Cristina Iglesias
1956
born in San Sebastian, Spain
lives and works in Madrid
AWARDS
2020
Royal Academy Architecture Prize, London
2015
Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts, Madrid
Tambor de Oro (Golden Drum) Award, San Sebastian
2013
Prize XXIV edition of Medallística Tomás Francisco Prieto, the Fabrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre-Real Casa de la Moneda
2012
Großer Kunstpreis Berlin
1999
National Award for Plastic Arts
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (selection)
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, Eidhoven
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid
PERMANENTE INSTALLATION
A través, Fundactió per Amor a l'Art, Valencia, Spain
Forgotton Streams, Bloomberg Headquarters, London, UK
From the Underground, Botin Centre, Santander, Spain, permanent installation
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023-2024
Cristina Iglesias: ELLIPSIS, Marian Goodman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2023
Under and In Between, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, USA
2022
Cristina Iglesias, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Landscape and Memory, Madison Square Park, New York, USA
2021
Cristina Iglesias, Skulpturenhalle Neuss - Thomas Schütte Foundation, Germany
2019
Interspaces, Centro Botin, Santander, Spain,
Una dimensión ulterior, Patio Herreriano - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español, Valladolid, Spain
2018
Entwined, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
Spaces, Centro Botin, Santander, Spain
2017
Cristina Iglesias, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
Forgotten Streams, Commission, Bloomberg Headquarters, London, UK
The Ionosphere (A Place of Silent Storms), The Pavilion, Norman Foster Foundation, Permanent Collection, Madrid, Spain
2016
Cristina Iglesias, Musee de Grenoble, France
Vegetation Room XVIII, Permanent Collection, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain
2015
Tres Aguas - The Toledo Aquifer, Commission for El Greco 2014 and Art Angel, Toledo, Spain
Pozos, Bodegas Cune, Haro, Spain
Impresiones, Casas de la Moneda, Madrid, Spain
Phreatic Zones, Marian Goodman Gallery London, London, UK
2014
Cristina Iglesias, Real Casa de la Moneda, Madrid, Spain
On Reality, with Thomas Struth, Ivorypress Space, Madrid, Spain
Tres Aguas at Torre del Agua, Toledo, Spain
Cristina Iglesias, BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2013
Cristina Iglesias: Metonimia, Museo Nacional Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Casa Franca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012
Concertgebouw Brugge, Brussels, Belgium
2011
Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
2010
Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milano, Italy
2008
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Pinacoteca, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2007
Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain
Galeria Pepe Cobo, Madrid, Spain
Instituto Cervantes, Paris
2006
Drei hängende Korridore, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
2005
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
2003
Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
2002
Museo Serralves, Fundacao Serralves, Porto, Portugal
2001
Galleria Pepe Cobo, Sevilla, Spain
2000
Carré d'art, Musée d'Art contemporain, Nimes, France
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
1999
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
1998
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Galería Luis Serpa, Lisbon, Portugal
Al Otro Lado del espejo, Sala Robayera, Ayuntamiento de Miengo, Spain
1997
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL, USA
1996
Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens, Greece
Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
Galería DV, San Sebastian, Spain
1994
One Room, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany
1993
Art Gallery of York University, North York, Toronto, Canada
Esculturas, Galería Municipal de Arte ARCO, Faro, Portugal
Spanish Pavillon, XLV Biennal of Venice, Venice, Italy
Mala Galerija, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
1992
Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens, Italy
Art Gallery of York University, North York, USA
1991
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens, Greece
Galerie Joost Declerq, Ghent, Belgium
1990
Galleria Locus Solus, Genes / Galería Marga Paz, Madrid, Spain
De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherland
Esculturas recentes, Galería Camicos, Lisbon, Portugal
Galeria Locus Solus, Genua, Italy
1989
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
1988
Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens, Italy
Museo de Bellas Artes, Malaga, Spain
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
1987
