Arnaldo Drés González (b. 1986, Caracas - Venezuela)
Since 2014 lives and works in Hamburg, Germany
Education
2016 - MFA - Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen (HKS), Ottersberg, DE
Class Prof. Michael Dörner.
2011 - BFA - Mixed Media Degree (Cum Laude Honors) Universidad Nacional
Experimental de las Artes (UNEARTE) (Formerly: IUESAPAR), Caracas, VE
Class Prof. Nan González and Prof. Marcos Salazar Delfino.
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Resguardo y Presencia - Galerie 21, Vorwerk-Stift, Hamburg, DE
Respira - galerie holzhauer hamburg, Hamburg, DE
Transformationen - Zehntscheune Stadthagen, Stadthagen, DE (duo)
2021
Lonas del Jardín - Emerging Artist section, AAF, Kunstmesse, Hamburg, DE
2019
Rastros - FONIS Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
2018
Revelaciones - galerie holzhauer hamburg, Hamburg, DE
Resguardo y Presencia - AKTION #239, 2025 Kunst und Kultur, Hamburg, DE
2017
Netzwerke von Panik und Sehnsucht - galerie holzhauer hamburg, Hamburg, DE (duo)
2016
Impuls - Westwerk, Hamburg, DE
Rostros y Rastros - Generalkonsulat Venezuela in Hamburg, DE
2015
Mente en Blanco - Level One, Hamburg, DE
2011
Mi Pequeño y Grande Universo - Sala UNEXUS, UNEARTE, Caracas, VE
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2024
40 Jahre Artothek - Artothek Buxtehude, Buxtehude, DE
It's all about Freedom, galerie holzhauer hamburg, DE
2023
Poética e Incertidumbre - Espacio Cultural de Sa Punta des Molí, within the framework of EnTránsito (Art Festival), Sant Antoni, Ibiza, ES
Linientreu - Jupiter First Floor, Hamburg, DE
Anonyme Zeichner Hamburg - Veddel, HYCP Veddel-Space, Hamburg, DE
2022
Paradise is here / Mit Haut und Haar - Kultur-Funke, Lübeck, DE
Zwischen Osten und Westen - galerie holzhauer hamburg, DE
ZHN JHR LVL N - Level One, Hamburg, DE
Teztown - Digital Image, Virtual Dialogues and Non-Fungible Token, Tezos Blockchain (Online)
(IN)BETWEEN - Exhibition for music and graphics, Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg, DE
2021
Atelierkate Lesum Bremen Art Prize Nominations - Atelierkate Lesum, Bremen, DE
Lübecker Art-Peep-Show - Kultur-Funke, Lübeck, DE
Speak Through Drawing - Dada.art (Online)
2020
körpE[h]RLICH - xpon-art gallery, Hamburg, DE
2019
The AJALA Project - Centre’s Gate Village, DIFC Art Nights, Dubai, UAE
MENA Art Award nominee - Clyde & Co, Dubai, UAE
2018
The AJALA Project - Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood, Sikka Art Fair, Dubai, UAE
Me, Myself and The Possibility of You - Westwerk, Hamburg, DE
2017
Das fliegende Jackett - FONIS Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
We Love Artists' Books! - galerie holzhauer hamburg, Hamburg, DE
Miramientos de Ida y Vuelta - MOM art space, IV Velada Remix (Art Festival), Hamburg, DE
2016
Enthüllungen - NIEHUUS (antique & art), Lübeck, DE
Kunst im Schaufenster - altonale 18 (Art Festival), Hamburg, DE
Millerntor Gallery (Art Festival) - Hamburg, DE
2015
Búsqueda de Horizonte - Hotel Pacific & Garagen Sauerberg, III Velada Remix (Art Festival), Hamburg, DE
Keine Farbe Schwarz, Freitagssalon, Hamburg, DE
Kunst im Schaufenster, altonale 17 (Art Festival), Hamburg, DE
2014
1st International Show M.A.E Cintia Pirez, Miami, U.S.A
Maracaibo die Ästhetik und den Geist - Velada Santa Lucía Remix, 8. Bremer Kunstfrühling (Art Festival), Bremen, DE
2013
Para:Lelo: Envío de mi identidad, Hotel Pacific, II Velada Remix (Art Festival), within the framework of the Hamburg Art Week, Hamburg, DE
Para:Lelo: Envío de mi identidad - XIII Velada Santa Lucia (Art Festival), Maracaibo, VE
2012
Uno Es Igual a Cinco - XII Velada Santa Lucia (Art Festival), Maracaibo, VE
2011
Ceñido y Torrente de mi Pensamiento - La Ruta Nocturna en los Museos (Art Festival), Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, VE
Masifica2.0 - 1ra transmisión on-site DeOrigenBélico, Ateneo de Valencia, Valencia, VE
9na Edición del Salón de Arte Digital CARPE DIEM, PDVSA La Estancia, Maracaibo, VE
2010
Quémese Después de Verse - El Apartaco, Caracas, VE
Screenings
2024
Intermediaciones - XI Muestra Internacional de Videoarte y Cine Experimental, Medellín, CO
2019
6 Tage Frei - Festival der freien Darstellenden Künste (Art Festival), Stuttgart, DE
2016
Lunattack Art Concert - Halle424, Hamburg, DE
2015
CineAutopsia - Festival de Cine Experimental de Bogotá, (Art Festival), Bogotá, CO
Re-Fokus - (Audiovisuelle Kunst), B-Movie Kino, Hamburg, DE
I Festival Internacional de Videoarte nodoCCS - Sala Mendoza, (Art Festival), Caracas, VE
Spring Equinox - (Finissage), Behaim 21, Berlin, DE
2012
Video en Acción - 2da Edición (Art Festival) Centro de Artes Vivas Alexis Mújica (CAVAM), Valencia, VE
2011
VI Encuentro Mundial de Arte Corporal - Sala Ríos Reina, Teatro Teresa Carreño (Opening Ceremony) and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas (MACCAR), Caracas, VE
Special Projects
2023
