Marta de Gonzalo

(Madrid, 1971)

He has lived and worked in Madrid since 1996. His projects revolve around the political construction of subjects and communities, the reappropriation of popular culture, storytelling, memory, emotional discomfort under the new forms of capitalism and the poor image that It is evident as construction and democratizes creation. She is a secondary school teacher, carrying out work of reflection and artistic practice on audiovisual literacy and critical pedagogies. It also carries out training for teachers and artists, as well as self-representation projects with young people. He regularly collaborates in the generation of learning communities and production of artistic works with other cultural producers.

He has exhibited at Formato Comodo, Madrid; Endless House, Cáceres / Madrid; Gates of Castilla, Murcia; TinBox Gallery and TnBA, Bordeaux; Patio Herreriano Museum, Valladolid; Intermediae Matadero, Madrid; “la Caixa” Foundation, Lleida; Fundació Espais, Girona; MediaLabMadrid and MEIAC, Badajoz. They have participated in group exhibitions at TEMP Art Space, New York; Helga de Alvear Museum, Cáceres; CCM Haroldo Conti, Buenos Aires; CAAC, Seville; LABoral, Gijón; ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop or Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, Donostia. His audiovisual works have been seen at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies. Barcelona; Hirshhorn Museum. Washington; Dones International Film Festival, Barcelona; Zinebi, Bilbao; various headquarters of the Cervantes Institute; the Filmoteca de Andalucía, Córdoba or the Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid. Founding member of the Circo Interior Bruto and Las Lindes, a research and action group about education, art and cultural practices. He directed Estancias Injuve for young artists (2005-2007).

He participated in Medialab Madrid through “Stories of a chosen crisis. PHotoEspaña 04, Stories”: video installation by Marta de Gonzalo and Publio Pérez Prieto (from June 3 to July 18, 2003). Two of the most prominent video art artists on the Madrid scene exhibited a selection of their latest works: four video installations around the themes of friendship, work, politics, war and the media. It was about breaking the mechanisms of automatic understanding and suggesting the
active thought of other images, other collective and personal worlds. And through “Audiovisual literacy” (January 27, February 3, 10 and 17, 2005): workshop-seminar aimed primarily at secondary education teachers. In it, they reflected and exchanged ideas about the need to learn and teach how to read and interpret the images and sounds of cinema, television and advertising, in order to preserve a critical sense and autonomy in the face of the continuous bombardment of the that we are all subjected.