José Montealegre

About

José Montealegre (born 1992 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras) lives and works in Berlin. He studied philosophy and literature at the Universidad Centroamericana de Managua, Nicaragua, and with Willem de Rooij at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2022), Klosterruine in Berlin, Mountains in Berlin (both 2021), Convent Art Space in Ghent (2019), and in group exhibitions at Dortmunder Kunstverein (2022), Lantz’scher Skulpturenpark Lohausen in Düsseldorf (2021), Städelmuseum in Frankfurt am Main, Natalia Hug in Cologne (both 2019), Futura Gallery in Prague, Gillmeier Rech in Berlin (both 2018), and Kunsthalle Darmstadt (2017, 2014), among others.
Works
- José Montealegre
  Desterrado, 2024
  Copper, metal rivets, diary lockets
  approx. 180 x 50
  
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- José Montealegre
  Notebook (enlarged), 2024
  Patinated copper plant: página 0122 fg. 2, ceramic tiles, glass tiles, metal notebook binding, wood
  64 x 47 cm
  25 1/4 x 18 1/2 in
  
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- José Montealegre
  Love is a Forest of Its Own Making, 2023
  plexiglass, wood, sheet metal, plastic tape, página 0029
  60 x 100 x 4 cm
  23 5/8 x 39 3/8 x 1 5/8 in
  
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- José Montealegre
  missing página, 2021
  copper arrangement
  51 x 32 x 32 cm
  20 1/8 x 12 5/8 x 12 5/8 in
  
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- José Montealegre
  missing página, 2021
  Copper arrangement
  38 x 21 cm
  15 x 8 1/4 in
  
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- José Montealegre
  página 0034, figura 2, 2021
  Copper arrangement
  50 x 34 x 18 cm
  19 3/4 x 13 3/8 x 7 1/8 in
  
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- José Montealegre
  página 0160, 2021
  55 x 12 x 12 cm
  21 5/8 x 4 3/4 x 4 3/4 in
  
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- José Montealegre
  página 0161, 2021
  Copper arrangement
  57 x 62 x 62 cm
  22 1/2 x 24 3/8 x 24 3/8 in
  
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- José Montealegre
  página 0164, figura 2, 2021
  Copper arrangment
  43 x 118 x 45 cm
  16 7/8 x 46 1/2 x 17 3/4 in
  
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- José Montealegre
  página 0188, figura 2, 2021
  Copper arrangement
  42 x 25 x 25 cm
  16 1/2 x 9 7/8 x 9 7/8 in
  
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Selected Works
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Exhibitions in the gallery
- EVERYTHING BUT THE KITCHEN SINK
  GROUP SHOW 16 November TO 21 December 2024 POTSDAMER STRASSE
  Galerie Thomas Schulte presents Everything but the Kitchen Sink in the gallery’s recently opened space...
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- NARRATIVAS CIRCULARES
  JOSÉ MONTEALEGRE 4 February TO 11 March 2023 CHARLOTTENSTRASSE
  In Narrativas Circulares, Galerie Thomas Schulte presents an installation of recent works by José Montealegre...
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