Artforum / Article by Daniel Belasco (04.2025): Experiencing Álvaro Urbano’s multipart, multimedia exhibition “TABLEAU VIVANT” at SculptureCenter felt like entering this passage from Frank O’Hara’s poem “Having a Coke with You” (1960).
Esse Magazine / Article by Connor Spencer (in Issue 113 – Plastics): In a moving tribute, Álvaro Urbano has staged a reinterpretation of artist Scott Burton’s public artwork Atrium Furnishment (1986).
Burlington Contemporary / Article by Lynne Cooke (07.03.2025): “A site for reverie, for dallying and dreaming, his theatrical mise-en-scene invests visitors with a performative role.”
Brooklyn Rail / Article by Jessica Martin (03.2025): “In ruins, the abandonment of human interaction invites new opportunities for highly complex, self-organizing ecosystems […]”
ABC News / Article by Sean Tarek Goodwin (05.03.2024): After 40 years of disuse, the White Bay Power Station will debut as the city’s newest large-scale arts venue this weekend, forming the centrepiece of the Biennale of Sydney.
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El País / Article by Álex Vicente (09.12.2023): dos exposiciones profundizan en Tenerife en el escombro como imagen de lo contemporáneo y hábitat inevitable de la civilización presente.
Frieze / Article by Gaby Cepeda (13.04.2023): At Travesía Cuatro, Mexico City, the artist’s metallic plants and flowers calls to mind the poems of Federico García Lorca and the gardens of Luis Barragán.
Esquire / Article by Vito de Biasi (21.04.2023): Dal 21 aprile al 5 novembre, i due artisti portano a Ocean Space, a Venezia, Lunar ensemble for uprising seas, installazione e performance sulla nostra sopravvivenza con il sostegno di Audemars Piguet Contemporary.
Artnet / Article by William Van Meter (21.04.2023): San Lorenzo di Venezia, burial place of Marco Polo, is currently home to the installation “Lunar Ensemble for Uprising Seas.”
El País / Article by Tom C. Avendaño (17.09.2021): una nueva exposición, del artista Álvaro Urbano en la galería Travesía Cuatro, recrea y condena la intervención del arquitecto más famoso del siglo XX en casa de la diseñadora Eileen Gray en 1935.
Elephant (13.11.2020): Alvaro Urbano and Petrit Halilaj’s recent collaboration sees vast fabric flowers placed in Palazzo delle Esposizioni for the Gucci-supported FUORI, exploring love and tolerance through the intimate lens of their own relationship.
Hyperallergic / Article by Hannah Feniak (06.11.2020): Rather than celebrating the Francoist Hexagon Pavilion, Alvaro Urbano asks whether the lingering ghosts of the dictatorship are simply decaying or actively festering.
ArtsLife / Article by Massimo Mattioli (29.10.2020): Una mostra che innesca pensieri e dibattiti, e questo è già un successo. Ma alla Quadriennale le nuove generazioni non convincono in pieno.
El País / Article by Enrique Müller (26.09.2020): El célebre club musical Berghain, cerrado por la pandemia, se reconvierte en espacio para mostrar obras creadas durante el semiconfinamiento de Berlín.
Umbigo Magazine / Interview by Myles Francis (08.05.2020): intervening on the Hexagon Pavillion designed by José Antonio Corrales and Ramón Vázquez Molezún, Alvaro Urbano both explores notions, dreams and memory and reanimates Spanish histories in the construction of his own dreamscape: The Awakening [El Despertar].
Artnet / Article by Tim Schneider (11.06.2019): Not all artworks are designed to tell a story. But they can’t help becoming stories if they suddenly disappear. Madrid-born, Berlin-based artist Alvaro Urbano brings this idea to mischievous life in Art Basel’s Statements section this year.