Irene De Andrés Vega

Ibiza, 1986

Irene de Andres graduated in Fine Arts at Universidad Complutense of Madrid in 2009, and did a Master of Research and Artistic Production. At present, she is one of the artist in residency at Escuela FLORA ars + natura, in Bogotá (Artistic Residency Program sponsored by AC/E).

A selection of her grants and prizes include Circuitos de Artes Plásticas 2012, Generaciones 2013, Injuve 2014 and Ayudas a la Creación Visual Vegap 2015. She has received residency grants from Fundación Bilbao Arte (Vasque Country) and Beta Local, San Juan de Puerto Rico. Last year her work featured in the exhibitions Energy Flash at MuHKA (Museum of Contemporary Art of Antwerp), and Depois do Futuro at Escola Parque Lage, in Rio de Janeiro, among others. Her last solo exhibition took place at Casal Solleric in Palma de Mallorca, as a recipient of the prize Ciutat de Palma 2015.

Irene’s work is strongly related to the fact she grew up in one of the most desired tourist destinations, for people looking for sun, beaches and parties. Recently, the artist has finished a project related to five abandoned nightclubs in Ibiza, Donde nada ocurre (Where Nothing Happens), which approaches from different fields the outcome of the Island’s tourism history. Now, she is exploring the analogies between tourism and colonization trough the search of the predesigned paradise.