GALERIA REUS




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Galería Reus is a contemporary art gallery based in Mallorca whose trajectory dates back to 2003. Over the years, the project has evolved through different forms of collaboration and programming, consolidating itself as a space dedicated to the research, production, and dissemination of contemporary art.

The gallery works with emerging and mid-career artists, supporting the development of their practices while creating a context for dialogue, experimentation, and reflection around the diverse forms of contemporary artistic expression. Its program is characterized by a diversity of languages and approaches, as well as an interest in establishing connections between the local artistic scene and the international context.

From Mallorca, Galería Reus aims to actively contribute to the contemporary cultural ecosystem by promoting projects that encourage exchange, artistic research, and the development of new perspectives.


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ALEJANDRO JAVALOYAS






Biography

Alejandro Javaloyas (b. 1987, Palma de Mallorca, Spain) is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Toulouse, France. From the age of six to eighteen, he received extensive academic training in drawing and painting under Majorcan classical painters Ernest, Malena Tous, and Antònia Oliver. He later pursued filmmaking, earning both a BA and an MA (Summa Cum Laude) from the ESCAC Barcelona Film School at the University of Barcelona. In 2022, he further developed his painting practice through the Turps Correspondence Mentorship Course at Turps Art School in London, UK.

In recent years, Javaloyas has focused primarily on figurative drawings, paintings, and colored photographs that inhabit the threshold between beauty and the uncanny. Working mainly with colored pencil, oil, airbrush, and pastel, he creates hazy, blurred, and atmospheric images whose delicate surfaces are often charged with a latent sense of unease. Much of this recent work emerges from recurrent nightmares and from the fragmentary images that remain after waking. Through intimate depictions of bodies, objects, domestic scenes, and religious or cinematic motifs, Javaloyas constructs a personal symbolic universe shaped by a persistent concern with the inexorability of time, aging and decay, the fear of death, and the human impulse to seek meaning in what cannot be fully understood.


Javaloyas has exhibited his work in notable exhibitions, including Un cuchillo que no corta, curated by Sofia Moisés at Galería Reus, Palma, Spain (2026), his most extensive and ambitious solo presentation to date. His work has also been presented at major European art fairs, including ART COLOGNE with Galería Reus, Cologne, Germany (2026), CAN Ibiza with Galería Reus, Ibiza, Spain (2026), and ARCO Lisboa with LA BIBI + REUS, Lisbon, Portugal (2025). His recent distinctions include 1st Prize at the LVII Premio Ciudad de Alcalá de Artes Visuales (2026) and 1st Prize at the 20th Edition of the international Prisma Art Prize (2026); he was also a finalist for the Premi Ciutat de Palma Antoni Gelabert d’Arts Visuals (2024).




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Alejandro Javaloyas

b. 1987 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Lives and works in Toulouse, France



EDUCATION

2022 - MA in Painting - Turps Correspondence Mentorship Course, by Turps Banana, London, UK

2011 - MA in Filmmaking (Summa Cum Laude), University of Barcelona & ESCAC Barcelona Film School, Barcelona, Spain

2009 - BA in Filmmaking (Summa Cum Laude), University of Barcelona & ESCAC Barcelona Film School, Spain



SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026 (upcoming) - Sabrás que has llegado cuando ladren los perros at Sa Refinadora, Marratxí, Spain

2026 - Un cuchillo que no corta, curated by Sofia Moisés at Galeria Reus, Palma, Spain

2024 - Floating Matter, curated by Fernando Gómez de la Cuesta at Casal de Cultura Can Gelabert, Binissalem, Spain



GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2027 (upcoming) - Debt, curated by OHSH Projects at the Old Waiting Room, London, UK

2026 (upcoming) - Pintura Pintura, curated by Juan Cruz at DiGallery, Sevilla, Spain

2026 (upcoming) - In Good Company, curated by Lee Ratcliffe at Shug Gallery, Norwich, UK

2026 (upcoming) - Prisma Art Prize Annual Exhibition, curated by Domenico De Chirico at Palazzo Merulana, Rome, Italy

2026 (upcoming) - Unwrapped II, curated by Zahra Johnston at Better Go South, Berlin, Germany

2026 (upcoming) - The Table, curated by Karlijn Bozon at Homecoming Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2026 - Summer Ripples, curated by Leslie Dong at Cub_ism_ Artspace, Shanghai, China

