About
Alejandra Baltazares' works explores the ideals through which we imagine ourselves and the world around us. Whether examining representations of the body or our surroundings, she reflects on beauty, cultural identity, memory, and impermanence through layered surfaces and subtle shifts between harmony and unease.
In her recent work, Baltazares approaches landscape as an imagined space, shaped by memory, longing and imagination. Through idealized environments and subtle disruptions, Baltazares questions the ways we construct, perceive, and inhabit the places around us.
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Alejandra Baltazares
Mexico, 1985
Lives and works in Dusseldorf, Germany
STUDIES
2004-2008
Bachelor in Fine Arts. Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda". Mexico City
2007-2008
Exchange student at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts, Villa- Arson. Nice, France
2014-2016
Postgraduate studies at Weissensee Kunsthochschule. Berlin, Germany
AWARDS & GRANTS
2026
First Prize, Marehalm Art Award, Niebüll, Germany
2021-2022
Kunstmentorat-NRW. Selected artist for the second season of the exchange program sponsored by LabK and the Ministry of Culture. Work in collaboration with artist Stephanie Klingemann. Cologne, Germany
2019-2020
Emerging Artists stipend granted by the Mexican Arts Council
2017
Mobility grant by the Prince Claus Fund
2014-2016
“Frida Kahlo” Scholarship for Mexican Women Artists granted by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) in Germany and the Mexican Foreign Affairs Office
2011
XXXI Bienal de Arte Jóven (shortlist), México.
2010
Jury’s Special Mention. International Biennial of Contemporary Art. Santa Cruz, Bolivia
2010
Emerging Artists stipend granted by the Mexican Arts Council
SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS
2026
Open Studio. Atelier Luiz Áquila. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2025
A House with a View. Julia Ritterskamp. Düsseldorf, Germany
2023
Next-stop, in collaboration with Finn Wagner. LABOR, Ebertplatz, Köln
2015
Everything is not Enough, in collaboration with Alejandra Alarcón. Nube Gallery. Santa Cruz, Bolivia
2014
Delightful, in collaboration with Victor Hoshiko. Jikka Gallery. Tokyo, Japan
2012
Hermosa – Aberración. Border Gallery. Mexico City
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2017
AIR by LAM 360. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2012
AIR by Greatmore Art Studios. Cape Town, South Africa
2010
AIR by Kiosko Gallery. Santa Cruz, Bolivia
PUBLICATIONS
2019
Azucar Magazine. Portfolio review. Berlin, Germany
2017
Who are we now?. Catalogue LAM 360. UlaanBaatar Public Art Week. Mongolia
10 años de residencias artísticas. Catalogue. Kiosko Galería. Santa Cruz, Bolivia
2016
10 Artistas de Salón Acme 2016. Interview for i-D and Vice Mexico
Wie zeitgenössische künstler auf unsere übersexualisierte gegenwart reagieren by Steffanie Schneider. i-D Germany
2014
A different kind of feminism. LAR-Magazine 015. Issue Sept-Oct
2012
Learn & Teach. Catalogue. Greatmore Art Studios. Cape Town, Sudáfrica
2010
Kiosko residencias
2008-2010
Catalogue. Kiosko Gallery. Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Talento que emana. Interview. Revista Cultura y Arte de México. Mexico
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
Marehalm Art Award. Richard Haizmann Museum.Niebüll, Germany
Das kleine Format x Die Grosse 2026. Kunstpalast. Düsseldorf, Germany
Nothing Stays the same in collaboration with Kathrin Edwards and Sarah Kirschnick. ArtArtists, Düsseldorf
2025
Die Grosse. Curated by Emmanuel Mir. Kunstpalast Düsseldorf. Germany
Curator's Choice. Julia Ritterskamp. Düsseldorf, Germany
The great summer of Art. Labor Gallery, Ebertplatz. Köln
2024
Anonymous Drawings. Touring exhibition. Germany
2023
La Limpia-Extended in collaboration with Navid Razavi for Antimonument. Site specific performance for Antimonument e.V..Wild Palms Gallery and public spaces. Düsseldorf, Germany
2022
La Limpia. Site-specific performance for Der Schmuckeremit. Curated by Oliver Gather. Pullheim, Germany
Salon des refusés. Kunst und Gäste Gallery. Kleve, Germany
2021
The Purpose of Life. Site-specific intervention. Ebertplatz-Köln, Germany
2019
Creación en movimiento. Museum Cuatro Caminos. Mexico City
2018
#Beauty. Werkstatt. Berlin, Germany
2017
Salón ACME. Mexico City
Out of Khentii. Khentii Art Gallery. Mongolia
2016
Custom Paradise. Somos Arts. Berlin, Germany
Todos los ojos en Bolivia. Retrospective at Centro Simón I. Patiño. Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Füttern Verboten. Kunstundhelden.Berlin, Germany
Salón ACME. Mexico City
2015
Haut & Farbe. Kunsthalle Hamburger Platz. Berlin, Germany
Muñecos de Loza Contemporary Art Festival. Contemporary Art Museum of Bogotá, Colombia
2013
If I could only have the Universe. Espacio mexicano Tokyo-Japan & Temenggong Artist in Residence, Singapore
Candelaria. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo. Santa Cruz, Bolivia
2012
Learn & Teach. Greatmore Studios. Cape Town, South Africa
2011
Art Room Talent. Centro de Arquitectura y Diseño. Mexico City
XXXI Encuentro Nacional de Arte Jóven. Aguascalientes, Mexico
Creación en Movimiento, Museum Diego Rivera Anahuacalli. Mexico
2010
International Biennial of Contemporary Art. Santa Cruz, Bolivia
LOOP, Video-Festival. Barcelona, Spain
2009
Video_Dumbo.Video-Festival. New York, USA