Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck
1972 born in Caracas (VE)
lives and works in Berlin (DE)
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2022
Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck. Salto atrás, Carmen Araujo Arte, Caracas (VE)
2020
All the Lands from Sunrise to Sunset, Galerie Martin Janda, Wien (AT)
2018
Instrumentalized, Green Art Gallery, Dubai (AE)
Instrumentalized, Carmen Araujo Arte, Caracas (VE)
2017
Autocratic Nostalgia: Venezuelan Contemporary Landscapes, Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York (US)
2016
Electoral Autocracy (Venezuelan Case), Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna (AT)
2015
Eames-Derivative, (small version), Galerie Luisa Strina, São Paolo (BR)
Diplomatic Entanglements, Rochester Art Center, Rochester (US)
Modern Entanglements, Green Art Gallery, Dubai (AE)
2013
Cultural Diplomacy: An Art We Neglect. Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna (AT)
Modern Entanglements, Henrique Faría Fine Art, New York (US)
Tramas, Faría + Fábregas Galería, Caracas (VE)
2012
Corrupted Files, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (BR)
Chronoscope, 1951, 11pm, Galerie Martin Janda, Wien (AT)
2010
Cultural Diplomacy: An Art We Neglect, Henrique Faría Fine Art, New York (US)
2009
Cultural Diplomacy: An Art We Neglect, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica (US)
2008
A little bit of heaven (1998-2008), Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge (US)
The Museum of Architecture’s Little Store, Faría+Fábregas Galería, Caracas (VE)
2006
Analysis, Jersey City Museum, Rewind Project Room, Jersey City (US)
2002
Systemic Analysis, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami (US)
1997
Symbolic Surplus, Galería Euroamericana, Caracas (VE)
1995
Texts, 10.000 Parking, Genf (CH)
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2023
Transformations – works from the collection of la Mobilière cooperative, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf (CH)
Petromelancholia, Brutus, Rotterdam (NL)
2022
Outras Memórias, Outro Enredos, Cordoaria Nacional, Lisboa (PT)
Trama, META Miami, Henrique Faria New York, Miami (US)
2021
Oil: Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (DE)
MAP ≠ TERRITORY, Green Art Gallery, Dubai (ARE)
Serendipia > instalar, Espacio Monitor, Caracas (VEN)
2020
Stories of Abstraction: Contemporary Latin American Art in the Global Context, Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona (US)
Nuestra América, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (BRA)
satellite IV – On Sculpture, Galerie Martin Janda im Hochhaus Herrengasse, Vienna (AT)
»figuraciones »modernas« en recurrencia« - exhibición#78, Carmen Araujo Arte, Caracas (VEN)
2019
Making New Time, Sharjah Biennial 14, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah (AE)
Portadores de sentido, Colección Cisneros, Museo Amparo, Puebla (MX)
There will never be a door. You are inside. Works from the Coleção Teixeira de Freitas, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid (ES)
Reconstrucción, Meta Miami, Henrique Faria, Miami (US)
Crónicas Migrantes, Historias comunes entre Perú y Venezuela, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Lima,
Lima (PE)
Monumento Piazza Largo Venezuela, Fondazione Zimei, Montesilvano (IT)
2018
The Matter of Photography in the Americas, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford (US)
Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy, The Met Breuer, New York (US)
Crude, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (AE)
2017
Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously, Project Arts Centre, Dublin (IE)
4.543 billion. The matter of matter, CAPC, Bordeaux (FR)
Acordo de Confiança, Biblioteca Mário de Andrade, São Paulo (BR)
Weapon of Choice, Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, New York (US)
Onomatopeyas visuales de tiempos difíciles, Carmen Araujo Arte, Caracas (VE)
Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE)
Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE)
Illuminations III: Activism/Chapter:Venezuela, Miami Biennale, Henrique Faria Fine Art, Miami (US)
2016
La Democrazia in America, XVI Quadriennale d'Arte di Roma, Rome (IT)
curated by_Jacopo Crivelli Visconti. The Winter Of Our Discontent, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna (AT)
Work - Do +, very unproductive systems, Galeria Pilar, São Paulo (BR)
2015
Drawings from the South of America II, Henrique Faria, New York (US)
German Cool / 31-12-1969, Salsali Private Museum, Dubai (AE)
2014
Beyond the Supersquare, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (US)
New Territories: Laboratories for Design, Museum of Art and Design, New York (US)
12 Bienal de Cuenca 'Leaving to Return', Museo de Arte Moderno, Cuenca (EC)
Nachhaltigkeit & Kunst, Vol. 2, Kunstsammlung der Mobiliar Genossenschaft, Bern (CH)
Short, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna (AT)
