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Alejandro Campins Fleita (Manzanillo, Cuba 1981) lives and works between Havana and Madrid. He studied at "El Alba" Professional Academy of Fine Arts in Holguin (2000) and the Higher Institute of Arts (ISA) in Havana (2009). Campins' paintings, drawings and photographs explore the genre of landscape and places with a strong emotional charge that challenge our perception of space and time. 

 In 2019 he was part of the Cuban Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale and of the XIII Havana Biennial. 

 Among his solo exhibitions, we mention: Memoria oculta, Fondation  Brownstone, Paris, France (2023)ñ Distancia interna, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (2022) Perpetuate-dislocate-perpetuate, Fondazione Giuliani, Italy (2021);  Miedo a la muerte es miedo a la verdad, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba (2019); Public Declaration, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (2017); City of Queen Anne´s Lace (Duo Show), Wasserman Projects, Detroit, Michigan (2017); Los ojos de la percepción, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba (2016) and Lapse, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York (2016).

 

Group exhibitions that feature his work include: Time for Change: Art and Social Unrest in the

Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Tampa Museum of Art (2023); You Know Who You Are: Recent Acquisitions of Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, El Espacio 23, Miami (2023); Art as a thoroughfare, Wuhan Biennale, Wuhan (2022); In the Mind's Eye, Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami (2022), La Brèche, Galleria Continua, Paris (2021); Time for change: Art and social Unrest in the Jorge Perez Collection, El Espacio 23, Miami, Florida (2019); Buena Vista, Fondation Clément, Martinique, Martinique (2018); Pintar a contratiempo, Centro Hispanoamericano de Cultura, Havana, Cuba (2018); Edifice, Complex, Visionary, Structure, Sean Kelly gallery, New York, New York (2018); Las ciudades invisibles, Colegio de Arquitectos (UNAICC), Havana, Cuba (2017); Cuba mi amor, Franco Parenti Theater, Milan, Italy (2017); Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2017); Art x Cuba, Contemporary Perspectives since 1989. Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany (2017); Overseas, Halle 14, Center for Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany (2017); Cuban art now, Singer Museum, Laren, The Netherlands (2017); Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950, MFAH, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (2017); Wild Noise/Ruido Salvaje, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (2017); Q&A, MDC Museum of Art and Design, Miami, Florida (2016); Nido sin árbol, Colegio de Arquitectos (UNAICC), Havana, Cuba (2016); Cuban Forever Revisited, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio, Illinois (2016); Transhumans, CAB Art Center, Brussels, Belgium (2016); Q&A, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Cultural Center, Washington DC, Washington (2015); Anclados en el territorio, Galleria Continua, Havana, Cuba (2015); To break the walls, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba (2013); Gulliver Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany (2012); XII Cairo Biennial, El Cairo, Egypt (2010).

 Campins’s work is part of the following international public and private collections: Fondazione Giuliani, Italy; National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana; Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar, Hollanda; Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), Paris; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio, USA; Daros – Latinamerica Collection, Zurich; Ella Cisneros Fontanals Collection; AMA Foundations. Chile; Jorge Pérez Collection, Miami; among others.

Study and Teaching

2009

Graduated from the Higher Institute of Arts (ISA) in Havana, Cuba

2000

Graduated from “El Alba”, Professional Academy of Fine Arts in Holguín, Cuba

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022

Distancia interna, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

Perpetuate - Dislocate- Perpetuate, Fondazione Giuliani, Roma, Italy

2020

Dibujos. Exhibition by Alejandro Campins & Carlos Garaicoa, Open Studio Carlos Garaicoa, Madrid, Spain

2018

Miedo a la muerte es miedo a la verdad, Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba

2017

Declaración Pública Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

City of Queen Anne´s Lace (Duo Show) Wasserman Projects, Detroit, USA

2016

Los ojos de la percepción Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba

Lapse Sean Kelly Gallery. NY. USA

2015

Les Moulins Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, Boissy Le Châtel, France

City of the Dead Servando Gallery, Havana, Cuba

2013

Nómada (Nomad). Liceo Carmelita, C. del Carmen, Mexico

Herencia (Heritage) Knoerle & Beattig contemporary fine art, Winterthur, Switzerland

Reliquia (Relic) Raymaluz Art gallery, Madrid, Spain

Li-4 ZonaMACO, DF, Mexico

2012

Patria (Homeland) Factoría Habana, Havana, Cuba

2011

La bondad del desconocido (The Kindness of the unknown) Servando Gallery, Havana, Cuba

2009

En la cola del cometa (In the comet’s tail) Luz y Suarez del Villar Gallery. Madrid, Spain

Cuando el sol es enorme (When the sun is enormous) Servando Gallery, Havana, Cuba

2008

Project “Inventario” (Inventory). Fundación Lugwid, Cuba

Corta Distancia (Short distance) Casa de la Cultura of Plaza, Havana, Cuba

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022

La naturaleza de las cosas, Plusartis, Madrid, Spain

2021

Eyes in the sky, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

Truc a faire, Galleria Continua, Paris, France

La Brèche, Galleria Continua, Paris, France

Latin America, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China

2020

Mirador Circular, Galleria Continua, Havana, Cuba.