CAPC, Bordeaux, France
Galería Marga Paz, Madrid, Spain
Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna, Austria
1986
Galería Camicos, Lisbon, Portugal
1984
Municipal de Arte Visuais de Setúbal, Portugal
Sequencias, Galería Camicos, Lisbon, Portugal
Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
De la nature, Musée de Grenoble, France
Treasury & Laboratory: 25 years Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany
2019
El sueño de la razón. La sombra de Goya en el arte contemporáneo, Teatro Fernán Gómez Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid, Spain
No habrá nunca una Puerta. Estás adentro. Obras de La Colecáo Teixeira de Freitas, Sala de Arte Santander, Madrid, Spain
2018
Art and System (of Art), Artium Museum, Gasteiz Araba, Spain
Donacion de Placido Arango Arias al Mu- seo de Bellas Artes de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain
2017
50 Years of Konrad Fischer Galerie 1967 - 2017, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf and Berlin
Grey Matter, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, USA
2016
WITH A TOUCH OF PINK - WITH A BIT OF VIOLET - WITH A HINT OF GREEN - Dorothee Fischer in memoriam, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
2015
do it (adelaide), Samstag Museum, Adelaide, Australia
Disorder. The Curious Case of Dishevelled Art, Arti- um Collection, Basque Museum Center of Contem- porary Art, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2014
The Social Construction Of The Landscape, CAAC Sevilla, Spain
El desarreglo. El curioso caso del arte despeinado, Colecciòn Artium, Artium, Vitoria Gasteiz, Spain
Entre el cielo y la tierra. Doce miradas al Greco 400 años después, Museo Nacional de Escultura de Valladolid, Spain
2013
The Insides are on the Outside, Casa de Vidro and SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo, Portugal
2012
18th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
Time out of Mind, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Aproximaciones I – Arte espanol contemporaneo, Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear, Cacares, Spain
Locus Solus, Museo de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid / Fundacao Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Common ground, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2011
Folkstone Triennial 2011, England, UK
2010
From Picasso to Gary Hill, Centro Dragao do Mar de Arte e Cultura, Fortaleza, Brazil
Nueva Tripulacion para el Pequod. Coleccion de arte contemporaneo, Fundacion la Caixa,TEA Tenerife, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Nosotras, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contempora- neo, Sevilla, Spain
El cuadro inquieto. La imagen como pintura en movimiento y el retorno de los generos, Fundacion Francisco Godia, Barcelona, Spain
Miradas singulares, voces plurales, Claustro de Exposiciones, Palacio Provincial, Cadiz, Spain
2009
La Lanea Roja, Institut Valencia d‘Art Modern, Venice, Italy
Libertad, Igualdad, Fraternidad, Centro Huarte de Arte Contemporaneo, Huarte, Spain
Escultura española actual. 2000- 2010, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain
La sala de exposiciones Alcal 31, Madrid, Spain
elles@centrepompidou, artistes femmes dans les collections du Centre Pompidou, Musee National d‘Art Moderne, Paris, France
Narraciones sobre Arquitectura, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
2008
Umedalen Sculptur, Anderson Sandstroem Gallery, Umea, Sweden
Peripheal vision and collective body, Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst, Bozen, Italy
2007
Conversaciones Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano, Badajoz, Spain
Incognitas Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
On History/Sobre la Historia, Fundacion Santander Central Hispano, Madrid, Spain
Everstill, Fundacion Garcia Lorca, Huerta de San Vincente, Granada, Spain
2006
AÑOS 80: UMA TOPOLOGIA, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Santa Fe Biennial, New Mexico, USA
Art 37 Basel, Switzerland
Salvador Dali and a Century of Art, Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
Fuente Deep Fountain, Leopold De Waelplaats, Antwerp, Belgium
2005
Las tres dimensiones de El Quijote y el arte español contemporáneo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Big Bang, Destruction and Creation in the Art of XXth Century, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2004
Close by - Time Space Architecture, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Horizont(e) 1984- 2004, Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal
2003
Cuatro dimensiones, Patio Herreriano, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Espanol, Valladolid, Spain
Happiness - A Survival Guide for Art and Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Bilbao a Genova - La cultura cambia, Palazzo Ducale, Genua, Italy
