Javier Hontoria: Ignasi Aballí at Galerie Nordenhake, Artforum International, Feb. 2017
Kristian Vistrup: Ignasi Aballí, Artforum critic's pics, Nov. 2016
Joana Masó and Arnau Puig: A Conversation About Museum Language. Ignasi Aballí, Infinite Sequence, Fundació Joan Miró, 2016
Ignasi Aballí and Joao Fernandes: Perpetuum Mobile, Ignasasi Aballí without beginning/without end, MNCARS, 2015

Corrección, 2022. Installation view Spanish Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2022, photo: Claudio Franzini

Ignasi Aballí

Ignasi Aballí was born in 1958 in Barcelona, where he lives and works.

He represented Spain at 59th Venice Biennale (2022). He also participated in in the Biennale de Cuenca (2016), Guangzhou Triennial (2012), Venice Biennale, Sharjah Biennale, UAE (both 2007), and the Sydney Biennale (1998). In 2015 he was awarded the prestigious Joan Miró Prize and, in connection, presented the exhibition „Infinite Sequence“ at Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. In 2015/16 Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid dedicated a comprehensive survey exhibition to his work.

Recent solo exhibitions include Palabras vacías, Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid, Spain (2020); Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2018); Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá (2017), Palais de Beaux-Arts, París (2015), Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo (2010), Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2008), Museu Serralves in Porto, and ZKM in Karlsruhe (both 2006). Currently, his work is included in a collection survey exhibition of Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona – MACBA (2022-2024).

In October 2016, his first solo-exhibition „something is missing“ was shown at Galerie Nordenhake in Berlin.

Corrección, 2022. Installation view Spanish Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2022, photo: Claudio Franzini

Corrección, 2022. Installation view Spanish Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2022, photo: Claudio Franzini

"Slides", slides of Venice compiled by Aballí showing works of art, other cities and other trips, that appear discolored by the sun in his studio, detail
One of six free guides that have been distributed at different points in La Biennale di Venezia and throughout the city. Corrección, 2022. Spanish Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia 2022

"Landscape", texts that classify concepts and atmospheric phenomena. The probable, but not impossible, in a single image showing the invisible side of the landscape, detail
One of six free guides that have been distributed at different points in La Biennale di Venezia and throughout the city. Corrección, 2022. Spanish Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia 2022

"Horizons", landscapes of skies and seas that merge into the Venetian horizon extracted from newspaper clippings. The sky as a great, unmeasurable void, and the sea as an unreachable crossing, detail
One of six free guides that have been distributed at different points in La Biennale di Venezia and throughout the city. Corrección, 2022. Spanish Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia 2022