Vanessa Enríquez is a transdisciplinary artist whose work centers on an expanded approach to drawing as a contemplative and inquisitive practice, a method of investigating concepts and phenomena proposed by physics and non-dual philosophies. With tools ranging from ink to magnetic tape, she unfolds geometries on paper or in space that refer to the multidimensional nature of reality, recognize the material as well as the immaterial and defy the viewer’s perception.
Enríquez received a BFA in Graphic Design in Mexico City and an MFA from Yale University in 2000. She has been awarded grants by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Stiftung Kunstfonds and the Mexican National Fund for Culture and Arts. Her work has been exhibited in institutions such as the Aomori Center for Contemporary Art, Japan (2022); the Drawing Lab, Paris (2021); Querétaro Museum of Contemporary Art (MACQ) (2019); the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oaxaca (MACO)(2020); and the Museum of Contemporary Art Juan Soriano in Cuernavaca, Mexico (2021), among others. She lives and works in Berlin.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Bathing in Nothingness, Aomori Contemporary Art Center Aomori, JP
M/OTHER, Galerie Gilla Lörcher, Berlin, DE
Negra espalda del tiempo, El Cuarto de Máquinas, Mexico City, MX (with Concepción Huerta)
2021
Resounding Songs, DrawingLab, Paris, France
2019
Foco Tonal, Museum of Contemporary Art (MACQ), Querétaro, MX
2018
Apparition, Berlin-Weekly, Berlin, DE
Transverberation, Auferstehungskirche Arnsberg, DE
2016
Fluctuations, II Rimini Drawing Biennial, PrimoPiano Gallery, Rimini, IT
Supersymmetry, Sonntag, Berlin, DE
PLAZEBO, Aquabit Gallery, Berlin, DE (with J. MAYER H.)
Silence Unravelled, Agora Center for Contemporary Practices, Berlin, DE
2015
Ending Time, Glashaus auf dem Friedrichswerderschen Friedhof, Berlin, DE
Genes(is) - Spärenmusik, Lilienkulturgarten, Berlin, DE
2014
For once, then, something, Berlinerpool, Berlin, DE (with Ali Dolanbay, Jaanika Peerna)
Zirkel (1+2), AC Insitute, New York, NY, USA (with Ilya Noé)
2012
Zirkel 2.0, Galerie Kollaborativ, Berlin, DE (with Ilya Noé)
Zirkel 1.0, Embassy of Mexico, Berlin, DE (with Ilya Noé)
Residues, Galerie XXX, Hong Kong
2010
Black Passage, Golden Parachutes, Berlin, DE
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Penser le fil, Maison de l’Amerique Latine, Paris, FR (forthcoming)
Veladas, Kulturinstitut von Mexiko, Berlin, DE
2023
Hilo, Cromwell Place, London, UK
The Corners of the Cloud, Alte Feuerwache, Berlin, DE
Licht Auf Schwarzem Grund, Hilbertraum, Berlin, DE
Weaving Memories, NADAN, Berlin, DE
2022
Metalinien, B-Part Am Gleisdreieck, Berlin, DE
XIX Rufino Tamayo Biennale, Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, MX
Amphibies, POUSH Manifesto, Paris, FR
Jubilee X, HAUNT, Berlin, DE
2021
XIX Rufino Tamayo Biennial, Octavio Ocampo Museum, Celaya, MX
XIX Rufino Tamayo Biennial, Centro Cultural Mexiquense Texcoco, MX
CHARTA#1 - Movement and Space, HAUNT, Berlin, DE
2020
XIX Rufino Tamayo Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art Oaxaca (MACO), Oaxaca, MX
Neuköllner Kunstpreis, Saalbau Gallery, Berlin, DE
Loops and Echoes, EMOP - European Month of Photography, P145, Berlin, DE
2019
L’artiste et Les Commissaires, Lage Egal, Berlin, DE
Amalgama, Art Number 23, London, UK
24Hrs Poznan, Poznan, PL
Check Mate, BCMA, Berlin, DE
Active Texture – between Text and Textile, HUA Gallery, Berlin, DE
2018
Konjunktionen, Aquabit Gallery, Berlin, DE
Deteniendo el Infinito, UDLAP Museum, Puebla, MX
2017
Transparency, SiC! BWA Gallery, Wroclaw, PL
Social Geometrism, Reinbeckhallen, Berlin, DE
2016
Ocio, Casa de las Culturas Contemporáneas, Puebla, MX
Draw to Perform3, Crows Nest Gallery, London, UK
Latitudes of Embrace, Clam Galas Palace, Prague, CZ
On Site in 16 Cities, Kosmetik Salon Babette, Berlin, DE
THE SEA, Group Global 3000, Berlin, DE
2015
BAiR Aware, Banff Centre, Banff, CA
Ex und Hopp ?, Aquabit Gallery, Berlin, DE
FRIDGE, Entretempo Gallery, Berlin, DE
2014
Anonyme Zeichner, Pavillon am Milchhof, Berlin, DE
The Open West, The Wilson | Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Cheltenham, UK
Mexiko Now, Galerie Pop-Up, Berlin, DE
2013
disCONNECT, João Cocteau, Berlin, DE
Drawing Connections, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, US
2012
Renaissance, Felliny Gallery, Berlin, DE
2011
Urban Calligraphies 10 X 10, Institute of Graphic Arts of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, MX
2010
Urban Calligraphies 10 X 10, Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City, MX
2009
Acróstico, Mexican Contemporary Drawing, Embassy of Mexico, Berlin, DE
GRANTS / AWARDS
2023
Mexican Fund for Culture and Art: SNCA-FONCA Fellowship, MX
2022
Berlin Senate: Artist Research Grant, Berlin, DE
Aomori Contemporary Art Centre: Artist in Residence, Aomori, JP
BBK: Studio stipend program, Berlin, DE
2021
Pollock-Krasner Foundation: Artist Grant, New York, US
Stiftung Kunstfonds: Artist Grant, DE
2020
NKKP20 Neuköllner Artprize: 3rd Prize, Berlin, DE
XX Rufino Tamayo Biennial: Honorable Mention, MX
2019
La Napoule Foundation: Artist in Residence, Mandelieu, FR
2018
Mexican Fund for Culture and Art: SNCA-FONCA Fellowship, MX
2017
The FID Prize#8 in Drawing: Nominee, FR
Valparaíso Foundation: Artist in Residence, Mojácar, ES
2016
Linden Museum: Public Art Commission “Auf der Schwelle stehen”, Stuttgart, DE
2015
The Benediktson Fellowship Fund for International Artists, Banff, CA
Banff Centre: Artist In Residence (BAiR), Banff, CA
Cill Rialaig Project: Artist in Residence, Ballinskelligs, IE
2000
Bradbury Thompson Memorial Prize, Yale University, New Haven, US
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