press release

venue:
Gallery On The Move, Tirana

Gallery On The Move is proud to present Regina Jose Galindo’s “Early Works I”. “Early Works” consists in a series of solo exhibitions, presenting the early works of Regina Jose Galindo, Dorit Margreiter, Yael Bartana and many others. For the solo exhibition “Early Works I”, Galindo present four videos realised between end 90s and the beginning of 2000. “El dolor en un pañuelo” (1999), "El cielo llora tanto que debería ser muter" (1999), "Autocanibalismo" (2001), “Lucha” (2002) and a “Puño limpio” (2004), are a series of performances, where the artist use the body, the space, the history, the politics and their consequences.

Regina José Galindo was born in 1974 in Guatemala. Lives and works in Gueatemala. In 2011 Galindo wins the the Principe Claus award and the Grand Prize Award at the 29th Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts. In 2005 the Golden Lion Award for young artists in the 51 Venice Biennal. She has also exhibited at National Museum of Contemporay Art Bucharest, Kunsthalle Wien, Macro Rome, Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Zurich, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Prometeogallery by Ida Pisani Milan, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Museum of Modern Art Intanbul, PS1 New York, 17th Biennale of Sydney, 10th Habana Biennale, Moscow Biennale 2007, Valencia Biennale 2007, 3rd Biennale of Tirana and Venice Biennale in 2001, 2005, 2009.