Dania González Sanabria (Jagüey Grande, Matanzas, 1990) is a young Cuban artist who has managed to build, despite her youth, her very own way within the field of visual arts in the Island. She has proved constancy in the search for her expressive interests, thus she explores the essence of objects and phenomena of everyday life. Her work becomes fertile in the encounter with the material in its pure condition, source of a wide range of representative and interpretative possibilities. She prefers nearly destroyed, forgotten places to exhibit her artworks, thus breaking with the gallery tradition that has accompanied art throughout its history. Young, daring and talented, Dania González has much to show, much to discover and a long way to go…
EDUCATION
- 2015 Alanus Arts and Social Sciences College, Bonn, Germany
- 2009 – 2014 Institute Superior of Art (ISA), Havana
- 2009 Benny Moré Art Academy, Cienfuegos, Cuba
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
- Vuelo, Collateral to the 12th Havana Biennial, Fortress San Carlos de la Cabaña, Havana
2013
- Cápridos, Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana
2009
- Germinal, Velas Teatro Company, Acuestas Theatre, Cienfuegos, Cuba
- Nidos, Cienfuegos, Cuba
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
- Los bellos dones, Cuba Pavilion, Havana
2016
- Señales de Cuba. Propuestas femeninas, European Parliament, Bozar Museum, Brussel; UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
2015
- Ojalá, Künstlerforum Bonn Gallery, Bonn, Germany
2014
- Lo azul del cielo, Halle-Neustadt, Halle, Germany
- En rosa, Collage Habana Gallery, Havana
- Ahora es la aproximación más cercana al futuro, Center for the Development of Visual Arts (CDAV), Havana
2013
- Post it, Galiano Gallery, Havana
- Cartografías de lo (im)posible, Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana
2012
- Offside Effect (1st Tbilisi Triennial), Tbilisi, Georgia
- Muestra de dibujos (Homage to José Martí), Vitrina de Valonia, Havana
- Ciudad Generosa (4ta Pragmática Project), 11th Havana Biennial, 3rd and E Streets, Vedado, Havana
2011
- Cuarto de desahogo, Mateo Torriente Gallery, Cienfuegos, Cuba
- Trust (4ta Pragmática), Factoría Habana, Havana
- Andrógino (4ta Pragmática), Factoría Habana, Havana
- Banca rota (4ta Pragmática), Royal Bank of Canada, Havana
2010
- Plan calle (4ta Pragmática), 74th and 11th Streets, Playa, Havana
- Class Pool (4ta Pragmática), Nuevo Vedado, Havana
- A río revuelto, Superior Institute of Art (ISA), Havana
2009
- Salón 5 de Septiembre, Provincial Center of Visual Arts, Cienfuegos, Cuba
OTHERS WORKS
2014
- Lo azul del cielo, Workshop of Andrea Zaumzeil, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule, Berlin/Halle, Germany
- SensLab, Workshop of frency, Andrea Sunder-Plassmann and Dr. Dagmar Wohler, Havana
2013
- Art & Social Motivation, Workshop of Marilyn Volkmann, Havana
- Workshop of Gabriel Orozco and Wilfredo Prieto, Havana
2010/ 2013
- Member of 4ta Pragmática Project, directed by René Francisco Rodríguez, Havana
SCOLARSHIPS
2016
- KulturKontakt Art Residence, Austrian Federal Chancellery, Vienna
2015
- DAAD Stibet Scholarship, Germany
2014
- Antonia Eiriz, Hermanos Saíz Association (AHS), National Council of Plastic Arts (CNAP), Havana
2013
- Estudio 21 Scholarship, Center for the Development of Visual Arts (CDAV), National Council of Plastic Arts (CNAP), Havana
COLLECTIONS
- Alex and Carole Rosenberg Collection, New York
- Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection, Havana
- Avistamientos Collection, Havana
- Armando Amorim Soares Collection, Portugal