House of Egorn

b. 1977 in Havana, Cuba, lives and works in Havana and Madrid.

Glauber Ballestero works with a wide array of materials including photography, painting, printing, drawing, sculptural installation, and film. He is fascinated by images that he sees as forming a fulcrum of culture. Having studied at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana under Tania Bruguera, he has been largely included in exhibition in Havana as well as in multiple editions of the Havana Biennial.

EXHIBITIONS

2017
Ad Cadabra Nebvla, Centro de Desarollo Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba (solo)
Vienna Contemporary, House of Egorn, Vienna (duo)
Conceptium Saliara: Appaloosa, Galería Villa Manuela, Havana, Cuba (solo)

2016
Tradiciones des-dibujadas , Galería Villa Manuela, Havana, Cuba (group)
Cetus Quasar, House of Egorn, Berlin (solo)
Kuba Libre, Kunsthalle Rostock (group)
Ascensión, Galería El Reino de este mundo, Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba, Havana, Cuba (group)
Line up, Galería La Acacia, Havana, Cuba (group)

2015
Panthomimes Batos - Appaloosa, Zona Franca_ Exposiciones Colaterales a la XII Bienal de la Habana, Morro-Cabaña, Havana (solo)
L ́isola che sognava i leoni, Museo Tornielli, Ameno, Italy (group)
HB, Colateral a la XII Bienal de La Habana, Pabexpo, Havana, Cuba (group)
QUIERO SER LO QUE PUEDAS VER, ZONA FRANCA_Exposiciones Colaterales a la XII Bienal de la Habana, Morro-Cabaña, Havana, Cuba (group)
2009Deriva2013, Centro Cultural Félix Varela, Havana, Cuba (group)
LA TERCERA ORILLA, Kir Royal Gallery / Facultad de Bellas Artes - Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain (group)

2014
HOMOSTALIAS ARQUEA - APPALOOSA, Galería La Acacia, Havana (solo) 6to SALÓN DE ARTE CUBANO CONTEMPORÁNEO, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba (group)

2013
AMAVA LINAJE - APPALOOSA, Raymaluz Art gallery, Madrid (solo)
SPIN ENCUBA - APPALOOSA, Galería Servando, Havana, Cuba (solo)

2012
SIMADOS VITALI - APPALOOSA, Aymaluz Art gallery, Madrid (solo)
HOSPEDEROS BOGUI - APPALOOSA, Colateral XI Bienal de La Habana, La Cabaña, Havana, Cuba (solo)
PERTIG PERFIL & TRONA ZEPPELIN - APPALOOSA, Galería 23 y 12, Havana, Cuba (solo)

AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS

2010 Project student. Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 Exchange student. Royal University of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden

TEXTS & PUBLICATIONS

2016
Noticias Arte Cubano 5/2016 (print)
Eva Kaczor: Glauber Ballestero - Mystik für den Weg in eine neue Zeit , artberlin (http://www.artberlin.de/glauber-ballestero/)
Kuba Libre, Kunsthalle Rostock, Alemania (exhibition catalogue)
Chrislie Pérez: El universo apócrifo del Appaloosa (http://cdecuba.org/glauber-bal lestero/)
2015
Yaniber Acosta: Pleitesie Zamari, in Arte Cubano 2/2015 (print)
Glauber Ballestero ́s White Republic, Revista Art Oncuba in Art On Cuba (print). Issue: March 2015
Shirley Moreiro: La República Blanca de Glauber Ballestero , Art On Cuba (http://ar toncuba.com/articulo/la-republica-blanca-de-glauber-ballestero/)
La 3ra Orilla, Kirroyal Gallery Valencia, España (exhibition catalogue)

EDUCATION

2009 Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana, Cuba
2007 Cátedra de Arte de Conducta, Havana, Cuba
2001 Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba
1996 Centro Experimental de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba