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Invited to participate in the “Environment and Art Competition” 2024 of the Kummer-Vanotti Foundation, for the realization of a work for the environmental sculpture park on the Island of Grafenwerth in Bad Honnef, Germany.
Participation in Positions Berlin Art Fair with the Brockstedt Gallery
12. - 15. September 2024, Flughafen Tempelhof Hangar 5 - 6
Tempelhofer Damm 45
12101 Berlin
POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair, offizieller Partner der Berlin Art Week,
Publicación
-Revista Elementos, Ciencia y Cultura, No. 135, Vol. 31, Julio-Septiembre 2024. Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México. 52435 06402
Exhibition
Exhibition opening: Thursday, February 29, 2024, 6 pm
Casa de las Culturas Contemporáneas
Calle 2 Norte #1006, Centro Histórico de Puebla, México
Exhibition period: 29.02. - 22.03.2024
5 Trending Artists Grabbing the Attention of the Artnet Gallery Network this August
These artists, hailing from Israel to Mexico, are garnering attention this month.
Artnet Gallery Network,
August 4, 2023
“Seeking to translate the relationships between movement and light through artistic means, Gabriela Torres Ruiz (b. 1970) creates intricate compositions that evoke the natural world at both micro and macro scales. Hailing from Mexico City, her photographic works are frequently incorporated into diptychs or triptychs, allowing her meticulously framed images to dialogue with one another. Her current solo exhibition, “The Path of Least Resistance,” on view at Galerie Brockstedt in Berlin through August 12, highlights the patterns, associations, and connections she continually seeks through her lens and in her practice. The works present viewers with an opportunity to reconsider the elements of nature and how they are perceived“ Artnet
Participation in Positions Berlin Art Fair with the Brockstedt Gallery
14. - 17. September 2023, Flughafen Tempelhof Hangar 5 - 6
Tempelhofer Damm 45
12101 Berlin
POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair, offizieller Partner der Berlin Art Week, 13. - 17. September 2023
Exhibition
Extended to 12. August 2023
The Path of Least Resistance, an approach to natural phenomena.
Exhibition opening: Wednesday, May 24, 2023, 6-9 p.m.
Mommsenstraße 59,
10629 Berlin-Charlottenburg
Exhibition period: 24.05. - 30.07.2023
Tue - Fr 12 - 6 p.m. + Sat 12 - 2 p.m.
Talk
The Path of Least Resistance at the 12th Constructal Law Conference in Torino, Italy
Torino, 21-22 September, 2023
7th Barcelona Foto Biennale / 17th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Barcelona, Spain
FotoNostrum Gallery, Mediterranean House of Photography, Barcelona
October 13 - October 30, 2022
The scientist Adrian Bejan, author of the Constructal Law theory, from which I took the basic elements for my project The Path of Least Resistance, has written and published his new book Time and Beauty, which deals with the relationship and unity of art and science. He was inspired by my artwork for the realization of his book, I received a thank in the Acknowledgement, which is a great compliment for me, coming from a great thinker whom I so much admire, Adrian Bejan. May 2022.
Radici, colective exhibition in Veneto, Land of Venice.
Villa Rechsteiner, Piavon di Oderzo, Italy
March 26 – December 31, 2022
Honorable mention - 17th Julia Margaret Cameron Award. Exhibition Barcelona, Spain. October 2022
Special mention - Arte Laguna Prize 19.20., Arsenale of Venice, Italy. November 2021
Exhibition
An approach to natural phenomena
Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
Opening: Thursday, September 9. 2021, 6 - 9 p.m.
Exhibition period: September 9 - October 2, 2021
Opening hours: Wed and Sun: 1 - 6 p.m. / Thu - Sat: 1 - 8 p.m.
Workshop Jugend im Museum with Marcela Moraga: Sat. Sep. 11, 2021 - Sat. Sep. 25, 2021, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. (3 dates) Information
On display will be works by artist Gabriela Torres Ruiz (photography, drawing and installation), as well as a video-sound installation produced in collaboration with Rosangela de Araujo (video animation) and Andrés Jankowski (music).
