Education
2016-2019
DPHIL ART PRACTICE RUSKIN SCHOOL OF ART. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
2013-2015
MA PAINTING SCHOOL OF FINE ART. ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, LONDON
2012-2002
BA ARCHITECTURE. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE. UNIVERSIDAD EUROPEA DE MADRID/UEM
2009-2002
BA FINE ARTS. SCHOOL OF ART AND COMMUNICATION. UNIVERSIDAD EUROPEA DE MADRID/UEM
SCHOLARSHIPS
& PRIZES
2021
TBA21 &STARS4WATER RESIDENCY AWARD, Ocean Space, Venice w/Leonor Serrano
2020
VISUAL ARTS PRODUCTION GRANT / Comunidad de Madrid
2020
VISUAL ARTS PRODUCTION GRANT / Ministry of Culture of Spain
2019
Funding & Award: Cervezas Alhambra/ARCO. Emergent artist (production prize), ES
2018
AHRC DOCTORAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
2017
AHRC DOCTORAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
2017
PAULO CUNHA E SILVA PRIZE. SHORTLISTED
2016
AHRC DOCTORAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
2016
Premio Generación 2017. Fundación Montemadrid. Madrid
2015
Selección Residencia Artistica. Feria BARCU. Bogotá
2014
Lucy Halford Bursary. Royal College of Art. London
2014
The Windfall Bursary 2013/2014. Royal College of Art. London
2013
RCA (HEFCE) Student Bursary 2013/2014. Royal College of Art. Londres
2013
Lafarge / COAM. Mención Especial. LAFARGE. Toledo
2013
TRANSITARTE. Accésit 1. Ministerio de Cultura, Gobierno de España
2013
OPERALAB/ BMW. Honor mention. Opera Nardonova. Warsaw, Polonia
SOLO/DUO SHOWS
2023
SUPERSALUDO (CABEZA BORRADORA) @CAB, BURGOS
2021
A WARMTH FROM WITHIN W/JULIUS HEINEMANN, F2 GALERÍA MADRID
2020
SELF REFLECTIVE. w/ Ludovica Carbotta. CentroCentro. Madrid
2018
CIELO Y SOL DORADO DE LA SIESTA. F2 Galería, Madrid
2017
NO SIEMPRE QUE ESTUVIMOS/ ESTUVIMOS C.I. Nuevo Baztán. Madrid
2016
THERE´S ROOM FOR INSOMNIA (with JUNE CRESPO). Fluent, Santander
2016
A SUMMER GAME INSIDE A LIGHT STAGE. Trastero 109. Palma de Mallorca
2015
AGÜEROS DE LOS NUESTROS. Solo-Project BARCÚ, Bogotá
2015
ON DISTRACTION, F2 Galería. Madrid
2014
TO CRAFT/TO REMEMBER, Galería Alegría, Madrid
2012
ASIMETRIES, Instituto Antonio Machado, Soria
2011
DESDOCUMENTACIONES, Casa de Castilla León. Havana
GROUP SHOWS
2021
CLARO DEL BOSQUE. Intersticio. Madrid
2019
UNA DIMENSIÓN ULTERIOR. Museo Patio Herreriano. Valladolid
2018
DER DUFT DER BILDER. Kunst- und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen. Rüsselsheim am Main
2018
QUERER PARECER NOCHE. CA2M, Madrid
2018
V22 YOUNG LONDON. V22, London
2018
YA NO NOS IMPORTA. Centro Arte Joven Comunidad de Madrid
2017
FRAGMENTS OF STALE TIME. Lychee One, London
2017
TRICK´N´TREAT. Yaby. Madrid
2017
NO SIEMPRE QUE ESTUVIMOS/ ESTUVIMOS C.I. Museo Nuevo Baztán. Madrid
2017
GENERACIONES 2017. Casa Encendida, Madrid
2016
THE STORK OFFERS THE FOX LUSCIOUS GRAPES. Squash. México DF
2015
IF IT BENDS ITS FUNNY. Hosted at Bosse & Baum Gallery, London
2015
DEGREE SHOW 2015. Royal College of Art. London
2015
CASA LEIBNIZ. Palacio de Santa Bárbara. Madrid
2015
¿POR QUÉ NO LO LLAMAS ENTROPÍA? Galería Tiro al blanco. Guadalajara
2015
CASA LEIBNIZ. Palacio de Santa Bárbara. Madrid
2014
VULPES VULPES OPEN 2014. VulpesVulpes. London
2014
CALL 2014. Galería Luis Adelantado, Valencia
2013
LICENCIAS. Espacio Trapèzio. Madrid
2011
INSIDE / OUTSIDE, All-over gallerie. Lyon
2010
LOOP FESTIVAL DE VIDEOARTE. Barcelona
2009
JULKINEN KÄTKO/PUBLIC STASH, Gallería Virka, Helsinki
2008
VIDEOQUIMARA, 3H+K Gallery, Pori
2007
BLOG07:TODAS DIRECCIONES. Centro Arte Joven Com de Madrid
Workshops
& Events
2022
TBA21 &STARS4WATER PERFORMANCE "BREATHINGS OF THE MOON", Ocean Space, Venice w/Leonor Serrano
2020
NARRATIVA & TEXTIL. Handsthinking/UEM. Universidad Europea de Madrid.
