Ali Arévalo (Salamanca, Spain, 1998) is an artist, researcher, and educator based in Barcelona. Their practice imagines non-binary, queer, and interspecies futures in alliance with technology. They create temporal archaeologies that connect pasts and futures, crafting fantasy worlds as emancipatory tools for dissent. Through this approach, they build universes that take the form of soundscapes, performances, audiovisual works, texts, and sculptures. An exercise of imagination both structures and fragments their work, envisioning times that twist into non-linear temporalities. Arévalo works with the fragility of materials and explores biomaterials that evoke scabs, skins, and living fragments: hybrid, sticky creatures. Through these, they address the vulnerability and mutability of bodies. Their work unfolds an imaginary of transformations, doors, thresholds, keys, swords, armors and fantastical hybridizations that invite us to dream of other worlds. Some of their pieces fade and disappear, while others linger as echoes and traces in memory.
Contact
gallegoarevaloalicia@gmail.com
Interviews
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Education
2023-? PhD student in Advanced Studies in Artistic Practices. University of Barcelona. SP
2020-2021 Master in History of Contemporary Art and Visual Culture. Reina Sofía National Museum of Art, Complutense University of Madrid. SP
2016-2020 Fine Arts. Complutense University of Madrid. SP
2018-2019 Fine Arts. ABK Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart. DE
Solo exhibitions
2025 Les Faules de Lepòrida. Can Felipa Arts Visuals. Barcelona. SP
Group exhibitions
Soon: 2025 The Island. Curated by: Julia Cella. ART NOU. Tangent Projects. Barcelona. SP
2024 Un paisatge reverberant, laberíntic, fangós, dens i estrellat. Curated by amor rumor (blanca arias & edu r. pineda). Sala d’Art Jove, Barcelona. SP
2024 I swear that I will become a prince. Curated by Edita Malina. Jedna Tva Try Gallery, Prague, CZ.
2024 Només si fa olor de terra. Curated by blanca arias. Centro de Arte La Panera, Lleida. SP
2024 Mitos, mutuaciones y mutualismos. Clima Fitness. Curated by Maite Borjabad. Intermediae Matadero. Madrid. SP
2023 como los fragmentos que se han roto. Duo Show w/ Lucas Marcos. Malpaís, Artist-run-space, Barcelona. SP
2022 (In)tangible world: Posdigital corporeality. Curated by Lava Project. The Clemente Center, New York. US
2019 ALIANÇA #1. Haimney Gallery, Barcelona. SP
2018 Klasse Brenner: Do Not Disturb. Galerie Kunstverein Hechingen, Stuttgart. DE
2018 Arte en Emergencia. Galería Rizoma, Madrid. SP
2018 Sobredosis. La Quinta del Sordo contemporary creation center, Madrid. SP
2017 Tercer Certamen Valduero. Facultad de Bellas Artes Universidad Complutense de Madrid. SP
Performances
2024 Magical Theys. La Caldera in collab w/ Sala d’Art Jove 24. Barcelona. SP
2024 Magical Theys. Festival Artefacte. Fabra i Coats Fàbrica de creació. Barcelona. SP
2024 Magical Theys. L’Estruch Fàbrica de creació de les arts en viu. Sabadell. SP
2023 Inkuybeta Tales. Festival Argiartean. Donostia Kultura. San Sebastián. SP
2023 Inkuybeta Tales. Lluerna-Entreson. Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona. SP
2023 Les Faules de Leporida. Performance and installation. Festival Ex Abrupto. Moià. SP
2023 Inkuybeta Tales. Berlín Club Commission - Sónar Festival. Barcelona. SP
2022 Inkuybeta Tales. Performance and installation. L’Estruch, Fàbrica de creació de les arts en viu, Sabadell. SP
2022 NeuroXcape: The role play game. La Capella, Barcelona. SP
2022 Festival CYCLO. Sala Pirandello, Madrid. SP
2021 Festival B1N0M10. Central del Diseño, Matadero Madrid. SP
2021 MMMAD Festival urbano de arte digital. Sala Equis, Madrid. SP
2019 32 Stuttgarter filmwinter Festival for expanded media. Galerie Kunstbezirk, Stuttgart. DE
2018 I Congreso Internacional de Arte de Acción. Facultad de Bellas Artes UCM Universidad Complutense de Madrid. SP
Residencies
2024-2026 Hangar. Production and artistic research center. Barcelona. SP
2025 Centro Negra. AADK Spain. Blanca. SP
2024 Petrohradská koléktiv. Praga. CZ.
2024 L’Estruch Fàbrica de creació de les arts en viu. Sabadell. SP
2022 L’Estruch. Fàbrica de creació de les arts en viu. Sabadell. SP
2021 Konvent Zero. Berga. SP
Awards
2024 Grant Art Jove Creació 2024. Sala d’Art Jove. Generalitat de Catalunya. SP
2023 Can Felipa Arts Visuals 2023, Artistic creation category. Centre Civic Can Felipa. Barcelona. SP
2018 Sobredosis 2018. La Quinta del Sordo contemporary creation center. Madrid. SP
Publications, conferences and congresses
2023 I International Congress TEIDE. Temporalidades de emergencia. Imaginarios, Diagnósticos y Ecologías. (Session Chair and Organizing Committee) University of Barcelona. https://temporalidadesdeemergencia.wordpress.com
2023 Conference El paper dels arxius en la creació contemporánea. Activity programm of Festival Panoràmic. Reial Cercle Artístic, Barcelona.
2022 Conference Facilitar el futuro. Toni Navarro, Alicia Arévalo y Federico Fernández Giordano. Activity program Domingo en el Patio. Holobionte Ediciones, Centre de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona CCCB. https://www.cccb.org/es/actividades/ficha/facilitar-el-futuro/238627
Arévalo, A. (2022). El cuerpo digital: su expansión sonora como colectividad. In (ex)pulsiones. Journal of cultural criticism. “Encarnar presentes cansados”. Nº1. (Article in a periodical magazine)
Arévalo, A. (2021). Devenir fantasma. Una interpretación medium. In Revista ACTA, Nº6. pp. 43-45. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, UAM, UCM. ISSN 2445-4397. (Article in indexed journal)
Arévalo, A.; Navarro, A. (2021). Tecnomorfosis. In Revista Xenomórfica. Editorial Holobionte. https://edicionesholobionte.com/tecnomorfosis-alicia-arevalo-y-alvaro-navarro/ (Article in a periodical magazine)
Arévalo, A. (2021). Las posibilidades del espacio enfermo. En (ex)pulsiones. Revista de crítica cultural, Nº0. (Article in a periodical magazine) https://www.arteinformado.com/documentos/expulsiones_revista.pdf
Curation
2022 Ni memoria de forma. Malpaís, Artist-run-space, Barcelona.
2022 Edén Industrial. Malpaís, Artist-run-space, Barcelona.
Experience in education
2024-? Predoctoral researcher with the PREDOCS-UB grant and member of the TIEMPHA research group of the Department of Visual Arts and Design of the University of Barcelona. SP
2024 Teacher of the subject “History and Theory of Arts and Design” in the degree in Fashion Design. LCI University. Barcelona. SP