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, Prof. Jorge Dominguez-Dubuc and Prof. Marcos Salazar Delfino.
Awards and Grants
2025
Topographies of Tents, Terracotta and Time – Indo-German Cultural Exchange Project Funding, supported by
the Hamburg Ministry for Culture and Media and Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad, DE/IN
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
Screenings (selection)
2025
Écran Libre New Media Festival - Curated by Laura Paolini, Mahlet Cuff and Thea Prat, Québec, CA
Festival Internacional De Cine De Villa De Leyva, Villa De Leyva, CL
F-VaCe Festival, Salamanca, ES
Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Numériques & Poetiques, Friendship Program w/ International Video Poetry Festival VIDEO BARDÓ, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires, AR
T.I.V.A. - Tirana International Video Art Festival - Curated by Florian Haxhihyseni, Tirana, AL
Tendermesh Film Fest, Part 1, Impulse, Studio DB, Berlín, DE
WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg, CA
Speak Volumes, Project Betula Screening Series - Curated by Sofia Kuznetsova and Daria
Gnatchenko, Out of the Blue Cinema, Paris, FR
Festival Internacional de Cine Experimental “Mientras tanto Cine” - Curated by Catalina Giordano,
Lucie Leszez and Agustina Arrillaga, 310 arte-estudio, Montevideo, UY
Movement and Light - Curated by Inge Gräber, GISELA-Freier Kunstraum-Lichtenberg, Berlín, DE
UMW Mediawall - Curated by Josiah Arnold, UMW Hurley Convergence Center, Washington, USA
2024
Rare Effect Festival - Film Night, curated by Danielle Grosso and Adrian Leverkuhn, Arroz Estúdios, Lisbon, PT
Intermediaciones - XI Muestra Internacional de Videoarte y Cine Experimental, Medellín, CO
2022
(IN)BETWEEN - Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg, DE
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
Exhibitions (Selection)
2025
Topographies of Tents, Terracotta and Time, curated by Matthew Partridge, galerie holzhauer hamburg, as part
of India Week Hamburg and altonale, DE
Topographies of Tents, Terracotta and Time, curated by Matthew Partridge, Srishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad, IN
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, Balearic Islands, ES
Linientreu - Jupiter, Hamburg, DE
Anonyme Zeichner Hamburg - Veddel, HYCP Veddel-Space, Hamburg, DE
2022
Resguardo y Presencia - Galerie 21, Vorwerk-Stift, Hamburg, DE (Solo)
Respira - galerie holzhauer hamburg, Hamburg, DE (Solo)
Transformationen - Historische Zehntscheune Stadthagen, Stadthagen, DE (Duo w/ Swen Kählert)
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)
2021
Lonas del Jardín - Emerging Artist section, AAF, Kunstmesse, Messehallen, Hamburg, DE (Solo)
Atelierkate Lesum Bremen Art Prize Nominations - Atelierkate Lesum, Bremen, DE
Lübecker Art-Peep-Show - Kultur-Funke, curated by Messao Wrede, Lübeck, DE
Speak Through Drawing - Dada.art (Online)
2020
körpE[h]RLICH - xpon-art gallery, Hamburg, DE
2019
Rastros - FONIS Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE (Solo)
The AJALA Project - Centre’s Gate Village, DIFC Art Nights, Dubai, UAE
MENA Art Award nominee - Clyde & Co, Dubai, UAE
2018
Revelaciones - galerie holzhauer hamburg, Hamburg, DE (Solo)
Resguardo y Presencia - AKTION #239, 2025 Kunst und Kultur, Hamburg, DE (Solo)
The AJALA Project - Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood, SIKKA Art Fair, Dubai, UAE
Me, Myself and The Possibility of You - Westwerk, Hamburg, DE
2017
Netzwerke von Panik und Sehnsucht - galerie holzhauer hamburg, Hamburg, DE (Duo w/ Swen Kählert)
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
Impuls - Westwerk, Hamburg, DE (Solo)
Rostros y Rastros - Generalkonsulat Venezuela in Hamburg, DE (Solo)
Kunst im Schaufenster - altonale 18 (Art Festival), Hamburg, DE
Millerntor Gallery (Art Festival) - Hamburg, DE
2015
Mente en Blanco - Level One, Hamburg, DE (Solo)
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
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
Mi Pequeño y Grande Universo - Sala UNEXUS, UNEARTE, Caracas, VE (Solo)
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
Special Projects & Art Residencies
2025
Banyan Hearts Studios (Artist Residency) in collaboration with Sudhakar Chippa (IN), Swen Kählert
and Matthew Partridge (DE). Supported by Hamburg Ministry for Culture and Media, Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad, and Shrishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad, IN
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
Publications (selection)
2025
Topographies of Tents, Terracotta and Time - Exhibition Catalogue, Srishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad (IN). Texts by
Matthew Partridge (Curator) and Prof. Dr. Brigitte Röder (in English).
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)