Adriana Bickel
*1991, Berlin, Germany
Adriana Bickel (Guatemala, 1991) is a Guatemalan/Swiss artist living in Berlin. Her work explores relationships, identity and dis/connection driven by these core questions: How do we construct the other? What barriers are separating us and can we bridge them?
She looks at how different technologies, ideologies and cultural patterns influence our ways of relating and our understanding of ourselves. Her work makes these subtle processes visible by translating them into space. Previously interested in pointing out the many ways in which we are disconnecting, she’s now interested in how art and the poetic can create spaces to think about the invisible threads that weave us together.
Adriana works across different media (video, sculpture, writing, drawing) but remains lastly a sculptor: fascinated by space and how it influences our experience, she creates large scale installations using accumulation, the relation between objects and their proportion to confront the body of the viewer and invite them to reflect from an embodied experience.
Adriana holds a BFA in Sculpture by the PUCP and a MA in Spatial Strategies by the khb berlin. She has been a teacher at Corriente Alterna Art Academy and at the PUCP, where she continues to be an academic advisor.
Her work has been recognized with the Winternitz Prize, the Critics’ Prize and the Prize of the Euroidiomas Foundation, as well as with scholarships from the DAAD, the PUCP and the Kickstarter Program of Berlin.