Me and some of my heroes
My work is about blurring the boundaries between reality and fantasy in order to explore the construction of beliefs, truths, and other myths based on background and education. I am interested in how the mind edits what we see and what we want to see, I am interested in why right or wrong is relative to not just the subject, but the one taking the action. I depict situations with the intention of evoking stories in the spectators, trying not to be too literal, so they have space to discover their own stories and questions.
I approach the topics through a colorful, sometimes innocent looking language, in order to provide an aesthetic experience that allows dialogue to open up and, ultimately, to make you smile.
Natalia Ferber grew up in Spain but was born in Uruguay during a dictatorship and spent her childhood listening to her parents talking about a faraway land. At age 12, she moved to this nostalgic land to find the histories she was told and the reality were very far apart, possibly because if you remove the experience and the memories, the place becomes just a pile of bricks (and other materials) organized to create architectural and engineering forms. She completed degrees in both Art and Architecture and worked designing projects around the globe while in parallel showing and selling her art in Montevideo, Chicago, NYC, Dallas, London and others.
Her early childhood displacement made a deep impact on her life, so she decided to make the world home, travelling and freedom (especially the freedom of speech) a priority and the source of inspiration for her work.
“I have lived life as a foreigner, I have felt perpetually like an outsider. It’s like being a cultural anthropologist, trying to understand the modus operandi of each place in the search of a place where to belong. This is reflected in my work”.
Natalia use to live between airplanes and continents and since 2021, she landed in Berlin.
Exhibitions
2023 Kiosk 23 Herford DE
2022 September open studios-Berlin Art Week
Kunst in der Wohnung
The Flower Shop Pop Up II, Group Show Bargehouse, OXO tower London, UK
2021 The Flower Shop Pop Up, Berlin DE
2020 The exhibitions scheduled for this year have been canceled or postponed for the year 2021, you are invited to visit my website free of contagion, until we can go back to the streets and hug each other and enjoy crowded shows, such as art exhibitions ...
Solo Show "The Fabulous Adventures of a Trampoline in the reading room" Delta Gallery, London UK
Participant Kensington Town hall Art Fair, London UK
2019 Group Show Bargehouse, OXO tower London, UK
Made in Avenida Brasil, the presentation. Corner Gallery London UK
Open Studios weekend, Delta House, London UK
2018 Earthly manners of conspicuous truths and lies, a study reveals Elephants can fly I, South Kensington, London UK
Earthly manners of conspicuous truths and lies, a study reveals Elephants can fly II, Park Hotel, Tokyo Japan.
2017 Journey Journals II - A fabulous compilation of anecdotes, love, work and mystery in a faraway land (relatively speaking). London, UK
Journey Journal, my line of thoughts is not very lineal. London UK
2016 Summer Salon Lubomirov-Angus-Hughes, London, UK
Group Show, Delta House, London, UK
2015 Group Show, Delta House, London, UK
Group Show, Kasum Contemporary, Oklahoma city, OK
Group Show, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
2014 Group Show, Kasum Contemporary, Oklahoma city, OK
Group Show, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
2013 Group Show, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
2012 Solo Show, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
2011 Group show a.DOT, organized by CWA and part of the Chicago Artist Month Chicago, Illinois
Group show Heritage Month, AIA Dallas, TX
Group Show, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
2010 “Texas New Talent” Juried group exhibition. Craighead Green Gallery Dallas TX
“Hecho en Dallas” Juried group exhibition. Latino Cultural Center Dallas TX
2004 Group exhibition organized by the IENBA, Montevideo - Uruguay.
2003 Solo exhibition in the US Embassy in Montevideo. Montevideo - UY
2001 1st Prize Urban Development US Embassy. Montevideo - Uruguay.
2000 Bidding award to develop the BSE Calendar Magazine. Montevideo - UY
1999 1st Prize and Mention in Tiles Contest. Montevideo - Uruguay.
1998 Sculpture contest on Justice – Exhibited in Motevideo’s City Hall. Montevideo - Uruguay.
1996 Group exhibition - IENBA, Montevideo - Uruguay
1995 Group exhibition in the Visual Dimension room, Montevideo – Uruguay
Books (Journey Journals)
I went to New Mexico and Back. My line of thought is not very linear.
The Fabulous Adventures of a Trampoline. I spend too much time on a plane.
And then I landed in Happyland. Love work and mystery in a faraway land -sort of-
Awards
1st Prize Urban Remodeling United States Embassy in Uruguay, National Competition, MVD - Uruguay
1st Prize Bidding award to develop the “BSE Calendar”; National Competition, Montevideo –Uruguay
1st prize and honorable mention, “Tile Competition”, National Competition, Montevideo, Uruguay
2nd Prize Art Contents “Caja Madrid”, Madrid – Spain
Publications
Women in Architecture AIA Dallas – “Express yourself” competition. AIA Dallas, TX
Dallas Modern Luxury December 2010. Dallas TX
Uruguayan Society of Architects (SAU). Publishers: SAU Uruguay. Montevideo - Uruguay
Elarqa No 34. Publisher: Dos Puntos Editorial. Montevideo - Uruguay
I Mies van der Rohe Award for Latin American Architecture. Publisher: Fundació Mies van der Rohe / ActarBarcelona, Spain
UDELAR Sprechman Studio Magazine; Domino No 2 – Studio Work II. Publishers: Dos Puntos Editorial
Education
1994- 2003 Bachelor in Art. University of Uruguay (UdelaR), Montevideo-Uruguay
1994- 2004 Architecture and Urban Design. (UdelaR) Montevideo - Uruguay
2005-2006 Sculpture with the artist Marivi Ugolino, Montevideo - Uruguay
1997-2002 Drawing and Paints studies with Anhelo Hernández
1995 Photography at Dimension Visual, Montevideo-Uruguay