Gabriela Galeano Batres (b.1995) is a Honduras-born multidisciplinary artist currently based in Berlin. Having studied Graphic Design and Fine Arts at the Chavón School of Design in La Romana, Dominican Republic, and Fine Arts at KABK, Royal Academy of Arts in Den Haag, Netherlands, the artist’s work examines and interrogates family, femininity, and the residual effects of colonisation. 

The exploration of these themes emerges as paintings, video and performance works that invite the audience to masticate their ideals, digesting and observing life’s quotidian nuances — small scale occurrences that represent larger scale patterns. Galeano Batres’ work meditates on actions that represent a part of a person’s past and how they reflect societal traits within a community. She is a member of the four-person Berlin-based artist collective I would die for anything.

Between 2018 and 2020, Galeano Batres’ work has been exhibited in the Netherlands in Come As You Are at Trixie/HOOGTIJ #54, Indrinken x Getting My Friends Drunk at HOOGTIJ #57, Cinema Underexposed at Baobab Magazine Studios, Susan, Bites, and Videotapes ll: Return of the Susan at The Balcony and more.

In 2020 the artist was also part of the Latin American Performance Festival 2020 representing Honduras.

In 2021 and 2022 respectively, Galeano Batres had texts published as part of online text publication Antagónicos and collaborated with Natalia Nikoniuk & Kexin Hao to publish queer journal BRAIDS.

In 2023 the artist had a number of paintings featured in D&A Festival’s group exhibition at Stilwerk Kantgaragen, and in May 2024 she opened her solo exhibition Confession from a Stone at I would die for anything.

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