2018
ELOQUENT THINGS. Presentación. Ashmolean Museum. Oxford
2018
JORNADAS DE ESTUDIO DE LA IMAGEN XXV. MUNDANIZAR EL MUNDO. CA2M. Madrid
2015
ARTIST TALK, Barcú. Bogotá
2015
ARTIST TALK, Christies Education. Londres
2014
CAFÉ DOSSIER. Tabacalera. Madrid
2013
RUIMTESTAN/ EME. Espacio POOL, UCM Madrid
2011
MURALISTS OF THE GRAN BALLET, workshop. National Ballet / AECID / Spanish Embassy. Havana
2010
SEMANA DE ARTE PÚBLICO Y ARQUITECTURA, Santos de Maimona, Badajoz
2022
BOOK PRESENTATION and Round Table @IvoryPress Madrid, April 2022
Diego Delas Aranda de Duero, 1983. Lives and works in Málaga.
As an architect, artist and researcher, his work revolves around the practice of study and manufacture regarding the reconstruction, repetition and reinterpretation of a regressing pre-modern culture. Diego Delas addresses some vernacular architectural designs, those related to narrative and magical thinking, those that embody notions with a certain modernist drive.
Delas graduated in Architecture and Fine Art in Madrid before moving to London, where he later received an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art and a PhD from the Ruskin College of Art (University of Oxford). He has also received prestigious scholarships and awards such as the AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership from the University of Oxford, and more recently the Botín Foundation scholarship. His work has also been selected for the Thyssen Bornemitzsa Foundation, TBA21-Academy, Cervezas Alhambra Award for Emerging Art, Paulo Cunha e Silva Award, Generación Award, Montemadrid Foundation Award, BARCU Fair in Bogotá, Lucy Halford Bursary, Windfall Bursary and RCA (HEFCE) Student Bursary for the Royal College of Art in London, among others. The artist has featured his work as part of solo and group exhibitions worldwide, and some of them have even been acquired by collections such as the MUSAC (Castilla y León Museum of Contemporary Art), the Montemadrid Foundation, the DKV Collection, the Kells Collection and the Cervezas Alhambra Collection, to name a few.
Statement
With his textiles, installations and paintings, he approaches the artistic practice as a medium with which to question certain ways of being in the world that no longer exist (rural, pre-modern ways), in which animals and humans coexisted on the same plane: home, work and the natural cycles of life and death. He reflects on a pre-modern era in which the artistic object was linked to the domestic world (marks, drawings and inscriptions for good luck) and belonged to secular matters and the rituals thereof. Delas' work emulates an amalgam of processes where an interest in vernacular architecture, the idea of labour and the anthropology of manual, magical and secular aspects converge. This is how he imitates the function of talismans and amulets, using not only construction materials but also materials inherent to domestic work (such as patchworks and reclaimed fabrics).
