# Ana Laura Aláez

Ana Laura Aláez (Bilbao, 1964) is a Basque artist. She is one of the most renowned contemporary artists in Spain. She defines herself as an "emotions architect", as she transforms all her life into art, depicting her feelings in her artworks. One of her first exhibitions took place in 1992, in Fundació Joan Miró's Espai 10, in Barcelona. Alberto Peral, another Basque artist, was also featured in this exhibition.

## Biography

Aláez became popularly known in 1992, with an exhibition named Superficie ("surface"), held in Fundació Joan Miró's Espai 10. In this exhibition, Aláex showed three objects (Catwoman, Pantalón preservativo, and Mujeres en zapatos de plataforma) which were between pop art and gender critics, close to the performance art that became popular in the seventies.
She created the interior design project Geometrical Life, with César Rey and Daniel Holc. She is also Girls on Film's singer, and works with a musician named Ascii.disko. In 2003 she published Flúor, a book with pictures and texts where she depicted her deepest aesthetic thoughts.
In 2013, Aláez was one of three winners (along with artist June Crespo and researcher Adelina Moyano) of the Basque Country government's Gure Artea Awards, receiving an endowment of €25,000.

## Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions:
* 2007
    Unknowns. Mapping Contemporary Basque Art, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
    K-stains, Casa Asia, Barcelona
    Lab Project, Sarjah Museus, United Emirates
    Marie's story, Space C*, Seoul
* 2006
    Architecture of sound, Museo banco de la República, Bogotá
    Bambi, Mercat de La Boqueria, Barcelona
* 2005
    Goodbye horses (kiss the frog - the art of transformation), National Museum, Oslo
    K-stains, Spanish Embassy, Seoul
    Cosmo Cosmetic, Space C*, Seoul
    She is in fashion, Bilbao
    Black metal/pink t-shirt, Galeria Moisés Pérez de Albéniz, Pamplona
* 2004
    Superficiality, Biennial of Korea
    Hell disco, Taidemuseo Tennispalatsi, Helsinki, Spanish Culture Centre, Mexico
    Signale der Kleidung, Contemporary Art Centre, Podewil, Berlin
* 2003
    Beauty cabinet prototype, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
    The Royal Trip, PS1, MoMA, New York City
* 2002
    Sound recording room, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin
    Brothel, Kiosko Alfonso, La Coruña
* 2001
    Brothel, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona
    Dance & Disco, Arena Gallery, Chicago
    Pink Room, Liquid Sky, Sain room, Biennale di Venezia
* 2000
    Dance & Disco, Espacio Uno, Museo Reina Sofia
    Liquid Sky, Biennal de Buenos Aires
* 1999
    Project Room, Arco’99
    Brothel, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; Pusan Metropolitan Art Museum (Korea)
* 1998
    Prototype studio for an artist of the new millennium, Pontevedra Biennial
* 1997
    She astronauts, Sala Montcada, Barcelona
    She in the outer space, Istanbul Biennial
* 1996
    Krystal y attyla, Área II, Rekalde, Bilbao
* 1992
    Surface, Espai 10, Fundació Joan Miró

## Publications

* Aláez, Ana Laura (2008). Ana Laura Aláez: using your guns. León: MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León. ISBN 9788881586752.
* Arell, Berndt (curator) (2004). Fuck art, let's dance. Ana Laura Aláez. Madrid: Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior. ISBN 8496008681.
* Martínez, Rosa; et al. (1997). She astronauts (1st ed.). Barcelona: Fundació "la Caixa". ISBN 8476645791.
* Sáenz de Gorbea, Xabier, ed. (1997). Ana Laura Aláez (1st ed.). Vitoria-Gasteiz: Eusko Jaurlaritzaren Argitalpen Zerbitzu Nagusia = Servicio Central de Publicaciones del Gobierno Vasco. ISBN 8445711881.