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Arnaldo Drés González (b. Caracas, 1986)

Since 2014 lives and works in Hamburg, Germany


Education

2016 – MFA, Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen (University of Applied Sciences and Arts), Ottersberg, Germany, Class Prof. Michael Dörner
2011 – BFA, Mixed Media (Cum Laude), National Experimental University of the Arts (UNEARTE), Caracas, Venezuela, Class Prof. Nan González and Prof. Marcos Salazar Delfino


Awards and Grants

2025 – Topographies of Tents, Terracotta and Time – Indo-German Cultural Exchange Project Funding, supported by Hamburg Ministry for Culture and Media and Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad, DE/IN
2021 – Hamburger Zukunftsstipendium für bildende Kunst, funded by BKM Hamburg, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung and BBK Hamburg, DE
2021 – Atelierkate Lesum Kunstpreis Nomination, Bremen, DE
2019 – Städtelabor – Residential program, PAF – Performing Arts Festival Berlin, DE
2019 – MENA Art Award Nomination, Dubai, UAE
2015 – altonale 17-Kunstpreis, Honorable Mention, Hamburg, DE
2016 – STIBET & DAAD Scholarship, DE
2011 – UNEARTE Diploma with Honors, VE
2008 – IUESAPAR Scholarship, VE


Screenings

2025 – Festival Internacional De Cine De Villa De Leyva, Villa De Leyva, CL (Upcoming)
2025 – Écran Libre New Media Festival, Québec, CA (Upcoming)
2025 – F-VaCe Festival, Salamanca, ES
2025 – Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Numériques & Poétiques, Friendship Program w/ International Video Poetry Festival VIDEO BARDÓ, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires, AR
2025 – T.I.V.A. – Tirana International Video Art Festival, Curated by Florian Haxhihyseni, Tirana, AL
2025 – Tendermesh Film Fest, Part 1, Impulse, Studio DB, Berlin, DE
2025 – WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg, CA
2025 – Speak Volumes, Project Betula Screening Series, Curated by Sofia Kuznetsova and Daria Gnatchenko, Out of the Blue Cinema, Paris, FR
2025 – Festival Internacional de Cine Experimental “Mientras tanto Cine”, Curated by Catalina Giordano, Lucie Leszez and Agustina Arrillaga, 310 arte-estudio, Montevideo, UY
2025 – Movement and Light, Curated by Inge Gräber, GISELA-Freier Kunstraum-Lichtenberg, Berlin, DE
2025 – UMW Mediawall, Curated by Josiah Arnold, UMW Hurley Convergence Center, Washington, USA
2024 – Rare Effect Festival – Film Night, curated by Danielle Grosso and Adrian Leverkuhn, Arroz Estúdios, Lisbon, PT
2024 – Intermediaciones – XI Muestra Internacional de Videoarte y Cine Experimental, Medellín, CO
2022 – (IN)BETWEEN, Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg, DE
2019 – 6 Tage Frei – Festival der freien Darstellenden Künste, Stuttgart, DE
2016 – Lunattack Art Concert, Halle424, Hamburg, DE
2015 – CineAutopsia – Festival de Cine Experimental de Bogotá, CO
2015 – Re-Fokus – Audiovisuelle Kunst, B-Movie Kino, Hamburg, DE
2015 – I Festival Internacional de Videoarte nodoCCS, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, VE
2012 – Video en Acción – 2da Edición, Centro de Artes Vivas Alexis Mújica, Valencia, VE
2011 – VI Encuentro Mundial de Arte Corporal, Sala Ríos Reina, Teatro Teresa Carreño and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, VE


Exhibitions (Selection)