How can art contribute to the perception of nature in its complexity? How can it promote sensitivity, and empathy for other forms of life as well as awareness for a harmonious balance between human existence and the natural world? Torres Ruiz addresses these guiding questions. Although „nature“ and „culture“ are often seen as separate – even antithetical – in the Western consciousness, Torres‘ images show that everything in this universe has a common origin.
She was inspired by Adrian Bejan’s theory The Constructal Law, and based on it, explored „flow patterns that determine the structure of the entire Universe“. These flow patterns are found in rivers, neural networks, lightning, the lungs, the growth of plants, and social dynamics. „Every flow architecture on Earth follows the natural tendency to want to flow more easily. The evolution of its movement always pursues the goal of coming into equilibrium and minimizing resistance“.
This project was developed in cooperation with the Berlin Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, the Berlin Museum für Naturkunde and with the kind support of the Volkart Foundation, Winterthur, Switzerland.
Upcoming exhibition
Arte Laguna Prize 19.20., Arsenale of Venice, Italy. October 2021
New publication:
Natur-Dialog Magazin Der Weg des geringsten Widerstandes (The Path of Least Resistance),
Vom Umgehen mit Widerstand (On dealing with resistance). Article by Sabina Fischer. Switzerland, 16.04.2021
New publication:
Emergence Magazine The Path of Least Resistance. Photo Essay. February 2021
Upcoming exhibition
The Path of Least Resistance. An approach to natural phenomena
Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Opening: Thursday, September 9, 2021
September 9 - October 1, 2021
Project partner and supporter: Volkart Foundation, Winterthur, Switzerland
Upcoming exhibition
Arte Laguna Prize 19.20., Arsenale of Venice, Italy. October 2021
Publication
Emergence Magazine The Shifting Landscape of Faith. Silent Landscapes
Publication
Verborgene Schätze, 100 Jahre Kunstsammlung der Museen Tempelhof-Schöneberg, P. 58/59. Germany
Upcoming exhibition (Cancelled 2020)
Rescheduled for March 2021.
Arte Laguna Prize 19.20., 14th edition, finalist.
Finalists' exhibition at the Arsenale of Venice.
ZU FALL - group exhibition with: Alejandro Moncada, Alex Dorfsman, Carlos Sandoval, Claudia de la Torre, Dante Busquets, Gabriela Torres Ruiz, Helena Hernández, Rafael Ibarra. Kuratiert von Vanessa Enríquez
Embassy of Mexico | Klingelhöferstraße 3 | 10785 Berlin
26.09. – 25.10.2019
Opening, Thursday, September 26, 2019. 6 p.m.
Der Zufall ist ein Sturz. Es ist eine Funktion der Leere, eine Lücke, die sich mit einer Frage öffnet, ein Stolperstein im Unbekannten. Der Zufall im Zusammenhang mit einer Handlung oder einem Zustand des Verfalls stellt eine Möglichkeit der Auffindung dar. Die Künstler, die Teil dieser Ausstellung sind, werden zu Vermittlern der Leere, insofern als ihre Werke mit der Leere als potenzieller Stille, als offenbarende Dunkelheit oder gar als produktives Scheitern dialogisieren. Sie werfen Fragen mit einfachen Regeln auf, um das Unvorhersehbare zu erfassen. Worte, Strukturen und Körper werden zu Akteuren, die fallen, fragmentieren und durch poetische Aktionen transformiert werden. Diese Arbeiten wetten auf die Zufallsprotokolle, mit denen unsere somatische Sensibilität beeinflusst und transformiert wird, indem sie unsere Intuition als eine tiefere Form der Intelligenz offenbaren und die Realität navigieren.
Emergence Magazine, Print Edition / Volume One. California & Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Inaugural print edition is a collection of essays, poems, adapted multimedia stories, and photo essays from the first four issues. Tactile and intimate, this edition spans 296 color-filled pages and six different textures of paper—inviting you to slow down and enjoy these stories over time.
