OUKA LEELE

VIAJE ARTÍSTICO

Ouka Leele (b. 1957, Madrid), was a Spanish photographer whose real name is Barbara Allende Gil de Biedma. Even though she wanted to be a painter, she discovered photography as a medium to express her natural and intensive artistic sensitivity. It is in the 1980s in Madrid during the nation's "Movida" movement when she demonstrated her interest in a variety of artistic disciplines such as drawing, serigraphy, painting, and literature resulting in a series of photos labeled as "icons of her time". Her unedited photos that are often additionally hand-painted are an attempt to show human nature and to reveal the connections between life, emotions, and its translations in art language.

She was awarded the 2004 Culture Prize by the Community of Madrid and the 2005 National Photography Award and her works can be found in a number of collections including Collection Arco (Madrid), Foundation Cartier (Paris), Foundation La Caixa (Barcelona), Cervantes Institute (Lisbon), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid), etc.

EXPOSICIONES INDIVIDUALES

2024 "Una movida Bárbara". Museo di Roma en (Trastevere, Roma) 2019 Exposición SIMORGH de OUKA LEELE, galería de alfombras Hamid. (Madrid) 2018 “Hay que jugar al vacío” Galería La ley de Snell. Expone en la sala Ignacio Zuloaga. 2016 “Viajeros de mi Galaxia” en la Galería Fernández-Braso. 2015 “DONDE ME LLEVA LA LUZ” proyecto Miradas de Asturias, patrono de la Fundación María CrisCna Masaveu Peterson 2014 “Un Banquete Cruel. PourQoui?”, en el Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid. “La Utopía Transgresora” en la bienal de fotografía de Moscú. 2013 “Miradas de Asturias” con la Fundación Masaveu

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 "Summertime Soirée", Espinasse31 (Madrid, España) 2023 Programa de residencia TaoHuaTan, Kurume Art Gallery, Hefei, (China) Premio Candiani, SAC Spazio Arte Contemporanea, (Milán, IT) Cuerpos íntimos, Fanep y departamento de Neuropsiquiatría, (Bolonia, IT) Discurso de la guerra, Galería de obras de arte, (Kiev, Ucrania) 2022 Arca, Iglesia de S.Lucia, Arquidiócesis de Frosinone, (Ferentino, IT) Pack and Go, Valona Consulado italiano en Albania, Centro Luigi di Sarro Roma IIC Amsterdam Trova il dipinto , Hospital Bellaria, Departamento de Radiología y Senología, AUSL Bolonia, (Bolonia, IT) Terre Sconnesse, Galleria Civica Villavalle, TesteMobili, (Valdagno, IT) 2021 1.5 + Diorama, con Tatiana Kockmur, Hupa Brajdič, Ministerio de Cultura de Eslovenia, Podhod Ajdovščina, (Lubiana, Eslovenia) Premio Combate 2021, Villa Mimbelli, LivornoUna vita che ti RI-cerco, Paratissima Art Station, (Turín, IT) 2020 TRK, Galería Salsaverde, (Izola, Eslovenia) 2019 Sulcis, Galería Ottovolante, (Isla Sant'Antioco, IT) Partecipare ad arte, Galería Ottovolante, Art City (Bolonia, IT) 2018 In Cielo Finito, Air Montevideo, por Ass.Ottovolante, (Montevideo, Uruguay) Quotidiana bellezza Museo Arqueológico Villanovaforru, Cerdeñacon MiBACT y AMACI XIV Giornata del Contemporaneo 2017 Llévame, soy tuyo, de Christian Boltanski, Danilo Eccher, Aparcamiento Giuriolo, MAMBO (Bolonia, IT)

FERIAS DE ARTE

2016 Feria de fotografía de Shanghái con la galería Art and Shanghai. 2015 ART-MADRID, Madrid.