Rubén Grilo
Rubén Grilo (born 1981 in Lugo, Spain) is a Spanish contemporary artist living in Berlin. He works with sculpture, animation, sound installations and digital media. He studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona and spent a year at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (2011–2012). In 2013 he received Visual Art Grants from Fundación Botín.
Grilo has shown his work at numerous venues, including Fundació Joan Miró Espai 13 in Barcelona (2016), Union Pacific Gallery in London (2016), Hildesheim Kunstverein (2014), Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies in Annandale-on-Hudson (2011), and Galería NoguerasBlanchard, among others. He has collaborated with other artists, such as Spiros Hadjidjanos for CA2M in 2014, and created Metaphysics-VR for the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe (2017–18).
In 2014 he curated Twenty Thousand Years of Yarn at Future Gallery Berlin, mixing artworks with artifacts from artists, corporations and nature. At the 9th Berlin Biennale in 2016, he helped launch Everfresh, a commercially available non-drying oil paint made with Kremer Pigmente.
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