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 has held 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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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
Horizon, curated by Gaïa Matisse, Abstract project galerie, Paris FR
FRTZT089, Bos Fine Art, Utrecht NL
2018
La armonía del exilio, Muralla Bizantina, Cartagena ES
2017
Homenaje a Alberti, Joint project with composer José Buenagu. Centro Cultural La Corrala, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid ES [catalog]
2010
Del alfar y el lagar, Teatro Zorrilla, Diputación de Valladolid, Valladolid ES [catalog]
2009
Mano trémula, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia ES [catalog]
Periferias, Fundación Santa María de Albarracín, Albarracín, Teruel ES
Sala de la Caja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada, Huesca ES
2008
Sala Barbasán, Caja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada, Zaragoza ES
2007
Las cosas mudas, Galería Edurne, Madrid ES [catalog]
Las cosas mudas, Fundación Las Edades del Hombre, Monasterio de Santa María de Valbuena, Valladolid ES [catalog]
2006
Del encuentro, Centro Cultural, Ceutí ES
2005
La Pausa, Galería Art Nueve, Murcia ES
2004
La Pausa, Galería Edurne, Madrid ES [catalog]
2003
Pintura y obra sobre papel, Museo de San Javier, Murcia ES
2001
Pintura Vertical, Galería Edurne, Madrid ES
Group exhibitions
2026
Les résidents de la Fondation Albers, Espace d’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux FR
2025
Inaugural exhibition, Ipso Facto Stdio, Madrid ES
Salon de Réalités Nouvelles, Paris FR
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
XXV Premio Sala El Brocense, Cáceres ES
2018
XXVII Premio de Pintura Bienal Eusebio Sempere, Onil, Alicante ES
XXIV Premio de Artes Plásticas Ciudad de Castellón, Castellón ES
2010
Europa Konkret-Intelligibel-International, Kunstverein Bamberg DE
2009
XXXVII Concurso Nacional de Pintura Villa de Fuente Álamo, Murcia ES
Konkret-Intelligibel, Künstlerforum, Bonn DE
Ein Jahr, 31 positionen, 30 Räume (2009-2010), Museum of Modern Art, Hünfeld DE
2008
Identidades IV, Galería Edurne, Madrid ES
2007
Identidades III, Galería Edurne, Madrid ES
III Premio de Pintura de MUFACE, Madrid ES
2004
El papel, ese soporte, Galería Edurne, Madrid ES
2003
ARCO ’03, stand Galería Edurne, Madrid ES
2002
ARCO ’02, stand Galería Edurne, Madrid ES
2000
Interludio 2000-2001, Galería Edurne, Madrid ES
Residencies
2025
The Albers Foundation, Bethany CT, USA
2024
The National Trust of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia
2022
Thread Senegal, The Albers Foundation, Senegal
2018
Art House Holland by PAC, Leiden NL
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