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, Streetfight 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).