La ciudad radiante, Fundacion Bancaixa, Il Bienal de Valencia, Spain
La palabra y su sombra. Jose Angel Valente: el poeta y las artes, Universidad Santiago de Compostela, Spain
La ciudad que nunca existio, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Bilbao, Spain
2001
Rumbos de la Escultura Espanola del siglo XX, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
La noche - Imagenes de la noche en el arte espanol 1981-2001, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain
Breeze of AIR/ Hortus Conclusus, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Dialogue Ininterrompu, Musee des Beaux Arts, Nantes, France
Encrucijada, Sala exposiciones de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2000
Carre d‘art, Musee d‘art Contemporain, Nimes, France
Exposicion Universal de Hannover 2000, Pabellon de Espana, Hannover, Germany Enclosed and Exchanted, Museum of Mo- dern Art, Oxford, UK
1999
Damenwahl, Cristina Iglesias, Olaf Metzel, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
North and South Transcultural Visions, Medi- terranean Foundation and National Museum, Warsaw, Poland
1997
Ten years of the foundation of the Kunsthalle Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
En la piel del toro, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
1995
Lili Dujourie, Pepe Espali, Cristina Iglesias, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
1995 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens, Greece
1994
Bildumak / Colecciones, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain
Artscape Norway, Moskenes, Ilands of Lofotes, Norway
La Voce del genere, Instituto Cervantes, Rome, Italy
1993
Juxtaposition, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Sublime Void (On the Memory Of the Imagination), Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium
XIII Salon de los 16, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
1992
Coleccion del IVAM. Aquisiciones 1985 - 1992, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valence, Spain
Los 80 en la coleccion de la Fondacion La Caixa, Estacion laza de Armas, Sevilla, Spain
Los Altimos dias/The Last Days, Salas del Arenal, Sevilla, Spain
Tropismes, Centro Culural Tecla Sala, Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain
1991
Metropolis, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
Espacio mental, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Centre del Carme, Valence, Spain
1990
The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in Twentieth Century Art, The Eighth Biennal of Sydney, Australia
Hacia el paisaje/Towards Landscape, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
1989
Jeunes sculpteurs espagnols: au ras du sol, le dos au mur, Centre Albert Borschette, Brussels, Belgium
pain Art Today, Museum of Modern Art, Takanawa, Japan
Psychological Abstraction, House of Cyprus, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
1988
ROSC '88, Royal Dublin Society, The Guinness Hop Store & Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland
Artisti spagnoli contemporanei, Rotondo di Via Besana & Studio Marconi, Milano, Italy
1987
Muur voor een schilderij/Vloer voor een sculptuur, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam Beelden en Banieren, Fort Asperen Acquoy, Netherlands
Quatrieme ateliers internationaux des Pays de la Loire, FRAC, Abbaye royale de Fontevrault, France
Cinq siecles d‘art espagnol. Espagne 87: Dynamiques et Interrogations, Musee d‘Art moderne, Paris, France
1986
17 Artistas/17 Autonomias, Pabellon Mudjar, Sevilla, Spain
8 de Marzo, Diputacion Provincial de Malaga, Antiguo Colegio de San Agustin, Malaga, Spain
1981-1986 Pintores y Escultores espanoles, Fun- dacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, Spain
Ferrin Garcia Sevilla, Cristina Iglesias, Miguel Navarro, Jose Maria Sicilia, Spanish Pavillon, Biennal of Venice, Italy
VI Salon de los 16, Museo Espanol de Arte Contemporeneo, Madrid, Spain
1985
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherland
1983
La Imagen del animal: Arte prehistarico, Arte contemporeneo, Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad, Casa del Monte, Madrid, Spain
SELECTED BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
2023
Cristina Iglesias: Under and In Between, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
Cristina Iglesias: Hondalea. Ed. James Lingwood, Hatje Cantz
2022
Atmospheres of Projection: Environmentality in Art and Screen Media, The University of Chicago Press
2021
Cristina Iglesias: Liquid Sculpture. The Public Art of Cristina Iglesias, Edited by Iwona Blazwick, Richard Noble, Hatje Cantz
2019
Great Women Artists. Phaidon
2018
Cristina Iglesias: Entrespacios / Interspaces, Centro Botín
2017
Inspirations: A Time Travel Through Garden History, Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
2015
Impresiones, El Museo Casa de la Moneda, Madrid 2015 (Catalogue).
