NEREA GIL
Lives and works in Paris
nerea.gmn@hotmail.com
@_nerea_gil
Lives and works in Paris
nerea.gmn@hotmail.com
@_nerea_gil
Nerea Gil’s work explores the traces of everyday life, focusing on how ordinary objects, spaces, and materials activate memory, perception, and narrative. A multidisciplinary artist born in Spain and currently based in Paris, her practice spans sculpture, installation, sound, and visual media. Her work often establishes a dialogue between past and present, engaging with the urban environment and collective experiences while opening spaces for shared meaning.
Her practice is interested in everyday elements and popular symbols, exploring their cultural and affective charge as well as their capacity to generate new readings. Through the investigation of different supports and media—often used to subvert their habitual function—she displaces their meanings and questions established associations between form, function, and desirability.
The artist works through processes that emphasize observation, accumulation, and transformation, often incorporating collaborative and participatory approaches. Through diverse formats, she examines how the familiar can be reactivated, allowing subtle gestures and overlooked elements to generate new narratives and forms of attention. Her practice is grounded in an interest in the sensitive dimensions of everyday life, where personal and collective memories intersect.
Currently, Nerea Gil is engaged in various artistic projects while participating in a pilot program within a nursing home (EHPAD) in Asnières-sur-Seine. This context extends her reflection on mediation, participation, and the experiential qualities of daily life, positioning the artistic process itself as a space for encounter, care, and shared perception.
Her practice is interested in everyday elements and popular symbols, exploring their cultural and affective charge as well as their capacity to generate new readings. Through the investigation of different supports and media—often used to subvert their habitual function—she displaces their meanings and questions established associations between form, function, and desirability.
The artist works through processes that emphasize observation, accumulation, and transformation, often incorporating collaborative and participatory approaches. Through diverse formats, she examines how the familiar can be reactivated, allowing subtle gestures and overlooked elements to generate new narratives and forms of attention. Her practice is grounded in an interest in the sensitive dimensions of everyday life, where personal and collective memories intersect.
Currently, Nerea Gil is engaged in various artistic projects while participating in a pilot program within a nursing home (EHPAD) in Asnières-sur-Seine. This context extends her reflection on mediation, participation, and the experiential qualities of daily life, positioning the artistic process itself as a space for encounter, care, and shared perception.
EDUCATION
2023 - MASTER OF FINE ARTS (MFA)
Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, FRANCE
2015 - MASTER OF ARTS IN ART HISTORY (MA)
Complutense University of Madrid, SPAIN
2014 - BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS (BFA)
Complutense University of Madrid, SPAIN
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2023 — GALERIE LA MAISON JAUNE — SAINT-DENIS
Group exhibition (graduation show).
2021 — GALERIE HCE — SAINT-DENIS Group exhibition «Terra Ferma».
2020 — UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8 VINCENNES-SAINT-DENIS — SAINT- DENIS
Group exhibition « Images des mondes urbains ».
2020 — CITÉ CHARLES HERMITE — « Habiter poétiquement, vieillir vivant » — AUBERVILLIERS, FRANCE
2018 — OPEN STUDIO — MADRID Festival « Los artistas del Barrio ».
2014 — PAINTING COMPETITION “HUESTES DEL CADÍ” — ALICANTE Selected artist in the competition.
2013 — UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID — MADRID Group exhibition « Ex-Libris ».
2012 — ARCO & GALERÍA ESTAMPA — MADRID Participation in the international contemporary art fair ARCO.
2011 — CASA DEL ESTUDIANTE — MADRID Group exhibition « Zootropos Complutenses ».
2011 — ESTAMPA, INTERNATIONAL PRINT FAIR — MADRID
Collective project « Bandera ».
2011 — GALERÍA ESTAMPA & FUNDACIÓN ANTONIO PÉREZ — CUENCA Collective project « Bandera ».
RESEARCH PROGRAM
2017 — LIME2, LABORATORY FOR MUSEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION
Research and experimentation laboratory in museography: LIME 2 : Exhibition Supports : New Needs, Designs and Materials.
TALKS
2018 — CONGRÈS INTERNATIONAL : LOS LÍMITES DEL ARTE EN EL MUSEO
Organised by the consortium MUSACCES (UCM, UNED et UAM), Madrid.
2017 — LIME2, LABORATORY FOR MUSEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION
Research and experimentation laboratory in museography: LIME 2 : Exhibition Supports : New Needs, Designs and Materials.
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
2019 — PUBLICATION : COMMUNICATION IN THE EXHIBITION CONTEXT: ARTISTIC STRATEGIES AND RESOURCES. A VIRTUAL APPROACH
Suárez, M. Cerezuela, L. Gil, N. In : Rico, J. LIME 2: Exhibition supports: New needs, designs and materials. Madrid: Laboratory for Research and Experimentation in Museography 2017–2018. ISBN: 978-84-451-3737-6.