Emergence Magazine is a quarterly online publication featuring innovative stories that explore the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality.
Belfast Photo Festival 2019.
Winner Photo Book.
Photobook Exhibition. Book Silence.
Belfast, N.Ireland
06.- 30.06.2019
PHOTO ESSAY - Silent Landscapes
Emergence Magazine, an initiative of Kalliopeia Foundation
Issue No.4 Faith, February 2019
California & Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Press releases, book presentation Mexico, February 2019:
-Leviatan I 19.02.2019
-En Vivo Mx 19.02.2019
-Reto diario 19.02.2019
-Presencia en Puebla 19.02.2019
-Proyecto Cinco 20.02.2019
-Imagen Poblana 21.02.2019
-Leviatan II 21.02.2019
-Info Quorum 22.02.2019
-La primicia 22.02.2019
-Presencia en Puebla 22.02.2019
-Revista Purgante 22.02.2019
Book Presentation
Silence, Gabriela Torres Ruiz, Hatje Cantz Verlag.
Presented by: Ariel Arnal.
Centro de Documentación Arkheia
Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo MUAC – UNAM
Friday, 15.02.2019, 12 pm
Book Presentation
Silence, Gabriela Torres Ruiz, Hatje Cantz Verlag.
Presented by: Susan Flaherty, photographer Rodrigo Moya and Ariel Arnal.
Profética - Casa de la Lectura
3 sur 701, centro, Puebla, México
Wednesday, 20.02.2019, 7:30 pm
GESTE Paris 2018
Shortlisted for exhibition Binary / Non-Binary, Paris
Squares 2018, group exhibition, CICA Museum, Czong Institut for Contemporary Art, Korea.
23.11. - 9.12.2018
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2019
Nominated as a candidate for the publication Silence
Hatje Cantz Verlag, November 2017, Germany
Finissage Sunday, 18.11.2018, 4 pm
Gabriela Torres Ruiz – Silence. Solo exhibition.
EMOP Berlin - European Month of Photography 2018
Exhibition extended: 7.9. – 18.11.2018
GALERIE im TEMPELHOF MUSEUM
Alt-Mariendorf 43, 12107 Berlin
Mo to Thu 10–18, Fri 10–14, Sun 11–15
Gabriela Torres Ruiz – Silence. Solo exhibition.
EMOP Berlin - European Month of Photography 2018
Opening Thursday, 6.9.2018, 19 PM
Introduction Dr. Sabine Ziegenrücker
Exhibition: 7.9. – 11.11.2018
GALERIE im TEMPELHOF MUSEUM
Alt-Mariendorf 43, 12107 Berlin
Mo to Thu 10–18, Fri 10–14, Sun 11–15
Book Silence, NDR Kultur
Berlin Art Week, 26-30 September 2018
architektur journalisten
Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles
Photobook Exhibition. Book Silence.
2.07. - 23.09.2018
The Hariban Award 2018 - Finalists
Shortlisted for the Hariban Award 2018, presented by the Benrido Collotype Atelier, Kyoto, Japan.
Jury: Masako Sato, Curator & Founder Contact. Co., Ltd.; Shoair Mavilan, Curator of Photography & Contemporary Art; David Campany, Writer, Curator & Artist; Lesley A. Martin, Aperture Foundation.
Squares 2018, group exhibition, CICA Museum, Czong Institut for Contemporary Art, Korea.
23.11. - 9.12.2018
Review book Silence:
"This is indeed a strong series of images in a convincing sober dialogue / montage"
By Catherine David, French art historian, curator and museum director. Currently deputy director of the National Museum of Modern Art (Musée National d'Art Moderne) at the Centre Georges Pompidou.
-Silence. Solo exhibition. Gallery in Tempelhof Museum. European Month of Photography Berlin.
Coming exhibition: 7.09. - 11.11.2018
APhF:18, Athens Photo Festival 2018
EMOP, European Month of Photography.
Photobook Exhibition. Participating with book Silence.
