Esmeralda Conde Ruiz creates installations, sculptures, and performances that investigate impermanence and transformation within a social and ecological context. She addresses the question of how humanity approaches uncertainty in an often unpredictable world. Working with glass, light, sound, and bioplastic, she builds colour-saturated environments that remain in visible flux. Her research based and process driven practice takes influence from minimalism and geometric abstraction, alongside ideas from colour psychology to create spaces where stability feels temporary and viewers become physically and emotionally implicated in processes of change. Her ideas converge on the fundamental human and ecological challenge of deciding what should endure, what should fade away.
Conde Ruiz holds a Master's degree in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at Somers Gallery, London (2025); Burghof, Loerrach (2024); HELLERAU European Centre for the Arts, Dresden (2023). Conde Ruiz’s work has been featured in group exhibitions, including Mimosa House, London (2026); SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen (2024); Tulca Gallery, Galway (2022); Tate Modern, London (2022); Matadero, Madrid (2021). She has contributed to major programmes including Ether’s Bloom at Gropius Bau, Berlin (2024), and was keynote speaker at the DEGEM Symposium, Luebeck (2023). She has collaborated with artists, researchers and musicians including Yoko Ono, Olafur Eliasson, Nick Cave, Susan Philipsz, Matthew Herbert, Lina Lapelytė, and Mira Calix. Conde Ruiz is the recipient of the Fellowship at Schaufler Residency@TUDresden (2022) and Creative Armenia (2022), and was nominated for the Human AI Art Award, Kunstmuseum Bonn (2024).
Esmeralda Conde Ruiz (b. 1980, Spain) lives and works in London, UK.
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