Working at the intersection of diverse disciplines, methods, materials, and spaces, the practice of Alejandro Jiménez inquires on the ways we perceive and understand reality. Using painting, sculpture, installation, and sound, his work aims at destabilizing the rigidity of categorization in modern knowledge and experience by instead exploring ambivalence and difference as forms to create new meaning.
Through a methodology of recollection and association, his work combines found objects, philosophy, sociology, and the sentient body, as a form of rehearsal of the real that can potentially be translated to the sociopolitical arena. His research often brings together unexpected pairings: zoology combines with geometry, aerodynamics juxtaposes with dance and poetry, architecture dialogues with the body and the ready-made, among others. Jimenez ultimately invites the viewer to rethink how poetic approaches can shift our experience of reality.
Jiménez obtained a BFA in Fine Arts and Artistic Research at BEAR ArtEZ in The Netherlands (2025) while passing through Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Vienna with professor Iman Issa (2024). In summer 2025, he obtained the Arnhem Art Award issued by the Museum Arnhem and was nominated for Current Current Award ArtEZ. His work has been exhibited in Mexico, The Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Austria and Italy.
In 2018 he was part of Atelier Constelaciones Collective, an iterant platform combining education and arts, exhibiting in the educational hall of Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City. From 2018 to 2021 Jimenez took part in the artist-run space El Consultorio in Mexico City.
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2021-2025: BFA Base for Experiment Art and Research - ArtEZ, The Netherlands
2023-2024: Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Wien, Austria
2025 - “chewed, unchewed” BEAR Fine Art Graduation BA Show - Arnhem, The Netherlands.
2025 - “Freedom was Changing” A Lab Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2025 - “Unmade/Remained” Pergola Collective - Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2025 - “Not Only Dogs Chase Their Own Tail” Hervormde Kerk, Drempt, The Netherlands.
2025 - “Laboratorio de Cuerpos Colectivos” La Clinica Gallery, Oaxaca City, Mexico.
2024 - “El Arte es sólo una Excusa” Espacio La NaNa X Elipsis Elipsis Elipsis. Mexico City, MX.
2024 - “Aurore” HACART Gallery x GlogauAir. Berlin, Germany.
2024 - Rundgang 2024 Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Wien, Vienna Austria.
Sculpture and Spatial Strategies Class of Iman Issa
2023 - “Lost Aesthetics” NSFW Gallery. Goteborg International Biennal for Contemporary Art Extended.
Curated by Ricardo Diaque.
2023 - “A Mediterrenean?” Residency at Fondazione Pistoletto, Cittadellarte, Italy
2022 - “Pétanque Paintings” Obra Gris Space, Mexico City
2022 - “Water structures” Residency at Fondazione Pistolleto, Cittadellarte, Italy.
2021 - “Sphere 26” UCCT Group x TAJO Workshop, Mexico City
2021 - “Atelier Abierto” Arte Abierto, Arts Pedregal Gallery, Mexico City
2020 - “Después Ahora” El Estudio Gallery, Morelia City, Mexico
2020 - “Después Ahora” El Consultorio Space, Mexico City
2018 - “En Busca del Fuego” Rufino Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City