"I am interested in working within the cracks left by the collapse of institutional and knowledge systems. Art allows us to overflow those boundaries and construct fictions that operate as urgent realities."
Regina de Miguel, 2015
Regina de Miguel develops an interdisciplinary practice that brings together different artistic languages (expanded cinema, sound installation, performance, photography, painting, and literary writing ) with scientific and research-based methodologies drawn from fields as diverse as astronomy, sociology, history, and cultural anthropology. The discursive thread running through her work is a critical analysis of the normative objectivity of scientific representational devices and the conditions under which knowledge is produced: a sustained interrogation of who looks, from where, and what falls outside the field of vision of science.
Working from a methodical approach, De Miguel constructs complex networks of connections nourished by the philosophy of science, ecofeminism, speculative fiction, and horror, generating theoretical, existential, and poetic displacements in which fragility operates as a form of resistance. Her installations combine footage filmed in remote locations (ecosystems in crisis, landscapes of extraction) with elaborate sound compositions, creating environments in which the viewer is enveloped by forces that exceed the human scale. The result is a body of work that moves between the documentary and the poetic, between scientific precision and mythic evocation.
Regina de Miguel (Málaga, 1977) lives and works in Barcelona. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at institutions including MUSAC (León, 2008), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2014), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, 2014, 2017, 2018), La Casa Encendida (Madrid, 2016), CA2M (Madrid, 2017), Centre Pompidou Málaga (2017), Documenta 15 (Kassel, 2022, screening), MACBA (Barcelona, 2022), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Seville, 2022), Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea (Turin, 2023), Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, 2023), and MOCA (Los Angeles, 2023), among others. Her work is held in collections including TBA21 (Madrid), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Seville), CGAC (Santiago de Compostela), ARTIUM Museoa (Vitoria-Gasteiz), Fundación Botín (Santander), Fundación ARCO (Madrid), Colección DKV (Valencia), Bombas Gens (Valencia), and CRC Fondazione (Cuneo, Italy), among others.
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Regina de Miguel
Lapidario 17 May - 28 Jul 2024 MAISTERRALapidario is composed of several bodies of work, derived from critical research processes in different disciplines, which have resulted in a group of poetic and propositive pieces. Drawing from the...Read more -
Group show
Miradas y formas 11 Feb - 5 Apr 2023 MAISTERRAThe gallery is the original space of experimentation; the first space where the gallerist creates the necessary context for the works of art to express meaning. The professional partnership between...Read more -
Encuentro VIII
Salir a recibirle 14 Dec 2020 - 19 Jan 2021 MAISTERRARead more -
Encuentro VI
Claros que se dejan al imprimir para estampar allí letras con tinta de otro color 26 Oct - 21 Nov 2020 MAISTERRARead more -
Regina de Miguel
Rising Anxiety 12 Sep - 8 Nov 2019 MAISTERRAThere is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species forever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds...Read more