Benaki Museum, Athens.
6.06. - 29.07. 2018
-Response to the photographs in Gabriela Torres Ruiz, Silence. By Michael Edward Moore, professor of Medieval and European history at the University of Iowa, College of liberal Arts and Sciences. USA 08.04.2018.
-Serenidad. By Rodrigo Moya. Mexican photojournalist, writer and publisher. México 17.03.2018.
ARD Mediathek Radio
Gabriela Torres Ruiz: Book Silence
18.02.2018 / 17:40 Uhr. / 5 Min. / Quelle: NDR Norddeutscher Rundfunk: by Guido Pauling.
"The photographer Gabriela Torres Ruiz has succeeded with her photo book Silence: she makes silence and loneliness visible"
Book
Silence, Gabriela Torres Ruiz, Hatje Cantz Verlag.
Introductory text by Timothy Persons, Helsinki / Berlin
Reviews:
-NDR Kultur. Die Aura verlassener Orte. Germany 18.02.2018.
-De l'art helvétique contemporain. By Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret, writer and critic of contemporary art and lecturer in communication at the University of Savoie. Member of the Imaginary and Creative Research Center, specialist in Twentieth Century Image and the work of Samuel Beckett. Switzerland 08.11.2017.
-lelitteraire. By Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret. Switzerland 11.11.2017.
-Aesthetica Magazine. Elegiac Sequences. England 16.11.2017.
-derStandard. Silence: Zeit zur Einkehr. By Gregor Auenhammer, historian, philosopher and psychologist. Since 1988 head of production planning and reviewer for the newspaper "Der Standard". Austria 29.12.2017.
-Swiss - Architects Magazine. Stille. By Jenny Keller. Switzerland 20.12.2017.
-German Photography Society. Germany 12.2017.
Gabriela Torres Ruiz interviewed by Jens Olesen.
Book Silence.
Deutsche Welle TV, 08.12.2017.
lieux de mémoire / Memory Places. Groupexhibition, Pavlov's Dog Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
Opening Thursday, Dec 16 2017, 7 pm
Bergstrasse 19
10115 Berlin
Exhibition: 8.12. - 3.2.2018
Book
Silence, Gabriela Torres Ruiz, Hatje Cantz Verlag.
Introductory text by Timothy Persons, Helsinki / Berlin
Introductory presentation by Timothy Persons and Nadine Barth
Thursday, Nov 16 2017, 7 pm
Galerie Brockstedt
Mommsenstraße 59
10629 Berlin-Charlottenburg
Paris Photo 2017.
Grand Palais, Paris.
Book Silence, Gabriela Torres Ruiz,by Hatje Cantz Verlag.
Introductory text by Timothy Persons, Helsinki / Berlin
9 - 12 November 2017
Frankfurt Book Fair 2017.
Silence, Gabriela Torres Ruiz,by Hatje Cantz Verlag.
Introductory text by Timothy Persons, Helsinki / Berlin
11 - 15 October 2017
8. Charity Art Auction, Telefonseelsorge Berlin.
7 November 2017, 7 pm.
Berlinische Gallery / Museum of Modern Art.
Alte Jakobstrasse 124-128, 10969 Berlin.
Preview
Mianki Gallery.
2 - 4 November 2017.
Opening 1 November 2017, from 7 to 10 pm.
Kalckreuthstraße 15, 10777 Berlin
Felix Schoeller Photo Award 2017
Shortlisted for the Felix Schoeller Photo Award 2017. Free / Conceptual Photography. Germany.
Jury: Michael Dannenmann, Jury Chairman, internationally renowned portrait photographer; American curator and author Gerard A. Goodrow; Simone Klein from Magnum Paris; Clara Maria Sels from Duesseldorf Photo Weekend; Julia Sörgel from Welt am Sonntag, Berlin.
The Hariban Award 2017
Shortlisted for the Hariban Award 2017, presented by the Benrido Collotype Atelier, Kyoto, Japan.