Le Fil Rouge - Visual art creation in collaboration with Barbara Duchow (Performing Artist) (DE) - for the performance art program The Making Room of The Solo School by Henry McGrath (UK)
Poética e Incertidumbre - Curatorial team with Swen Kählert (DE). Collective site-specific art intervention presented at the 1st edition of EnTránsito (Art Festival). Directed by Clemencia Labín (Festival Creator). Espacio Cultural de Sa Punta des Molí, Sant Antoni, Ibiza, ES
Moon Kiss - Visual art creation and audiovisual performance in collaboration with the collective of musicians, singers and composers Lunattack and Elephant Memories - Barbara Duchow (DE), Jean-Philippe Boin, Olivier Carpentier and Bruno Joly (FR). Live performance at the Festival Enorock for the benefit of the ENOREV association, Le Metronum, Toulouse, FR
2022
The Lost Tail / Lumina - Visual art and music videos creation in collaboration with performing artists, musicians, singers and songwriters Barbara Duchow and Birgit Fischer (DE), Jacqueline Langham (UK) and DeePhi Music (FR) in support of the release of songs produced in the residential program The Real World Producer Camp by Real World studios (UK)
2021
L´Eternité / Chanson de la Plus Haute Tour - Visual poetry and music video creation in collaboration with Barbara Duchow (DE) and Dan Easley (USA). Visual EP project musical experiment tribute to Arthur Rimbaud's poems (FR)
2017
Weapon Industry - Video and sound art creation for Lunattack´s Pont Neuf Visual Album Release (ACT 1) Performances by Barbara Duchow and Jiska Morgenthal, First Stage Theater, Hamburg (DE)
Miramientos de Ida y Vuelta - Artist curator in cooperation with Dagmar Rauwald (DE) Gängeviertel curatorial team for the collective exhibition presented at the 4th edition of Velada Remix (Art Festival). Directed by Clemencia Labín (Festival Creator), MOM art space, Hamburg, DE
2015
Wohn Wahn Sinn - Site-specific art intervention in the Ottersberger Kaufhaus Kortlang. An interdisciplinary project of the Master's program of the (HKS) Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen Ottersberg. Directed by Prof. Michael Dörner, Ottersberg, DE
2011
Gran Tendedero - Pon una Foto en la Calle - Site-specific art intervention during the Fiesta de Las Artes (IUESAPAR) at the Estación de Metro Caño Amarillo of Metro de Caracas (VE), in collaboration with PFC - Pon Una Foto en la Calle - socially oriented and non-profit organization founded by Juan Carril Márquez (ES)
2008
El Bar del Tiempo / Las Formas del Verbo - A multimedia poetry lab and art exhibition project with the collaboration of IUESAPAR (Caracas), Centro di poesia contemporanea dell'Università di Bologna (IT) with the Poet Davide Rondoni and Centro Cultural Tinna Modotti (VE). Presented at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas (MACCAR), Caracas, VE
Awards and Grants
2021
Hamburger Zukunftsstipendium für bildende Kunst, funded by BKM Hamburg, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung and BBK Hamburg, DE
Atelierkate Lesum Kunstpreis Nominierung, Bremen, DE
2019
Städtelabor - Residential program, PAF - Performing Arts Festival Berlin, DE
MENA Art Award nomination, Dubai, UAE
2015
altonale17-Kunstpreis, Lobende Erwähnung, Hamburg, DE
2016
STIBET & DAAD, Stipendium, DE
2011
UNEARTE, Diploma with honors, DE
2008
IUESAPAR, Scholarship, VE
Publications (selection)
2023
Radar - Exhibition Brochure, Jupiter First Floor Hamburg (DE). Text by Santiago Rago (in German, English).
Poética al Resguardo: Del Polvo y el Aire, mi Abuela y un Molino - Exhibition brochure, Espacio Cultural de Sa Punta des Molí, Ibiza (ES). Text by Santiago Rago (in Spanish, English).
EnTránsito - Festival Catalogue. Texts of the curatorial group (in Spanish, English), Sant Antoni de Portmany, Ibiza (ES)
2022
Resguardo y Presencia - Exhibition Brochure, Gallery 21, Künstlerhaus Vorwerk-Stift, Hamburg (DE). Text by Santiago Rago (in German, English).
2021
Arnaldo Drés González: Lonas de Jardín - Exhibition Brochure, AAF Emerging Artists Hamburg (DE). Text by Hannah Bode (in German, English).
2017
Das fliegende Jackett - Exhibition Catalogue, FONIS Galerie, p. 24-27, Düsseldorf (DE). Text by Xenofon Moustakas, Hagen Scheer and participating artists (in German, Greek, English).
2016
Impuls - Ein Kurzfilm von Arnaldo González - Masterarbeitskatalog. Text by Angela Holzhauer and Arnaldo Drés González (in German). Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen (HKS), Ottersberg (DE)
Millerntor Gallery - Festival Catalogue #6, p.196-197, Hamburg (DE)
2014
Kunstfrühling 2014 - Festival Catalogue, Velada Santa Lucía | Remix, p.320-321, BBK, Bremen (DE)
2012
12. Velada de Santa Lucía, Calle del Arte - Festival Catalogue. Text by Mathew Partridge (in English, Spanish), p.198, Maracaibo-Hamburg (VE/DE)
Uno es Igual a Cinco - Exhibition Brochure, 12. Velada de Santa Lucía, Calle del Arte. Text by the artists (in
Spanish), Maracaibo, VE