Art Beyond Reality
Born in Duisburg in 1965 to Spanish migrant parents, Gabriel Montalbán grew up between two cultures, never quite belonging to either.
His artistic worlds are populated by forgotten souls, mysterious creatures and impossible encounters. Blending fine-art photography, surrealism and digital imagination, his work explores loneliness, freedom, memory and the strange beauty of imperfection.
Sometimes his images capture the world as it is. Sometimes they transform it. And sometimes they create places, characters and stories that have never existed.
Still living in Germany, Gabriel creates visual stories that feel like memories of things that never happened.
“Not everything that never happened is untrue.”
