Antonio Ballester Moreno

Antonio Ballester Moreno (1977, Madrid, Spain) studied painting and plastic arts at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1997-2002) and at Universität der Künste, Berlin, with Professor Lothar Baumgarten (2000-2002) under the Erasmus programme. 

Moreno's artistic practice is a convergence of several themes and fields. Ballester Moreno explores a process of work: drawings, paintings, collages and ceramics, which materialize through gestures and repetition exercises.

His recent work relates to the forms of nature and simple geometric shapes, like the circle. The universality of the language of the forms he works with, crosses with the universes of craftsmanship and folk culture and simultaneously emphasizes the modernist relevance of the line, shape, symbol, color, and process. 

He has exhibited individually at various museum institutions such as the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español, Valladolid, Spain (2019); Zapoan Art Museum, Jalisco, Mexico (2017); La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2017, 2011); Loewe Foundation, Madrid (2012); 2010 ANTI (Kreuzberg), Peres Projects, Berlin (2010); 2009 Joeng Song Art Center/RMK International Art, Seoul (2009); MUSAC-Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain (2008), among others.

In 2018 he participated in the 33rd Biennial of São Paulo, Brazil (whose theme Afinidades afetivas was curated by Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro), simultaneously as curator and artist with the project Sentido/Comum and in the same year he received the Artistic Creation Grant from the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC). His work is represented in the Olbricht Collection in Berlin, Germany; Collection Reyden Weiss, Essen, Germany; in the collection of Banco de España; MUSAC - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, in Leon, Spain, and in the collection CA2M - Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, in Móstoles, Spain, among others. His work was included in the publication Vitamin P2, published by Phaidon, in 2012.

He develops public art projects, among which the intervention at the Cristobal Colón College in Madrid stands out. Antonio Ballester Moreno is considered one of the main figures of the young Spanish art scene

PS, dezembro 2020