Arnaldo Drés González (b. Caracas, 1986) is a Venezuelan interdisciplinary visual artist based in Hamburg, Germany, since 2014. His practice explores the relationship between human introspection and poetic visual experiences through moving images, pictorial interventions, sound art, digital art, and photography. His work recreates the ambiguity of human connections, social values, tensions, and conflicts of daily life, drawing inspiration from metaphors about existence, fear, refuge, identity, transit, and territory.
He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the National Experimental University of the Arts in Caracas, Venezuela (2011), specializing in New Media, and earned a master's degree from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Ottersberg, Germany (2016). Since 2008, his audiovisual works have been screened at various international video art and experimental film festivals, as well as exhibited in numerous group exhibitions in galleries, art fairs, and festivals in Colombia, Germany, France, Portugal, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela. Notable venues include the Museum of Contemporary Art of Caracas, the CineAutopsia Experimental Film Festival in Bogotá, the altonale festivals in Hamburg, and the 6 Tage Frei festival in Stuttgart, Germany.
González has also collaborated with musicians and performance artists from England, France, Germany, and the United States, creating experimental short films, visual albums, music videos, and audiovisual performances presented at "Le Metronum," Toulouse, and "Halle424," Hamburg.
Among his most notable awards and recognitions are an Honorable Mention at the altonale17-Kunstpreis in Hamburg (2015), a nomination for the MENA Art Award in Dubai (2019), and his selection for the Städtelabor (Urban Lab) residency program at the PAF - Performing Arts Festival Berlin (2019).
Arnaldo Drés González lives and works in Hamburg.