Golden Tears. Solo exhibition. Mario Mauroner gallery. Vienna, Austria.
CAC. Exposición individual. Contemporary Art Museum, Malaga, Spain. (cat)
Solo exhibition. Aeroplastics Contemporary. Brussels, Bélgium.

GRANDS and PRIZES

First prize Jovenes Creadores Malagueños (Young Malaga Artists). Malaga. 1998.
Subsidy of the Tilburg City Hall and Noord Brabant Fonds for the art group project "Moveri". Tilburg 2000.
Subsidy of Noord Brabant Fonds . Breda. The Netherlands 2000.
Sponsor by FUJI FILMS for the project “Full of emptiness”. Tilburg.2000.
De Pont prize 2000. De Pont Museum. Tilburg. The Netherlands.
Manuel Rivera grant. Grant for Spanish artists to work in foreign countries. Palacio de Los Condes de Gabia. Diputacion de Granada. 2000
First Prize Young Artist 2001. San Fernando Bank. 2001
Walter Debrock Price. AZ-VUB. Brussels. Belgium.
Third Prize Vídeo. Certamen de Jóvenes Creadores Malagueños. Málaga. 2003.
CERA Bank Subsidy for Art Projects. Brussels 2003.
Fulbright Fellowship to study in USA. Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia. Madrid, 2003.
Jovenes Creadores Andaluces 2004 (Young Andalusian Artists Awards 2004). Instituto Andaluz de la Juventud. 2004
2º Price Young Belgian Artist Awards 2005 (Prix de la Jeune Peinture Belge) Palais des Beaux–Arts. Brussels, Belgium.
1st Price Generación 2008. Caja Madrid.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS (selection)

Construyendo identidades. Ana Robles. Arte desde Andalucía para el siglo XXI. Spain.
Forzados a entender. ABC newspaper. Miguel Cereceda. Marzo 2008. Spain.
Interview Carlos Aires. Kunstbeeld magazine. Christine Vuegen. Dec 2007. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Entrevista Carlos Aires. Bla Bla Magazine. Xurzo Oleiros Sep 2007. Madrid, Spain.
Psychic Realities. Psychic Realities catalogue. Walter Seidl. November 2007. Vienna, Austria.
Chic Magazine. The Art of Provocation: Carlos Aires. Rossella Frigerio. Sep 2007. London, England.
Aeroplastic press release. Pierre_Yves Desaive. They lived happily…May 2007. Brussels
Emerging Art in Spain. Manuela Villa. Vaiven. Feb 2007. Madrid, Spain.
Catalogue “Becados Manuel Rivera”. November 2006. Fernando Castro. Madrid, Spain
DerStandard. Carlos Aires: Ein Voyeur des Weltgescheh. Von Markus Mittringer. Austria.
The New York Times. April 2006. Blessed are the Merciful. Ken Johnson. New York, USA.
Artforum. January 2006. “Bilboard censorated”. Jennifer Allen, New York, USA.
El Pais, weekend supplement Ep3. Manuela Villa, Madrid, Spain.
Catalogue 25 Pieces, Europart. Walter Seidl. Vienna, Austria.
Catalogue Prix de la Jeune Peinture Belge 2005. Ruben Gallo. BOZAR, Brussels.
Catalogue Double Check .Re-Framing Space in Photography. Camera Austria, Kunshal, Graz, Austria
Magazine Camara Austria International. Nº 88. Dark Tales from the Dark Room. Marina Griznic.
Magazine Contemporary. Issue 69. Double check-reframing space in photography: the other space, parallel histories. Mojca Puncer. England.
Book La renovacion de la plastica artistica en Andalucia. Bernardo Palomo, Spain.
Catalogue Arco 2005. International Contemporary Art Fair. Madrid, Spain.
Tester book + DVD. Fundacion Rodriguez and Arteleku. Pais Vasco, Spain.

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS

Artium . Basque Museum of Contemporary Art. Alava. Spain
National Belgium Bank
MAK. Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art. Vienna, Austria.
CAC. Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo. Sevilla. Spain
Spac Collection. Bélgium
Caja Madrid, Spain.
San Fernando Bank, Sevilla, Spain
Diputacion de Huelva, Spain (Provincial government of Huelva, Spain)
Diputacion de Malaga, Spain (Provincial government of Malaga, Spain)
Ayuntamiento de Malaga, Spain
IAJ. Instituto Andaluz de la Juventud, Spain
Private Collections in Spain, France, England, Germany, Mexico, Venezuela, Belgium, The Netherlands and USA.

Carlos Aires

Forzados a entender

They lived happily …

Carlos Aires: lieux de 'memorie' drague

Dark tales from the dark room

The art of Provocation: Carlos Aires

No mezclarás arte, sexo y política

Un jardín en el desierto

STUDIES and RESIDENCIES

EXHIBITIONS

GRANDS and PRIZES

RECENT PUBLICATIONS (selection)

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS

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