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Andrea Galano Toro (ES, CL~1997) is an artist, graphic designer, and researcher currently based in Barcelona. Andrea’s practice explores storytelling as a gesture to activate and enchant transformational experiences through her experimental film installations, graphic work, performance, workshops, and lectures. Her films and research have a record of speculating the voices of elements, landscapes, and more-than-human characters which in many ways, re-configure the heteronormative storytelling logics. Her focus on storytelling encompasses ecological narratives, animism, hybridity, magic, and dreams; which for her, re-enchant this world, open new worlds and allow for a regenerative narrative to birth in a society of rigidity and linearity. Her graphic work, which is not separate from her artist-identity; is heavily based on materializing not only words, but visual motifs that embody a narration as well. Her graphic language involves gestures such as ornaments,illustrations, photography, website design, and riso-printing.

Within her collective called Cruda shared with her research and art collaborator, Laila Saber Rodriguez, they facilitate experimental workshops, performance readings, and lectures. The duo explores their practice of spell-writing, monsters, hybrids, and shapeshifters


Mail me!
@cruda.collective
@andygalano

    2023-present
Master in Audiovisual Innovation and Interactive Spaces at Bau, Barcelona.

    2020-present
Cruda Collective,
Research duo with Laila Saber Rodríguez.

    2021-present
Andrea Galano Toro.
Freelance Graphic designer and filmaker.

    2021
Graphic design Internship at Slavs and Tatars, Berlin, DE.

    2018-2020
Honours Programme, Minor in Theory and Research.
ArtEZ University of the Arts. Deventer, NL.

    2017-2021
BA Graphic Design, ArtEZ University of the Arts. Arnhem, NL

    2016
BA Design (first year)
Universidad de Chile, FAU. Santiago, CL.

EXPOSITIONS & SCREENINGS:

  2023
PLANETARY EMBODIMENT
19:19 Book Launch
At Hopscotch Reading Room with Luïza Luz and gal sherizlyBerlin/DE

    August 2023
Melting Rock, Still Wind
溶ける岩、留まる風
Group Exibihition at “MINE” curated by Yindi Chen, invited by Yamanaka Suplex. 
Osaka, Japan.







    2021
What’s present
ArtEZ Graduation Exhibition. Arnhem, NL

    2019
Algorythmic Fitness
Motel Spatie. Arnhem NL.

    2019
Parasiting Parasites
Motel Spatie, Arnhem NL.

    2018
Ruimtekoers Festival
Ruimtekoers, Arnhem, NL.

︎ UPCOMING ︎

   Dic 2023
galaFEST the premiere of the video Living Riddles, with the support from Museo del Hongo. Bosque Pehuén, CL.
   

RESIDENCIES:

TEACHING & WORKSHOPS:

    Oct 2023
EMERGENT MYTHS THAT BREAK IT ALL.  Four days Workshop by Cruda Collective part of Sprint week at Graphic Design Department. Exploring hybrid creatures, mythology, ecology and emergent strategies.
ArtEZ Arnhem,NL.


    Oct 2023
SHAPESHIFTERS matters of ghost, demons and monsters. One day Workshop by Cruda Collective at Bio Labs program.
AKI ArtEZ Enschede, NL.

    May 2023
BEING ALL EARS with gal sherizly, is a space to shift the attention of the senses through playful exercises of deep listening, writing, and embodiment.Part of the seminar Planetary Embodiment led by Luïza Luz. Udk Berlin, DE.

  April 2023
SHAPESHIFTERS making a postnatural bestiary. Workshop by Cruda Collective as part of the exhibition THE MEASURE OF THE WORLD.
RADIUS CCA, Delft NL.

    April 2023
RAINFOREST AS METHODOLOGY by Cruda Collective. Rainforests will be presented as a mirror of the student’s artistic practice, through which the students can begin to translate ecological principles to a method to dissect and situate their artistic research practice. with APRIA, at AKI.
ArtEZ Enschede, NL.

    2023
We are all jinxed with Failure: a Path of Curse-breaking. Spellwriting workshop by Cruda Collective. Part of the program: it broke but its ok we still have the pieces.
At Extrapool.
Nijmegen, NL.

    2022
COOKING DREAMS with Gal Sherizly. Writing workshop part of the Planetary Embodiment Decay and Transformation in Language, Culture, and its Narratives, taught by Luïza Luz.. Where the students write a glossary and a collective recipe for Dreaming.
(Online) udk, Berlin.

    2022
HYBRIDZ,SPELLZ, TONGUEZ & RAW BEINGZ. Three day workshop taught by Cruda collective, On spells, wxtchcraft, hybrid identities and decolonial narratives, as part of KetiKoti week at ArtEZ Theather Deparment, Arnhem, NL.

INTERVIEWS & TALKS:

    2021
Syntax Finals 2021 Podcast with Laila Saber Rodriguez ArtEZ Institute of the Arts.

    2020
Cruda collective Interview for Collide 24, platfrom for collaborations.
With Laila Saber Rodriguez

    2019
The hmm speaker at MotelSpatie with Celine Caly.

WRITEN & SPOKEN CONTRIBUTIONS:

Awhām Magazine: The Plant Issue.
Images accompaning Luïza Luz’s writtings. Berlin, DE.

    2022
ECOES #3, Sonic Acts Festival 2022 in Amsterdam.

    2022
SPREAD MAG Issue 5 Movement. De Allá pa Acá.
AMS-BCN.

    2021
Panocha Zine
Ancestors Issue, Spell para atravesar One Hundred Homes by Cruda Collective
Arnhem, NL.

    2021 
Playground Publication
With text: Grietas liquidas, Liquid cracks.
Arnhem, NL.

    2021 
Daisyworld Mag Winter-Spring issue, Spell for Crossing written by Cruda Collective
Amsterdam, NL.

    2021
Snaky Zine Magic Issue, Shapeshifting Spell written by Cruda Collective
Amsterdam,NL.
 
    2020
Episode SURREPTITIOUS SYRUP  Online Radio JaJaJaNeeNeeNee. With Laila Saber Rodriguez.
Amsterdam NL

    2019
Kiwi podcast.
Podcast ArtEZ. Studium Generale. With Honorus Programme.
Arnhem NL.

LENGUAGE:

Spanish (MT)
English (C1)
German (B1)
Dutch (A2)