Ana Laura Aláez

Ana Laura Aláez (Bilbao, 1964) is a Basque artist. She is one of the most renowned contemporary artists in Spain. She defines herself as an "emotions architect", as she transforms all her life into art, depicting her feelings in her artworks. One of her first exhibitions took place in 1992, in Fundació Joan Miró's Espai 10, in Barcelona. Alberto Peral, another Basque artist, was also featured in this exhibition.

Biography
Aláez became popularly known in 1992, with an exhibition named Superficie ("surface"), held in Fundació Joan Miró's Espai 10. In this exhibition, Aláex showed three objects (Catwoman, Pantalón preservativo, and Mujeres en zapatos de plataforma) which were between pop art and gender critics, close to the performance art that became popular in the seventies.

She created the interior design project Geometrical Life, with César Rey and Daniel Holc. She is also Girls on Film's singer, and works with a musician named Ascii.disko. In 2003 she published Flúor, a book with pictures and texts where she depicted her deepest aesthetic thoughts.

In 2013, Aláez was one of three winners (along with artist June Crespo and researcher Adelina Moyano) of the Basque Country government's Gure Artea Awards, receiving an endowment of €25,000.

Exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions:


 * 2007
 * Unknowns. Mapping Contemporary Basque Art, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
 * K-stains, Casa Asia, Barcelona
 * Lab Project, Sarjah Museus, United Emirates
 * Marie's story, Space C*, Seoul


 * 2006
 * Architecture of sound, Museo banco de la República, Bogotá
 * Bambi, Mercat de La Boqueria, Barcelona


 * 2005
 * Goodbye horses (kiss the frog - the art of transformation), National Museum, Oslo
 * K-stains, Spanish Embassy, Seoul
 * Cosmo Cosmetic, Space C*, Seoul
 * She is in fashion, Bilbao
 * Black metal/pink t-shirt, Galeria Moisés Pérez de Albéniz, Pamplona


 * 2004
 * Superficiality, Biennial of Korea
 * Hell disco, Taidemuseo Tennispalatsi, Helsinki, Spanish Culture Centre, Mexico
 * Signale der Kleidung, Contemporary Art Centre, Podewil, Berlin


 * 2003
 * Beauty cabinet prototype, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
 * The Royal Trip, PS1, MoMA, New York City


 * 2002
 * Sound recording room, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin
 * Brothel, Kiosko Alfonso, La Coruña


 * 2001
 * Brothel, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona
 * Dance & Disco, Arena Gallery, Chicago
 * Pink Room, Liquid Sky, Sain room, Biennale di Venezia


 * 2000
 * Dance & Disco, Espacio Uno, Museo Reina Sofia
 * Liquid Sky, Biennal de Buenos Aires


 * 1999
 * Project Room, Arco’99
 * Brothel, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; Pusan Metropolitan Art Museum (Korea)


 * 1998
 * Prototype studio for an artist of the new millennium, Pontevedra Biennial


 * 1997
 * She astronauts, Sala Montcada, Barcelona
 * She in the outer space, Istanbul Biennial


 * 1996
 * Krystal y attyla, Área II, Rekalde, Bilbao


 * 1992
 * Surface, Espai 10, Fundació Joan Miró