Enrique Veganzones (b. 1965, Madrid) lives and works in a small town on the southeastern coast of Spain. He holds degrees in Social Work (1988), and Fine Arts (1997) from Universidad Complutense, Madrid (painting, with honors), and a Diploma in Advanced Studies and PhD courses from the School of Philosophy, Universidad de Murcia.
He is a recipient of residencies at Art House Holland (Leiden, The Netherlands), the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation (Thread, Senegal), and the National Trust of Georgia (Tbilisi, Georgia).
His artistic practice revolves around a quest for the inexpressible, the reality that transcends the merely visible. That which demands to activate a different perception open to intuition. This interest focuses on the importance of the symbol as an evocative force in the everyday. Its presence, manifested in a layered arrangement of the temporal course of experience, is associated in Veganzones’s work with the trace of the past in processes, materials, and procedures. The use of traditional techniques like stucco, gilding and egg tempera, must be considered not so much as a revival of old methods, but for the laborious and slow processes that they entail. These procedures ultimately tame will: time enables outcomes that have far more to do with the density of what we experience and create, rather than with the simple measurement of time and effort.
Veganzones explores the presence of number in his series, drawing inspiration from Jung’s assertion that “number should be understood not merely as a construct of consciousness but also as a factor existing a priori in outer and inner nature.” Number functions as an organizing agent within structures, enabling unplanned concatenations, confluences, and proportions of symmetries and contrasts. These repetitions and pulsations mirror human physical rhythms such as breathing, heartbeats, and blinking. For Veganzones, these unconscious numerical patterns resonate with the very act of drawing, transforming it into an evolving state of consciousness.
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Enrique Veganzones
Madrid, 1965
Education
2005-2007 PhD courses and Diploma in Advanced Studies, School of Philosophy, Universidad de Murcia
1992-1997 MA Fine Arts Painting (with honors) Universidad Complutense de Madrid
1984-1987 MA Social Work Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Solo exhibitions
2024
Galerie Abstract Project, Paris, FR
Bos Fine Art Gallery, Utrecht, NL
2018
La armonía del exilio, Muralla Bizantina, Cartagena
2017
Homenaje a Alberti, Centro Cultural La Corrala, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid [catalogue]. Joint project with composer José Buenagu.
2010
Del alfar y el lagar, Teatro Zorrilla, Diputación de Valladolid, Valladolid [catalogue]
2009
Mano trémula, Universidad de Murcia [catalogue]
Periferias, Fundación Santa María de Albarracín, Albarracín, Teruel
Sala de la Caja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada, Huesca
2008
Sala Barbasán, Caja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada, Zaragoza
2007
Las cosas mudas, Galería Edurne, Madrid [catalogue]
Las cosas mudas, Fundación Las Edades del Hombre, Monasterio de Santa María de Valbuena, Valladolid [catalogue]
2006
Del encuentro, Centro Cultural, Ceutí
2005
La Pausa, Galería Art Nueve, Murcia
2004
La Pausa, Galería Edurne, Madrid [catalogue]
2003
Pintura y obra sobre papel, Museo de San Javier, Murcia
2001
Pintura Vertical, Galería Edurne, Madrid
Group exhibitions
2025
Galerie Blauwdruck onder 0, Museum EICAS, Deventer, NL
40 Dimensions, & Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Symétrie, Galerie Abstract Project, Paris, FR
Under Construction After Party, Bos Fine Art, Utrecht, NL
2024
Under Construction, Vierplus Foundation, Delft, NL
2023
Bos Fine Art Gallery, Utrecht, NL
Through the looking glass, Glass House, curated by Gaïa Jacquet-Matisse, Los Angeles, US
2022
XXVII Premio Sala El Brocense, Cáceres
2018
XXVII Premio de Pintura Bienal Eusebio Sempere, Onil, Alicante
XXIV Premio de Artes Plásticas Ciudad de Castellón
2010
Europa Konkret-Intelligibel-International, Kunstverein Bamberg, DE
2009
XXXVII Concurso Nacional de Pintura Villa de Fuente Álamo, Murcia
Konkret-Intelligibel, Künstlerforum, Bonn, Germany
Ein Jahr, 31 positionen, 30 Räume (2009-2010), Museum of Modern Art, Hünfeld, DE
2008
Identidades IV, Galería Edurne, Madrid
2007
Identidades III, Galería Edurne, Madrid
III Premio de Pintura de MUFACE, Madrid
2004
El papel, ese soporte, Galería Edurne, Madrid
2003
ARCO ’03, stand Galería Edurne, Madrid
2002
ARCO ’02, stand Galería Edurne, Madrid
2000
Interludio 2000-2001, Galería Edurne, Madrid
Residencies
Upcoming
The Albers Foundation, Bethany CT, US [2025]
2024
The National Trust of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia (August 2024]
2022
Thread Senegal, The Albers Foundation Senegal (August 2022) portfolio
2018
Art House Holland by PAC, Leiden, NL (November 2018)
Awards
2018
First prize XXVII Bienal de Pintura Eusebio Sempere, Onil, Alicante ES
Shortlisted XXIV Premio de Artes Plásticas Ciudad de Castellón ES
2009
First prize XXXVII Concurso Nacional de Pintura Villa de Fuente Álamo, Murcia ES
Gallery representation
Bos Fine Art Utrecht (NL)