Works
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Jeremiah, 2025 -
Enjoy the Collapse (Bank of England, London, 2020), 2022
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ORDER, Act. 1, Eat the Rich, 2018
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ORDER, Act. 1, Kill the Poor, 2018
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ORDER. Act. I. Eat the rich / kill the poor, 2018
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ORDER. Act. II. Konsumentenchor, 2018
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ORDER, Act. 3, Upon this chaos I will build my house, 2017
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ORDER, Act. III, Your order is the chaos, 2017
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ORDER, Act. III, Every disaster is a blessing, 2017
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ORDER, Act. III, Our obedience produces monsters, 2017
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ORDER, Act. III, It is time to stop, 2017
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ORDER, Act. III, We are only fallow lands..., 2017
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ORDER. Act III. Dinner at The Dorchester, 2017
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We protect you from yourselves 01, 2013
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We protect you from yourself 05, 2013
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We protect you from yourselves 02, 2013
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We protect you from yourselves 03, 2013
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We protect you from yourselves 04, 2013
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20 de Abril, 2012
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Ser y Durar, Medalla 1, 2012
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Ser y durar. Aquí yacen los restos..., 2011
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Ser y durar. Estrella, hoz y martillo, 2011
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Ser y durar. Son las cosas que no conocéis..., 2011
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Ser y durar. Nada hay después de la muerte, 2011
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Ser y durar. Amor, libertad, socialismo, 2011
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Ser y Durar, 2011
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Ne vous laissez pas consoler , 2009
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La verdad es siempre revolucionaria, 2009
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No tenemos nada excepto nuestro tiempo, 2009
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Todos sois culpables salvo yo, 2007
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Welfare State Series, 2007
Installation shots
Biography
Work team made up in 2006, based in Madrid (Spain).
The decision to work as a group springs from the intention of engaging in an artistic practice centered on discussion and on the clash of ideas and forms of action. The fact of working in a group establishes in itself an interest for intervening in the social sphere. DEMOCRACIA works as a node of interests grouped temporarily for the development of the same objective, which is approached from different perspectives: those of each one of the participants in the project, being these the different agents (permanent and temporary) that shape DEMOCRACIA as the specific communities with which a collaboration is established.
Also DEMOCRACIA works in publishing (they are directors of Nolens Volens magazine) and curatorial projects (No Futuro, Madrid Abierto 2008, Creador de Dueños, Useful Art). They were founders and part of El Perro group (1989-2006).
Exhibitions
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We Protect You from Yourselves
Group Show 17 Feb - 27 Apr 2024 Locker RoomTen years ago, on October 3, 2014, we inaugurated the exhibition We Protect You from Yourselves by DEMOCRACIA collective at ADN Galeria. Among the pieces that made up this exhibition,...More information -
5994 is just a number
Group show 10 Oct - 30 Nov 2019 ADN GaleriaWithin the framework of Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2019, we are presenting a collective exhibition with the artists who we work for; some of them since the beginning, and others who...More information -
ORDER Act I. Eat the rich - Kill the poor
DEMOCRACIA 8 Jun - 23 Aug 2019 ADN GaleriaORDER, which began to be planned in 2014, is an ambitious work both for its sophisticated production and aesthetics and for the large number of agents involved in. The project...More information -
