Mit Borrás
Mit Borrás (born 1982, Madrid) is a Spanish artist.
He received his BFA at the Complutense University of Madrid in Madrid, Spain and specialization in Art and Cultural Studies in Berlin, (Germany). He developed his research on Media Art at the Twente University in Enschede, the Netherlands (2006) where he participated intensely in the Dutch contemporary art scene.[1] He relocated back to Madrid where he oversees the production of video art festivals while also carrying out projects as an independent curator. In 2010 he moved to Berlin to participate in the Glogauair Residency[2] and co-directed Fünf Galerie together with Rachel Lamot.[3][4] He has worked as a coordinator of several cultural projects regarding media art and was working as a curator for the Instituto Cervantes in Berlin. He also currently combines his artistic practice with his work as an art critic in Neo2 Magazine.[5]
His work is exhibited internationally in selected exhibitions such as in the Hara Museum, Tokyo (2010), Kreuzberg Pavillon, Germany (2013) and Norway (2016), Fonoteca Nacional, Mexico DF (2010), Palacio Fernandini, Lima (2016), Aleph Projects, Tel Aviv (2017), and the Museum of Fine Arts in Chile (2017). He has also been represented by Inés Barrenechea Gallery (2010–14). He continues to lecture within England, Colombia, Peru, the Netherlands, Spain and Germany. His work has been selected and awarded by Transmediale, (2011), United Creators Awards (2009), Loop Barcelona (2010, 2015–17), Art Lima (2016) and The Media Art Biennale in Chile (2017). He currently lives and works in Madrid and is a member of the international agency of artists and theorists Front Views[6] in Berlin. Mit Borrás is represented by Ex-girlfriend Gallery[7]
Themes
Mit Borrás addresses technology and progress as new cult paradigms, often through the visual language of health and sport. He toys with the idea of ergonomics and softness in the development of new industrial forms, present in the works carried out since 2014 such as: Control Pool, Orthopedics, Youth Cloud, Techno Light, Devices, Artificial Rocks, Drone State of Mind or Ergonomic Technology. These works praise the idea of technology and well-being as a structure model of our time. Borrás emphasizes the objects that surround us as the objects that eventually define us as individuals and as a society; drones, gadgets, prosthetics, immobilizers, textile trends and their microperforated elastic fabrics, synthetic materials, medical and biomechanical engineering, and the design of products for leisure and relax.
The artist uses intersecting lenses of the contemporary body and technology to interpret the homo consumericus behavior and diagnose the crusade a Western individual of the 21st Century. In works such as Ergonomic Shape (2016) in which a block of granite is supported on a medicine ball,[8] or the Stones series (2015) in which the artist disables tactile screens by tying them to large pieces of quartz, it is common to find disconnect between technology and nature.[9] This confrontation between digital system and cosmos is presented by the artist as a reinterpretation of Sagan's idea that everything that is, what has been or what will be. For the artist, this implies a confrontation between a gullible society in a consumerist system and the innate course of nature. Works such as the palm trees of Palm Deformation (2016) or Club (2016) in which a gallery equipped with a strobe light and techno music is flooded with smoke, make allusion to all those current elements that are part of our life of evasion, fun and lightness, a lightness understood in the manner of Gilles Lipovetsky: like a ghost that frivolizes and makes provisional everything that was previously designed to be eternal.