2019 — PUBLICATION : DEL DISEÑO GRÁFICO A LA COMUNICACIÓN EN EL ESPACIO EXPOSITIVO: UNA APROXIMACIÓN VIRTUAL. Eikón / Imago, ISSN-e 2254-8718, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2019, pages 185-197.
WORKSHOPS & RESIDENCES
2025 — COLLECTIF SOUKMACHINES — GENNEVILLIERS Artist in residence in the project “Le Gros Lot.”
2025 — ARTIST WORKSHOP IN A NURSING HOME — ASNIÈRES-SUR- SEINE. Artist in residence in the project “L’Atelier Fontaine.”
2013 — FEELING LIKE HOME: ARTISTIC INTERVENTION WITH MINORS AT RISK OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION (LAS ACACIAS RESIDENCY, MADRID) Project presented at the IV International Symposium of Visual Studies, UANL (Monterrey, Mexico).
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
Art Production Assistant for:
Iván Argote (2020–2025)
Los Carpinteros collective (2016- 2018)
2023 - MASTER OF FINE ARTS (MFA)
Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, FRANCE
2015 - MASTER OF ARTS IN ART HISTORY (MA)
Complutense University of Madrid, SPAIN
2014 - BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS (BFA)
Complutense University of Madrid, SPAIN
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2023 — GALERIE LA MAISON JAUNE — SAINT-DENIS
Group exhibition (graduation show).
2021 — GALERIE HCE — SAINT-DENIS Group exhibition «Terra Ferma».
2020 — UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8 VINCENNES-SAINT-DENIS — SAINT- DENIS
Group exhibition « Images des mondes urbains ».
2020 — CITÉ CHARLES HERMITE — « Habiter poétiquement, vieillir vivant » — AUBERVILLIERS, FRANCE
2018 — OPEN STUDIO — MADRID Festival « Los artistas del Barrio ».
2014 — PAINTING COMPETITION “HUESTES DEL CADÍ” — ALICANTE Selected artist in the competition.
2013 — UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID — MADRID Group exhibition « Ex-Libris ».
2012 — ARCO & GALERÍA ESTAMPA — MADRID Participation in the international contemporary art fair ARCO.
2011 — CASA DEL ESTUDIANTE — MADRID Group exhibition « Zootropos Complutenses ».
2011 — ESTAMPA, INTERNATIONAL PRINT FAIR — MADRID
Collective project « Bandera ».
2011 — GALERÍA ESTAMPA & FUNDACIÓN ANTONIO PÉREZ — CUENCA Collective project « Bandera ».
RESEARCH PROGRAM
2017 — LIME2, LABORATORY FOR MUSEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION
Research and experimentation laboratory in museography: LIME 2 : Exhibition Supports : New Needs, Designs and Materials.
TALKS
2018 — CONGRÈS INTERNATIONAL : LOS LÍMITES DEL ARTE EN EL MUSEO
Organised by the consortium MUSACCES (UCM, UNED et UAM), Madrid.
2017 — LIME2, LABORATORY FOR MUSEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION
Research and experimentation laboratory in museography: LIME 2 : Exhibition Supports : New Needs, Designs and Materials.
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
2019 — PUBLICATION : COMMUNICATION IN THE EXHIBITION CONTEXT: ARTISTIC STRATEGIES AND RESOURCES. A VIRTUAL APPROACH
Suárez, M. Cerezuela, L. Gil, N. In : Rico, J. LIME 2: Exhibition supports: New needs, designs and materials. Madrid: Laboratory for Research and Experimentation in Museography 2017–2018. ISBN: 978-84-451-3737-6.
2019 — PUBLICATION : DEL DISEÑO GRÁFICO A LA COMUNICACIÓN EN EL ESPACIO EXPOSITIVO: UNA APROXIMACIÓN VIRTUAL. Eikón / Imago, ISSN-e 2254-8718, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2019, pages 185-197.
WORKSHOPS & RESIDENCES
2025 — COLLECTIF SOUKMACHINES — GENNEVILLIERS Artist in residence in the project “Le Gros Lot.”
2025 — ARTIST WORKSHOP IN A NURSING HOME — ASNIÈRES-SUR- SEINE. Artist in residence in the project “L’Atelier Fontaine.”
2013 — FEELING LIKE HOME: ARTISTIC INTERVENTION WITH MINORS AT RISK OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION (LAS ACACIAS RESIDENCY, MADRID) Project presented at the IV International Symposium of Visual Studies, UANL (Monterrey, Mexico).
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
Art Production Assistant for:
Iván Argote (2020–2025)
Los Carpinteros collective (2016- 2018)