2026 - Vuelo Directo, curated by Raquel Victoria at LA BIBI + REUS Mexico City, Mexico

2025 - Under a new moon, curated by Esmeralda Gómez Galera at LA BIBI + REUS CITY, Palma, Spain

2025 - Ultrafotografía, curated by Fernando Gómez de la Cuesta at Casal Solleric, Palma, Spain

2024 - Art Matters 12, curated by Stéphane Biesenbach at Gallery Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany

2024 - Espais Incomplets, Alejandro Javayolas & Bartomeu Sastre at the Faro de Ses Coves Blanques, OFF Program of CAN Ibiza, Spain

2024 - Debut :: Inaugural Open, curated by Olivia Turner at &Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

2023 - Art Matters 8, curated by Stéphane Biesenbach at Gallery Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany

2023 - Incorporalis: The Abstract Exhibit, curated by SuperChief Gallery, Rome, Italy

2023 - Catharsis, curated by Julien Delagrange at CAI Gallery, Harelbeke, Belgium

2022 - The Bastards: Post and Experimental Photography, curated by Kika Nicolela at Superchief Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2022 - Ephemeral/Eternal, curated By Alicia Puig at PXP Contemporary, Miami, USA

2022 - Art Matters 5, curated by Stéphane Biesenbach at Gallery Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany

2021 - 100 unter 1000, curated by Vanessa Souli at Galerie Schindler LAB, Berlin, Germany



ART FAIRS

2026 (upcoming) - ART COLOGNE with Galería Reus, Cologne, Germany

2026 - Post-Fair Paris with Bleu Minuit Club, Paris, France

2026 - CAN Art Ibiza with Galería Reus, Ibiza, Spain

2025 - ARCO Lisboa with LA BIBI + REUS, Lisbon, Portugal

2025 - UVNT Art Fair with STAIN Projects, Madrid, Spain

2024 - CAN Art Ibiza with LA BIBI Gallery, Ibiza, Spain



AWARDS

2026 - 1st prize, Prisma Art Prize 20th Edition

2026 - 1st prize, LVII Premio Ciudad de Alcalá de Artes Visuales

2026 - Finalist, IX Certamen Nacional de Pintura Ciudad de Torrejón de Ardoz

2026 - Finalist, XL Concurso de Pintura Sanvisens

2026 - Finalist, 47è Certamen d’Arts Plàstiques i Visuals Vila de Binissalem

2026 - Finalist, XLI Certamen Internacional de Pintura Ciudad de Hellín

2026 - Honorable Mention, XXIV Premis Rei En Jaume de Pintura

2026 - Finalist, Delphian Gallery Open Call

2026 - Honorable Mention, LXXIX Certamen Nacional del Premio de Pintura José Arpa

2026 - Finalist, Premi Josep Ventosa de Pintura d'Andratx

2026 - Finalist, XXVI Concurso Encuentros de Arte Contemporáneo Ciutat d'Alacant, MUA

2026 - 1st prize, XLV Certamen Internacional de Minicuadros Huestes del Cadí

2025 - Finalist, XXVIII Premio de Artes Plásticas Sala El Brocense

2025 - Honorable Mention, 46è Certamen d’Arts Plàstiques i Visuals Vila de Binissalem

2025 - 1st prize, XXXVIII Certamen de Pintura de Sant Marçal de Marratxí

2025 - Finalist, Premi Josep Ventosa de Pintura d'Andratx

2024 - Finalist, Premi Ciutat de Palma Antoni Gelabert d’Arts Visuals

2024 - Finalist, II MIAA Mallorca International Art Awards



RESIDENCIES

2024 - Artist Residency at LA BIBI Gallery, Palma, Spain




Press & Media Coverage In dialogue with Alejandro Javaloyas
FVTVRIST

Alejandro Javaloyas: Uneasy Space Between Beauty and Fear
PAI_32

Alejandro Javaloyas presenta Un cuchillo que no corta

Neo2

Alejandro Javaloyas: «La disposición hace que el espectador vea de forma diferente»

Alejandro Javaloyas, guanyador del Certamen de Pintura de Sant Marçal 2025

A Conversation with Alejandro Javaloyas
Contemporary Art Issue

Materiality and Abstraction
Aesthetica Magazine

Entrevista al artista Alejandro Javaloyas
CC/magazine

Navigating Minimalism
Widewalls