Solo shows
2018
2017
- Ergonomic Forms as Precarious Models of Adaptation. Addaya. Mallorca, Spain
- Ergonomic Technology. Neo2, Hybrid. Madrid, Spain
2016
- Completely Familiar Entirely Artificial. Ex-girlfriend Gallery. Berlin, Germany
- Constancia. Palacio Fernandini. Art Lima, Peru
2012
- Daikiri. Fünf Galerie. Berlin, Germany
2011
- Popular guilt. Inés Barrenechea Gallery. Madrid, Spain
- Souvenirs. Red light district. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Porn Toilets. Freedonia. LOOP Barcelona, Spain
- W. Transmediale. Fünf Galerie. Berlin, Germany[12]
- Exposition agreement. M.L Gallery. Lugano, Switzerland
2010
- The Power. Fünf Galerie. Berlin, Germany
- Call me bitch. Fünf Galerie. Berlin, Germany
- Holders. La Zua Gallery. Madrid, Spain
2009
- La Carne. La Zua Gallery. Madrid, Spain
- Secretos. Pepa Cervera Gallery. Valencia, Spain
- La Noche En Blanco. Live A/V Installation. Madrid, Spain
- VHS. Rodrigo Juarranz Gallery. Burgos, Spain
2008
- Tula-Prints Gallery. Córdoba, Spain
2007
- Surface. Academy of visual arts and design. AKI. Enschede, The Netherlands
Group shows
2018
- Aberrations. Irrgang Galerie. Berlin, Germany
- Meet Your Critics. Kreuzberg Pavillon. FAQ. Bremen, Germany
- Positions, Ex-girlfriend Gallery. Berlin, Germany
- Re: Bachelor Machines. HGB, Leipzig, Germany
- Missing Links. With Frontviews. Daily Lazy, Athens, Greece
- LAC, Lisbon, Portugal[13]
- Youth Cloud. Insonora, IED. Madrid, Spain
- Wasting Time. Objekte Unsere Tage. Berlin, Germany
2017
- Apel. The Wrong, Digital Art Biennale[14][15]
- 13th Biennial of Medial Arts. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Santiago, Chile[16]
- Love and Other Forms of Pain. Beit kandinof, Aleph Projects Tel Aviv, Israel[17]
- Ergonomic Forms as Precarious Models of Adaptation. Addaya. Mallorca, Spain
- Drone State of Mind. Neo2, Hybrid. Madrid, Spain
- Setup. Addaya Centre d'Art Contemporani. Bologna, Italy
2016
- Something that could easily be mistaken for nothing. Fall Apartment. Bergen, Norway
- Loop BCN. Urban Gallery. Barcelona, Spain
- OFFoff Festival. Gehnt, Belgium
- Quemar las Naves. Addaya. Mallorca, Spain
- Fonlad Festival. Coimbra, Portugal
- They don't think in time, we don't think in history. Kreuzberg Pavillon. Berlin, Germany
2015
- Alart. Festival. Mallorca, Spain
- How we quit the forest. Incubarte. La Metro. Valencia, Spain
- Loop Barcelona. Urban Gallery. Barcelona, Spain
- Resist Restart. Vesselroom project. Berlin, Germany
2014
- Pflegeanweisungen. Galerie Wedding. Berlin, Germany
- Light. Künstlerhaus Funkhaus Berlin, Germany
2011
- Deconstructions. Thalia Theater. New York, United States
- Sichtbarkeit. 129 Gallery. Berlin, Germany[20]
- Estampa. Madrid, Spain
- Delicious. Urban Gallery. LOOP Barcelona, Spain
- Art Madrid. Spain
- La Zúa Gallery. Cuenca, Spain
2010
- Hara Museum of contemporary art. Viva festival. Tokyo, Japan
- Transonica. Sound Art Festival. Guanajuato, Mexico
- Insonora. Visionica. Fonoteca Nacional. Mexico D.F, Mexico
- Estampa. Madrid, Spain
- Art Marbella. Marbella, Spain
- Empty. Subsuelo Galerie. Berlin, Germany
- Anatema. Bad Star Galerie. Berlin, Germany
- LOOP. International videoart festival. Urban gallery. Barcelona, Spain
- Open Studios. GlogauAir. Berlin, Germany
- Technological singularity. Planet Art. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Videoformes Festival. Berlin. Germany, Spain
- PHE 10. Foto España. Madrid, Spain
- Art Madrid. Fair of Contemporary Art. Madrid, Spain
