Mateo Revillo (Spain, 1993) is an artist who lives and works in Paris. His practice revolves around a central notion: that of latent structures inscribed in an assemblage suspended in time.
There they are, fully visible—fragments, open forms, surfaces that seem to contain duration. This initial materiality leads us directly into his practice, situated between painting, sculpture, and architectural intervention. Revillo works with elemental materials—lime, plaster, pigment—combined with a scenographic sensitivity that, while not visibly tied to any specific style, resonates with deep echoes from various artistic traditions, both past and present, including the Spanish one.
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Upon closer observation, each piece reveals itself as a threshold—like the vestige of a future ruin or the remnant of a ceremony yet to occur. A constant tension emerges between structure and fragment, between architecture and fracture, between what has disappeared, what remains open, what lingers suspended in transformation. This same tension is reflected in the way color inhabits the surfaces of his work.
Color in his work does not function as ornament, but as a structural agent. It generates a dense, physical atmosphere—a field of emotion that adds temperature, vibration, and depth. It is not applied; it is revealed. Revillo’s chromatic choices seek density rather than harmony. Color is embodied in matter, attaching itself to the folds of time contained in each surface, intensifying the temporal dimension of the whole.
And it is precisely within this temporality that the constructive core of his work takes shape: a composition of fragments where the unfinished, the open, and the persistent coexist. His forms do not illustrate; they pulse. The material does not represent; it resonates. Everything seems to exist in a state of ongoing transformation or emerging memory.
This logic of instability translates into a will to narrate through interruption. The images he constructs contain layers, folds, and voids that operate as ways of thinking about time and history. Each piece speaks from the present with the voice of something not yet articulated—though that voice rarely settles into fixed form.
Many of his works undergo successive processes of transformation. He adds layers, introduces contradictions, displaces elements. What appears closed today may reopen tomorrow. What was once form dissolves; what presented itself as image becomes trace. There is no final version. What matters is not the result but the journey. His practice rests on a deep belief in change, in increasing complexity, in the possibility of being multiple.

Revillo’s work is not directly or explicitly aligned with the tradition of political or socially critical art in the classic sense. Yet that does not mean it lacks a critical dimension. His work tends to operate from a subtler place—often formal or affective—where the political may surface as resonance, as internal tension between language, matter, and image.
He moves within a field of exploration in which systems of representation, visual codes, and gestures that may seem neutral or formal acquire a critical charge precisely through their ability to destabilize norms, to displace meaning or suspend it. In this sense, we could speak of a micropolitics of form or a structural critique, more aligned with a conceptual and post-minimalist sensitivity than with overt denunciation.
That same critical and experimental attitude drives his expansion into other domains of knowledge. Driven by insatiable curiosity, Revillo has spent years establishing connections between art, architecture, anthropology, and memory. His background in social sciences reinforces this transversal gaze, where each work functions as embodied, culturally active thought.

Rather than delivering a message, his work proposes ways of doing, forms of attention, tactical decisions, and intuitions that do not follow a preordained plan but instead unfold through a material, concrete, and risk-laden internal logic. Color, form, and gesture do not act in isolation, but as parts of a will that is not discursive, but physical.
This will does not exclude use, but it rejects the imposition of function. Revillo does not pursue utility as a mandate. His practice does not respond to an external purpose. It has use, but not imposed function. He inherits an architectural sensibility and an anthropological perspective. He builds like someone who listens; he invents like someone who excavates. Each space—like each work—activates its own rules. Norms, then, are not erased but reorganized. From this reorganization arises a fertile ambiguity, where the formal, the poetic, and the intimate intersect without hierarchy.
From this position, Revillo reserves the right not to say everything. He allows things to simply be. To speak for themselves. And in doing so, he resists the tyranny of the message through the power of a form still in the process of becoming.