Diego Delas
ARANDA DE DUERO
SPAIN (1983)
Diego Delas Aranda de Duero, 1983. Lives and works in Málaga.
As an architect, artist and researcher, his work revolves around the practice of study and manufacture regarding the reconstruction, repetition and reinterpretation of a regressing pre-modern culture. Diego Delas addresses some vernacular architectural designs, those related to narrative and magical thinking, those that embody notions with a certain modernist drive.
Delas graduated in Architecture and Fine Art in Madrid before moving to London, where he later received an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art and a PhD from the Ruskin College of Art (University of Oxford). He has also received prestigious scholarships and awards such as the AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership from the University of Oxford, and more recently the Botín Foundation scholarship. His work has also been selected for the Thyssen Bornemitzsa Foundation, TBA21-Academy, Cervezas Alhambra Award for Emerging Art, Paulo Cunha e Silva Award, Generación Award, Montemadrid Foundation Award, BARCU Fair in Bogotá, Lucy Halford Bursary, Windfall Bursary and RCA (HEFCE) Student Bursary for the Royal College of Art in London, among others. The artist has featured his work as part of solo and group exhibitions worldwide, and some of them have even been acquired by collections such as the MUSAC (Castilla y León Museum of Contemporary Art), the Montemadrid Foundation, the DKV Collection, the Kells Collection and the Cervezas Alhambra Collection, to name a few.
Statement
With his textiles, installations and paintings, he approaches the artistic practice as a medium with which to question certain ways of being in the world that no longer exist (rural, pre-modern ways), in which animals and humans coexisted on the same plane: home, work and the natural cycles of life and death. He reflects on a pre-modern era in which the artistic object was linked to the domestic world (marks, drawings and inscriptions for good luck) and belonged to secular matters and the rituals thereof. Delas' work emulates an amalgam of processes where an interest in vernacular architecture, the idea of labour and the anthropology of manual, magical and secular aspects converge. This is how he imitates the function of talismans and amulets, using not only construction materials but also materials inherent to domestic work (such as patchworks and reclaimed fabrics).
Education
2016-2019
DPHIL ART PRACTICE RUSKIN SCHOOL OF ART. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
2013-2015
MA PAINTING SCHOOL OF FINE ART. ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, LONDON
2012-2002
BA ARCHITECTURE. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE. UNIVERSIDAD EUROPEA DE MADRID/UEM
2009-2002
BA FINE ARTS. SCHOOL OF ART AND COMMUNICATION. UNIVERSIDAD EUROPEA DE MADRID/UEM
SCHOLARSHIPS
& PRIZES
2021
TBA21 &STARS4WATER RESIDENCY AWARD, Ocean Space, Venice w/Leonor Serrano
2020
VISUAL ARTS PRODUCTION GRANT / Comunidad de Madrid
2020
VISUAL ARTS PRODUCTION GRANT / Ministry of Culture of Spain
2019
Funding & Award: Cervezas Alhambra/ARCO. Emergent artist (production prize), ES
2018
AHRC DOCTORAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
2017
AHRC DOCTORAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
2017
