Abelardo Gil-Fournier (Spain, 1979) is an artist and researcher, born in Rabat and based in Madrid. Originally trained in Physics, he holds a PhD in Art from Winchester School of Art (UK) and has worked as a researcher at FAMU in Prague. He is currently a grantee of a Leonardo scholarship from the BBVA Foundation.
His practice addresses the entwining of media and matter. His projects involve different techniques, spanning from installation to image, sound and computational processes where either the living or other so-called natural and planetary temporalities conflate with human visual cultures, knowledge systems and politics.
His work has been exhibited and discussed internationally, including venues such as Transmediale (Berlin), Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia (León), IKKM (Weimar), Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland), Design Museum (Shenzhen), Tabakalera (Donostia-San Sebastian), LeBal (Paris) and the Cultural Centers of Spain in Nicaragua and El Salvador.
He is the author, together with Jussi Parikka, of the book Living Surfaces. Images, Plants and Environments of Media (MIT Press 2024).
Selected exhibitions
2025 Visiones cuánticas Tabakalera Donostia-San Sebastián2025 LUMI, Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka John Hansard Gallery, Southampton UK
2025 Lumi, followed by Synthetic Surfaces and Planetary Light Transmediale, HKW Berlin
2025 NATURALEZA RURAL. Arte y cultura en el territorio Fundación Diaz-Caneja, Palencia
2025 Por el aire se extiende, una verde ceniza Galería Ángeles Baños
2024 Apories sobre l'aire Bòlit. Centre d'Art Contemporani de Girona
2024 Lumi (screening) Kunsthal Aarhus
2023 The Glass City RRADIUS CCA, Delft
2023 Motores del clima Laboral Centro de Arte, Gijón
2023 La balsa. Tres actos para una intemperie Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia
2022 Loops.Expanded ARTMADRID - PROYECTOR '22
2022 Medios Sintientes Cineteca Madrid
2022 Weather Engines Onassis Stegi, Athens
2021 Vibrating Clouds Design Society (Shenzhen, China)
2021 GROUNDING Dokuchaev Central Soil Museum and Art.ITMO.Residency (St Petersburg)
2021 Fotograf Festival / Earthlings / The Metabolic Perspective Gallery AMU (Prague)
2021 PLAY Festival de Video Arte Centro Cultural Universitario de la UNNE (Buenos Aires)
2020 Cinco itinerarios con un punto de vista. Colección MUSAC MUSAC (León)
2020 SITUATIONS / Strike Fotomuseum Winterthur
2020 Naturalezas Desplazadas PROYECTOR 2020 / El Instante Fundación
2020 IN-SONORA 11 Sala el Águila
2020 Reprogramming Earth NeMe Arts Center (Limassol, Cyprus)
2019 Sin moldes. Escultura en la Colección MUSAC Museo de La Rioja (Logroño)
2019 Project Room, 948 Merkatua Baluarte (Iruña/Pamplona)
2018 La memoria del territorio VISIONA, Sala de exposiciones de la Diputación de Huesca (Huesca)
2017 Cartographic Operations Gallery L4 (Southampton)
2017 EX Arte Electronico y Experimental Minihub (Madrid)
2017 Postcards from the Anthropocene School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (Edinburgh)
2017 Empty Vessels, curated by Doreen A. Rios Presente Perfecto (Toluca, Mexico) and The Wrong Biennale (online)
2017 Región (Los relatos) Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia, MUSAC (León)
2016 In-Sonora Galería Cruce
2016 Unspoken dialogues Galeria Millenium (Lisbon)
2015 Premios de Arte Electrónico JUSTMAD-COAM (Madrid)
2015 Gravedad Cero / Zero Gravity Matadero Center of Art (Madrid)