Rosell Meseguer

CARTAGENA, 1976

PHD in Fine Arts, University Complutense de Madrid; she is a Professor at the Fine Arts Faculty in Cuenca, Spain. Most of her work at the moment centres on integrating registers and historical archives from the past with related ones from the present day. She starts with physical spaces that were important sites during the past, these particular spaces normally known by herself or related to her own experiences and thoughts are opened up to a collective use. Disused spaces, the ruins of bygone industries and places with an important strategic, defensive, military, industrial, political, social or spying purpose.

She has showed her art work at The Photographers´ Gallery, London; Manifesta, 2010; PHE2004 Descubrimientos & PHE2010; Casa Encendida, Madrid; Kulturhuset, Stockholm; The Stenersen Museum, Oslo; Kuntsi Museum Of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland; National Museum of Photography, Royal Library, Copenhagen; Centro de Arte Santa Mónica, Barcelona; Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile; La Panera, Lérida, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires; Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria. She is been awarded with the Aena First Prize of Photography and has received different grants like: MataderoMadrid, Royal Academy of España in Rome o Casa Velázquez from the French Government.

Further studies

2004 P.H.D. in Fine Arts, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Honors Doctoral, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

2010 Working in the Project Ovni Archive-Ufo Archive in Berlin, MataderoMadrid grant

09-10 Invited as a Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín & Bogotá

05-11 Professor at Facultad de Bellas Artes de Cuenca, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain

06-09 Invited as a Professor at the Facultad de Artes de la Universidad de Chile, Chili

2005 Grant Academia de España, Rome, Italy

2003 Research Stay at Centre Georges Pompidou; Société Française de Photographie, Paris, France

2002 Research Stay at the Tate Gallery & Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England

2001 Research Stay at the M.O.M.A; Columbia University, New York, U.S.A.

 

Solo shows (selection)

10-11 

 Ovni Archive, Intermediae Matadero, Procesos de Archivo, Madrid

MANIFESTA 8, MOCHA Island, The MOCHA Sessions, Espacio Av Murcia, Spain –solo show-

2010 

 Ovni Archive, PHE, PHOTOEspaña, Gallery Magda Belloti, Madrid, Spain  

2009

 Demande de Consultation, Gallery Magda Belloti, Madrid, Spain

2008

 Tránsitos. Del Mediterráneo al Pacífico, Espacio A.V., Murcia, Spain

Demande de Consultation, Festival La Mar de Músicas –France-, Cartagena, Spain

2007 

 XIII A Skin film, Transits. From the Mediterranean to the Pacifi

Galería Marisa Marimón, Orense, Spain

Batería de Cenizas. Defense Methodology II, Matucana 100 & Centro Cultural de España, Santiago de Chile, Chili

2006 

 Rome versus Carthagonova. Appropriate and self-images from the Mediterranean coast, Palace Los Serrano, Ávila, Spain

Batería de Cenizas. Defense Methodology Gallery Change & Partner, Rome, Italy

2005 

 Batería de Cenizas. Defense Methodology, Space Muralla Bizantina, Cartagena, Spain

2004 

 Batería de Cenizas. Defense Methodology, Young Artist´s Center Council of Madrid, Avenida de América, Spain

2003 

 Batería de Cenizas. Defense Methodology II, Fundation Antonio Pérez, Cuenca, Spain

 

Group shows (selection)

2011   

 Paralelo 40/41, Galería Magda Bellotti-Real Academia de España, Roma, Italia 

10-11  

Lugares de Tránsito&Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affaires, workshop & show, Miami, U.S.A.

2010   

Legal Art Artists Residence, Open Day Studios. OFF Art Basel Miami, Florida, U.S.A.

II Iberoamerican Congress Theory of Habitat, L. Rother Architecture Museum, Bogotá, Colombia MadridFoto, Galería Magda Belloti, Spain

Fundación Museo del Grabado Español Contemporáneo, Marbella, Málaga, Spain

Alliance Française, Madrid, Spain

2009   

 El Arte del Mar/L´Art de la Mer. Fundation Forum, Tarragona, Spain

Ingráfica. Internacional Festival of Contemporary Printing. En Movimiento, Cuenca, Spain

Percepciones globales. Sala U, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín

08-11 

 Nuevas Historias. A New Perspective of Spanish Photography&Video Art, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway; Kulturhuset, Estocolmo, Sweden; Kuntsi Museum Of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland; National Museum of Photography. Den Sorte Diamant, Royal Library, Copenhague, Denmark

06-09 

 Neologismo encarnado, Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Quito, Ecuador; Centro Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina and Universidad de Medellín, Colombia

2008 

 X Mostra Internacional Unión Fenosa, M.A.CU.F., La Coruña, Spain

2007 

 Mediterráneos, La Panera, Lérida, Spain

Variaciones Cartográficas, Cultural Center Montehermoso, Vitoria, Spain

2006 

 New Acquisitions, Spanish Contemporary Art Museum Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain

2005 

 Generaciones Caja Madrid, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain

Bienal de Jóvenes artistas del Mediterráneo, Naples & Valencia, Italy and Spain

2004 

 Psicobunkers, Art Center Santa Mónica, Barcelona, Spain

Between Utopia and Reality, The Photographers´Gallery, London, England

PHE, PhotoEspaña, Madrid, Spain

Premios y Becas de arte Generaciones CajaMadrid, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain

 

Prizes & Grants (selection)

2010 

 Premio de Cantabria, Spain, acquisition

Grant Intermediae-Matadero, Madrid, Spain

XVII National Engraving Prize, Marbella, Spain, shortlisted

Art First Prize, Council of Orihuela, Alicante, Spain

2009 

 Fine Arts Prize, University of Castilla la Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain, first prize

2007 

 Photography Prize Fundation Aena, Madrid, Spain, first prize

Grant Intermediae-Matadero, Council of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

2006 

 Prize Photography Ángel B.A.F., Córdoba, Spain, final shortliste

Albiac, Contemporary Art Bienal, Almería, Spain, acquisition

2005 

Casa Velázquez Grant, Madrid, Spain. Given by the French Goverment

Generaciones Obra Social Caja Madrid, honour mention, acquisition

Madrid Procesos RMSM-AVAM Grant, Goverment of Madrid, Spain

2004 

Fine Art Young Artists Contest, Council of Madrid, first prize

2003 

Grant Generaciones Obra Social Caja Madrid, Spain

 

Collecctions

Caja Madrid Obra Social, Madrid, Spain

Fundation Aena, Madrid, Spain

Royal Academy of Spain, Rome, Italy

Museum Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain

Council of Cartagena, Spain

Photography Collection, Council of Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain

Caja Ávila, Spain

Fundation Antonio Pérez, Cuenca, Spain

HOLCIM-Albiac-Almería, Spain

Talens, S.A., Spain