artist
Miguel Benlloch
birth
Granada, Granada, 1954
death
Sevilla, 2018
last update
20-03-2025
Miguel Benlloch was a performer, activist, poet, writer and cultural producer. From the late 1970s until his death, his artistic and political practice focused on the processes of deconstruction of identities based on false dualities such as male-female, active-passive or productive-unproductive. In his actions, photographs, writings and documents, he defends the existence and agency of non-normative bodies in a wider sense. Hence, his artistic work can also be seen as a political project. Benlloch was committed to numerous social causes: independent theatre, communist youths, gay liberation fronts and the fight against AIDS, post-identitarian feminism and other collective projects.
His performances and actions were presented in spaces such as the Guggenheim Museum, New York (1993), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville (2000, 2001), Arteleku, Donostia-San Sebastian (2021)(2005), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2010), IVAM, Valencia (2021), and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2022), among others. In 2019, a retrospective of his work was held at CentroCentro, Madrid. His works are included in the collections of IVAM, Valencia; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and MACBA, Barcelona, among others.
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