ARTURO COMAS
Sevilla (ES), 1982
Bio
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Awards
Residencies
Collections
Work
Biography
Graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Seville, his work observes the absurd and the useless starting from the concrete relationship with the object. After observation and study process, the subversion of logic follows creating proposals that play with the plausibility of the useful, but that lead us to face the absolute lack of understanding and meaning.
In his production, mostly photographic, he uses the object, installation, video and sculpture.
During 2021, he developed his editorial project “Husos Múltiples” which was awarded of the VEGAP Support for Creation. In 2019 he developed the project “Construcciones de senso” in Senegal, awarded by the II Call for TRANSVERSIA residency grants, of the ANKARIA Foundation.
Since 2018, he has been coordinating the artists with grants at “Encuentros de Arte de Genalguacil”, in Malaga.
Solo Exhibitions
2025 ＞＞ super bien! Berlin, Berlin (DE)
2023 DESUSOS, Espacio Derivado, Seville (ES)
A CADEIRA (The Chair), Galeria NAVE, Lisbon (PT)
2021 10º, Genalguacil Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Juan Francisco Rueda, Málaga, (ES)
Para nada, Gallery T20, text by Fernando Gómez de la Cuesta, Murcia (ES)
2020 Cosas de casa, PHotoEspaña Festival OFF with Galería Espacio Olvera (online)
2018 I don’t understand anything, Support INICIARTE Junta de Andalusia, Sala Santa Inés, Seville (ES)
Sobre todas las cosas, ARTE SANTANDER Galería Espacio Olvera, curated by Reyi Pérez Castillo, Santander (ES)
2017 Logicamente, Galeria La 13, Huelva (ES)
2016 Impermanencia, House of Culture of Doña Mencía, Cordoba (ES)
2014 Todos vamos a morir, La sala, Seville (ES)
2013 ¿Por que?, XIII INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY BIENNIAL OF CÓRDOBA (ES)
Group Exhibitions
2025 MATERIA PRIMA. PLACER, PODER, AUSENCIA, curated by María Aguerri. Centro Magallanes de Industrias Culturales y Creativas, Seville (ES)
2024 Kutrix Gallery, curated by Ciuco Gutiérrez and Teresa Herrero, Madrid (ES)
Encuentros de Arte Contemporáneoneo 2024, Museum of the University of Alicante, Alicante (ES)
LA MAYOR EMERGENCIA, curated by Santiago Zabala. Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid (ES)
TABLAO, curated by Alicia Ventura and Jimena Blázquez. CAAC Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville (ES)
RANDOM, AZAN space project, Lisbon (PT)
BE MY GUEST curated by NAVE, Galeria NAVE, Lisbon (PT)
2023 Opuestos, curated by Juan Francisco Rueda, MAC Genalguacil, Málaga (ES)
Rare Earths, Glogau, Berlin (DE)
WANDERLUS, curated by NAVE, Artes Mota Galiza Porto (PT)
Los únicos que saben de arte son los artistas, Galeria Zunino, Seville (ES)
2022 (0/1) o zero e o um, curated by NAVE, MUHNAC National Museum of Natural History and Science of Lisbon (PT)
Transversia LA BIENNALE DE DAKAR, Boribana Museum, Dakar + Siki Gallery, Saint Louis (SE)
Present Tense, curated by NAVE, LAGE EGAL, Berlin (GE)
2021 Propuestas VEGAP 2020 - Proyectos ganadores, CentroCentro , Madrid (ES)
XIV Certamen Fundación Unicaja, Centro Cultural Fundación Unicaja, Malaga (ES)
Exhibition “XIV Certamen Unicaja de Artes Plásticas, Centro Fundación Unicaja de Antequera, Malaga (ES)
2020 Del transito y lo transitorio, Espacio Olvera Gallery, Seville (ES
Bauhaus: 100 years of the total revolution of a language, Diputación de Seville (ES)
Confinement ARCHIVE, curated by María Arregui (online)
Scattergories, exhibition curated by Nerea Ubieto and Alejandro Castellote (online)
2019 45 years of the Fúcares Gallery, Almagro (ES)
4th Bienal Martínez Guerricabeitia, City Museum, Valencia (ES)
Bauhaus, Province House, Seville (ES)
72 hours Galeria Zunino, Seville (ES)
El jardín secreto Salas da Coracha MUPAM, Malaga (ES)
