Cristina Aymerich holds a Fine Art Degree and PhD in Fine Art from the University of Seville, where her doctoral research on artist Javier Winthuysen enriched her work with his poetics of the garden dimension, resulting in the publication Javier de Winthuysen, Pintor Jardinero (1874-1956). She received a Grant and First Prize at Foundation Rodriguez Acosta, Granada.
She served as a member of the Investigation Group of Contemporary Art Centre at the University of Seville (2001-2006) and lectured in Contemporary Aesthetics and Culture at the Designs School Leonardo da Vinci in Seville (2003-2007). Her artistic development has been shaped by stays in Madrid, Rome, Nairobi, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Jerusalem and London.
Currently based in London, Aymerich is a member of ICA and Bafta. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Palazzo di Sant’Apollinare in Rome, The Factory in London, and galleries in Madrid, Barcelona, and Seville. She has presented at conferences including the 2017 International Conference at Pontificia Università della Santa Croce and the 2006 Visual Studies Congress at ARCO Art Fair.
Her work resides in private collections and institutions including the Cervantes Institute in Chicago, Pan American Health Organization in Washington DC, and Foundation Andalusian Culture in Seville. Recent publications include essays in Belleza (2024) and Canibaal Magazine (2018), exploring the intersection of poetry, knowledge, and visual language.
Last PROJECTS
A Symphonic Jerusalem/ Cocktails/ Dostoevsky: Abitare Il mistero / Looking at the tree of life / Youth in Action / Free Poetry
A SYMPHONIC JERUSALEM, Shall we dance?
2020 / 2026
A Symphonic Jerusalem is a collection of art pieces in the shape of a multidisciplinary installation. The series explores how we see each other—and how we might see differently. Through video, painting, fabric, light, and sound, the work invites viewers to experience Jerusalem as a symphony: a place where distinct voices create potential harmony amid ongoing tension.
Jerusalem’s complexity is presented as a challenge, not to be resolved, but to facilitate pausing, to shed light on unconscious bias, to propose turning the utter silent monologue of thoughts and emotions into a respectful dialogue. To see how diversity might create harmony rather than discord. To recognise both the distinct notes and the music they make in unison.
Designed for exhibition in Jerusalem itself, the work asks: in a city that embodies both unity and division, can we learn to better perceive our shared humanity without erasing our differences? Can we engage with conflict and still find ways to move together?
COCKTAILS
03-2018 / 05-2019
The strength of the experience of being an inseparable mixture of Reality and Mystery, after the drunkenness that followed making me a regular at Dostoevsky’s Cocktail Bar, gives rise to a metaphorical series of images. Cocktails plays with decontextualized images and relates them. It shows visually what it would be verbally:
Like the Gin and the Tonic in a Gin and Tonic,
Is the Mystery and the Reality in Man
Phases of the project:
10 2018 Article published in CANIBAAL Magazine: Gin-Tonic de Realismos y Playa
02 2019 Exhibition in Colombia Pavillion, Seville
03 2019 Lounge of the series of Digital Printing works in my studio in London
DOSTOEVSKYJ: ABITARE IL MISTERO
11 2016 / 04-2017
In a new attempt to show the Visual Art as a way of knowledge, the work produced with the occasion of the Congress DOSTOEVSKYJ: ABITARE IL MISTERO, is framed in the year of the Centenary of the Russian Revolution of 1917. It has been presented in a forum of reflection dialogued from an interdisciplinary perspective: Is there in Dostoevsky’s anti-moralist narrative a key to overcoming the anti-moralist nihilism of the postmodern era? Is still his way of unraveling the mystery of the human being able to speak to us today?
Phases of the project:
11 / 12 2016 Photography and Video Recording in Mombasa, Kenia.
01 / 02 2017 Paintings. London.
04 / 2017 International Conference at the Pontificia Universitá Della Santa Croce. Paper&Screening and Paintings Exhibition.
LOOKING AT THE TREE OF LIFE
02-2014 / 12-2015
This project investigates, via the creative process, the concept of EBRIETAS: The knowledgable gaze and the gaze of knowledge.
