Alexandra Cohen
My practice emerges from a migratory process that reconfigured my relationship to territory, perception, and belonging. Through displacement, landscape shifts from a fixed geography into an embodied field shaped by memory, movement, material encounter, and emotional resonance.
Working across painting and material-based processes, I combine natural pigments, experimental surfaces, and collected matter within a single research framework. My work moves between sensory and perceptual registers, from paintings attuned to environmental and emotional perception, to works where found materials guide processes of transformation. These explorations generate traces, fragments, and residual forms that emerge as marks of time and heritage of different places.
Rather than understanding territory as a subject of representation, I think of it as a space in constant transformation, where perception and matter continuously shape one another. Each work becomes a space where external territory and interior experience begin to dissolve into one another, where matter holds memory, presence, and the shared experience of moving through time, place, and transformation.
I approach my practice as an evolving path, where each step of the research opens onto new studies, materials, and forms of transformation. Rather than following a fixed direction, I allow the work to develop through this ongoing process of exploration, letting each encounter shape where the practice moves next.
Alexandra Cohen is a Venezuelan artist based in Barcelona, Spain. Her background in architecture, including work with internationally recognized studios such as Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura, informs her approach to materiality, space, and human perception.
Through painting and material-based processes, her practice explores the relationship between environment, natural matter, and embodied experience. Supported by studies in innovation and emerging materialities, she develops works that integrate spatial awareness, sensory perception, and experimental surfaces through the use of natural pigments and collected materials.
Her work has been exhibited across Europe, the United States, and Latin America, and is held in private collections internationally.
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EXHIBITIONS, TALKS & AWARDS
2026
Juno · Exhibition & Talk · Featured speakers on contemporary art collecting
4th Auction "Tejidos de Esperanza" · Asociación Damas Salesianas · Artistic intervention on indigenous textile piece
2025 – 2024
CBA Fine Arts Center, Maracaibo, Venezuela · Solo Exhibition · Under the Same Sky
Diputació de Barcelona, Castell de Montesquiu & Circuit Artístic · Group Exhibition
Casa Batlló, Simbolic & Juno House · The Creators: Women in Design · Art & Product Design Award
Peggy Art Platform · Solo Auction, by invitation · Pieces of Sunshine
2023
Galería Azur, Miami Art Basel Week · Group Exhibition
Abartium Gallery, Vic, Catalonia · Group Exhibition
2020
Maxó Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain · Group Exhibition
Represented by Miluna Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
ARTISTIC RESEARCH & RESIDENCIES
2026
Atacama Desert, Chile · Ecology & Culture-based Research
2023
Crear Situacions · Centre d'Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona
COLLECTIONS
Private collections across Europe, Asia, the United States, and Latin America
Selected Works available at Gala Galería, Maracaibo, Venezuela
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
2024
Entresocios Magazine · Interview on Solo Exhibition
La Mega Estación Radio · Interview on Solo Exhibition
2020
ArchDaily · Research · Cerdà vs Pere IV: The Encounter of a Regular Urban Extension with Existing Structures in Barcelona
ARCHITECTURAL FIRMS
Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
Mesura
MIAD Research Group, La Salle
Rosa Clará Group

