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"The Insurmountable Distance", by Ramón Mateos | Until April 22nd at Galería Hilario Galguera, Mexico

April 21, 2022

The solo exhibition of artist Ramón Mateos, called La Distancia Insalvable (The Insurmountable Distance), is a project by Freijo Gallery, in collaboration with Galería Hilario Galguera. It can be visited until April 22nd at Galería Hilario Galguera, Mexico City.Mateos' work emphasizes current critical situations of...

Opening of Gina Arizpe's solo exhibition, "Sin Huella" | Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City

April 19, 2022

On Wednesday, April 20th, at 5.30 p.m., the opening of Gina Arizpe's solo exhibition Sin huella will take place at the Museo Universitario del Chopo in Mexico City. Sin huella brings together a body of work from the last ten years of Gina Arizpe's production. With her proposal she searches for and questions the physical...

Recent opening of Álvaro Laiz's exhibition at Museo Universidad de Navarra

April 12, 2022

The Edge, an exhibition by Álvaro Laiz, will be on show at the Museo Universidad de Navarra until October 2nd, 2022.Video, writing and sound are the usual working media of Álvaro Laiz, but he has specialised in anthropological and environmental photography and five years ago he published his first book based on his...

Interview with Raquel Manchado in Cáñamo Journal | Archive of Illustrated Misogyny

April 2, 2022

Cáñamo Journal has published an interview with the artist Raquel Manchado, about her Archive of Illustrated Misogyny. In the interview, entitled " And what are you laughing at? An archive full of fat women, vipers, spinsters, old women, drunk women, and henpecked men", the artist comments "[the archive] is made up of...

Interview with Gina Arizpe in Público

March 15, 2022

Sofía Chiabolotti interviewed our artist Gina Arizpe, after seeing her work in our booth at ARCOmadrid 2022, where we showed pieces such as Migratory Traces (2014-2017), Names and Coordinates (2016-2019) and Temporary Employment/The Trap (2022). This interview was published on the occasion of Women's Day in Público....

Ángela García Codoñer has been awarded the Juana Francés Award for Plastic and Visual Arts.

March 12, 2022

The Juana Francés Award for Plastic and Visual Arts, granted by the Miguel Hernández University, has honoured Ángela García Codoñer, a prestigious Valencian visual artist. García Codoñer has been professor of Architectural Graphic Expression at the Universitat Politècnica de València. Her artistic practice is linked to a...

8M | Artist talk by Raquel Manchado | Archive of Illustrated Misogyny

March 3, 2022

On March 8th, at 12.00 pm (noon), a talk will take place at Freijo Gallery, called ¡De aquellos barros, estos lodos! by the artist Raquel Manchado, about her Archive of Illustrated Misogyny, including screenings of it. The talk consists of a journey through misogyny and symbolic violence in past humour and its...

Article by Estrella de Diego, published in Babelia, El País | Concha Jerez in the EL PAÍS booth at ARCOmadrid 2022

February 19, 2022

Today in the Babelia section of El País, an article has been published, written by Estrella de Diego, about Concha Jerez's project for the EL PAÍS booth at ARCOmadrid. Concha Jerez will occupy the space with Menú(s) del día, an installation that recreates a cinema in which various stories are projected. On the sides, she...

Javier Díaz-Guardiola writes about "JAHD Throwback" by José Antonio Hernández-Diez

February 15, 2022

The art critic and journalist Javier Díaz-Guardiola visited our exhibition JAHD Throwback, by José Antonio Hernández-Diez, and posted the following on his Instagram account: "Jose Antonio Hernández-Diez's show at Freijo Gallery has a certain retrospective quality. A lot of irony and a lot of desire to experiment with...

Concha Jerez in El País booth at ARCOmadrid 2022

February 13, 2022

Today El País Semanal announces the artist selected for the El País booth at ARCOmadrid 2022. Concha Jerez will present her project, Menus of the Day. In the article, published in El País Semanal, Álex Vicente writes: "the artist, a pioneer of installation and conceptual practices in Spain, is the guest of the EL PAÍS...