2009
- Artists / Summer 09 Galería Pepa Cervera. Valencia, Spain
- Artefatto – LuminEssenze. Mostra dell'arte. Trieste, Italy
- Galería MisterPink. III Otros Creadores. Valencia, Spain
- Abstracta Cinema. Mostra Internazionale del cinema astratto. Roma, Italy
- PHE 09. Foto España. Madrid, Spain
- Simultan Festival. Video & Media arts Festival. Timișoara, Rumania
- Puro Arte. International Contemporary Art Fair. Vigo, Spain
- In-sonora. International encounter of Sound art and Interactive. Madrid, Spain
- Viva Festival. Internacional Videoart Festival. Circulo de Bellas Artes. Tenerife, Spain
- Viva. Espacio Digital. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
- Festival Okupart. Urban interaction of contemporary art. Huesca, Spain
- Rodrigo Juarranz Gallery. Burgos, Spain
- United Creators Awards. Digital
- Espacio Enter. International Art Meeting and new media. Tenerife, Spain
- I want to recognize your beauty is not a mask. Linz, Austria
- Vad. International Festival of Video and Digital Arts. Gerona, Spain
- Estampa. Madrid, Spain
- Standarte Gallery. REM. Madrid, Spain
2008
- The Yellow-Orange show. Si-El Space. Boston, United States
- Orsara Jazz / videoart Festival. Perfect stranger. Orsara, Italy
- Óptica 08. Espacio Espora Gallery & Fnac Callao. Madrid, Spain
- Estampa 08. International Contemporary Art Fair. Madrid, Spain
- Art Tech Media. International Congress. Córdoba, Spain
2007
- Optica Festival. Gijón, Spain
- Wanderwort. Museum of modern art CODA. Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
- AKI Festival. Geodome. Videolandschap, The Netherlands
- Balen Festival. Videoart &Videoinstalations. Enschede, The Netherlands
- The Pluto Gallery. Enschede, The Netherlands
- Fluid. Guest artist In the International incontri cinematografici Italo-Svizzeri, Italy
- Wall of statements. Enschede, The Netherlands
- Wall of statements. Bristol, England
- Wall of statements. Istanbul, Turkey
- Estampa. Madrid, Spain
- Rodrigo Juarranz Gallery. Burgos, Spain
- DeArte. Madrid, Spain
2006
- Estampa. Estampa Gallery. Madrid, Spain
- Moleskine. Graphic Works. Sevilla, Spain
- Moleskine. Antonio Pérez Foundation. Cuenca, Spain
- Monologue: Behabior space. AKI, The Netherlands
- Artez days 06. AKI. Enschede, The Netherlands
- Exchange artists. Enschede, The Netherlands
2005
- PS. UCM. Madrid, Spain
- The railway station. Museum of the City. Madrid, Spain
- El Libro Grabado. Fine Arts Faculty UCM. Madrid, Spain
Residencies
- 2017 Addaya. Mallorca, Spain
- 2010 Glogauair. Berlin, Germany
- 2006 AKI. Enschede, The Netherlands
Prizes and collections
- 2020 Harddiskmuseum Collection. Digital
- 2017 Chilean Video Corporation Collection. Santiago, Chile
- 2017 Grant from the Ministry of Culture for Visual Arts
- 2015 Addaya Centre d’Art Contemporani Prize. Mallorca, Spain
- 2011 Das Weekend. Transmediale. Berlin, Germany
- 2010 Photographica. Estampa. Madrid, Spain
- 2009 United Creators Awards. Digital
- 2008 Project Rooms. Puro arte. Vigo, Spain
- 2006 UCM. Silkscreen Award. Madrid, Spain
References
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- "Alemania, tampoco es un terreno fácil para los galeristas españoles". Arte Informado. 27 October 2010. Archived from the original on 29 October 2010.
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- "Exgirlfriend". Exgirlfriendberlin.com. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
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