Alba Suau
Pollença, Spain, 1997
About
Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium
«For the past few years, my work has been centered on approaching painting not as an inert image, but rather as an event. Whether it be painting or installations, what I seek to live and share is the concrete experience of the present.
Continuing with this goal, my current project consists of a series of paintings where I translate my own experience of a place.
First, my walks. Walking is to step without a specific purpose, to step for the sheer pleasure of doing so. Walks are fundamentally purposeless; they are useless; they are inactivities. In wandering, in inactive pauses, a different reality is revealed. This reality is not accessible through any activity, through any action. In wandering, I dig my feet into the earth and find a meditative state.»
Alba Suau
CV
SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS
Entre casa María y la mía, Alzueta Gallery Madrid, Spain (2024)
Touch Only With Your Eyes, The Merode, Brussels, Belgium (2023)
Estona amb sàlvia i mantega, Kaplan Projects, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2023)
Arròs melós, Museu de Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2022)
Dentro, Kaplan Projects, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2020)
Moi Moi, Taca Studio, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2020)
GROUP SHOWS
Spiraling Bees, Moonens Foundation, Brussels, Belgium (2024)
Beyond The Horizon curated by Yolande De Bontridder, Dorotheum, Brussels, Belgium (2024)
Prender la mirada curated by Esmeralda Gómez Galera, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2024)
Friendship, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium (2024)
Maison de Fumée, Moonens Foundation, Brussels, Belgium (2024)
Territoire et Memoire, Artesio, Brussels, Belgium (2023)
Doline. Après chaque pluie, Polyclinique, Bruxelles, Belgium (2023)
Mallorca International, Art Award 2022: A Review, TOR Art Space, Frankfurt, Germany (2023)
Are you still in one piece or, are you already dissolved?, Salon Mommen, Brussels, Belgium (2023)
Tell me louder, HISK Gosset with the support of Kanal – Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium (2022)
12 voces en Studio Weil, Studio Weil, Port d’Andratx, Spain (2021)
Marine Aspirations, Taca Studio, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2021)
Space is the place, Atelier Hyph, Marseille, France (2018)
Uncommon Ground, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France (2018)
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Fondation CAB, Brussels, Belgium (2025)
The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, New Mexico, USA (2024)
Laurent Moonens Foundation, Brussels, Belgium (2023)
Creative Centre of Stöðvarfjörður, Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland (2022)
DNA Artist Residency, Massachusetts, USA (2022)
Weil Art Exchange, New York, USA (2022)
Creative Centre of Stöðvarfjörður, Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland (2021)
AWARDS
«Prix des Amis de La Cambre», Brussels, Belgium (2023)
«Mallorca International Award», Mallorca, Spain (2022)
«Barbara H. Weil Award», Port d’Andratx, Spain (2021)
