Carmen Arias (*1999 Santander, Spain) is an emerging artist that works with sculpture, performance, and graphic techniques. In 2021 she graduated in Fine Arts by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Since 2019 she has enrolled the sculpture class of Hermann Pitz at the Akademie der bildenden Künste München.
She usually works through research-based projects, where she question different aspects of the urban landscape. Especially the limits of the public space in western cities and the influence that architecture exerts on the inhabitants and actions it harbours.
Moreover, her latest works have reflected on the idea of the city as a vertical landscape divided in layers. Layers that imply respectively different connotations for those who inhabit or transit them, showing the existence of a non-metaphorical vertical hierarchy. Carmen often presents these research topics in the form of performative essays or by the reproduction and alienation of functional elements of the urban landscape.
(EDUCATION)
ongoing
Diploma in Sculpture | Class of Hermann Pitz, class of guest professor Jumana Manna, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München
2023
Research period in Paris tutored by Prof. Yann Rocher (Paris-Malaquais)
2021
BA in Fine Arts | Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Welding internship | Meyremo, Santander
2020
Internship at Art Foundry | Kunstgiesserei München
2017
High school with honors – Arts
(EXHIBITIONS)
2023
The listening biennial | Neuworkshop
Eating Land | Klasse Pitz group exhibition for the annual show of the Akademie der bildenden Künste, Munich
“The lascaux syndrome” | Lecture performance at the exhibition “Mir + Nots”. Akademiegalerie, Munich.
“Fair Play” | Selected project for the annual project of art in the public space of the Kulturreferat München. Taking place in a former ticket office at Olympiapark, Munich.
2022
Karl & Faber Preis der Stiftung Kunstakademie München (nominees exhibition) | Karl & Faber, Munich.
Copula | Klasse Pitz group exhibition for the annual show of the Akademie der bildenden Künste, Munich.
“The modular Ladder and the city” | Performance at Kunstpavillon, Munich.
Kein Plan wiedersteht der ersten Berührung | Klasse Pitz group exhibition at Kunstpavillon, Munich.
2021
Egg*arten | Klasse Pitz group exhibition for the annual show of the Akademie der bildenden Künste, Munich
Aufzeichnungen aus dem Untergrund | Collaborative project between the artist Nicolás Combarro and students of the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Maximiliansforum, Munich.
2020
#CCContext | Espacio Cómplices, Madrid.
PROZESS*ION Prozeß*ion process*ion | Klasse Pitz group exhibition for the annual show of the Akademie der bildenden Künste, Munich.
“Schulweg 16” | Proberaum 06, AdbK and site-specific intervention in Grafrath.
2019
Make it CoWork | Espacio Cómplices, Madrid