Drawings from the South of America, Henrique Faria, New York (US)
2013
When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (US)
Order, Chaos, and the Space between, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix (US)
Honey, I Rearranged the Collection, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (US)
Liquid Assets. In the Aftermath of the Transformation of Money, Steirischer Herbst, Graz (AT)
Venezuela’s Electoral Autocracy, Creative Time Reports, New York (US)
When works leave the printed page, ARTMargins and the American University of Beirut, Beirut (LB)
Statue of Limitation, Green Art Gallery, Dubai (AE)
2012
When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco (US)
Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, El Museo del Barrio, New York (US)
Everything Falls Apart, Artspace, Sydney (AU)
Gego, Open Work: Testimonies and Relevance, Contemporary Art Museum, Caracas (VE)
2011
12th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (TR)
Liberalis, Kunst+Projekte; Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen (DE)
2010
De frente al Sol, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna (AT)
Panamericana, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City (MX)
Then & Now: Abstraction in Latin American art, 1950 to Present, Deutsche Bank, New York (US)
2009
31 Panorama da Arte Brasileira,Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo (BR)
2da Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan, San Juan (PR)
Noise, Galerie Sfeir Semler, Beiruth (LB)
2008
The Prisoner's Dilemma, Cisneros Fontanals Art Fund, Miami (US)
Aspectos del dibujo en América del Sur, Museo Valenciano de la Ilustracion y la Modernidad, Valencia (ES)
2007
Most Humans Do Not Know Better, Serge Ziegler Gallery at Brooke Alexander, New York (US)
5th Biennial, The (S) files, El Museo del Barrio, New York (US)
Natural Geographic, Norma Desmond Productions, Los Angeles (US)
2006
10 Defining Experiments,Cisneros Fontanals Art Fund, Miami (US)
Peekskill Project,Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill (US)
Ecos y Contrastes. Museo de Arte de El Salvador, San Salvador (SV)
2005
Skyway, Jersey City Museum and Victory Hall, Jersey City (US)
Diálogos in Latin-American Art, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile (CL)
2004
Anthropo-Socio, The Artist Network, New York (US)
2/3 Diálogos in Latin-American Art, Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima (PE)
The Crystal Land. Aljira, Center for Contemporary Art, Newark (US)
2003
Pandemic, Guggenheim Museum's Sackler Center for Arts Education / United Nations, New York (US)
Pandemic, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria (ZA)
2002
Paralelos, Museu de Arte Moderna, Río de Janeiro (BR)
Pandemic, Convent dels Angels, Barcelona (ES)
2001
Hopscotch, Kean University, Elizabeth (US)
Bienal del Barro, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas (VE)
2000
Re-drawing the line, Art in General, New York (US)
VII Bienal de la Habana, La Habana (CU)
1999
Gracias José Gregorio Hernández, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas (VE)
1997
La Invención de la Continuidad, Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas (VE)
Drawing the line, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami (US)
Re-Ready Made, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas (VE)
1996
VII Salón Mendoza, Sala Mendoza, Caracas (VE)
Atmósferas Urbanas, Banco Union, Caracas (VE)
1995
Encountres, Galerie Julio Gonzalez, Paris (FR)
City, Cité International des Arts, Paris (FR)
1994
Indice, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas (VE)
II Bienal Camille Pizzarro, Grant Residence Price, Caracas (VE) / Paris (FR)
IV Bienal de Guayana, Ciudad Bolívar (VE)
Works in collections
Tate, London, England
Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, USA
Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, USA
El Museo del Barrio, New York, USA
Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, USA
Museu de Arte Moderno de São Paulo, Brazil
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York, USA
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA
Die Mobiliar Collection, Zürich, Switzerland
Coleção Teixeira de Freitas, Lisbon, Portugal
Colección Charpenel, Guadalajara, Mexico
Coleção Moraes-Barbosa, São Paulo, Brazil
Colección Banco Mercantil, Caracas, Venezuela
Awards and Grants
2011 Studio Lease Program Berlin, Kulturwerk des BBK Berlin GMBH (DE)
2010 Artist in Residence / Stiftung Starke, Berlin (DE)
2009 Artist in Residence / Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo & Fundacao Armando A. Penteado, São Paulo (BR)
2006 Commission Program / Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami (US)
Latino and Latin American Art Forum / David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University (US)
1995 1st price, Biennale Camille Pizarro, Caracas (VE)
Artist in Residence, Cite des Arts, Paris (FR)