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About
Angela de la Cruz, born 1965 in La Coruña, Spain, in her work uses painting and its components as a sculptural object rather than a two-dimensional representation. She focuses on breaking preconceived ideas of painting by targeting the essential structural component of the canvas: the stretcher. By breaking and bending out of shape the stretcher, the canvases are often left detached, mangled, torn, or warped. Recently, de la Cruz’ creations take on anthropomorphic characteristics in the actions they seem to be performing or the poses in which they are set.
Angela de la Cruz studied philosophy at the University of Santiago de Compostela (1989) before moving to London, where she obtained a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College (1994) and an MA in Sculpture and Critical Theory from the Slade (1996). Important solo exhibitions include Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara (2021), CGAG, Santiago de Compostela, (2019), Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao (2018/19), Fundación Luis Seoane (2015), Camden Arts Centre, London (2010), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla (2005), and Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo (2004). Recent group exhibitions include Palais Populaire, Berlin (2022), Bilbao Fine Arts Museum (2021), Bombas Gens, Valencia (2021), Kunstsaele Berlin (2020), Freelands Foundation, London (2019), Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm (2018), Moran Moran, Los Angeles (2018), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2018), Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) (2017). De la Cruz was nominated for the David and Yuko Juda Art Foundation Grant in 2022 and for the Turner Prize in 2010. In the same year, she was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Award, London. In 2017, she was awarded the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas. In 2011, she was awarded the Premio da Critica Galicia and Art Critics Awards at ARCOmadrid. Angela de la Cruz lives and works in London.
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Exhibitions in the gallery
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FOUR WINDS
Group Show 18 March TO 15 April 2023The group exhibition Four Winds at Galerie Thomas Schulte brings together works by Angela de...View Exhibition -
BLANK
ANGELA DE LA CRUZ 16 January TO 27 February 2021To start the new year, Galerie Thomas Schulte presents the exhibition BLANK by Angela de...View Exhibition -
LISTEN TO A HEART BEAT
GROUP SHOW 23 May TO 11 July 2020The group exhibition Listen to a heart beat at Galerie Thomas Schulte brings together works...View Exhibition -
LAYERS
ANGELA DE LA CRUZ 26 October 2019 TO 11 January 2020Layers is the title of the first solo exhibition by Angela de la Cruz at...View Exhibition -
THE MATTER IN HARMONY
GROUP SHOW 14 July TO 15 September 2018On July 13 Galerie Thomas Schulte opened the group exhibition The Matter in Harmony with...View Exhibition
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Artist News
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Angela de la Cruz / Palais Populaire, Berlin, Germany
Group Exhibition 5 October 2022All the works selected for the show Escribir Todos sus Nombres (To Write Down All Their Names) – Spanish female artists from 1960 until today,...Read more -
Angela de la Cruz / Kindl Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Group exhibition 29 August 2021The group exhibition Ende Neu directs the focus to the productive potential of destructive forces. It brings together works by eight international artists in which...Read more -
Dieter Appelt, Angela de la Cruz, Idris Khan, Michael Müller / Galerie Georg Nothelfer in Tiergarten & Charlottenburg, Berlin
Group exhibition 30 April 2021All I think about is you is an exhibition by Galerie Georg Nothelfer in cooperation with KUNSTSAELE Berlin curated by Michael Müller. The exhibition deals...Read more -
Angela de la Cruz / Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain
Group exhibition 30 April 2021The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum presents the exhibition Womanology showcasing the exceptional collection of Bilbao resident José Ramón Prieto. It is a private contemporary art...Read more -
Angela de la Cruz, Juan Uslé / Museum of modern spanish art Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain
Group exhibition 6 March 2021The exhibition Painting: Ongoing Renovation (Pintura: Renovación Permanente) seeks to shed light on two moments of great importance in the context of Spain’s contemporary painting:...Read more -
Angela de la Cruz / Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico
Solo exhibition 26 February 2021Three-dimensionality, monochromaticism and metalanguage, hallmarks of the Spanish artist Ángela de la Cruz, are present in the Cabañas Museum, in Room 13 South, with a...Read more -
Angela de la Cruz, David Reed / Bombas Gens Centre d’Art, Valencia, Spain
Group exhibition 13 February 2021“Hyperspace” is a notion used by contemporary physics to refer to a space that has more dimensions than those known. The exhibition Hyperspaces raises how...Read more
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