I title this project Looking at the Tree of Life, as a way to express the beauty of the call of the Tree of Life is an invitation. If we want to maintain the look, the intensity of nostalgia grows within us, and with it hope.
I have come to discover how the calling of the Tree of life has left a tangible impression on each culture. Its presence crosses the boundaries of time and space: Hom, Iggdrasil, Izata, Kabala, White tree, Plaksha…. It is a universal calling, a channel by which the universal is expressed in the particular.
Phases of the project:
02 / 07 2014 Paintings. West Sussex Residence. London.
01 / 06 2015 Movie Recreating paintings. Sevilla.
09 / 12 2015 Graphic pieces: Repetitions and variations of meaning.
YOUTH IN ACTION European Union Programm YT7-PYWMOB
11-2012 / 06-2013
Youth dealer in an Educational and Cultural Program to introduce youth immigrants to London’s cultural environment, encouraging an understanding of art and performance and fostering mutual understanding and communication between teenagers from countries across the world.
POETRY AS VISUAL LANGUAGE
12-2012 / 12-2013
Working in my studio in London exploring the poetic dimension in visual language combining video and painting and developing video-art and digital-art as an approach of abstraction in painting.
The project used classic/contemporary topics as reference/research points eg “Ut Pictura Poesis” (applying it to our digital era), “A-live metaphor” Paul Ricoeur and Aesthetics of four Taoist thresholds (Empathy, Vital Rhythm, Reticence, Emptiness).
Exhibition in C26, The Biscuit Factory Space on December 2013.
For me, art is an imperative. A necessary response to the questions life presents. When words fail, I turn to the visual. My studio is where existential questions become creative responses.
I work freely, at my own pace, outside the demands of the art market. What matters is cultivating attentiveness, where I learn to see deeply and to receive what wants to emerge. This practice of attention keeps my whole life alive. When something happens that moves me, my answer is visual.
My work moves between figuration and abstraction, like the movement between prose and poetry. I’m drawn to portraits because faces reveal so much, but I also distill images to their essential elements: line, rhythm, color, form. Through this process of formal synthesis, I seek balance and relation. Visual elements become a kind of play, creating connections across media. Chaos becomes creation.
I work in painting, video, and text, letting each medium speak what the others cannot. Texture becomes breathing skin. Words weave through images. Intangible elements of rhythm, symbols, and metaphors become visible. What finally emerges is greater than the sum of its parts.
Recent series of mine explore fundamental questions about the human condition. A Symphonic Jerusalem investigates whether diverse voices can create harmony. Human Race examines how we see each other, and what we fail to see. Looking at the Tree of Life contemplates the call of beauty. Each series emerges from lived insight: a personal encounter, a journey to a new city, and engagement with literature and philosophy.
My practice extends beyond the studio. I facilitate educational projects, host gatherings, and create spaces for dialogue. For me, art and human connection are inseparable. What I make in solitude ultimately seeks communion. I want people to encounter the work and enter into a dialogue with each other. This exchange is essential.
Art is how I live life to the fullest. Not for recognition or profit, but for connection, understanding, and the beauty discovered through sustained attention.
WORKS. PUBLICATIONS
WORKS in Private Collections & Institutions/ Publications/ Conferences
WORKS In Private collections/ Institutions
Teresa Bevin. Santa Fe, New Mexico. Robinson Wood. Florida. Miami. Fernando Iniguez Ovando. Seville, Spain. Fernandez Ruiz & Cruzado, Seville, Spain. Barada & Aymerich, Washington DC. Montserrat Lambert, Santiago de Chile, Chile. Ignacio Vicens y Hualde, Madrid, Spain. De la Lastra & Viu. Sevilla. Spain.
Cervantes Institute in Chicago, Illinois. ANTARES,Club Finances Seville, Spain. Hacienda Casa-Palacio Valparaiso. Sevilla, Spain. Pan American Health Organization. Washington DC. Museo de Carruajes de Sevilla. Spain. Foundation Andalusian Culture. Sevilla. Spain.