Artist Talk | Ramón Mateos at Galería Hilario Galguera, Mexico | FEB 10

February 9, 2022

In parallel to the ZsONAMACO fair, Freijo Gallery, in collaboration with Galería Hilario Galguera, presents the solo exhibition of artist Ramón Mateos, called La Distancia Insalvable (The Insurmountable Distance), at Galería Hilario Galguera, Mexico City, until April 22nd.Mateos' work emphasizes current critical...

Ramón Mateos, "La Distancia Insalvable (The Insurmountable Distance)" | Galería Hilario Galguera, Mexico

February 1, 2022

Freijo Gallery, in collaboration with Galería Hilario Galguera, presents the solo exhibition of artist Ramón Mateos, called La Distancia Insalvable (The Insurmountable Distance), which will open on February 2nd at Galería Hilario Galguera, Mexico City.Mateos' work emphasizes current critical situations of social,...

Art review by Fernando Castro Flórez on YouTube | José Antonio Hernández-Diez at Freijo Gallery

January 12, 2022

Art critic Fernando Castro Flórez has made a review of our exhibition JAHD Throwback, by José Antonio Hernández-Diez, published yesterday on YouTube.The exhibition will be on view at Freijo Gallery until February 19th, 2022.

Review of Marcelo Brodsky's exhibition "1968: The Fire of Ideas" by theorist Luis Francisco Pérez

November 30, 2021

Theorist Luis Francisco Perez posted on November 27th, 2021 on Facebook a review of Marcelo Brodsky's exhibition 1968: The Fire of Ideas at Freijo Gallery. "In the current exhibition, titled "1968: The Fire of Ideas", private memory has disappeared in favor of shared plural memory, although personal memory (lowercase...

Poem book "Alfabeto de sombras (Música líquida)" by Bartolomé Ferrando

November 23, 2021

The Cultural Association L.U.P.I. La Única Puerta a la Izquierda has published the new collection of poems by Bartolomé Ferrando, entitled Alfabeto de sombras (Música líquida). In the words of Antonio Gómez, it is a risky and audacious collection of poems. It is an open window to the present, a whole adventure in which...

Raquel Manchado at the Cineteca of Matadero Madrid | Rizoma Festival

November 20, 2021

On November 26th at 9.00 pm, the event ShowandTell: VIOLENCIAS IRL (in real life) will take place at the Cineteca of Matadero Madrid, on the occasion of the Rizoma Festival. RIZOMA opens a space in its program to show and denounce violence "in real life". Eight invited artists and collectives, from disciplines such as...

Opening of the Sound Installation by Concha Jerez | Parque La Libertad, Asturias

November 5, 2021

The opening of the Sound Installation Paisaje de Poetas / Paisaxe de Poetes [Landscape of Poets], by the artist Concha Jerez, will take place on Sunday, November 7th at 12.00 noon, at the Parque La Libertad in Piedras Blancas (Castrillón, Asturias), where it will be permanently on view from that date onwards. On the...

Traces of Violence: The German Empire in Southern Africa | Marcelo Brodsky in Berlin

November 3, 2021

The exhibition "Traces of Violence: The German Empire in Southern Africa", of the artists Marcelo Brodsky and Hildegard Titus, opened yesterday at the ARTCO gallery in Berlin and will remain open to the public until December 11th.In addition, on Friday, November 19th, between 6:30 and 7:15 p.m., a panel discussion will...

Tribute to the Mexican film, television and theater actress Pilar Pellicer | Mexican Cultural Institute in Spain

November 2, 2021

Tomorrow, November 3rd, at 7.00 p.m., a tribute to Mexican film, television and theater actress Pilar Pellicer, a close person to Freijo Gallery and dear friend, will be held at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Spain.This actress, who passed away in 2020, starred in emblematic films such as "La Choca", "Cadena Perpetua"...

Elena Asins in the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao | Women in Abstraction

October 19, 2021

On October 22nd, the opening of the exhibition Women in Abstraction will take place. It is an exhibition organized by the Centre Pompidou, París, in collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. It was conceived by Christine Marcel, Chief Curator at the Centre Pompidou, and Karolina Lewandowska, Director of the Museum...