ANA ALENSO

Review of  The Garden Bridge at Brücke Museum Berlin.

Text: Simone Reber  

Der Tagesspiegel. 15.08.2019

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"Den Übergang zwischen Dunkelholz und Lichtung markiert eine gut getarnte Installation von Ana Alenso. Zwischen den Zweigen windet sich ein Benzinschlauch mit Tankrüssel in Spiralen, bäumt sich vor einem Spiegel auf und bleibt in der Luft hängen. Natur und Technik gehen ineinander über, bereichern sich, statt sich zu berauben".

Link: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/outdoor-ausstellung-in-dahlem-hinter-den-dornen-ein-weg/24904358.html

Review of the videoinstallation: Desviar la inercia.

Text: Rodolfo Andaur.

Online Magazin RELIEVE CONTEMPORÁNEO

"Desviar la inercia” destaca de manera teórica, crítica e histórica a estos paisajes y lo que conllevan sus representaciones simbólicas frente a una incipiente lucha por efectivas políticas de sustentabilidad. El paisaje de la industria minera impone una noción compleja y una delimitación conceptual para la misión del arte actual que, ciertamente, debe ser enfocada, por lo general, entre un sentido crítico y bajo un eje histórico."

Link: relievecontemporaneo.com

Interview

April 22, 2019 — TERREMOTO MAGAZIN

Issue 14: Mira quién habla 

El exilio de las partes

Erik del Búfalo en conversación con Ana Alenso

Erik Del Búfalo speaks with artist Ana Alenso about the questions her work activates around the imaginaries of uncertainty within the Venezuelan present, perpetuated by a voracious petro-state.

Link: https://terremoto.mx/article/el-exilio-de-las-partes/

Review of  Extraction: Liquid Flames of the Solid Core

at Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, Croacia

Texto: Jaume Amills y María Muñoz

Extraction y sus obras llenas de lucidez, nos adentra en un episodio habitual de la contemporaneidad y funciona como elemento que hace avanzar o retroceder en la historia. Tanto Alenso como Soto nos hablan de extracción y preservación, de ecologismo y biodiversidad, de los sistemas de producción, de las consecuencias del capitalismo y de la tierra como valor superior.

Link: Neo2

Sitting Circles

Galerie Wedding

13.06.2019 bis 10.08.2019

Eine Gruppenausstellung mit Ana Alenso, Ada Van Hoorebeke, Okka-Esther Hungerbühler, Cosima zu Knyphausen, kate-hers RHEE kuratiert von Marie-Christin Lender

Image: Alenso, »Vertical Waters«, 2019, skulpturale Installation, Detail, Maße variabel

Copyright: Galerie Wedding, 2019 & Ana Alenso

Link: http://galeriewedding.de/sitting-circles/

Article / Review  Homeland's Agenda, 2016

ARTMargins and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A video installation in collaboration with Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck

Text by Arnaud Gerspach.    

"The work assumes the general equivalence of media—public government broadcasting, propaganda, diverse Internet corporate news channels, pop music lyrics, video testimonials of varying polish—so that each successive clip does not necessarily dominate the others. The result is a distillation of content, as form frequently coerces its own interpretation. The transcript provides a similar democratization of content, revealing a complex situation that would otherwise be impossible to experience for audiences not initiated in the local context"                                                                         

Link: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1162/artm_a_00220

Interview 

Mon 19 Nov, 2018  - Contemporary And América Latina (C&AL) 

By Aristides Santana.

Ana Alenso, Venezuelan artist based in Berlin, reflects on the global dependency on oil and on the political, social and economic tensions that black gold generates. Contemporary And América Latina (C&AL) spoke to the artist about her disquieting “Petrocultural Imaginary”.

http://amlatina.contemporaryand.com/editorial/ana-alenso/

Interview

1.000.000% de Ana Alenso o la inflación perpetua

Publicado por traficovisual el 03/12/2018

Text: Augusto Geradi.

"Crecí con la idea de que somos un país rico en petróleo, con una naturaleza exuberante y mucha tierra fértil. Sin embargo creo que vivimos en una gran contradicción, justamente lo que en economía política describen como el fenómeno de “la paradoja de la abundancia o maldición de los recursos ”. Esta paradoja me ha obsesionado durante los últimos años y me ha llevado a desarrollar un “imaginario petro-cultural”, en donde la materialidad de los objetos es protagonista y en donde me aproximo a diferentes cuestiones poéticas, ecológicas y geopoliticas." A.A

Link: http://www.traficovisual.com/2018/12/03/1-000-000-de-ana-alenso-o-la-inflacion-perpetua/

New Adventures in Vexillology #5 

Projekt Sommer 2019 kuratiert von Valeska Hageney und Imke Kannegießer

beteiligte Künstler Ana Alenso, Laura Bruce, Tue Greenfort, MoreUtopia!, Sophia Pompéry, Tita Salina

Ana Alenso kombiniert entfremdete aber dennoch identifizierbare Logos der Ölindustrie mit einem Fisch auf schwarzem Grund. Nicht nur Ölkatastrophen, sondern auch Offshore-Bauwerke wie etwa Ölförderungsplattformen, greifen massiv in die Ökosysteme der Meere ein. Der Begriff „Fair Use“, den Alenso hier für ihre Flagge gewählt hat, bezeichnet eigentlich die Rechtsdoktrin bestimmter Urheberrechts-Systeme und des so genannten Common Law. Es erlaubt die unlizenzierte Verwendung sonst urheberrechtlich geschützter Werke, wenn sie der öffentlichen Bildung und der Anregung geistiger Produktionen dient. Die Aneignung ökologischer Güter wie z. B. bei der Ölförderung sollte ebenso kritisch, reflektiert und der Allgemeinheit dienend, statt ausbeutend und rein wirtschaftlichen Interessen folgend, stattfinden.

