Hi, I’m Daniel Palacios. My work is about the systems that shape things, not the things themselves.
The format, whether installation, sculpture, objects, or something else, follows from the logic of each project, not the other way around.


daniel palacios artist

I started with an interest in science, product design, and architecture, but formally trained in Fine Arts. Later, I finished postgraduate studies in Art & Technology, Art in the Public Sphere, and Multimedia Production. That mix didn’t produce a style, it produced a way of thinking where materials and making are a form of understanding.

A personal research

My work starts with observation. Not as metaphor, but literally: watching how physical systems behave, how space responds to presence, how time alters matter. Natural phenomena and scientific principles are not references or inspiration. They are the actual structure of the work.

What I’m looking for, consistently, is the underlying logic that produces perceptible behaviour. A rope spinning through air. A building exchange with its surroundings. The traces audience leave at a gallery after their visit… Each project begins with a system that already exists and asks what happens when it becomes tangible, looking for the gap between what we think we see and what is actually there. It operates as an interface between the two.

Getting it done

Early on I learned that complex ideas tend to collapse when execution is fragmented. So I took a different approach: staying involved from concept through fabrication, treating design, engineering, and production as parts of the same thinking process rather than sequential handoffs.

When you understand how something is made, you make different decisions about what it should be. The studio has the infrastructure of a production company and the working logic of an artist’s workshop. That combination is deliberate and not easy to find elsewhere.


Reaching across fields

The work has been shown in museums, festivals, and art fairs across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, including CAAC, MEIAC, ZKM, NAMOC, Ars Electronica, FILE, Science Gallery, LABoral, VOLTA and ARCO. I am part of public collections such as the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, the London Science Museum and CosmoCaixa Barcelona.

I represented Spain at the International Triennial of Media Art during the Beijing Olympics and received several international awards, including two VIDA Art and Artificial Life prizes. I’ve done residencies at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin and FAAP Casa Lutetia in São Paulo. My work has been published in Leonardo (MIT Press), Art + Science Now, Art contemporain nouveaux médias, Beyond the Display and other books and publications.

Beyond the art context, I’ve collaborated with brands such as Nike, Adidas, Nissan, Yamaha, Verizon and Mustang, and developed projects for agencies including Hyperquake, Unit9 and Liganova, as well as design studios like Jorge Herrera or Lago Interioriza, and clients like David Chipperfield Architects.

Where to next






An exploration through work

An explorationthrough work

My projects have taken me through Europe, Asia, and the Americas,
working with institutions, universities, and brands.

My projects have taken me through Europe, Asia, and the Americas, working with institutions, universities, and brands.

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