Bio
Violeta Andreu is a performer, and visual and sound artist; PhD in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid (cum laude, 2021), and Musician (Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid); she is a writer and author of the book The House in Visual Artistic Creation and its Relationship with Feminism (from 1970 to 2020), published by Ediciones Complutense in the Hemispheres of Equality Collection, in 2024. She considers her artistic work to be expanding through research, performance, the creation of artistic objects, conferences, debates, and teaching. All her professional activity is related to and defines the artist's interests through social and feminist commitment.
Her research focuses on women and their relationship to the spaces they inhabit: homes, museums, nature, and technological spaces. Convinced of art's power as a tool for social transformation, she is committed to equality, striving for a society that provides equal opportunities and rights for all. Her artistic mission is to bring people together through art to achieve these social changes.
Her performances denounce social issues and injustices; they support peace; they revisit history; and they promote reflection and solidarity through audience participation. In these performances, she uses her own body, and sometimes the bodies of other women, to engage with space. At times, the voice is the instrument that shapes the action.
She has worked jointly with Rolando Peña and her work has been curated by Margarita Aizpuru. She has exhibited and premiered works in Spain: the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, the La Neomudéjar Museum, ARCO, Nave Oporto, Galería Edurne, Galería Fúcares (Santander Art Fair), Baluarte, Ciudadela, the Museum of Zaragoza, and the Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona; in Poland: the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and the Poznan University of the Arts (Poland), Bourges and Paris (France), and Leeds (Great Britain).
Her work is part of numerous private collections in Spain, United Kingdom, France, Poland, Finland and the United States.
Her book, The House in Visual Artistic Creation and its Relationship with Feminism (from 1970 to 2020), awarded the CEA-APQ Academic Publishing Quality Seal, is currently available online at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) website, through Ediciones Complutense. It has been presented at the La Neomudéjar Museum, the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, the Casa Velázquez, and the 86th Madrid Book Fair. In 2025, she published the article “House and Body, a Meeting Place in Feminist Artistic Creation” in Gender Issues: Equality and Difference, coordinated by Ana de Miguel and Alicia Miyares.
As an exhibition coordinator, she has collaborated with the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum on “The Bauhaus and Karl Blossfeldt. Uniforms of Art” and with Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA 21) on “More Than Human” [with Dominique González Foerster and Tomás Saraceno] and “Joan Jonas. Moving Off the Land II” [with Joan Jonas]. In 2021, it should be noted that she curated the exhibition “40 Years of the Divorce Law” for the Equality Unit of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), in the Government Pavilion of the UCM.
In 2022, she organized and participated in the round table “Home and Woman,” in collaboration with the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum and the Vice-Dean's Office for Culture at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). This discussion explored the relationship between home and women in artistic creation from the perspectives of the museum, teaching, research, and artistic practice, aiming to examine the creative process through reflection and practice. She also participated, alongside Magdalena Suárez Ojeda, then Director of Equality at the Complutense University of Madrid, in the International Congress on Transversal Research from the Arts, RADAR22, at the University of La Laguna, presenting the paper “Representation of Women in the Art of the Spanish Transition and its Relationship with Legal and Social Changes”. She also presented individually “The Idea of Home and Feminism: An Artistic Relationship Around the Figure of Alicia Framis”.
She has given conferences and workshops on art and creativity for years, with the aim of empowering women through artistic creation.
As a draughtperson and designer, she has participated in Educational Innovation Projects with publishers such as SM and ANAYA Multimedia, among others. She has also drawn and contributed to the graphic documentation for the National Heritage archaeological excavations, such as those at the Plaza de Oriente in Madrid and the Royal Collections Museum, with the company Arqueomedia.
She is a member of Women in the Visual Arts (MAV), Madrid Visual Artists Association (AVAM), Clásicas y Modernas, and Mujeres AVENIR.
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