Cuba Talks, Peyrassol, France. 

Cuba mi amor, Galerie Miterrand, Paris, France.

2019

Time for change: Art and social Unrest in the Jorge Perez Collection, El Espacio 23, Miami, USA.

Poéticas del paisaje, Galería Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain  

13 Bienal de la Habana, Havana, Cuba 

58 La Biennale di Venezia, Cuban Pavilion, Venice, Italy

2018

Pintar a contratiempo, Centro Hispanoamericano de cultura, Havana, Cuba

EDIFICE, COMPLEX, VISIONARY, STRUCTURE, Gallery Sean Kelly, New York, USA.

Otro amanecer en el trópico - Contemporary Cuban artistic practices, Reinbeckhallen, Berlino, Germany

Ola Cuba! Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille, France

Positivo  con Positivo, Servando Gallery, Havana, Cuba

2017

Cuban Art Now SINGER Museum Laren, laren, The Netherlands

Las Ciudades Invisibles, Unión Nacional de Arquitectos e Ingenieros de la Construcción de Cuba (UNAICC), Havana, Cuba

Overseas Halle 14 – Center for Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany

Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950. MFAH, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA

Wild Noise/Ruido Salvaje The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA

Cuban Art Now SINGER Museum Laren, laren, The Netherlands

Overseas Halle 14 – Center for Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany

Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950. MFAH, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA

Wild Noise/Ruido Salvaje The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA

2016

Q&A MDC Museum of Art and Design, Miami, USA

Nido sin árbol UNAICC, Colegio de Arquitectos de Cuba, Havana, Cuba

Cuban Forever Revisited Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio, USA

Transhumans CAB, Brussels, Belgium

Q&A MDC Museum of Art and Design, Miami, USA

2015

Q&A Cultural Center (IDB), Washington, USA

Anclados en el territorio Galleria Continua, Havana, Cuba

Between UNAICC, Colegio de Arquitectos de Cuba, Havana, Cuba

2014

En este lugar, en este momento Servando Gallery, Havana, Cuba

V Salon de Arte Contemporaneo Cubano (V Cuban Contemporary Arts Show) Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba

A este lado del paraíso National Library, Havana, Cuba

Agua Salada (Salty Water) Hispanic – American Cultural Center, Havana, Cuba

Avalancha (Avalanche) Villamanuela Gallery, Havana, Cuba

2013

Para quebrar los muros (To break the walls) Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

Memento Mori/Joie de Vivre Servando Gallery, Havana, Cuba

The New Painters. Saltfineart gallery. Laguna beach, USA

Cuba Contemporaine. Arte de la grande ile des Caraibes Centre Culturel du Manoir de Cologny, Geneva, Switzerland

2012

Gulliver Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany

Premio Maretti, Wilfredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba

Heavy and Happy Painters Morro – Cabaña, (Collateral) 11th Havana Biennale, Cuba

HB Pabexpo, (Colateral) 11Havana Biennale, Cuba

CUBA, Saltfineart Gallery, L.A, USA

2011

Art Position 11, Halle Nautic Technic, Salavaux, Switzerland

Junge Szene Kuba Cultural Center "Pasinger Fabrik", Munich, Germany

Torbellino (Whirl) Havana Gallery, Havana, Cuba

2010

12 Cairo Biennale Egypt

Artbo Bogotá, Colombia

11th Portugal Biennale Portugal

Text to Speech: El otro Lenguaje (ContemporaneaCuba 2010) Bonelli LAB, Canneto Sull’Oglio, Mantova, Italy

En la tierra no hay nada gratis (There’s nothing for free on earth) Luz y Oficio Gallery, Havana, Cuba

Trazos (Sketches) Servando Gallery, Havana, Cuba

Bomba (Bomb) Wilfredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba

2009

Clonfluencias, Inside II. Natural Hispanic Cultural Center. Art Museum Albuquerque, USA

Arteamericas Miami, FL, USA

Artmadrid Madrid, Spain

2008

V Salon de Arte Contemporaneo Cubano (V Cuban Contemporary Arts Show) Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba

BLA,BLA,BLA Servando Gallery, Havana, Cuba

Jai Lou Lait DPM Gallery, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Crónicas del Entusiasmo (Chronicles of the enthusiasm) Luz y Suarez del Villar Gallery, Madrid,Spain

Plastilina (Plasticine) Hispanic – American Cultural Center, Havana, Cuba

Far Far Away Co-Lab, Copenhagen, Denmark

2007

Vostok Repairing workshop Vostok 1 and Luz y Oficio Gallery, Havana, Cuba

La Cosecha (The harvest) Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba

Situación Construida (Built Situation), exhibition “Cabeza de Vena” (Vein Head) , Higher Institute of Arts, Havana, Cuba

Collections

- Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar, Holland

- Fondazione Giuliani, Italy

- Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

- Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), Paris, France

- Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio, USA

- Daros – Latinamerica Collection Zurich, Switzerland

- Ella Cisneros Fontanals Collection, Miami, USA

- AMA Foundations, Vitacura, Chile

- Jorge Pérez Collection, Miami, USA