Gonzalo Borondo (Valladolid, 1989) began his artistic career as a muralist. Since then, the dialogue with spaces, architecture and the street has been fundamental to his projects. He has taken an interest in the reinterpretation of historical contexts, hidden narratives and the heritage present in the locations where he works. Thus, his site-specific interventions generate a different view of the past, while revealing an alternative view of the present.

Borondo’s work explores the idea of heritage, the relationship between the ephemeral and the enduring, between what is preserved and what is discarded. This quest has led him to work with sacred art, rescuing iconographies and symbols, as well as the ideas of ritual, mystery and transcendence, which he has reinterpreted in works such as Settimo Giorno and Hereditas.

His pieces, replete with symbols and narratives, are presented to the public as worlds to be entered, forming an immersive aesthetic and emotional experience. His work brings together analog and digital techniques, different arts (plastic arts, sculpture, music and poetry) and antagonistic relationships: the industrial and the sacred, the natural and the artificial. His career reveals a desire to bring life and work closer together, and a conception of artistic work based on devotion, dedication and even sacrifice.

Since 2010, Gonzalo Borondo has collaborated with numerous institutions, festivals, museums and galleries. He has held solo exhibitions in cities such as Madrid, Rome, Milan, Paris and London, and created installations in England, France, Italy, Spain, Australia, India, Ukraine and the United States. His works have been exhibited at the Urban Nation Museum (Berlin), the MACRO Museum (Rome), the Esteban Vicente Museum of Contemporary Art (Segovia), the Marché aux puces (Marseille), and the former Church of San Mattia (Bologna). His intervention at the Temple des Chartrons was acquired by the Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux as part of its permanent collection. Since 2023, he has been a full member of the Royal Academy of History and Art of San Quirce.

He is currently working on Mater, a solo exhibition for the Villa Stuck Museum in Munich.