Kunstverein Amrum

The Nominees

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Berlin Art Prize

 July 20. Ana Alenso

green and yellow
boom and bust

Friday, July 20, 19:00-21:00

Ausstellungstext

The current moment is marked not by an ecological crisis, as a temporary state of emergency, but by an irreversible mutation of the global climate and planetary habitability of Earth. It is a process driven by environmental pollution, ocean acidification, resource extraction, the burning of fossil fuels, agrochemical industries, and warfare, to list but a few of the anthropogenic, human factors. The term Anthropocene is commonly used to describe this very condition, giving name to a new geological epoch, defined by the significant human impact on Earth's biospheric stability. 

But this term is not undisputed. It places humanity as a major geological agent, rendering invisible the structural responsibility of neoliberal financial elites and corporations. The Capitalocene –the age of capital– in contrast, draws attention to global financial systems, highlighting the climatic impact of the capitalist political economy. Being aware of the biophysical costs of capitalism and its unequal distribution of human and ecological expenses, the current debate concerning how to think about humanity-in-nature and nature-in-humanity is a core theme of this exhibition.

Human and non-human actors are entangled in complex and tentacular networks, a myriad of ongoing connections extending across biotic and abiotic processes. The Chthulucene is the age of multi-species interactions and generative collaborations in a damaged world. Chthonic or earthly entities entwine with speculative fabulation, science fiction, science fact and speculative feminism to think of possible worlds and times in unexpected company. It is a rich terrain of muddled alignments that compose more livable stories beyond catastrophist and determinist discourses.

In an attempt to reject essentialist propositions and engage with postcolonial ecological thought, Capital, Chthulu, and a Much Hotter Compost Pile shows artistic positions that consider alternative ontological politics, reflect on environmental questions and speculate on possible narrations for our precarious times. These are stories of life (and non-life) told from the other side, to rethink how humans can fit, co-belong, co-produce, co-weave and com-post within this web of life.

Review exhibition: Capitalo, Chthulu, and a Much Hotter Compost Pile 

at Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien

Mai 17. 2018 - Zitty Magazin.

Text: Raimar Stange

Kunstforum Review, 2018

‘The One Who Teeters on The Brink Of Disaster’

curated by Eli Cortiñas, a Spanish video artist based in Berlin

In Homi K. Bhabha’s famous essay “The Commitment to Theory” culture emerges as a problem at the point at which there is a loss of meaning in the articulation of everyday’s life, between classes, genders, races, nations. The intervention of the Third Space of Enunciation as he describes it, destroys the mirror of representation in which cultural knowledge is customarily revealed as an integrated, open and expanding code. It is exactly in this space that video artist Eli Cortiñas situates the group of international artists presented in this program. An urgent search of extravagant and exuberant mysteries, an autonomous staging of possible violent scenarios, tropical economic values, stripteases of one’s own soul, lost of commodities and the fall of ideal projects of long gone futures go hand in hand to establish an unknown space, a new order between signifier and signified.   

selected films:

Exhibition and seminar CARACAS RESET at La Colonie organized by Rolando J. Carmona and hosted by #KaderAttia

Showing my video Tropical Curse, 2015  

http://www.lacolonie.paris/agenda/caracas-reset

Photo: La Chatarra, Juan Loyola, 1980

FILM SERIES how does the world breathe now?  

Session N°34: Oil Files presented by Ana Alenso

September 6, 2017 | 7 PM  SAVVY Contemporary | Plantagenstraße 31 | 13347 Berlin 

For our 34th screening Ana Alenso presents Oil Files, a compilation of 7 video-art works of Venezuelan artists from 1968 to 2016. The selection focuses on the relationship between oil production and Venezuelan culture, especially as it relates to structural problems of social inequality and corruption, seeking to give the audience insight into Venezuela’s contemporary history and its current deep-scale crisis.

Pozo Muerto (1968) by Carlos Rebolledo.

BLACK GOLD FIRE (2015) by Rolando Peña.

Tropical curse (2015) by Ana Alenso.

Prototipo de vivienda en país petrolero (2004) by Alexander Apóstol

Panorama Miraflores (2014) by Iván Candeo.

The dogs keep barking (2016) by Erika Ordosgoitti.

Reconversión (2008) by Marco Montiel-Soto.

The event will conclude with an open discussion with the Venezuelan artists Ana Alenso and Marco Montiel-Soto, the Doctor in Latin American Studies Manuel Silva Ferrer, and writer Alberto Morreo.

LINK: http://savvy-contemporary.com/index.php/projects/filmseriespast/

Money Laundering

Albano Afonso, Ana Alenso, Lehman Brothers,
Alejandro Gómez Arias, Kristian Touborg,
and Andrés Vial

Curated by Rodolfo Andaur

16 June - 8 July, 2017

Gothersgade 167, st.th. Wednesday-Friday 11-18, Saturday 13-17

http://www.sixtyeight.dk

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