Alejandra Arévalo Martínez is a photographer and graphic designer from Bogotá, Colombia graduated in 2021 with BA in Visual Communication at the Bauhaus Universtät-Weimar and currently cursing MA Photographic Studies at the Fachhochschule Dortmund. In her photographic practice, she has been focused on territory, gender, and identity topics, which have allowed her to expand her vision of the current society. For Alejandra, photography is a powerful tool to understand others’ point of view, different ways of living, realities and to position herself as an active member within a political, cultural and social context.
One example of this is the publication of her photobook, A Cloud Above Me, which focuses on paternal absence in Latin America. The production of the book was supported by the Bauhaus University Women’s Development Fund and the Stibet Scholarship for International Students. A Cloud Above Me was nominated for the German Photo Book Award (2021), Encontros da Imagem (2021, Portugal), Photolux Festival (2022,Italy) and Belfast Photo Festival (2022, Ireland) as well as exhibited in Fola Foto Festival (2021, Argentina).
Currently, she is Dortmund, Germany
E-mail: alejandraarevalo98@gmail.com
Tel: +49 157 51984120
One example of this is the publication of her photobook, A Cloud Above Me, which focuses on paternal absence in Latin America. The production of the book was supported by the Bauhaus University Women’s Development Fund and the Stibet Scholarship for International Students. A Cloud Above Me was nominated for the German Photo Book Award (2021), Encontros da Imagem (2021, Portugal), Photolux Festival (2022,Italy) and Belfast Photo Festival (2022, Ireland) as well as exhibited in Fola Foto Festival (2021, Argentina).
Currently, she is Dortmund, Germany
E-mail: alejandraarevalo98@gmail.com
Tel: +49 157 51984120
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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 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)
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 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-Ongoing Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (DE)
2023 Promotion Fund, Fachhochschule Dortmund (DE)
2022 Promotion Fund, Fachhochschule Dortmund
2021 Stibet Fund, DAAD & Bauhaus Universität (DE)
2021 Women Promotion Fund, Bauhaus Universität (DE)
Awards and Nominations
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)