Últimos paisajes Fernando Centeno Contemporary Art Museum, Genalguacil, Malaga (ES)
2018 15 Mostra Museum of Contemporary Art of the Naturgy Foundation, A Coruña (ES)
HYBRID, Petit Palace, Madrid (ES)
Landscape. Surroundings and context, curated by Juan Fco. Rueda, M.A.C. from Genalguacil, Malaga (ES)
ArtBanchel, Studio 10, Madrid, (ES)
Ausencias, CICUS curated by Antonio Jiménez AJG, Seville (ES)
2017 Parasitos, CAAC Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville (ES)
DesArraigo, Sala La Económica, included in the INICIARTE programme, Málaga (ES)
Under 35, GACMA Gallery, Malaga (ES)
The Host, ArtSevilla, Seville (ES)
Art Marbella, Stand Genalguacil curated by Juan Francisco Rueda, Marbella (ES)
2016 ABSURD, Galeria Octubre, Universidad Jaume I, Castellón (ES)
The shapes of silence, El Huerto del Tertuliano, Valladolid (ES)
ART&BREAKFAST2, Malaga (ES)
Notas al margen, Cosmopoética Festival, Antonio Gala Foundation, Córdoba (ES)
UNDER 35 GACMA Gallery, Malaga (ES)
2015 Strategies for climbing a tree, Galeria La Lisa, Albacete (ES)
Un chien andalou en PALMA Photo, Palma de Mallorca (ES)
UNDER 35 at the GACMA Gallery, Malaga (ES)
Histeria y Tradicción at the History Museum of El Carpio (during Scarpia XIV), Córdoba (ES)
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Genalguacil, Malaga (ES)
Malaga CREA at La Caja Blanca, Malaga (ES)
MARTE International Contemporary Art Fair, Castellón (ES)
National Contemporary Art Competition, Ciudad de Utrera, Seville (ES)
he Faces Book at Casa Sostoa, Malaga (ES)
Jäälphoto, Madrid (ES)
2014 CALL 14, Galeria Luis Adelantado, Valencia (ES)
Jäälproject, Photography fair, Madrid (ES)
BLUR PHOTO, La Galería Roja, Seville (ES)
FINDE 01, at ECCO Espacio de Creación Contemporánea, Cádiz (ES)
Bi-Nomios, Sala de la Muralla. UNIVERSITY OF MALAGA (ES)
100×100, Galería A del Arte, Zaragoza (ES)
Plan Renew, Seville (ES)
2013 XIX National Competition of Plastic Arts University of Seville (ES)
FACBA Contemporary Art Fair, Faculty of Fine Arts of Granada (ES)
Ayuntamiento de Archidona, Project Scarpia Garden, Malaga (ES)
Art and Natura Centro Ataria, Vitoria (ES)
En Escena Z Jornadas de Arte, Montalbán, Cordoba (ES)
2012 MUVIM (Valencian Museum of Illustration and Modernity (ES)
Incubarte, Valencia (ES)
María Nieves Martín Art Gallery in Villafranca de los Barros, Badajoz (ES)
No me quemo, Faculty3 of Fine Arts of Seville, Sala Espacio GB (ES)
Arévalo International Contemporary Art Fair. Church of San Martín, Avila (ES)
Awards
2020 VEGAP Proposals
2018 Award-winning work at the XXXIX Contemporary Art Competition of the Ciudad de Utrera
2017 INICIARTE selected individual project
2016 Selected project INICIARTE, curated by Regina Pérez Castillo
Award-winning project in DMencia, Córdoba
Award-winning project at the 1st Culla Contemporânea Residence, Castellón
2014 Project selected in Jäälproject, Madrid
Selected for CALL, Galeria Luis Adelantado, Valencia
2012 Work selected and acquired at the XIX National Art Show in Seville
Audiovisual Festival Iuventus Fest (Utopia)
Accésit at the XIX Experimental Poetry Prize, Diputación de Badajoz
Residencies
2019 TRANSVERSIA Residency of the ANKARIA Foundation, Senegal
A SECAS, CAAC Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art, Seville
II Villalar-Castilla y León Foundation Artists Meeting
2018 Contemporary Culla, Castellón)
2016 New Artists Meeting, Santiago de Compostela)
2015 PINEA, Rota
.
Collections
DKV Collection
Artillery Museum, Murcia
Ankaria Foundation, Madrid
Benin Madrid Collection
University of Seville
Genalguacil Museum of Contemporary Art, Malaga
MARTE International Contemporary Art Fair
House of Culture of Utrera
Archidona City Council, Malaga
Deputation of Badajoz
Newcastle Foundation
Culla City Council, Castellon
CENDEAC, Murcia