PUBLICATION
2024 Aymerich C. ‘Acontece la verdad al contacto con lo poético: Ebrietas’. Belleza. (Num. 2. Pg 54-55). Ed. Social y Cultural SA. ISSN: 3020-5220)
2018 Aymerich C. ‘Gin-Tonic de realismos y playa’. Realismos & Playa (Num. 10. Pg 11-15). Ediciones Canibaal ISSN: 2340-7468
2013 Various authors: Cristina Aymerich, Ana Lía Borja, Patricia Díaz, David Escalona, Manuel Fontán del Junco, Irene Lombard, José Luis Cremades Milla, Estudio Mytaki, Lucia Pérez, José Vallejo Prieto, José Vergara, Reflexiones y diálogos en torno a la creatividad y el arte. Loreto Spá Editions. ISBN 978-84-695-6756-2
2009 Cristina Ojea Aymerich, Javier de Winthuysen Pintor Jardinero (1874 -1956). Colección Arte Hispalense, Number 87. Diputación de Sevilla. Editorial, Area de Cultura e Identidad. ISBN 978-84-7798-277-7
2005 One hundred authors: Diccionario de Ateneistas II, Ateneo de Seville, Editorial. ISBN 978-84-695-6756-2
1998 Cristina Aymerich Ojea, Illustrations and Animations for Proyecto Principe, Educational text books. DOSSAT Editorial, Madrid, Spain.
CONFERENCE
2017 An experience of vertical knowledge. Internacional Conference, Pontificia Universitá della Santa Croce. Paper Presenting a Video Arte Piece and an Instalation of Painting.
2012 Poetry and Abstraction, Coffee and Culture Lecture Series, Chelsea Arts Club, London
2006 Moda y Arte Contemporáneo, Museo Carruajes de Sevilla. Seville Fashion Week II. Delegación de Economía e Industria del Ayuntamiento de Sevilla, in collaboration with Asociación Amigos de la Moda, Seville, Spain
EXHIBITIONS & ART FAIRS
Selection
2019 COCKTAILS. Studio Vernissage. London. UK
2017 VOICES IN THE SILENCE. Palazzo di Sant’Apollinare. Roma.
2014 Platero y Cia. Foundation Andalusian Culture Exhibition Space. Sevilla. Spain
Museo Felipe Godines, Moguer. Programa Centenario Platero y yo. Huelva. Spain
2013 Secret Poetry. C62 The BiscuitFactory Space. London
2011 ROJO. Galería Concha Pedrosa. Sevilla. Spain
2008 Galería ARTEXXI. Madrid. Spain
2006 The Universe in each Face. Galería X Sabio 13. Sevilla. Spain
2005 Colour Playing. Taberna del Alabardero. Sevilla. Spain
Colour Playing . Casa de la Cultura. Alcalá Guadaíra Town Hall. Sevilla. Spain
2004 Rhythm variations. Galería ARTEXXI. Madrid. Spain
2003 Museo de Carruajes de Sevilla. Spain
2001 FRANCFURTER BUCHMESSE 2001. International Art Fair. Franckfurt. GERMANY
2000 Interior journey. Galería BATIK INTERNATIONAL ART. Barcelona. Spain
ARTESANOS ART GALERY. International Fair. Coral Gables, Florida USA
MAC’ 21 International Fair. Marbella. Spain
Galería GAUDÍ. Madrid. Spain
Chicago, Illinois
Sala Exposiciones Caja Sur – Reyes Católicos. Córdoba. Spain
1999 Galería ANTARES. Sevilla, Spain
Galería MONTECASINO. Puerto de Sta. María. Cádiz. Spain
HV Gallery Washington DC
Pan American Health Organization. Washington DC
1998 Sala IMAGEN. Concurso Caja de San Fernando. Sevilla. Spain
1997 Let go. BATIK INTERNATIONAL ART. Barcelona. Spain
1994 Landscapes. Monasterio de Gibraleón. Sevilla. Spain