Vanessa Enríquez
Née le 4 décembre 1973 à Mexico City, Mexique
2000 — Master of Fine Arts en design graphique, Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut, États-Unis
1998 — Bachelor of Arts en design graphique, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico, Mexique
Quelques dates clés de son parcours artistique
2000 — Bradbury Thompson Memorial Prize
2027 — Bourse SNCA par le Fonds national mexicain pour la culture et les arts pour un projet de recherche et de pratique dans le domaine du dessin élargi
2019 — Solo au MACQ, le Musée d’art contemporain de Querétaro, Mexique
2020 — Mention honorable à la XIXe Biennale Tamayo au MACO, Musée d’art contemporain d’Oaxaca, Mexique
2025 — Résidence au Centre BANFF, fonds de bourses Benediktson pour les artistes internationaux
Vanessa Enríquez’s transdisciplinary practice explores drawing as a contemplative and investigative process for developing metaphysical awareness. She extends the line beyond traditional materials and surfaces into space and sound, creating works that range from monumental spatial drawings to intimate scores and performances.Using VHS magnetic tape as both a drawing tool and a medium for listening, Enríquez works between geometric precision and improvisation, repetition and chance. The line becomes both a physical and conceptual thread, connecting different dimensions, scales, and forms of perception. Her works explore the possibility of drawing as a way of tracing relationships within an interconnected reality, where structures found in geometry, nature, the body, and the cosmos can resonate with one another.
Diagenesis
2025
4-part work
33 x 33 x 3 cm /Each
Plaster, VHS magnetic tape, acrylic
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 — The Magic Constant, Alte Feuerwache Projektraum, Berlin, Germany
2025 — Transponder II – When Stars Fall Silent, Château de la Napoule, Mandelieu, France
El Silencio sedimenta, Mexican Cultural Institute, Madrid, Spain
Black Remains, Morillonpark, Bern, Switzerland
2022 — Bathing in Nothingness, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori, Japan
M/OTHER, Galerie Gilla Lörcher, Berlin, Germany
Negra espalda del tiempo, El Cuarto de Máquinas, Mexico City, Mexico
2021 — Resounding Songs, DrawingLab, Paris, France
2019 — Foco Tonal, Museum of Contemporary Art (MACQ), Querétaro, Mexico
2018 — Apparition, Berlin-Weekly, Berlin, Germany
Transverberation, Auferstehungskirche, Arnsberg, Germany
2016 — Fluctuations, 2nd Rimini Drawing Biennial, PrimoPiano Gallery, Rimini, Italy
Supersymmetry, Sonntag, Berlin, Germany
PLAZEBO, Aquabit Gallery, Berlin, Germany, with J. Mayer H.
Silence Unravelled, Agora Center for Contemporary Practices, Berlin, Germany
2015 — Ending Time, Glashaus auf dem Friedrichswerderschen Friedhof, Berlin, Germany
Genes(is) – Spärenmusik, Lilienkulturgarten, Berlin, Germany
2014 — For Once, Then, Something, Berlinerpool, Berlin, Germany, with Ali Dolanbay and Jaanika Peerna
Zirkel (1+2), AC Institute, New York, USA, with Ilya Noé
2012 — Zirkel 2.0, Galerie Kollaborativ, Berlin, Germany, with Ilya Noé
Zirkel 1.0, Embassy of Mexico, Berlin, Germany, with Ilya Noé
Residues, Galerie XXX, Hong Kong
2010 — Black Passage, Golden Parachutes, Berlin, Germany
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2027 — Museum für Konkrete Kunst (MKK), Ingolstadt, Germany — forthcoming
2025 — Among Other Things – Drawing as Expanded Practice, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany
New Drawings, Kentler International Drawing Space, New York, USA
2024 — Une brève Histoire de Fils, Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris, France
Résonance, Château de la Napoule, Mandelieu, France
Veladas, Mexican Cultural Institute, Berlin, Germany
3%, NADAN, Berlin, Germany
2023 — Hilo, Cromwell Place, London, UK
The Corners of the Cloud, Alte Feuerwache, Berlin, Germany
Licht Auf Schwarzem Grund, Hilbertraum, Berlin, Germany
Weaving Memories, NADAN, Berlin, Germany
2022 — Metalinien, B-Part Am Gleisdreieck, Berlin, Germany
XIX Rufino Tamayo Biennial, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Amphibies, POUSH Manifesto, Paris, France
Jubilee X, HAUNT, Berlin, Germany
2021 — XIX Rufino Tamayo Biennial, Museo Octavio Ocampo, Celaya, Mexico
XIX Rufino Tamayo Biennial, Centro Cultural Mexiquense Texcoco, Mexico
CHARTA#1 – Movement and Space, HAUNT, Berlin, Germany
2020 — XIX Rufino Tamayo Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca (MACO), Oaxaca, Mexico
Neuköllner Kunstpreis, Saalbau Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Loops and Echoes, EMOP – European Month of Photography, P145, Berlin, Germany
2019 — L’artiste et Les Commissaires, Lage Egal, Berlin, Germany
