Javier Bravo de Rueda

Javier Bravo de Rueda (Peru, 1989) lives and works between Lima and Madrid. His practice explores narrative and material experimentation to investigate the boundaries between reality, fiction, myth and culture, influenced by his transit between Latin America and the Western world. She examines processes of hybridization in contemporary art and culture, including literature, design and popular art, as ways to reflect on identity and historical construction.

Javier Bravo de Rueda

Javier Bravo de Rueda (Peru, 1989) lives and works between Lima and Madrid. His practice explores narrative and material experimentation to investigate the boundaries between reality, fiction, myth and culture, influenced by his transit between Latin America and the Western world. She examines processes of hybridization in contemporary art and culture, including literature, design and popular art, as ways to reflect on identity and historical construction.

Bravo de Rueda earned an MFA in Sculptural Ceramics at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and a BFA in Painting at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, with additional studies in Barcelona, Chile and New York. His work has been exhibited internationally in spaces such as the Fondazione Officine Saffi in Milan (Award 5), the Casa Encendida in Madrid (Generation 2021) and Jorge Lopez Gallery in Valencia (Derritiente for all colors). In 2024, he presented Piel de piedra, Esqueleto de piedra at Crisis Galería (Lima) and Le Jardín de Ciro at the Centre Céramique Contemporaine La Borne (France).

He has received awards and grants from institutions such as the Montemadrid Foundation, Fondazione Officine Saffi, Siemens Stiftung, Fundación BilbaoArte and Fundación Botín. His work is developed through the transformation of materials, fieldwork, archival research and recontextualization of craft methods, exploring familiar and unknown territories from a poetic, ecological and critical perspective.

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Flying Object, 2025
60 x 170 cm
Archival pigment print from scanned analog negative on fine art paper
Pachacutec, 2025
110 x 135 x 130 cm
Metal, fruit-based vegan leather (made from grape and persimmon), and backstrap-loom textile
Travelling Museum, 2025
132 x 85 x 185 cm
Iron, brass, water-based paint, polyester resin, and ceramic
Close Encounter, 2025
50 x 180 x 300 cm
Ceramic and iron
Piedras de Ica, 2025
50 x 100 cm
Archival pigment print from scanned analog negative on fine art paper
“Desert Shrine 2 (From the series They saw something in the sky)”, 2025
41.5 x 33 x 17 cm
Wood-fired stoneware in an Anagama kiln
“Desert Shrine 1 (From the series They saw something in the sky)”, 2025
41 x 32 x 23 cm
Wood-fired stoneware in an Anagama kiln
“Guía para construir laberintos”, 2025
102 x 65 cm
Mixed media
“Extracciones III”, 2024
96 x 72 cm
Oil, wax and ink on cotton paper
“Planetario”, 2024
Variable measurements
Ceramics
“Platillo volador”, 2024
Variable measurements
Ceramics
“Huevo”, 2024
Variable measurements
Porcelain
“Rainstick #5”, 2024
135 x 40 x 40 cm aprox
Woodfired stoneware, metal wire, leather belts, microphones and sound system
“Rainstick #6”, 2024
135 x 40 x 40 cm aprox
Woodfired stoneware, metal wire, leather belts, microphones and sound system
“Eco I”, 2024
165 x 55 x 50 cm
Stoneware and porcelain, wood firing
“Tilesa Floor”, 2024
380 x 180 x 5 cm
Found ceramic tiles
“Assamblages”, 2024
variable measures
Found ceramics pieces and glazes
“Extracciones I”, 2024
205 x 175 cm
Watercolour on paper
“Esqueleto de piedra II”, 2024
52 x 78 x 36 cm
Egyptian paste, sand and metal
“Piel de piedra II”, 2024
52 x 48 x 80 cm
Egyptian paste, sand and metal
“Esqueleto de piedra III”, 2024
47 x 70 x 48 cm
Egyptian paste, sand and metal
“Stone Skin”, 2024
45 x 40 x 40 cm
Ceramics and metaal
“Labyrinth #1”, 2024
18 x 35 x 40 cm
Wood-fired stoneware
“Labyrinth #2”, 2024
22 x 35 x 40 cm
Wood-fired stoneware
“Labyrinth #3”, 2024
40 x 35 x 40 cm
Wood-fired stoneware
“Labyrinth #4”, 2024
28 x 35 x 40 cm
Wood-fired stoneware
“Labyrinth #5”, 2024
28 x 35 x 40 cm
Wood-fired stoneware
“Labyrinth #6”, 2024
30 x 35 x 40 cm
Wood-fired stoneware
“Labyrinth #7”, 2024
40 x 35 x 40 cm
Wood-fired stoneware
“Labyrinth #8”, 2024
55 x 35 x 40 cm
Wood-fired stoneware
“Altar 1”, 2024
45 x 40 x 20 cm
Wood-fired stoneware
“Altar 2”, 2024
45 x 40 x 20 cm
Wood-fired stoneware
“Extraction I (Stone of Madness)”, 2023
207.9 x 168 cm
Watercolor and ink on paper
“Piel de piedra IV”, 2023
48 x 85 x 48 cm
Egyptian paste, sand and metal
“Lucía”, 2022
90 x 22 x 32 cm
Stoneware
“Animita”, 2021
65 x 55 x 60 cm
Terracotta and oil
“Model for wall”, 2021
55 x 40 x 25 cm
Stoneware
“Toro Loco”, 2021
185 x 85 x 160 cm
Porcelain, metal, textile, resin and egyptian paste
“Ritual table”, 2021
155 x 125 x 130 cm
Porcelain, terracotta, stoneware, acrylic, metal, resin
“Model for house in ruins”, 2019
55 x 40 x 30 cm
Stoneware
“Untitled”, 2019
20 x 18 x 18 cm
Ceramics
“Untitled”, 2019
14 x 26 x 26 cm
Ceramics
“Maqueta para Basílica modernista”, 2019
43 x 36 x 36 cm
Stoneware and porcelain
“Dome on Fire Mockup”, 2019
120 x 58 x 50 cm
Porcelain
“Model for a tower”, 2019
118 x 55 x 45 cm
Stoneware and porcelain
“Model for a landscape panel”, 2019
118 x 55 x 45 cm
Stoneware and Porcelain
“Model for tower of babel”, 2019-2020
205 x 75 x 55 cm
Stoneware
“Untitled”, 2018
35 x 20 x 22 cm
Stoneware
“Maqueta para el divino fuego”, 2018
50.5 x 32 x 33 cm
Stoneware and porcelain
“Maqueta para un monumento a la huida”, 2018
33 x 28 x 21.5 cm
Stoneware and rust
“Ensamblaje de la serie del divino fuego”, 2018
38 x 21 x 26 cm
Stoneware and porcelain

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