Biography

Eli Cortiñas was born in 1976 in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria/Spain. She studies at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and the European Film College Ebeltoft, Denmark. A significant part of her work is characterized by individual film editing. By leaving out entire passages or constantly repeating short sequences, she achieves a new definition of existing film material. The viewer's view, which is thus condensed and often redirected, now sees the work, disconnected from its origin, as a work of art that exists on its own. It is irritating through this condensation, creates its own aesthetic and addresses new fields. In his own productions, Eli Cortiñas also manages to specifically confront the viewer with aspects of reality and sharpen their perspective. She sees film editing as an “act of writing” with which she interrupts or re-constructs the flow of the narrative. The same disturbing approach to reality and objects, characterized by redefinition, can also be found in the rest of his oeuvre, from collages to object art.

Museum and single exhibitions (selection)

2019

Always bite the hand that feeds you, Convent Space for Contemporary Art, Gent

2018

Remixers Never Die, Contemporary Art Center Vilnius, Vilnius.

2017

Double Feature: Eli Cortiñas, SCHIRN Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main

Film Footage Fotografie, Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig

2016

Im Anschluss / Afterwards: A voiced gesture von Mariechen Danz, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

Wirklich jetzt!, Gruppenausstellung, Museum Goch, Goch

2015

What about tropical delights in neoliberal times, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderne CAAM, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spanien

Dis>Play, 2014, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Main