Amalgama, Art Number 23, London, UK
Active Texture – Between Text and Textile, HUA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2018 — Konjunktionen, Aquabit Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Deteniendo el Infinito, UDLAP Museum, Puebla, Mexico
2017 — Transparency, SiC! BWA Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
Social Geometrism, Reinbeckhallen, Berlin, Germany
2016 — Ocio, Casa de las Culturas Contemporáneas, Puebla, Mexico
Draw to Perform 3, Crows Nest Gallery, London, UK
Latitudes of Embrace, Clam-Gallas Palace, Prague, Czech Republic
2015 — BAiR Aware, Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
Ex und Hopp?, Aquabit Gallery, Berlin, Germany
FRIDGE, Entretempo Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2014 — Anonyme Zeichner, Pavillon am Milchhof, Berlin, Germany
The Open West, The Wilson | Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Cheltenham, UK
2013 — Drawing Connections, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, USA
2012 — Renaissance, Felliny Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2011 — Urban Calligraphies 10 X 10, Institute of Graphic Arts of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
RESIDENCIES, GRANTS & AWARDS
2025 — Dora Maar Cultural Center: Residency / Fellowship, Ménerbes, France
2023 — Mexican Fund for Culture and the Arts: SNCA-FONCA Grant, Mexico
2022 — Berlin Senate: Artistic Research Grant, Berlin, Germany
Aomori Contemporary Art Center: Artist Residency, Aomori, Japan
BBK: Studio Grant Program, Berlin, Germany
2021 — Pollock-Krasner Foundation: Artist Grant, New York, USA
Stiftung Kunstfonds: Artist Grant, Germany
2020 — NKKP20 Neuköllner Art Prize: 3rd Prize, Berlin, Germany
20th Rufino Tamayo Biennial: Honorable Mention, Mexico
2019 — La Napoule Foundation: Artist Residency, Mandelieu, France
2018 — Mexican Fund for Culture and the Arts: Three-Year SNCA-FONCA Grant, Mexico
2017 — The FID Prize #8 in Drawing: Nominee, France
Valparaíso Foundation: Artist Residency, Mojácar, Spain
2016 — Linden Museum: Public Art Commission, Auf der Schwelle stehen, Stuttgart, Germany
2015 — Benediktson Fellowship Fund for International Artists, Banff, Canada
Banff Centre: Artist Residency (BAiR), Banff, Canada
Cill Rialaig Project: Artist Residency, Ballinskelligs, Ireland
2000 — Bradbury Thompson Memorial Prize, Yale University, New Haven, USA
1998 — Honors Award, Iberoamericana University, Mexico City, Mexico
COLLECTIONS
Amparo Museum, Puebla, Mexico
Instituto de Artes Gráficas (IAGO), Oaxaca, Mexico
Linden Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City, Mexico
UDLAP Art Collection, Puebla, Mexico
Yale University Arts Library, New Haven, USA
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2024 — Veladas, Mexican Cultural Institute, Berlin, Germany
2019 — Zu_Fall, Mexican Cultural Institute, Berlin, Germany
2018 — Konjunktionen, Aquabit Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2014 — Anonyme Zeichner, Pavillon am Milchhof, Berlin, Germany
The Open West, The Wilson | Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Cheltenham, UK
2013 — Drawing Connections, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, USA
2012 — Renaissance, Felliny Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2011 — Urban Calligraphies 10 X 10, Institute of Graphic Arts of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
Nadine Fecht, Jeanno Gaussi, Gregor Hildebrandt, DAS INSTITUT, Leon Manoloudakis, Raul Walch, Ziervogel, Michaela Zimmer
PUBLICATIONS
DRAWING – Point and Line and Plane to Tube, Hiraku Suzuki, Sayusha Press, Tokyo, Japan
Making Things, Yuka Keino & Aya Murakami (eds.), Aomori Contemporary Art Centre – Aomori Public University, Aomori, Japan [exh. cat.]
Negative Space. Trajectories of Sculpture in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Peter Weibel (ed.), The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts / London, UK, 2021, p. 413
Resounding Songs, Drawing Lab, Paris, 2021 [exh. cat.]
Sonntag, A Recipe for Social Art Practice, April Gertler & Adrian Schiesser (eds.), The Green Box, Berlin, 2019
Amalgama, ArtNumber23, exhibition catalogue, London, 2019
The Open West, The Wilson | Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Cheltenham, 2014 [exh. cat.]
Urban Calligraphies 10 X 10, Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City, 2011 [exh. cat.]
Disunified Aesthetics: Situated Textuality, Performativity, Collaboration, Lynette Hunter, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014 — cover
ESPACIO – Contemporary Art, Vol. 1, Lorenzo Rocha (ed.), Diamantina Press, Mexico City, May 2005
The 1000 Journal Project, Brian Singer, covers nos. 351–360, 461–470 and 541–550, 2001