Jury: Michael Famighetti, editor, Aperture Magazine; Tristan Lund, owner of Tristan Lund ltd, art consultant, dealer to collectors of photography and curator; Thyago Nogueira, photographer, curator and editor of ZUM magazine; Rong Rong & Inri, founders and directors of the Three Shadows, photography art center, Beijing.
Coming book publication.
Silence, Gabriela Torres Ruiz,by Hatje Cantz Verlag.
Introductory text by Timothy Persons, Helsinki / Berlin.
Date of publication: October 2017.
Link to title announcement on Hatje Cantz homepage.
(Un) gleichgewichte, Gabriela Torres Ruiz, solo exhibition, Gallery Brockstedt, Hamburg
Exhibition until 15.09.2017.
Galerie Brockstedt
Magdalenen Str. 11
20148 Hamburg
Germany
Tel. +49 (0)40 - 410 40 91
Opening of Accrochage in the Gallery Brockstedt, Berlin
New purchases and from the holdings of the gallery. Genia Chef, Tino Geiß, George Grosz, Rocco Hettwer, Horst Janssen, Alexej von Jawlensky, Jupp Linssen, Rainer Mang, Isabel Quintanilla, Hans Scheib, Annette Schröter, Gabriela Torres Ruiz, Giuliano Vangi, William Wauer, Sascha Wiederhold.
Small refreshment on Thursday, June 22, from 6 pm to 9 pm.
Duration of the exhibition: 22 June to 2 September 2017
Galerie Brockstedt
Mommsenstraße 59
10629 Berlin-Charlottenburg
4th Prize and Jury Award, Art Olympia Competition 2017, with the work Silent Conversations.
Exhibition in Tokyo, Japan.
Overseas-based Judges (Overseas initial review and final review): Florence Derieux: Curator of American Art of the Centre Pompidou Foundation. Kara Vander Weg: director at Gagosian Gallery, New York. Brett Littman: Executive director, The Drawing Center. Previously deputy director of MoMA PS1. Simon Njami: Writer and independent curator, lecturer, art critic and essayist. Artistic Director of the 12th Dakar Biennale 2016. Chu Teh-I: Artist, founder and director of the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts. Professor of the Department of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts. Japan based Judges (final review):
Akira Tatehata: President of Tama Art University, Director of The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, and chairperson of the Japanese Council of Art Museum. Hiroshi Senju: Painter. Hiroshi Senju’s representative work “Waterfall” received Honarable Mention at the International Art Exhibition, La Biennale de Venezia, in 1995. He was commended by Foreign Minister of Japan for his outstanding achievement in worldwide reputation with his waterfall and cliff images in 2016. Professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design. Aomi Okabe: Tokyo and Paris based art critic and curator. Artistic Director of exhibition department of Japanese Culture House of Paris, as well as an adviser of Shiseido Gallery. Toyomi Hoshina: Vice President of Tokyo University of Arts. Akiko Endo: Painter. Professor of Musashino Art University.
Der Tagesspiegel, Mehr Berlin. (Article in printed version). Saturday April 22, 2017. By Christiane Meixner.
Selected to participate in the final round of Art Olympia Competition 2017 and exhibition in Tokyo, Japan.
Overseas-based Judges (Overseas initial review and final review): Florence Derieux: Curator of American Art of the Centre Pompidou Foundation. Kara Vander Weg: director at Gagosian Gallery, New York. Brett Littman: executive director, The Drawing Center. Previously deputy director of MoMA PS1. Simon Njami: writer and independent curator, lecturer, art critic and essayist. Chu Teh-I: artist, founder and director of the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts. Professor of the Department of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts. (Im) balances, solo exhibition Gabriela Torres Ruiz, Gallery Brockstedt, Berlin, Germany.
Exhibition extended until Tuesday 02.05.2017.
Finissage: Friday, April 28, from 6pm to 9pm.
Galerie Brockstedt
Mommsenstraße 59
10629 Berlin
Press release (german)
(Im) balances, solo exhibition Gabriela Torres Ruiz, Gallery Brockstedt, Berlin, Germany.
