Alain Urrutia [Bilbao, 1981] lives and works in Berlin, Graduated at the Basque Country University and Academia Brera Milano in 2004.
Urrutia has exhibited at international Art Musseums, including the Boston Centre for the Arts, CA2M Madrid, Artium Vitoria or Guggenheim Bilbao Museum in a group show during the summer of 2023 and individually 2012 in its 15th aniversary activities.
Urrutia is interested in the slow gaze of reality that occurs while he is painting.
He works in an intuitive way. The work he has carried out to date is closely related to the idea that in photography, the reality becomes an image and it is subsequently translated into another reality when painted. In his view, the goal is not to reproduce a mechanical/digital photograph into painting, but to build a pictorial image. The paintings are striking in their ‘emotional impenetrability’, they posses and produce a kind of silence, a demonstrable lack of legibility, even a difficulty that outstrips their subject matter per se. With this notion in mind he slows the process of perception in order to allow paths towards new interpretations from pre-existing images, urging the viewer to question their assumptions of what they are looking at.
SOLO SHOWS (Selection)
2023
"Framed". [12 Rooms]. Kewenig Gallery, Berlin.
“The Immortal”. Pelaires Gallery, Palma de Mallorca.
2022
“Memorabilia”. MAAB Gallery, Milano.
“Der Wanderer (after Friedridh)”, Pittura XXI – ArteFiera, Bologna.
“Painting is a Mental Thing / Giorgio Morandi – Alain Urrutia”, ARCO Madrid, MAAB Gallery, Milano.
2021
“Conticinio”. Pelaires Gallery, Palma de Mallorca.
“Études et Nocturnes”, ARCO e-xhibitions, MAAB Gallery, Milano.
“Études et Nocturnes”, MAAB Gallery, Milano. (Verona).
2019
“PANDO”. Aldo Chaparro Studio. Ciudad de México.
“The Age of Anxiety”. Casado Santapau Gallery. Madrid.
2018
“Mirror Rim”. Appleton Square. Lisbon.
“Mise en Abyme” . Plat-. Amsterdam
2017
“Mirror Rim”. DIDAC Foundation. Santiago de Compostela.
2016
“Tierra y cemento (Sentarse y esperar)”. Juan Silió Gallery, Santander.
“20 Minutos de Pensamiento Abstracto”. Casado Santapau Gallery, Madrid.
2015
“Sociedade Anonima; True Lies”. Kusthalle Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo.
2013
“Gazing Again!”. Egg Gallery, Beijing.
“Revista de Occidente”. Casado Santapau Gallery, Madrid.
“Grey Flag”. Artium, Vitoria.
2012
“Chapter II”, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao.
“Naufragio/Esperanza”, Casado Santapau Gallery, Madrid.
“Aktionismus”, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao.
“Incomodidad y otros tiempos”, Juan Silió Gallery, Santander.
2011
“The Coyote and the Wolf”, MA STUDIO, Beijing.
“El quinto en discordia”, Torre de Ariz, Basauri.
2009
“Wunscht”, BilbaoArte Foundation, Bilbao.
“Next”, Montehermoso Cultural Center, Vitoria-Gasteiz.
2008
“Evig Sondag (Eternal Sunday)”, Stavanger (Norway).
GROUP SHOWS (Selection)
2023
"Tino Grandío. Correspondencias". Centro Obra Social Abanca (Santiago de Compostela).
"Mundu berri bat ikusteke / Un nuevo mundo por ver". Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa (Bilbao).
"High Spirits". Monopol Berlin (Berlin)
“La distancia entre A y B es la misma que entre B y A”. Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Conde Duque (Madrid).
“Andrea Branzi – Alain Urrutia”. Banca Mediolanum, Padova (Italy
2022
Basque Artist Programm (2015-2019). Guggenheim Museoa, Bilbao.
“Una historia de arte reciente (1960-2020), II”. Fundación Joan March (Palma de Mallorca).
2021
“Una historia de arte reciente (1960-2020)”. Museo de Arte Abstracto Español (Cuenca).
“An Eye Line”. Egg Gallery, Beijing.
“Pintura. Renovación permanente”. Museo del Patio Herreriano (Valladolid).
“Spiritu Andante”, Archivo Colectivo Gallery. CDMX (México).
2020
“Armonías en blanco y negro”, Coleción Los Bragales. CEE Fundación Vital, Vitoria-Gasteiz.
“La cuestión es ir tirando”, Centro Cultural CCEMx, Ciudad de México.