Tres Aguas, texts by Beatriz Colomina, James Lingwood and Marina Warner and photographs by Attilio Maranzano. 2015 (Catalogue).
2013
Metonimia, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte 2013 (Catalogue).
2012
Chipperfield, David, La Biennale di Venezia, 13a Mostra internazionale di Architettura, Common Ground, 2012 (Catalogue).
Cristina Iglesias: Mar de Cortés, Matador (ed). Cuaderno de Artista, Madrid, La Fábrica 2012.
2011
Rendell, J.: Site writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism, I. B Tauris Publishers, London, 2011
2010
Moure, G./ Falguieres P.: Cristina Igleasias, Poligrafa, Barcelona, 2010.
2009
Cristina Iglesias. Il senso dello spazio. Angela Vettese (ed.). Milan: Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro 2009 (Catalogue)
2008
Daem, H./ De Zegher, C./ Beele S.: Cristina Iglesias: Deep Fountain, KMSKA/ BAI, Antwerp, 2008 (Catalogue).
Cristina Iglesias. Entrevista de Ivo Mesquita, Thais Rivitti. Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, 2008 (Catalogue).
2007
Falguieres, P.: Cristina Iglesias. Instituto Cervantes, Paris, 2007 (Catalogue).
Moure, G.: Sobre la historia: James Coleman, Tacita Dean, Günther Förg, Rodney Graham, Gary Hill, Craigie Horsfield, Cristina Iglesias, Malcolm Le Grice, Sam Taylor-Wood, Bill Viola, Jeff Wall. Fundaci?n Santander Central Hispano. Madrid 2007 (Catalogue).
2006
Wilmes, U.: DC: Cristina Iglesias Drei hängende Korridore, Köln, Museum Ludwig, Walther König Verlag, Köln, 2006
2002
Blazwick, I.: Cristina Iglesias. Barcelona 2002.
Von Drathen, D.: Cristina Iglesias. Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartkunst, Weltkunst und Bruckmann, München, 2002.
2000
Castro Florez, F.: Dialog : Kunst im Pavillon. Hannover 2000 (Catalogue).
Brougher, K. / Tarantino, M.: Enclosed and enchanted. Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. Oxford 2000.
1997
Princenthal, N.: Cristina Iglesias. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York / Renaissance Society Chicago, Ill. / Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid / Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao. Madrid 1997 (Catalogue).
1996
Maderuelo J.: Cristina Iglesias: Cinco proyectos. Fundación Argentaria, Madrid, 1996.
Jarauta, F.: Cristina Iglesias, San Sebasti?n: El Diario Vasco: Banco Guipuzcoano, 1996 (Catalogue).
1993
Badovinac, Z.: Cristina Iglesias, Moderna galerija, Liubljana, 1993.
Garcia, A. / Angel Valente, J.: Cristina Iglesias., XIV Bienal de Venecia, Barcelona: Ambit, Barcelona, 1993.
1992
Espaliu, P. / Yarlow, L.: Cristina Iglesias, Art Gallery of York University, North York, 1992.
1991
Loock, U./ Angel Valente J.: Cristina Iglesias, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, 1991.
Cassiman, B.: Espacio mental: 10 mayo / 21 julio 1991. Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno. Valencia 1991.
1990
Cassiman, B.: Cristina Iglesias, De Appel, Amsterdam, 1990.
1988
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen: Cristina Iglesias. Düsseldorf, 1988.
1987
Melo, A.: Cristina Iglesias: Sculptures 1984-1987, Bordeaux, Museé d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, 1987.
