Alejandra Arévalo Martínez is a Colombian photographer and visual artist whose work explores themes of migration, gender, identity, and cultural hybridity. She uses photography as a tool to forward overlooked perspectives, combining documentary and conceptual approaches with archival material and multimedia elements. Her work seeks to hold space for intersecting realities: the poetic and the political, the archival and the lived, the imagined and the inherited, challenging dominant narratives, fostering dialogue, and using visual storytelling to examine the complexities of identity and belonging in transnational contexts.
Solo Exhibitions:
2024 Blood under the Sundown Light, Dortmund Kreativ, Dortmund (DE)
2021 A cloud above me, Tusche Kunst Galerie, Weimar (DE)
2016 Recordar es vivir, Telar de las Palabras, Bogotá (COL)
Group Exhibitions:
2025 PAKD Gallerie, Berlin (DE)
2025 Zemin, Berlin (DE)
2024 Unbinding Histories, AVA Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town (ZAF)
2024 Bounderies of Selfhood, Space for Photography, Arles (FR)
2024 Unbinding Histories, Ka Space for Visual Culture & Artistic Thinking, Ankara (TR)
2022 Photolux Festival (IT)
2021 Fola Foto Festival, Buenos Aires (AR)
2021 Encontros da Imagem Photobook Award, Braga (PT)
2021 Mojo-Charta Festival, Shortlisted (IT)
2020 A cloud above me, Online Exhibition (DE)
2019 Lugares Suspendidos, Valencia (SP)
Scholarships:
2022-2024 Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (DE)
2023 Promotion Fund, Fachhochschule Dortmund (DE)
2022 Promotion Fund, Fachhochschule Dortmund (DE)
2021 Stibet Fund, DAAD & Bauhaus Universität (DE)
2021 Women Promotion Fund, Bauhaus Universität (DE)
Awards and Nominations
2026 Ephemere Photobook Grant, finalist (JP)
2025 Premio Publicación Latinoamericano La Luminosa FELIFA (AR)
2025 Photobook Award Econtros da Imagem, finalist (PT)
2025 Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award, finalist (FR)
2025 Hong Kong Dummy Award, finalist (HKG)
2023 Portfolio Review PhMuseum 2023 Women Photographers Grant (IT)
2023 Canon Studen Program, Visa pour l'image (FR)
2022 BarTur Photo Award Student Award, shortlisted (GB)
2022 Belfast Foto Festival, A Cloud above me, shorlisted (IR)
2022 PhotoBoox Award, A cloud above me, shortlisted (IT)
21|22 Deutscher Fotobuchpreis, student project A cloud above me, longlisted (DE)
2021 Photobook Award Encontros da Imagem, A Cloud above me, shortlisted (PT)
2021 Pupile Sphere, Graduate Showcase 2021 (UK)
2021 Special Mention in PH MUSEUM 2021 Grant Program (IT)
2019 Canon Studen Program, Visa pour l'image (one of the six best Portfolios) (FR)
Residencies
2022 Studio Vortex, Photography Residency with Antoine d'Agata, Arles (FR)
2016 20 Fotógrafos México, Tlacotalpan, Veracruz (MX)
2015 Múltiples Miradas, Havana, Cuba (CU)
Solo Exhibitions:
2024 Blood under the Sundown Light, Dortmund Kreativ, Dortmund (DE)
2021 A cloud above me, Tusche Kunst Galerie, Weimar (DE)
2016 Recordar es vivir, Telar de las Palabras, Bogotá (COL)
Group Exhibitions:
2025 PAKD Gallerie, Berlin (DE)
2025 Zemin, Berlin (DE)
2024 Unbinding Histories, AVA Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town (ZAF)
2024 Bounderies of Selfhood, Space for Photography, Arles (FR)
2024 Unbinding Histories, Ka Space for Visual Culture & Artistic Thinking, Ankara (TR)
2022 Photolux Festival (IT)
2021 Fola Foto Festival, Buenos Aires (AR)
2021 Encontros da Imagem Photobook Award, Braga (PT)
2021 Mojo-Charta Festival, Shortlisted (IT)
2020 A cloud above me, Online Exhibition (DE)
2019 Lugares Suspendidos, Valencia (SP)
Scholarships:
2022-2024 Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (DE)
2023 Promotion Fund, Fachhochschule Dortmund (DE)
2022 Promotion Fund, Fachhochschule Dortmund (DE)
2021 Stibet Fund, DAAD & Bauhaus Universität (DE)
2021 Women Promotion Fund, Bauhaus Universität (DE)
Awards and Nominations
2026 Ephemere Photobook Grant, finalist (JP)
2025 Premio Publicación Latinoamericano La Luminosa FELIFA (AR)
2025 Photobook Award Econtros da Imagem, finalist (PT)
2025 Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award, finalist (FR)
2025 Hong Kong Dummy Award, finalist (HKG)
2023 Portfolio Review PhMuseum 2023 Women Photographers Grant (IT)
2023 Canon Studen Program, Visa pour l'image (FR)
2022 BarTur Photo Award Student Award, shortlisted (GB)
2022 Belfast Foto Festival, A Cloud above me, shorlisted (IR)
2022 PhotoBoox Award, A cloud above me, shortlisted (IT)
21|22 Deutscher Fotobuchpreis, student project A cloud above me, longlisted (DE)
2021 Photobook Award Encontros da Imagem, A Cloud above me, shortlisted (PT)
2021 Pupile Sphere, Graduate Showcase 2021 (UK)
2021 Special Mention in PH MUSEUM 2021 Grant Program (IT)
2019 Canon Studen Program, Visa pour l'image (one of the six best Portfolios) (FR)
Residencies
2022 Studio Vortex, Photography Residency with Antoine d'Agata, Arles (FR)
2016 20 Fotógrafos México, Tlacotalpan, Veracruz (MX)
2015 Múltiples Miradas, Havana, Cuba (CU)
She earned her BA in Visual Communication from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (2021) and completed her MA in Photographic Studies at Fachhochschule Dortmund (2024). Her projects have been supported by the Women’s Development Fund and the STIBET Scholarship at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and Fachhochschule Dortmund, as well as the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung in Germany. Her work has been nominated for the German Photo Book Award (2021), Encontros da Imagem (Portugal, 2021, 2025), BelfastPhoto Festival(Ireland, 2022), Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award (France, 2025) and the Ephemere Photobook Grant (Japan, 2026)
Currently, based in Berlin.
E-mail: alejandraarevalo98@gmail.com
Currently, based in Berlin.
E-mail: alejandraarevalo98@gmail.com