Abelardo Gil-Fournier is an artist and researcher. His practice explores the relationships between matter, images, and knowledge through an ecological poetics in which notions such as visual culture or computation extend beyond the human realm.

His work often starts from historical cases and environmental processes, understanding images as traces of how matter, perception, and planetary change become entangled. His practice across different formats and contexts, from exhibitions and publications to lectures and collaborative research.

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Recent exhibitions
2026 Bienal Climática. Ensayar lo inesperado Palacio de Valdecarzana, Avilés
2026 Ecological Translation (Screening) Goethe Institut Athens
2026 Immersive Acts 2026 (Screening) Royal College of Art, London
2026 Imitación a la vida CCE Montevideo, Uruguay
2026 El signo y la calima Galería Ángeles Baños, Badajoz
2026 Galería Ángeles Baños ARCO 2026
2026 LASER HONG KONG: AI Hyperrealism and LUMI (Screening) City University of Hong Kong
2026 El tiempo de la interferencia Sala Provincia. Instituto Leónes de Cultura (ILC, León)
2025 Visiones cuánticas Tabakalera Donostia-San Sebastián
2025 LUMI, Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka John Hansard Gallery, Southampton UK
Last talks
2026 Lumi, with Jussi Parikka - Ways of Seeing in the Age of AI. LASER talks in Hong Kong
2026 Excluded Thirds and the Environmental Image (keynote) - Royal College of Art, London
2025 Bosques de cristal. Medios elementales, imagen y crecimiento vegetal - UNED Madrid
2025 Intraacciones, entrelazamientos y reconfiguraciones - Tabakalera Donostia / San Sebastián
2025 Keynote: Abelardo Gil-Fournier - Ecstatic Truth IX symposium: Ways of Knowing. VSKK Prague
2025 Diálogos entre Arte y Ciencia - Museo Guggenheim Bilbao
2025 Unsecurities Lab: Landscape Defense - Lancaster University
2025 Practicing with Light: Experimental Ecologies of Light - Out of Hand / Matters of Activity. Humboldt University Berlin
2025 The Fermi-Zeno effect - Building for Quantum. CIVA Brussels
2024 Sensing, the environmental surface and the planetary - Goldsmiths, University of London