(Spain, b.1970)
Originally from Spain, Beñat Olaberria is a London based artist graduated from City and Guilds from London Art School with an MA in Fine Art. Beñat has taken part in numerous group exhibitions around the UK and his work can be found in private collections across Europe, Canada and USA.
With a non impressionistic, non narrative and non reductive approach to making, Beñat´s practice explores the unknown territories of his mind. Like in an unplanned walk, he is interested in constructing abstract pieces as a reaction to his first nervous, unplanned and impulsive mark-making until the desired balance is achieved though his visual logic and personal language. Engaged in reconnecting with his past, Beñat uses a language of organic and gestural black mark-making, which was previously abandonned. Nervous pencil lines, thick acrylic paint, dirt and charcoal enable the artist to offer traces of intimate moments of time and space, meanwhile the artist avoids the presentation through visual description or verbal fixation.
Selected Exhibitions
2022 PEAUEME, solo Exhibition, Grandson, Switzerland
2022 UNPLANNED WALK, two people Exhibition, Madrid, Spain
2022 IIN, two people Exhibition, London, Uk
2021 A room without windows , Solo Exhibition, Tumbridge Wells, Uk
2020 The light has gone out , Solo exhibition, London POSTPONED (covid)
2020 TRANS , FORM, Group exhibition, ARTCAN,The Chello factory, London POSTPONED
2020 One Night Stand , Solo exhibition, London
2019 Sin Tapujos , Solo exhibition , Barcelona ,Spain
2019 MA and Other Postgraduates Show, Group exhibition , Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, Uk
2019 Ex Materia , Solo exhibition , Concis , Switzerland
2019 Antenna is broken,corner swollewn , Group exhibition, ASC studios, London
2018 The Hearts in Harmony Art Prize , Group exhibition Spitafields Market, London
2017 Sketch Opne 2017 tour , Group exhibition
2017 Rabley Drawing Centre ,Rabley Barn, Marlborough,
2017 Black Swan Arts, Frome, 2 Bridge Street, Frome
2017 Plymouth College of Art,Tavistock Place, Plymouth
2017 Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster Arts, Great Hall Complex, Lancaster University
2017 Abstractive , Group exhibition at the Black and White Buildind, London
2015 Summer exhibition , Group exhibition, Concept Space Gallery, London
2015 Two Years In , Group exhibition, Menier Galler y, London