Welfare State
DEMOCRACIA 8 Jun - 9 Nov 2019 ADN PlatformIn this context we propose a meeting between the integrated and the marginalized society at the right time when the welfare state acts in search of justice and equality: One...More information -
ORDER Act III. Dinner at The Dorchester
DEMOCRACIA 9 Feb - 10 May 2017 ADN GaleriaDinner at The Dorchester is the third and last act of a project shaped as an opera called ORDER. It consists of three actions that have been carried out in...More information -
We protect you from yourselves
DEMOCRACIA 3 Oct - 11 Nov 2014 ADN GaleriaGlobalization brings with it a feeling of mistrust, rejection and powerlessness towards the mechanisms of government and political power. This turns into a crisis that alters our perception of events...More information -
Accomplices & Witnesses
Group Show 24 May - 31 Jul 2014 ADN GaleriaThe exhibition “Accomplices and Witnesses” is based on the idea of the artist as an accomplice and witness of social dynamics requiring an active implication, commitment and a positioning which...More information -
10 is more than a number
Group Show 29 Jun - 30 Nov 2013 ADN GaleriaOn June the 29th , ADN Galeria presents a group show which compiles works by all the artists working with the gallery to celebrate its 10th anniversary. Adopting the theory...More information -
Ser y durar
DEMOCRACIA 20 Sep - 30 Nov 2012 ADN GaleriaOne of the anchorage points of European culture, religion, is presented here in connection with other ideologies of the XX and XXI centuries. Through reappropriation or deflection of either places...More information -
Scratch
Group show 17 Dec 2009 - 31 Jan 2010 ADN GaleriaScratch is the third group exhibition at ADN Galería entirely dedicated to drawing, after “Drawing and Dreaming” (2007) and “Paperless Marks” (2008). On the present occasion, the dialogue between works...More information -
Ne vous laisser pas consoler
DEMOCRACIA 12 Nov - 12 Dec 2009 ADN GaleriaThe project begins with the collaboration between Democracia and the Ultramarines association, hooligans of the football team Girondins from Bordeaux. Starting from this collaboration and through a remarkable critical standpoint,...More information -
Sin Estado
DEMOCRACIA 22 Jan - 13 Mar 2009 ADN GaleriaSin Estado offers a double reading from his name: the use of public funds destined to the art which have been turned aside to interventions of social character, in a...More information
News
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Carlos Aires et DEMOCRACIA dans VIVRE
June 18, 2025La nouvelle Edition 2025 s’inaugure à MEMENTO avec l’exposition collective VIVRE le vendredi 27 juin à 19h Avec les artistes : CARLOS AIRES / MICHEL...More information -
Art with no comfort blanket
Plaster June 2, 2025At first glance, ‘Everything Is True – Nothing Is Permitted’, curated by Kendell Geers at Brutus in Rotterdam, is a star-studded lineup of artistic heavyweights,...More information -
EVERYTHING IS TRUE - NOTHING IS PERMITTED. Curated by Kendell Geers
Brutus Space March 27, 2025EVERYTHING IS TRUE - NOTHING IS PERMITTED is a celebration of art's power to subvert our expectations, to inspire, heal, excite, confuse, disrupt and challenge...More information -
Pólvora. Images of change
Espacio Tangente August 8, 2024The collaborative exhibition “Pólvora. Images of change ” will be open for viewing from August 6 to 30, 2024 at Espacio Tangente , Burgos (c/...More information -
DEMOCRACIA ; Eugenio Merino ; Avelino Sala en Metropolis
RTVE March 26, 2024Coincidiendo con el 20 Aniversario de PSJM, Metrópolis ha invitado al colectivo fundado en 2003 por Cynthia Viera y Pablo San José a proponer un...More information -
Arte y activismo en ADN Galeria. Doble exposición en Bcn
María Muñoz, Neo2 February 28, 2024Arte y activismo en ADN Galeria con 2 exposiciones: la individual “Cuerpos en Alianza” de Marinella Senatore y la colectiva “We Protect You from Yourselves”....More information -
Spanish art group Democracia have taken over LED screens in the city’s metro
Anny Shaw - The Art Newspaper July 13, 2020As Andrzej Duda narrowly wins Poland’s presidential election, protest posters installed in Warsaw become stark reminder of authoritarian rule Spanish art group Democracia have taken...More information -
Art in Focus: ORDER – a wake-up call by Democracia
Aidan Dunne - The Irish Time April 28, 2018Spanish artistic collective Democracia take on capitalism and its evils in their latest work, with the help of the Black Panthers and a Dublin youth...More information