2026[ UP-COMING, Mar. ] NISO Gallery, London, UK
2025Metallon, Galerie Chloé Perrin, Paris, FR
Betwixt, Beyond and Unbound, Dowler/Revillo, Gasa Gilardi, Mexico, MX
2024Bee Circus, Pal Project, November, Paris, FR
2023Fondo, Alzueta, Barcelona, ES
2022Paragone, pal project, Paris, FR
2021Pentimento, Galería Alegría, Barcelona, ES
2019Éxodo, Fundación Cirat/CAR/Casabanchel, Casabanchel, Madrid, ES 
Fuentes, XF proyectos, Madrid, ES
2018Nuit Blanche: Un titanic, reprise, Revillo/Sarin, Ile St. Louis, Paris, FR 
Un titanic, reprise: Novembre, Revillo/Sarin, Editions Dilecta, Paris, FR
Left-Over, In box, Brussels, BR
Traktat eines ensembles un titanic, reprise, Revillo/Sarin, Strizzi Galerie, Köln, DE
2016Wood Cut Punk, Galeria Slowtrack, Madrid, ES.
2015Two incomplete paintings, Oxford University Press Bookshop, Oxford, UK. 
2025[ UP-COMING, Nov. ] What remains of the Idea, Niso Gallery, London, UK
Battle Fatigue, Chateau La Coste, Aix-en-Provence, FR
Salon de Septembre, GSL Gallery, Pantin, FR
Serial Recall, Niso Gallery, London, UK 
Beyond, Niso Gallery, London, UK 
Bridge, Niso & Biscuit Gallery, Tokyo, JPN
Tokyo Art Fair, Biscuit Gallery, Tokyo, JPN
Haruspex, Pal Project, Paris, FR
2024Straight, No Chaser, Zuzeum Art Center, Riga, LV
Paris Design Week, Galerie Poggi, Paris, FR
Green is the color, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, FR
30 Giorni Intorno, Studio Giga, Roma, IT
Rapsodia per Chimere, Studio Interludio Gallery, Turin, IT 
Antipetra, COAM, Madrid, ES
Zona Maco, Pal Project, Mexico, MX 
2023Haniwa Boogie Woogie, FORMA, Paris, FR
Animalia, Cabin Berlin, Berlin, DE
Le citron est la fleur la plus sincère, Galerie Filles du Calvaire, Paris, FR 
Tutti Frutti, Sainte Anne Galery, Paris, FR
Faire fi, faire feu, pal project, Paris, FR
Un Salon d’Hiver II, Bubenberg, St. Mortitz, CHE
Café Transversal, cur. Javier Carro, Villa Belleville, Paris, FR 
(In)visibles, Galerie Dauphine, Paris, FR
2022Zero, cur. La Méditerranée, pal project, Artissima, Turin, IT
Le paysan, le chercheur et le croyant, cur.Y.Kruger, Poush, Aubervilliers, FR 
Crowne Plaza, cur. La Méditerranée, Forma, Paris, FR
Forest Fantasy, Greenline Foundation, Ognon, FR
Jean Nouvel: Racines Aériennes, Galerie Philia, Côte d’Azur, FR
Die Überlebenden, cur. La Méditerranée, Staatspark Karlsaue, Kassel, DE
Héritages – Cité Radieuse, Galerie Philia, Cité Radieuse, Marsella, FR
Geografía (Reprise), Panetteria Atomica, cur. La Méditerranée, Roma, IT
Manovra, cur. La Méditerranée, Castello 2432, Venecia, IT,
Geografía, cur. La Méditerranée, Terzo Fronte, Roma, IT 
2021Le cru et le cuit, The Russian Museum of Ethnography, Saint Petersburg, RU 
Débordement #1, Christian Berst Gallery, Paris, FR
SWAB art fair, Galeria Alegria, Barcelona, ES
Collections permanentes, cur. La Méditerranée, Poush Manifesto, Clichy, FR
CBOKTOKA CBET, Lazy Mike Gallery, Moscow, RU 
Komi Biennale, National Museum of Komi, Syktyvkar, Komi, RU 
Accrochage no 5. cur. La Méditerranée, Poush Manifesto, Clichy, FR 
2020Grand Final, cur. La Méditerranéé, Poush Manifesto, Clichy, FR 
Programme Special, cur. La Méditerranéé, Poush Manifesto, Clichy, FR 
Contrabando, IFEMA, 26 de Febrero 2020, Madrid, ES
Eros y Tanatos Real Estate, cur.Muñozcano, Onassis Air Foundation, AECID, 
Dionisis Sotovikis Workshop, Athens, GR
2019ÉXODO 01/06, colectivo De Origen, CAR/Inland, Madrid, ES
Wechseln, Sala de exposiciones ABM, Madrid, ES
Au sens propre, le Pangolin et L’oeil Gallery, Marseille, FR
2018Un titanic, reprise, Calendrier 2 : Écharde, Galeríe Michel Rein, Paris, FR
Private Choice 2018, cur. Nadia Candet, Private Choice, Paris, FR
Un titanic, reprise, Calendrier 1 : Triomphe, Galeríe Michel Rein, Paris, FR
2017C+H2OC17, Fondation Fiminco, Pantin, FR
Private Choice, Avenue Général Wilson, October, Paris, FR 
12 Architectures de vos yeux, Cercle de la Horla, 3 rue Elzevir, Paris, FR
Rattle Schow, cur. Mateo Revillo, 81 bis rue Lepic, Paris, FR
201661ème Édition du Salon de Montrouge, cur. Ami Barak, Paris, FR 
Une Collection 2, Antoine Py et Camille Dahlia, Paris, FR 
Une Collection, cur. Antoine Py et Camille Dahlia, Paris, FR 
2015Ruskin Degree Show, Oxford, UK
Day Rattle, cur. Mateo Revillo, Oxford, UK
2014a Show, Revillo/Siem, St Catherines College; Oxford, UK 
2019Piece draftsman at EMPTY for the Colecciones Reales Museum, Madrid, ES
2016—2017
Lauréat Cité des Arts, Paris, FR
Master 1 in Territory, Space and Society at EHESS, Paris, FR
2012—2015 Fine Arts, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, U.K.
Kevin Slingsby Prize for Funnel Vision, Oxford, U.K.