“Remake”, SSIFF-68. Altxerri Gallery. Donostia - San Sebastian.
“Ask Me Anything”, Maab Gallery. Milano.
2019
“Begira”, Bilbao Arte Fundazioa, Bilbao.
“Soñé que un museo ardía”, Tasman Projects, Madrid.
2017
“Library of Love”, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati. (USA)
“Hacer Amar Plantar Árboles”, Centro de Arte de Alcobendas, Madrid.
“Sobrexposición”, EAC - Espacio de Arte Contemporaneo. Montevideo, Uruguay.
“NO hay color”. Los Bragales Collection, Torre D. Borja, Santillana del Mar, Cantabria.
“Del Rigor en la Ciencia”, Centro Parraga, Murcia.
2016
“Rehabitar el espacio: presente, pasado y futuro”, Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid.
“Viaja y no lo escribas”, Casa Encendida, Madrid.
“Bete Noire”. Musart-Berlin, Berlin.
2015
“Brisure de symétrie” with Nacho Martin-Silva. Sobering Gallery, Paris, 2015.
“Susan Fletcher in dialogue with Alain Urrutia”; Herbert Read Gallery - UCA, Canterbury.
“Feelers”; BCA // Boston Center for the Arts, Boston.
“La piel translúcida”; Centro Cultural Bancaja, Valencia.
“La mirada plural”; Mueo Muñoz Sola/ Fundación Maria Forcada, Tudela.
“Tener que sentir”; Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto, Gijon.
“Monochrome”; Beers Contemporary Gallery, London.
“Saturation”, Coperfield Gallery, London.
2014
“Crise de identidade”; Eugenio Granell Museum, S. Compostela.
“Suturak/Cerca a lo próximo”; Museo SanTelmo, Donostia/San Sebastian.
“Dibujo Contemporáneo DKV”; DA2, Salamanca.
2013
“Historias de la Historia”. Barrié Foundation, Vigo.
“2014; Antes de irse”. MAC, A Coruña.
“In Situ”. OTR Art Space, Madrid.
“Freestyle”, Cajamurcia Cultural Centre, Cartajena.
“Presages”, FIFIprojects, Mexico City.
2012
“Wunderkammer”, Museum Nacht, Delft (Netherlands).
“Prospectus”, Biancovolta, Via de Piagge, Viterbo (Italy).
2011
“A Montanha Encantada”, Mario Sequeira Gallery, Braga (Portugal).
“Un disparo de advertencia”, Lalín.
“EXPOLIS”, Triennale di Milano, Milan (Italy).
“Melodías Prohibidas”, S.O.S. 4.8, Murcia.
2010
“Todo disfraz”, OTR Art Space, Madrid.
“Antes que todo/Before Everything”, CA2M, Móstoles.
“Oscuro y salvaje”, Casa Encendida, Madrid.
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PUBLICATIONS
2020
MIRROR RIM. Bilbao, 2020. 88 pages.
Texts: Carolina Laia Puigdevall, Angel Calvo Ulloa.
2012
URRUTIA, ALAIN. (published by Egg Gallery), Beijing, 2013. 32 pages.
Texts: David Barro.
2012
URRUTIA, ALAIN. (published by DARDO), Santiago de Compostela, 2012. 176 pages.
Texts: David Barro, Alberto Sánchez Balmisa.
2009
URRUTIA, ALAIN. (published by FUNDACIÓN BILBAOARTE), Bilbao, 2009. 176 pages.
Texts: Aimar Arriola.
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La cuestión es ir tirando. Angel Calvo Ulloa. Publisched by La Fabrica. Madrid, 2020.
260 Pages. ISBN-10: 8417769404
Inéditos 2016 / VIAJA Y NO LO ESCRIBAS. Published by La Casa Encendida. Madrid, 2016.
256 Pages. ISBN: 978-84-60884-30-9
ARTE ESPAÑOL CONTEMPORANEO. Rafael Doctor. Published by La Fábrica. Madrid, 2013.
500 pages. ISBN: 978-84-15691-16-7
2014. Antes de irse. 40 ideas sobre pintura. Published by Dardo Ediciones. Madrid, 2013.
276 pages. ISBN: 978-84-92772-47-6
ENTORNOS PRÓXIMOS 08/INGURUNE HURBILAK 08. Published By ARTIUM Museum. Vitoria, 2011.
ISBN. 978-84-93689-82-7
Inéditos 2010 / Oscuro y Salvaje. Published by La Casa Encendida. Madrid, 2010.
ISBN:978-84-96917-71-2