Anita Molinero

For over three decades, Anita Molinero has been exploring the core principles of sculpture.

Biography of Anita Molinero

Anita Molinero was born in 1953 in Floirac in France. In 1977, she received a DNSEP from the Ecole supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Marseille.

From 1992 to 1994, the artist was a guest professor and lecturer at the Ensba in Paris. In 1994, Anita Molinero was a teaching artist at the University of Bogota in Colombia. Additionally,  From 1999 to 2014, she held a teaching position at the same institution.

In April 2015, Anita Molinero received the Salomon Foundation Residency Prize in New York.

The artist has exhibited her works in both solo and group exhibitions worldwide. Her notable solo shows include "Les Larmes de Louise" at Christophe Gaillard Gallery in Paris (2023), "Anita Molinero, Extrudia" at Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris in Paris (2022), "Simen se la coule douce" at Centre d’Art Bastille in Grenoble (2021), and many more.

Anita Molinero's works found their permanent home in various collections worldwide, including Fonds Cantonal d’Art Contemporain in Genève, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, FRAC Alsace, Musée Sainte-Croix in Poitiers, MAMCO in Genève, among others.

Currently, the artist lives and works in Paris. 

Anita Molinero's Art Style

For over thirty years, Anita Molinero has been delving into the fundamentals of sculpture: fullness and emptiness, matter and volume, weight and mass. Her work emphasizes the irreversible energy of gestures and improvisation.

She utilizes everyday objects and diverse materials (such as bins, plastic or resin urban furniture, polystyrene, synthetic foams, toys, car parts, packaging, and assorted trash), transforming them with a flamer to create varied, proliferating forms.

This process results in carbonizations and undulations, gaps and swellings, and effects of crystallization and blossoming on the vibrant surfaces of these ordinary materials, achieving a tense balance between form and formlessness, between the material's resistance and the expressiveness of her gestures. Anita Molinero describes her works as "form-fictions."