PAULVANBLASTER



BIO

Paulvanblaster, is an alias for Pablo Encinas Alonso, is an artist and architect based in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Most recent projects include: OLIVIA for GIBCA Extended, within the Gothenburg International Biennial of Contemporary Art, in November 2023. The design of An Amniotic Device installation for the piece [ASMR] Reading You To Sleep. Soft Spoken Relaxation About Affective Capitalism, 2020 by artist Gloria López Cleries for the ongoing exhibition Happily Ever After at Malmö Konstmuseum, October 2023 — March 2024. In December 2023, received an invitation to collaborate on a piece for artist Jason Bowman's Talk to the Hand show, at Gallery Cora Hillebrand, Gothenburg. The project Selfhealth Universe, 2023, exhibited at Göteborg Konsthall, was awarded the Eric Ericsons Stiftelse 2023.




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FOREIGNER BODIES




Social Art, Performance art & Architecture
Fredericia, Denmark, 2017. In collaboration with Fredericia Venligboerne, a movement that values present actions regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, age, or politics.

Summer Workshop
hospitality / finding the framework


Tutor/Research:
Paul Van Blaster (pseudonym)

Participants:
HELENA (Austria) Helena Eichlinger
VELI (Bulgaria) Velislava Petrova
PAULINE (Sweden) Pauline Algerod
POLINA (Ukraine) Polina Moroz
ALEX (Germany) Alexander Mehren
SONYA (Ukraine) Sonya Rokmanik
MASHA (Ukraine) Maria Pastukh
VASIL (Bulgaria) Vasil Trifonov
JOAKIM (Sweden) Joakim Kling
ELINA (Hungary) Elina Torma




About Hospitality -2018 - trailer FR from Lucas Bonnel






















How can experiments in coexistence with a context and its citizens contribute to dismantling the binary myth of the
foreign versus the local? How, by insisting on the less comfortable and sensing the unfamiliar, can we expand the
possibilities for engaging with diversity? Foreigner Bodies is a workshop in Fredericia, Denmark (2017), where
participants produced artistic and architectural experiments while engaging in a series of overnight stays at the
homes of local citizens in the village.

















Photo credits:
Alexandra Kononchenko
Paulvanblaster