Mit Borrás

Mit Borrás (born 1982, Madrid) is a Spanish artist and professor of Media of Contemporary Art and Communication in the Master of Circulo de Bellas Artes Escuela Sur in Madrid.[1]

Mit Borrás. Mother Machine. Installation view at Ex-girlfriend Gallery. Berlin 2018 © Mit Borrás

Background

Borrás received his BFA at the Complutense University of Madrid in Madrid, Spain and specialization in Art and Cultural Studies in Berlin, Germany. He developed his research on Media Art at the Twente University in Enschede, the Netherlands (2006) where he participated intensely in the Dutch contemporary art scene.[2] He relocated back to Madrid where he oversees the production of video art festivals while also carrying out projects as an independent curator. In 2010 he moved to Berlin to participate in the Glogauair Residency[3] and co-directed Fünf Galerie together with Rachel Lamot.[4][5] He has worked as a coordinator of several cultural projects regarding media art and was working as a curator for the Instituto Cervantes in Berlin. He also currently combines his artistic practice with his work as an art critic in Neo2 Magazine.[6]

His work is exhibited internationally in selected exhibitions such as in the Hara Museum, Tokyo (2010), Kreuzberg Pavillon, Germany (2013) and Norway (2016), Fonoteca Nacional, Mexico DF (2010), Palacio Fernandini, Lima (2016), Aleph Projects, Tel Aviv (2017), and the Museum of Fine Arts in Chile (2017). He has also been represented by Inés Barrenechea Gallery (2010–14). He continues to lecture within England, Colombia, Peru, the Netherlands, Spain and Germany. His work has been selected and awarded by Transmediale, (2011), United Creators Awards (2009), Loop Barcelona (2010, 2015–17), Art Lima (2016) and The Media Art Biennale in Chile (2017). He currently lives and works in Madrid and is a member of the international agency of artists and theorists Front Views[7] in Berlin.

Themes
Club. Installation View. Mit Borrás, 2016

When describing his thematic process, Borrás requires "Curiosity and in the studio: order".[8] He uses certain sound systems to better inform his artistic practices, Electronic music and sounds usually played in the studio.[9] Talking further, he describes his mother's outlook as a key influence:

"The observation when I was a kid and the early fascination of the way my mother saw the world when she lived: in a deeply holistic, artistic, brutal, combative, feminist, and nonconformist way and of her wild defense and love for nature. That was art in many ways."[10]

Borrás describes a disconnect between technology and nature, for example Ergonomic Shape (2016) in which a block of granite is supported on a medicine ball,[11] or the Stones series (2015) in which the artist disables tactile screens by tying them to large pieces of quartz.[12]

References
  1. "Mit Borrás – Harddiskmuseum". Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  2. "Mit Borrás". In-Sonora.
  3. "GlogauAIR Art Residency Berlin – Explore / Create / Exhibit". Glogauair.net. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  4. "Home : Rachel Lamot". Rachellamot.com. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  5. "Alemania, tampoco es un terreno fácil para los galeristas españoles". Arte Informado. 27 October 2010. Archived from the original on 29 October 2010.
  6. "Neo2 Magazine – Concept Magazine about Creativity • Revista sobre Creatividad". Neo2.com. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  7. "frontviews". Frontviewsgallery.de. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  8. "Six Questions: Mit Borras". Tique | publication on contemporary art. 2020-07-15. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  9. "Six Questions: Mit Borras". Tique | publication on contemporary art. 2020-07-15. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  10. "Six Questions: Mit Borras". Tique | publication on contemporary art. 2020-07-15. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  11. Víctor Escribano. "Mit Borrás: ¿Dónde empieza yacaba una obra?". Metal Magazine.
  12. "Interview with Mit Borrás". Samizdat. 26 January 2018.
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