PAULO CUNHA E SILVA PRIZE. SHORTLISTED
2016
AHRC DOCTORAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
2016
Premio Generación 2017. Fundación Montemadrid. Madrid
2015
Selección Residencia Artistica. Feria BARCU. Bogotá
2014
Lucy Halford Bursary. Royal College of Art. London
2014
The Windfall Bursary 2013/2014. Royal College of Art. London
2013
RCA (HEFCE) Student Bursary 2013/2014. Royal College of Art. Londres
2013
Lafarge / COAM. Mención Especial. LAFARGE. Toledo
2013
TRANSITARTE. Accésit 1. Ministerio de Cultura, Gobierno de España
2013
OPERALAB/ BMW. Honor mention. Opera Nardonova. Warsaw, Polonia
SOLO/DUO SHOWS
2023
SUPERSALUDO (CABEZA BORRADORA) @CAB, BURGOS
2021
A WARMTH FROM WITHIN W/JULIUS HEINEMANN, F2 GALERÍA MADRID
2020
SELF REFLECTIVE. w/ Ludovica Carbotta. CentroCentro. Madrid
2018
CIELO Y SOL DORADO DE LA SIESTA. F2 Galería, Madrid
2017
NO SIEMPRE QUE ESTUVIMOS/ ESTUVIMOS C.I. Nuevo Baztán. Madrid
2016
THERE´S ROOM FOR INSOMNIA (with JUNE CRESPO). Fluent, Santander
2016
A SUMMER GAME INSIDE A LIGHT STAGE. Trastero 109. Palma de Mallorca
2015
AGÜEROS DE LOS NUESTROS. Solo-Project BARCÚ, Bogotá
2015
ON DISTRACTION, F2 Galería. Madrid
2014
TO CRAFT/TO REMEMBER, Galería Alegría, Madrid
2012
ASIMETRIES, Instituto Antonio Machado, Soria
2011
DESDOCUMENTACIONES, Casa de Castilla León. Havana
GROUP SHOWS
2021
CLARO DEL BOSQUE. Intersticio. Madrid
2019
UNA DIMENSIÓN ULTERIOR. Museo Patio Herreriano. Valladolid
2018
DER DUFT DER BILDER. Kunst- und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen. Rüsselsheim am Main
2018
QUERER PARECER NOCHE. CA2M, Madrid
2018
V22 YOUNG LONDON. V22, London
2018
YA NO NOS IMPORTA. Centro Arte Joven Comunidad de Madrid
2017
FRAGMENTS OF STALE TIME. Lychee One, London
2017
TRICK´N´TREAT. Yaby. Madrid
2017
NO SIEMPRE QUE ESTUVIMOS/ ESTUVIMOS C.I. Museo Nuevo Baztán. Madrid
2017
GENERACIONES 2017. Casa Encendida, Madrid
2016
THE STORK OFFERS THE FOX LUSCIOUS GRAPES. Squash. México DF
2015
IF IT BENDS ITS FUNNY. Hosted at Bosse & Baum Gallery, London
2015
DEGREE SHOW 2015. Royal College of Art. London
2015
CASA LEIBNIZ. Palacio de Santa Bárbara. Madrid
2015
¿POR QUÉ NO LO LLAMAS ENTROPÍA? Galería Tiro al blanco. Guadalajara
2015
CASA LEIBNIZ. Palacio de Santa Bárbara. Madrid
2014
VULPES VULPES OPEN 2014. VulpesVulpes. London
2014
CALL 2014. Galería Luis Adelantado, Valencia
2013
LICENCIAS. Espacio Trapèzio. Madrid
2011
INSIDE / OUTSIDE, All-over gallerie. Lyon
2010
LOOP FESTIVAL DE VIDEOARTE. Barcelona
2009
JULKINEN KÄTKO/PUBLIC STASH, Gallería Virka, Helsinki
2008
VIDEOQUIMARA, 3H+K Gallery, Pori
2007
BLOG07:TODAS DIRECCIONES. Centro Arte Joven Com de Madrid
Workshops
& Events
2022
TBA21 &STARS4WATER PERFORMANCE "BREATHINGS OF THE MOON", Ocean Space, Venice w/Leonor Serrano
2020
NARRATIVA & TEXTIL. Handsthinking/UEM. Universidad Europea de Madrid.
2018
ELOQUENT THINGS. Presentación. Ashmolean Museum. Oxford
2018
JORNADAS DE ESTUDIO DE LA IMAGEN XXV. MUNDANIZAR EL MUNDO. CA2M. Madrid
2015
ARTIST TALK, Barcú. Bogotá
2015
ARTIST TALK, Christies Education. Londres
2014
CAFÉ DOSSIER. Tabacalera. Madrid
2013
RUIMTESTAN/ EME. Espacio POOL, UCM Madrid
2011
MURALISTS OF THE GRAN BALLET, workshop. National Ballet / AECID / Spanish Embassy. Havana
2010
SEMANA DE ARTE PÚBLICO Y ARQUITECTURA, Santos de Maimona, Badajoz
2022
BOOK PRESENTATION and Round Table @IvoryPress Madrid, April 2022