My personal projects deal with places where significant events have taken place and the possibility that these spaces retain the memories of what happened there.

Eduardo Nave

Will Be Lost in Time

The Four seasons of the Tajogaite Volcano in 85 views

Normandie 2019

Normandie

Mulberry Harbour

BIO

A graduate of the Escola dArt I Superior de Disseny in Valencia, he holds an Advanced Diploma in Visual Arts and Design, focusing on Photography. In 2005, together with another 13 artists he founded the contemporary photography collective NOPHOTO that one year later won the Arco and 2006 PHotoEspaña Revelation Award. In 2014, together with 4 editors, he developed the publication DÚO and in 2016 he created and coordinated the project EL DIARI INDULTAT.
Since 2001 he has been a frequent contributor to national and international editorial media, and the galleries Daniel Cuevas (Madrid) and Juan Silió (Santander) represent his work.

He has received several awards and grants for his projects, including those as noteworthy as the grant from the Colegio de España in Paris, the visual arts grant from Fundación Marcelino Botín, the visual arts grant from Casa de Velázquez, the visual arts grant from Colección CAM, the FOTOPRES grant from La Caixa, the Authors in Selection Award from Fotonoviembre, the “Fujifilm Euro Press Photo Awards”, the 2010 Photographica Award from the Estampa Art Fair and subsidies from the XVII Visual Creation Competition organised by VEGAP, the third prize of the XI edition of the ENAIRE Foundation Photography Prize, the best book of the year in PhotoEspaña 2018 and Life Framer prize 2021 in “Night Life” category.

He has held countless individual and group exhibitions at various locations, highlights include: the international photography festival Rencontres d'Arles (France), Canal de Isabel II (Madrid), Macuf (A Coruña), San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Madrid), Instituto Cervantes (Paris), PHotoEspaña (Madrid), Tenerife International Biennial Photography Event, Kursaal (San Sebastian), Conde Duque (Madrid), Centro Andaluz de la Fotografía, Spanish Cultural Centre in Lima, Alexandria Biennale for Mediterranean Countries; and at contemporary art fairs such as, ARCO (Madrid), DFOTO (San Sebastian), Madrid Foto, Maco (Mexico), ParisPhoto, PhotoLondon, CIGE (Beijing), KIAF (Korea) and Preview Berlin. The next Art Fair will be in Chicago.

His work belongs to private collections and institutions such as the Museum of Spanish Photography, the Spanish Ministry of Culture, the City Councils of Alcobendas, Madrid, Valencia, Murcia, Tenerife, and others, the Ordóñez Falcó Foundation, the Cartier-Bresson Family, the Spanish Parliament, the Spanish Ministry of Industry, National Heritage of Spain, France, Italy and Portugal, the Marcelino Botín Foundation, the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, the Circa XX Collection, and the DKV Collection among others.

He has published the most outstanding photobooks including: At the time, in the place (Phree 2013), Peninsula (Phree 2013), Eleventh of March (3263827, 2016), LIKE (Ediciones Anómalas, 2017) and Normandie (2021, La Fábrica).

Solo Exhibitions (Selection)

2023
Like, Alalimón Gallery, Barcelona

2022
Like, DKV Tower, Zaragoza

2021
Once de Marzo, Centro Memorial de Víctimas del Terrorismo, Vitoria
Normandías: Luz, Lugar y Memoria, Daniel Cuevas Gallery, Madrid

2020
Like, Llotja del Cànem, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón

2019
A la Hora, en el Lugar, Hall of Edificio Séneca, Former Bus Station of Alicante
Like, Juan Silió Gallery, Santander
Once de Marzo, Nave de Motores, MetroMadrid, Madrid
Normandie: Les Rivages du Débarquement, Sala La Fragua, Tabacalera, Madrid

2018
Luces en la Memoria: Art and Conversations against ETA’s Barbarism, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, Donostia
Once de Marzo, TYCE Space, Guadalajara, Madrid

2017
Once de Marzo, San Ildefonso Chapel, University of Alcalá de Henares, Madrid
Like, Centro de Arte Alcobendas, Madrid
Like, Paz y Comedias Gallery, Valencia

2016
A la Hora, en el Lugar, Monastery of N.ª S.ª del Prado, Valladolid
Once de Marzo, National Museum of Anthropology, Madrid
A la Hora, en el Lugar, Montehermoso Cultural Center, Vitoria

2015
A la Hora, en el Lugar, City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
Ab æterno, Pilar Serra Gallery, Madrid

2014
Normandie: Les Rivages du Débarquement, Centro Andaluz de la Fotografía, Almería
A la Hora, en el Lugar, Conde Duque Cultural Center, Madrid

2012
Península, Paz y Comedias Gallery, Valencia
Solo Vol. IV – Cárcel de Segovia, AJG Contemporary Art Gallery, Seville

2010
Península, Estiarte Gallery, Madrid
Réquiem 2003-2010, LAMETRO Hall, Valencia

2008
Solo Vol. I - Matadero, Estiarte Gallery, Madrid
Obras 2001-2008, Paz y Comedias Gallery, Valencia
Obras 2001-2008, Juan Silió Gallery, Santander

2006
Normandie: Les Rivages du Débarquement, Estiarte Gallery, Madrid

2005
Normandie: Les Rivages du Débarquement, FOTONOVIEMBRE, VIII International Biennial of Photography, Tenerife

2002
En la Línea, Jornadas Fotográficas Guardamar, Alicante
En la Línea, IV Jornades Fotogràfiques Alcoimatge, Alcoi, Alicante

