Relational art · education · territory
Art is not the exclusive property of those who call themselves artists
I am Juan Alberto González, a Fine Arts graduate from the University of La Laguna. I live in Fasnia (Tenerife) and work across art practice, cultural mediation and environmental education.
About
My main interest is relational art: art practice as a space for meeting, enjoyment, expression and participation, where the process and the relationships it creates matter as much as the material result. Everyone can express themselves, experiment and relate to others through art.
I have worked in painting, drawing, illustration, printmaking, ceramics, mould-making and lost-wax casting. Today I design learning materials and lead educational and interpretive visits with a critical eye on territory, heritage and the environment, in Spanish, English, German and French.
My final degree project, Momentos de vida (Moments of life), reflects on desacralising art and on aesthetic experience as something inherent to being human, also outside the disciplines considered artistic.
Work
- 2026
Home Sweet Home — Alfonso Simó
Digital production and coordination of exhibition materials, plus the digital infrastructure of ArchipiélagoVivo.org linked to the show.
- 2016
Ceramics for Mundo Guanche
Hand-modelled reproductions and interpretations of Guanche pottery based on Canarian heritage references.
- 2014
ZAT — Temporary Art Zone
A group show built from scratch in a reclaimed space. My installation recombined discarded anatomy drawings, and visitors could keep drawing on them throughout the show.
- 2013
North–South dynamics
A role-playing game that made extractive relations and North–South inequalities visible, closed with a collective reflection assembly.
- 2009–2012
Edukaution
A collective artivist identity born from the 2012 student assemblies: workshops, film forums, graphic interventions and information actions.
- 2009–2021
From a grain of barley / From garden to table
Bringing a farm back to life as a community, with Canarian barley from CCBAT and a shared garden where the people tending the crops cooked and ate together. Art dissolved into everyday life.
- 2011
Printmaking: from print to object
Linocuts on rice paper with water-based inks, and a series of pins and brooches that took the print off the gallery wall.
- 2005–2007
Roberto Cedrón’s studio
Two years as a studio assistant: linocut, printing, oil pastel, Indian ink and preparing work for Paris galleries.
Education and mediation
- 2024–
Nature guide
Educational visits for schools, families and the general public, with my own materials and adapted to diverse audiences, including groups from ATELSAM and ONCE.
- 2023–
PROYECT4
Educational, environmental and community projects: Pescambiente, La Alpispa (Arafo) and energy sustainability workshops in Fasnia and Arafo.
- 2022–2023
La Destiladera association
Sustainability workshops in schools and activities with young people at risk of exclusion, using music as a way in.
- 2022
Contemporary Artistic Thought cultural chair
Co-directed and taught the workshop on sustainability in textiles and fashion.
Latest posts
- A site of my own, without trackers
Why I rebuilt this site as open code, with no cookies or analytics, and added a blog.
Get in touch
If you would like to collaborate, suggest a workshop or simply talk, write to me.
Also on Mastodon: @juanalbglz@mastodon.art