Multimedia artist Teresa Solar Abboud (b. 1985 Madrid, Spain; lives and works in Madrid) work spans sculpture, drawing, and video, and is rooted in a fragmented narration of the contemporary world. Rather than proposing a singular, overarching vision, it evokes multiple bodies, events, and histories perceived only in part, which together form a mosaic-like universe.
Solar Abboud occupies space with works of varying scale and materiality: clay, found objects, and human-made symbols coexist within her installations. In her practice, she alludes to material entities in states of transformation and to the tension between seemingly opposing concepts such as the organic and the synthetic, the interior and the exterior, or infrastructure and organism, bringing them into coexistence. She approaches these relationships through an organic sensibility, as if they were bodily functions, while simultaneously foregrounding the complex systems of interdependence that structure the industrial world, where hybrid forms of existence continuously emerge.
She is currently presenting Mother Tongue, a public sculpture commissioned by the Hayward Gallery in London, as well as her solo exhibition Self-portrait as a Pregnant Woman at Kunstverein Hannover.
She participated in the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia The Milk of Dreams, curated by Cecilia Alemani (2022). In 2023, she took part in the group exhibition When Forms Come Alive at the Hayward Gallery in London, curated by Ralph Rugoff. In 2021 she took part in the Liverpool Biennial curated by Manuela Moscoso with a public art installation at Exchange Flags titled ‘Osteoclast’. She took part in KölnSkulptur #9 curated by Chus Martínez in Cologne (2017-2019).
She has presented solo exhibitions at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino; CA2M Centro deArte Dos de Mayo, Madrid; Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona; Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon;Matadero Madrid; Index Foundation, Stockholm; Der TANK, Institut Kunst in Basel. She has taken part ingroup shows at Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany; Pinchuk Foundation, Kiev; Museo de Arte Abstracto, Cuenca, Spain; Centro Conde Duque, Madrid; Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain; Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain; Haus der Kunst, Münich, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander; Maxxi, Rome; General Public in Berlin; Kunstverein München; and La Casa Encendida, Madrid.
Her work is part of public collections such as: Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany; Museo NacionalCentro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spain; MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain; TBA21 Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Spain; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy; Colección Fundación Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico; Colección Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain; Colección CA2M Comunidad de Madrid, Spain; Colección MAEC Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación, Madrid, Spain; Colección Fundación Coca-Cola, Madrid, Spain, and FRAC Corsica, France, among others.