2000
Camino a la Inserción, III Fotoencontre d´Almussafes, Valencia

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023
Vistas: Urban Landscapes of the Community of Madrid, La Estufa, Jardines de la Finca Vista Alegre, Madrid
21st DongGang International Photo Festival, Yeongwol, South Korea

2022
Collective Imaginaries: The Construction of the Tourist Image, Provincial Council of Huesca
Hors Pistes 6th Edition: The Ages of the Image, Centre Pompidou, Málaga
REGION: Landscape, Photography, and Heritage, El Águila, Madrid

2021
Chronographies, IVAM CADA ALCOI Cultural Centre, Alicante
The Social Construction of the Landscape, Andalusian Centre for Contemporary Art, Seville
Dialect CA2M, Centre for Art 2 de Mayo, Móstoles, Madrid

2020
50 Photographs with History, Plaza de las Mujeres (outdoor installation), Soria
From A to Z: An Incomplete Dictionary of Spanish Photography, CA2M Collection, Niemeyer Centre, Avilés
50 Photographs with History (outdoor installation), Alcobendas
Landscape with Figures, UPV Art and Heritage Collection, Fundació Caixa Castelló, Castellón

2019
Hors Pistes 4th Edition: The Moon: An Imaginary Space to Defend, Centre Pompidou, Málaga

2017
Absences, AJG Gallery project, Mr. Pink Gallery, Valencia
The Creation of Contemporary Landscape, DKV and Alcobendas Collection, Las Cigarreras Cultural Centre, Alicante
The Creation of Contemporary Landscape, DKV and Alcobendas Collection, Fundación Valentín de Madariaga, Seville

2016
The Creation of Contemporary Landscape, DKV Collection, Centro de Arte Alcobendas
Different Orders: Reflections on the New Pilar Citoler Collection, Edificio Mena, International University of Andalusia, Málaga
The Creation of Contemporary Landscape, DKV Collection, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca
1989: After the Algiers Conversations. Delirium and Truce, ARTIUM, Vitoria
The Creation of Contemporary Landscape, DKV and Alcobendas Collection, DA2 Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca

2015
19th Fotopres La Caixa, Caixaforum Madrid
19th Fotopres La Caixa, Caixaforum Barcelona

2014
History, Artist Perspectives, MARCO (Museum of Contemporary Art of Vigo)
In Focus: One Hundred Perspectives from Pain, Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C., USA
26th Biennale of Alexandria and Mediterranean Countries, Egypt

2013
The Burnt Forest, Museum of Human Evolution, Burgos
History, Artists' Perspectives, L’Hôtel des Arts, Toulon, France

2011
The Magnificent City: Architecture in the Circa XX-Pilar Citoler Collection, Andalusian Centre for Photography, Almería

2009
Here and Now, Cervantes Institute, Manchester and Toulouse
There is No Such Place: Territories of the Invisible, Santa Barbara Castle, Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community, Alicante

Awards, Grants, and Merits

2023
Nominated for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award
Documentary Creation Prize on Andalusia IMAGENERA, Photography Category
First Prize, 11th ENATE Art Prize

2022
Nominated for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award

2021
Honourable Mention, Life Framer 2021, Night Life Category

2020
Creator and coordinator of the editorial project “Tiempo Detenido. Memoria Fotográfica del Confinamiento”

2018
Arts Libris Prize for the photobook LIKE, Barcelona
3rd Prize, ENAIRE Foundation Photography Award
Best Photography Book of the Year, PhotoEspaña, for LIKE, Madrid

2017
Nominated for Best Photography Book of the Year, PhotoEspaña, for Once de Marzo, Madrid

2016
Creator and coordinator of the editorial project “El Diari Indultat”

2014
Creator and editor of DÚO, a monothematic newspaper
DÚO 01 nominated for Best Photography Book of the Year, PhotoEspaña, Madrid

2013
VEGAP Visual Creation Grant, PROPUESTAS 2013 (Nophoto collective)
FOTOPRES La Caixa Grant, 19th Documentary Image Contest (Nophoto collective)
Nominated for the “Prix du Livre”, Rencontres de la Photographie Arles (France)

2012
Promotion Grant for Contemporary Spanish Art, General Directorate of Fine Arts, Cultural Heritage, and Archives, Madrid

2011
Finalist, 11th Gas Natural Fenosa International Art Show

2010
First Prize, II Photographica Award, Estampa Fair, Madrid

2009
Visual Arts Grant, CAM Collection, Alicante
Finalist, IV Pilar Citoler International Contemporary Photography Prize, Córdoba

2008
Visual Arts Grant, Casa de Velázquez, Madrid
First Prize, Artegory: A New Language in Mixed Techniques, Madrid

2006
Selected, Purificación García Photography Contest
Revelation Award, PHotoEspaña (Nophoto collective)
Finalist, I Pilar Citoler International Contemporary Photography Prize, Córdoba

2005
Young Visual Arts Award, Complutense University of Madrid
Selected artist, FOTONOVIEMBRE, VIII International Biennial of Photography, Tenerife
Finalist, V Photography Prize, El Cultural, El Mundo
Founder member, Nophoto collective

2004
Visual Arts Grant, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander
First Prize, Fujifilm Euro Press Photo Awards, Nature Category
Honourable Mention, FNAC New Photography Talent

2003
Grant from Colegio de España in Paris, Ministry of Education and Culture

2001
Advanced Technician in Plastic Arts and Photography Design, Escola d’Art i Superior de Disseny, Valencia
Grant for the II Seminar on Photography and Journalism, Fundación Santa María de Albarracín, directed by Gervasio Sánchez, Albarracín, Teruel

2000
Grant from the National School of Photography in Arles, France, as part of the “International Photography Encounters in Arles”