Jorge Rando

In 2018, in March the exhibition of ¨Qi Baishi - Jorge Rando: An Encounter¨, a cultural dialogue between East and West, gained a lot of attention. The same year, the exhibition ¨Naturalezas¨ took place.

In 2017, Rando was invited to participate in one of the most important events in Germany: "Reformations Jubiläums," a 500 years celebration of the Reform movement. The event is taking place in the German City of Emdem, declared European Capital of the Reform ( Reformationsstag Europass). The Exhibition was inaugurated on the 16th of July, under the title: "Ernst Barlach-Jorege Rando, Mystics of Modernity: Expressionism Yesterday and Today." After the celebration the tandem exhibition will travel to Berlin.

In 2016, he received the Ernst Barlach award, in recognition to his life's work and his commitment to expand new expressionism around the world. Jorge Rando is the first Spanish painter to receive this award, which is only given to select artist that have made worldwide contributions to art.

In 2015, the City of Málaga awarded Jorge Rando with the prize to the Arts "Estrella Feniké". Additionally, it was awarded the prize "Museum of the Years 2015," by the association of writers Friends of Málaga (Amigos de Málaga).

In 2014, the Jorge Rando Museum was opened, where his artwork is collected and preserved. Moreover, it represents the headquarters of the homonymous foundation, which aims to study the Expressionism in the broadest sense of the phrase. The museum is located on the premises of the Monastery of "Las Madres Mercedarias" on the popular Molinillo neighbourhood, in Málaga downtown area.

In 2011, Rando was awarded the Perséfone Media Club Award to the Arts, as best Painter of the year. He designed the statue to be presented to the winners of the Spanish Cinema Festival (2011).

In 2010, Rando designed the sculpture for the winners of the SIGNIS Film Circuit.

In 2008, the Writers Association of Málaga gave him the "Best Artist " award.

In 2007, Rando was awarded the Plastic Arts Award in Madrid. The Álvaro Mutis Foundation gave him the prize for "the best art book of the year." The United Nations Education and Social Cooperation Organisation in Paris (UNESCO) awarded the book on Jorge Rando's artwork entitled "More Light," by Carmen Pallares the prize "Golden Book of the Plastic Arts." Libro de Oro de la Plástica. Unesco (Parish). The Spain's National Library (Madrid) purchased some drawings by the artist for its permanent collection.

Fifteen books have been published about Rando's artwork and artistic style, written by a multicultural group of art critics, art historians, writers, poets and journalists. All these authors seem to have a common denominator, Rando's artistic ability to express through his paintings and sculptures, the spirituality of human nature expressed through art. In 2007, the book on Rando's paintings written by art critic, Carmen Pallarés, entitled More Light, won the prestigious Unesco (Organización de las Naciones Unidas, para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura) Art Book of the Year in Paris.

In 2006. Rando received the prize from the Antiquaria Foundation for his contributions to Spanish Expressionism. That same year he was also awarded the Contemporary Art prize by "Te Tertulia Ilustrada" in Madrid.

Jorge Rando (born 23 June 1941, Málaga) is a Spanish painter and sculptor, considered one of the most recognised artist of the Neo-expressionist art movement. A world class study of key figures of Expressionism and Neo-expressionism, from the Museum of Modern Art in Salzburg, identified Rando as one of the best advocates of neo-expressionism in the world. The expert study selected Rando and Miguel Barceló as the only two representatives of this artistic movement in Spain. Therefore, in recognition of Rando's fruitful artistic career, the first Expressionist museum in Spain, inaugurated in Málaga in 2014, bears his name Museum Jorge Rando. Currently, the painter lives and works between Málaga, Spain and Hamburg, Germany.

Jorge Rando was born in Málaga, Spain, in 1941. In the 1960s, he moved to Germany in order to pursue his philosophical studies, and where he met his wife Margit. He settled in Cologne, where he played a key role in the economic and cultural rebirth of the city after the Second World War. German culture and philosophy has been crucial for Rando's personal and artistic development. Since then, he has produced his art work in Spain and Germany, expanding the expressionist art movement in both cultures. Due to the mixture of cultures present in Rando's work, some consider it to be a cultural bridge that links the deep philosophical concepts of the German school with the powerful tradition of the Spanish artistic sensibility.The synergy between his philosophical concepts and his energetic painting converge in a language of great expressive force, that uses vigorous and colorful brushes.

On the 23rd Volume of Málaga Art History Encyclopedia, art historian Enrique Castaños stated that Rando's (artwork) is clearly distinguible from his fellow contemporary artist by the use of thematically oriented series known as "cycles." Castaños wrote "throughout his pictorial series ( Prostitution, Afrika, The Passion, Käthe Kollwitz, Maternities, etc.), it is clear Rando's fundamental concern is to unravel the inside of the human soul through colour, the organic form, its distortion and the free traces of his brush stroke."