Matilde Cánepa González

I live by the art
אני גר אמנות
Yo vivo el arte




I was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and now live in Berlin.
I have been developing my artistic practice since 1990. As an interdisciplinary artist, I work across a range of materials and techniques, and over the years I have created numerous sculptures, paintings, and artist's books. My sculptures take shape on different supports and materials—as reliefs, textures, and calligraphies with a symbolic character, born from a syncretic visual language.
I paint mostly on paper, which gives my work a particular warmth and grounding, though I also work on canvas and other surfaces. I'm especially drawn to mixed media, combining acrylic, ink, watercolor, and other materials.
Assemblage has become an essential part of my practice: a two- or three-dimensional construction built from wood scraps and fragments of stoneware, glued together and painted. I love how assemblage and collage let me bring different materials together into new works with a distinct aesthetic of their own.
I left my homeland, Venezuela, in 2003 and moved to Tenerife, in Spain's Canary Islands, where I found a new home on this "island of eternal spring" in the middle of the Atlantic. In 2013, I became a Spanish citizen. Af...

Vocational Plan, School of Plastic Arts, Cristóbal Rojas Caracas Venezuela, 1985-1988,
Ceramics courses - technology, ceramic - Arts Workshop School Fire Candido Millan, Caracas, VZla, 1989-1992,
School of Design Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.1984,
Ceramic and murals Fundación Condorhuasi ceramologia. Buenos Aires, Argentina,1987.

Selection of exhibitions from the last 5 years
2024 Treppenhausgalerie Kunst Stufen Berlin.
2020 Travelling exhibition "Cartografia Organica", Hotel "Baobab Suites" in Adele Tenerife, Spain,
2019 MAC Insurances - Organic Cartography Exhibition in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain,
2017 La Roche-en-Ardenne as part of the BAM sculpture festival "Camille Claudel" / Belgium,
2016 I. Biennial of Sculpture - Valldoreix dels somnis, Barcelona, Spain.

My works have been exhibited in Caracas Venezuela, Buenos Aires in Argentina, Havana in Cuba, Spain in Madrid, Barcelona, A Coruña and Tenerife, Germany in Berlin and in the United States of America, Miami and Washington.
If you want more information about me as an artist, I can send you my dossier or my resume by email. Matilde Cánepa González