2025 – Topographies of Tents, Terracotta and Time, curated by Matthew Partridge, galerie holzhauer hamburg, as part of India Week Hamburg and altonale, DE
2025 – Topographies of Tents, Terracotta and Time, curated by Matthew Partridge, Srishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad, IN
2024 – 40 Jahre Artothek, Artothek Buxtehude, Buxtehude, DE
2024 – It's all about Freedom, galerie holzhauer hamburg, DE
2023 – Poética e Incertidumbre, Espacio Cultural de Sa Punta des Molí, within EnTránsito Art Festival, Sant Antoni, Balearic Islands, ES
2023 – Linientreu, Jupiter, Hamburg, DE
2023 – Anonyme Zeichner Hamburg, Veddel, HYCP Veddel-Space, Hamburg, DE
2022 – Resguardo y Presencia, Galerie 21, Vorwerk-Stift, Hamburg, DE (Solo)
2022 – Respira, galerie holzhauer hamburg, Hamburg, DE (Solo)
2022 – Transformationen, Historische Zehntscheune Stadthagen, DE (Duo w/ Swen Kählert)
2022 – Paradise is here / Mit Haut und Haar, Kultur-Funke, Lübeck, DE
2022 – Zwischen Osten und Westen, galerie holzhauer hamburg, DE
2022 – ZHN JHR LVL N, Level One, Hamburg, DE
2022 – Teztown – Digital Image, Virtual Dialogues and Non-Fungible Token, Tezos Blockchain (Online)
2021 – Lonas del Jardín, Emerging Artist section, AAF Kunstmesse, Messehallen, Hamburg, DE (Solo)
2021 – Atelierkate Lesum Bremen Art Prize Nominations, Atelierkate Lesum, Bremen, DE
2021 – Lübecker Art-Peep-Show, Kultur-Funke, Lübeck, DE
2021 – Speak Through Drawing, Dada.art (Online)
2020 – körpE[h]RLICH, xpon-art gallery, Hamburg, DE
2019 – Rastros, FONIS Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE (Solo)
2019 – The AJALA Project, Centre’s Gate Village, DIFC Art Nights, Dubai, UAE
2018 – Revelaciones, galerie holzhauer hamburg, Hamburg, DE (Solo)
2018 – Resguardo y Presencia, AKTION #239, 2025 Kunst und Kultur, Hamburg, DE (Solo)
2018 – Me, Myself and The Possibility of You, Westwerk, Hamburg, DE
2017 – Netzwerke von Panik und Sehnsucht, galerie holzhauer hamburg, Hamburg, DE (Duo w/ Swen Kählert)
2017 – Das fliegende Jackett, FONIS Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
2017 – We Love Artists' Books!, galerie holzhauer hamburg, Hamburg, DE
2017 – Miramientos de Ida y Vuelta, MOM art space, Hamburg, DE
2016 – Impuls, Westwerk, Hamburg, DE (Solo)
2016 – Rostros y Rastros, Generalkonsulat Venezuela, Hamburg, DE (Solo)
2016 – Kunst im Schaufenster, altonale 18, Hamburg, DE
2016 – Millerntor Gallery, Hamburg, DE
2015 – Mente en Blanco, Level One, Hamburg, DE (Solo)
2015 – Búsqueda de Horizonte, Hotel Pacific & Garagen Sauerberg, III Velada Remix, Hamburg, DE
2015 – Keine Farbe Schwarz, Freitagssalon, Hamburg, DE
2015 – Kunst im Schaufenster, altonale 17, Hamburg, DE
2014 – Maracaibo die Ästhetik und den Geist, Velada Santa Lucía Remix, 8. Bremer Kunstfrühling, Bremen, DE
2013 – Para:Lelo: Envío de mi identidad, Hotel Pacific, II Velada Remix, Hamburg, DE
2013 – Para:Lelo: Envío de mi identidad, XIII Velada Santa Lucia, Maracaibo, VE
2012 – Uno Es Igual a Cinco, XII Velada Santa Lucia, Maracaibo, VE
2011 – Mi Pequeño y Grande Universo, Sala UNEXUS, UNEARTE, Caracas, VE (Solo)
2011 – Ceñido y Torrente de mi Pensamiento, La Ruta Nocturna en los Museos, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, VE
2010 – Masifica2.0, 1ra transmisión on-site DeOrigenBélico, Ateneo de Valencia, Valencia, VE
2010 – 9na Edición del Salón de Arte Digital CARPE DIEM, PDVSA La Estancia, Maracaibo, VE
2010 – Quémese Después de Verse, El Apartaco, Caracas, VE


Special Projects & Art Residencies

2025 – Banyan Hearts Studios (Artist Residency) in collaboration with Sudhakar Chippa (IN), Swen Kählert and Matthew Partridge (DE), supported by Hamburg Ministry for Culture and Media, Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad, and Srishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad, IN
2023 – Le Fil Rouge, visual art creation in collaboration with Barbara Duchow (DE) for The Making Room performance art program, Solo School by Henry McGrath (UK)
2023 – Poética e Incertidumbre, curatorial team with Swen Kählert (DE), site-specific intervention, EnTránsito Art Festival, Sant Antoni, Balearic Islands, ES
2023 – Moon Kiss, visual art and audiovisual performance with musicians Barbara Duchow, Jacqueline Langham, DeePhi Music, and others (DE, UK, FR)
2022 – The Lost Tail / Lumina, audiovisual projects in collaboration with Barbara Duchow, Birgit Fischer, Jacqueline Langham, and DeePhi Music (DE, UK, FR)
2021 – L´Eternité / Chanson de la Plus Haute Tour, visual poetry and music video with Barbara Duchow (DE) and Dan Easley (USA)
2017 – Weapon Industry, video and sound art for Lunattack Pont Neuf Visual Album, First Stage Theater, Hamburg, DE
2017 – Miramientos de Ida y Vuelta, artist-curator with Dagmar Rauwald, MOM art space, Hamburg, DE
2015 – Wohn Wahn Sinn, site-specific art intervention, Ottersberger Kaufhaus Kortlang, DE
2011 – Gran Tendedero – Pon una Foto en la Calle, site-specific intervention during Fiesta de las Artes, Caracas, VE
2008 – El Bar del Tiempo / Las Formas del Verbo, multimedia poetry project, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas (MACCAR), VE


Publications (Selection)

2025 – Topographies of Tents, Terracotta and Time, Exhibition Catalogue, Srishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad (IN), texts by Matthew Partridge and Prof. Dr. Brigitte Röder
2023 – Radar, Exhibition Brochure, Jupiter First Floor Hamburg (DE), text by Santiago Rago
2023 – Poética al Resguardo: Del Polvo y el Aire, mi Abuela y un Molino, Exhibition Brochure, Espacio Cultural de Sa Punta des Molí, Balearic Islands (ES), text by Santiago Rago
2022 – Resguardo y Presencia, Exhibition Brochure, Gallery 21, Künstlerhaus Vorwerk-Stift, Hamburg (DE), text by Santiago Rago
2021 – Lonas del Jardín, Exhibition Brochure, AAF Emerging Artists Hamburg (DE), text by Hannah Bode
2017 – Das fliegende Jackett, Exhibition Catalogue, FONIS Galerie, Düsseldorf, pages 24-27, texts by Xenofon Moustakas, Hagen Scheer
2016 – Impuls – Ein Kurzfilm von Arnaldo González, Masterarbeitskatalog, Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen (HKS), Ottersberg, Germany
2016 – Millerntor Gallery – Festival Catalogue #6, Hamburg, pages 196-197
2014 – Kunstfrühling 2014 – Velada Santa Lucía | Remix, BBK, Bremen
2012 – 12. Velada de Santa Lucía – Calle del Arte, Festival Catalogue, Maracaibo-Hamburg (VE/DE)


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