Ana Alenso
ANA ALENSO
Ana Alenso's artistic practice addresses the historical, social and environmental impacts of extractivism, global resource politics, and the trade of precious metals and fossil fuels. Her installations are often temporary and closed-circuit assemblages, consisting of sculptures, photographs, sound, and video. Her poetic, industrial, yet darkly dystopian work is usually preceded by extensive research and field studies. She participated in artistic residencies at Goethe Institut Chile, Villa Sträuli in Switzerland and Urbane Künste Ruhr in Dortmund. Recent exhibitions include: Geneva Biennale: “Sculpture Garden” in Switzerland, “Street fight at Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland; “Oil - Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age” at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; “The Garden Bridge” at Brücke Museum, “El Museo de la democracia” in NGBK and “Terrestrial Assemblage” at Floating University in Berlin. She holds an MFA in Art in Context from the Berlin University of Arts (2015), an MFA in Media Art & Design from Bauhaus University Weimar (2012) and an BA from Armando Reverón Arts University in Venezuela (2004).
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Ana Alenso’s work focuses on the former uranium mines of the Ore Mountains in the East of Germany. Interested in the wider geologic understanding of the past and today's geopolitical landscapes, she examines the significant role these mines and the Soviet-German mining company Wismut played in the race for “nuclear superiority” during the Cold War.