The exhibition titled (Im)balances, brings together three work collections; Silence (2009-2015), Unfinished Dreams (2015), and Origin (2014-2016). The common theme running through all three of them is the relationship between the raw earth formations and the man-made structures. In contrast to natural places, which are shaped by the constant rhythm of nature, the history of buildings is more likely defined by disruption. The interventions of their inhabitants or users create traces, which overlay each over time and can be read as archaeological layers. Those layers exist in a physical sense and illustrate in a comprehensible way a framework, within which changes have taken place. The fate of these man-made structures returning to their initial state, where nature regains its lost place. The decay and destruction of buildings become a symbol of the continuum of time.
I look forward to welcome you on the occasion of the exhibition opening on Saturday the 11.02.2017, from 6pm to 9pm. Exhibition from 11.02. to 15.04.2017.
Galerie Brockstedt
Mommsenstraße 59
10629 Berlin
Press release (german)
Conceptual Realities, interview with Gabriela Torres Ruiz, Aesthetica Art Prize 2016, nominated artist.
Gabriela Torres Ruiz is a German-Mexican photographer based in Berlin, and Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 shortlisted artist. Her work is rooted in the act of gathering and realigning images, which serves to generate new associations, as well as new figurative and conceptual realities. We catch up with Torres-Ruiz to discuss the influence of landscape and the spaces in which we live.
Link - Interview - by Kate Simpson
Silence, solo exhibition Gabriela Torres Ruiz at Trzecie Oko Gallery, Krakow, Poland.
I look forward to welcome you on the occasion of the exhibition opening on Thursday the 20.10.2016, at 7 PM. Exhibition from 20.10.2016 to 21.11.2016.
ul. Bocheńska 5/2
31-619 Kraków
Trzecie Oko Gallery, exhibition
Revista Elementos - Puebla, México. Elementos Magazine - Puebla, Mexiko.
Ciencia y Cultura, No. 104, Vol. 23. Octubre-Diciembre. Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico. 52435 06402
The Hariban Award 2016
Shortlisted for the Hariban Award 2016, presented by the Benrido Collotype Atelier, now in its third year, combines a 150-year-old analog technique with the new vision of digital-age photography. Kyoto, Japan.
Interview with Gabriela Torres Ruiz, Aesthetica Art Prize 2016, nominated artist.
Shortlisted for this year’s Aesthetica Art Prize, Gabriela Torres Ruiz is a Mexican-German artist based in Berlin.
Her diptych #1, from the series Silence, was exhibited as part of the Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 showcase at York St Mary’s earlier this year. In this work, she uses photography to preserve her own personal experience of silence, in nature as well as in spaces of disintegration and decay, to indicate the inevitable and progressive passage of linear time. We speak to Gabriela about her practice to offer an insight into the themes surrounding her work and inspiration.
Link - Interview - by Dale Donley
Haus at Kleistpark´s Art Prize Exhibition 2016, nominated artist.
Annually grants the municipal galleries Tempelhof-Schoeneberg-Berlin, the House at Kleistpark´s Art Prize. The tender in 2016, under the theme collective is with a cash prize of 5,000 euros and for the nominated artists from the shortlist with an exhibition from 2.9. (Opening) - 2.10.2016 in the House at Kleistpark. The jury consists of Mark Gisbourne (Chairman), Barbara Esch Marowski (gallery director), Elisabeth Lux (artist), Thibaut de Ruyter (curator and art critic) and Diana Sirianni (previous winner). A total of 190 artists have applied. The nominees for the shortlist are: Dana Engfer, Esther Ernst, Simone Hackel, Stephanie Hanna, Marc by Hocht, Klaus Jörres, David Kroell, Florian Neufeldt, Kenji Ouellet, Ariane Pauls, Aaron Rahe, Fiene Scharp, Gabriela Torres Ruiz, Johannes Vogl.
I look forward to welcome you on the occasion of the exhibition opening and awards ceremony on Friday the 2.9.2016, 7 PM.