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Irene Pérez Hernández frequently explore the territory between sculpture and performance and seek to challenge historically-coded associations between material and context.
Rooted in an interest in the interaction of line, motion and space, she produces sculptures and installations that interrogate the quotidian rituals of domestic life inscribed in the fragile social and political landscape of late capitalism.
EXHIBITIONS WITH CHAUFFEUR
THE PRACTICE OF EVERYDAY LIFE, AFTER DE CERTEAU
JOHN BARBOUR, ET AL, BEN GAVIN, IRENE PEREZ HERNANDEZ, NICOLAS LAMAS, ROBERT MACPHERSON, JEREMY HUTCHISON, JUAN PABLO PLAZAS
NOVEMBER 8 - DECEMBER 1 2018
in collaboration with YUILL/CROWLEY
TERMS OF SERIVCE
11-22 DECEMBER 2012
GENERAL STORE SYDNEY
Loop III
painted steel
33 + 35 cm diameter
2010
Irene Pérez Hernández is a sculptor working across a wide range of media which frequently explores the territory between sculpture and performance and seek to challenge historically-coded associations between materials and contexts.
Rooted in an interest in the interaction of line, motion and space, Hernández interrogates the quotidian rituals of domestic life inscribed in the fragile social and political landscape of late capitalism. Her performative works often involve repetitive acts or rhythmic presentations, while Installations respond to, or encoding meanings in, specific spaces are key component of her expansive pracitice.
Graduated with Masters of Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London 2008. Instituional presentartions include Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Ars Electronica, Linz, Total Museum of Art, Seoul, YeoJu Art Museum and Gangwon Triennale,, Korea, Simultanhalle, Cologne (commission) Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santo Domingo, Wells Museum Somerset UK and DECAD Berlin. Hernandez was the recipient for the 2022 Black Forest Baar Art Prize in Germany.
Formwork for a Half Arch
Wood, concrete, steel
230 x 230 x 28 cm
2019
Commission SIMULTANHALLE, Cologne
Wheel series II
glazed ceramic
30 x 30 x 8 cm each
2023
Wheel Series III, 2023, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024
IRENE PEREZ HERNANDEZ
B. 1977 Valencia, Spain
Lives & Works Black Forest, Germany
SOLO EXHIBITION
2020 Intermittent Continuity Faculty of Fine Art, UMU, Murcia, Spain (catalogue)
2019 Formwork For A Half Arch, Simultanhalle, Cologne, Germany
2019 Acts of Resistance, Grove Projects, Suffolk, UK
2016 Hook Up Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
2015 Fast>Forward>>Student - Basement Project Space, ARU, Cambridge, UK
2013 Room Art – Museum Centro del Carmen, Valencia, Spain
2012 Terms of Service – General Store, Sydney, Australia
2011 The Bottom Line - Tenderpixel Gallery, London UK
2011 Sculptural Arrangement - M2 Gallery, London UK
2011 Open Studio Weekend, ASC, London UK
2009 Mobile Nature - General Store, Sydney, Australia
2002 The Pool of Tears - Royal College of Arts, London UK
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Transformation, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany (catalogue)
2023 Some Form, Alt Space Loop, Seoul, Korea
2022 FAF, Freiburg Exhibition Center, Freiburg, Germany
2021 Move to...sociosphere, ecosphere, bodydatasphere, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2020 One Way, One Dream: Connecting Minds Through Art, Curated by Lee Jae-Geol, YeoJu Art Museum, Yeoju, South Korea
2020 Green Connection, Gangwon Triennale,. Gangwon Art Culture Foundation, Gangwon-do, South Korea (catalogue)
2019 Image: Between History and Human (Five Interpretations), TOTAL Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2018 Practice of Everyday Life, After de Certeau, yuill/crowley, Sydney, Australia
2018 Dirty Pretty Things, CHAUFFEUR, Sydney, Australia
2018 m2@15 (curated by Sarah Goodwin) APT Gallery, London UK
2017 Mockumenta, (Organised by William Kherbek) DECAD, Berlin, Germany
2017 General Store at Spring 1883, The Establishment, Sydney, Australia
2015 New Contemporary British Art Auction, House of Morton, Mexico City, Mexico
2014 Konvent.0, Cal Rosal (Berguedà) Barcelona (Performance)
2014 Déjà vu; Reviews and Visual Desynchronization - Universitat Politecnica, Valencia, Spain
2013 Wells Art Contemporary, Curator: Dan Hays, Wells Museum, Wells, Somerset,UK
2013 You Are There, Curator: Bree Morrison and William Kherbek, Performance Space, London
2012 London Design Festival - Natuzzi Store, London UK
2012 SHU Within The London Design Festival - Hackney Central, London UK
2012 Ultra Cave – Hardy Tree Gallery, London UK
2012 Syndicate II – 10 Cecil Court, Soho, London UK (two person show)
2011 Cartografías de la creatividad 100% Valencianos - Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia, Spain - Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales de La Habana, Cuba (catalogue)
2011 Open Show – Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2011 Loop - General Store, Sydney, Australia
2011 The Sculpture Show - Morley Gallery, London UK
2010 Shape and Material - The Vyner Gallery, London UK
2010 Minimalism Massimo - The Gallery at Willesden Green, London UK
2009 The London Group Exhibition - Menier Gallery, London UK (catalogue)
2009 Responses from Two Islands - Hackney Empire Theatre, London UK
2008 Turbulence - The Foundry, Shoreditch, London UK
2008 Finale - Goldsmiths College, University of the Arts, London UK
2007 Climate of Change – ASC, London UK
2007 Alternative Narratives - National Architecture Week, London UK
AWARDS/PRIZES/GRANTS
2025 Artist in Residence PI Nodiennes, Mulhouse, France
2023 NEUSTART Scholarship for Visual Artists, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany
2022 Kulturpreis Schwarzwald-Baar Art Award, Sparkasse Schwarzwald-Baar, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany (Recipient)
2019 Artist Residency, Grove Projects, Suffolk, UK
2019 Artist Residency at Global Forest, Black Forest, Georgen im Schwarzwald, Germany
2019 Commission, Simultanhalle Cologne, Germany
2018 Artist Residency at Taubenturm, Diessen am Ammersee, Germany
2015 Artist Residency at Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
2013 Finalist - Wells Contemporary Art Prize – Wells Museum, Somerset, UK
2007 Selection for the National Architecture Week UK, London UK
2003 Awarded: High Professional Specialisation in Fashion Trends by Govt. of Valencia (IMPIVA)
Selection: 1st Congress of New International Sculpture by the Group of investigation: New Sculpture Procedures for the Department of Sculpture. U.P.V Valencia, Spain
2002 Selection in the VIII Biennale of Sculpture of Quart de Poblet, Valencia, Spain. Selection “Prize Senyera of Sculpture”, Valencia, Spain
2001 Selection: Stone Vision Oceanographic Complex of the Arts and Sciene of Valencia, Spain Mention of Honour – University of Polytechnics, Valencia, Spain
2001 Selection Biennale of Sculpture, Benetusser, Valencia, Spain
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Nottingham Visual Arts Magazine, Vickers.J 23/08/2011
A-N Magazine, The Bottom Line, Nicolson.F March 2011
COLLECTIONS
UPV Art Collections and Heritage, Valencia, Spain
Private Collections, Sydney, London and Mexico City
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