J.J. Mogat

Juan José Mora Galeote, known artistically as J.J. Mogat, is a visual and plastic artist, university professor, and interdisciplinary researcher with a broad academic background. He holds a PhD in Art and Artistic Culture; a Master’s in Languages and Poetics of Contemporary Art; a Master’s in Artistic Production and Research; a Master’s in Teacher Training specializing in Drawing, Image and Visual Arts (University of Granada, Spain); and a Master’s in Psychological Research (UNED, Spain).
In terms of his professional practice, he is a university professor and interdisciplinary researcher, as well as a multidisciplinary visual and plastic artist who lives and works between Málaga, Seville, and Berlin. His artistic work knows no technical limits—ideas determine the final outcome. His practice spans literary production, illustration, photography, sculpture, installation, new technologies, and painting, which remains his core discipline.
He is the creator of the term belkitsch, which explores the aesthetic shift in the current artistic landscape and examines adjacent aesthetics, challenging the pejorative nature of the term kitsch to offer a new aesthetic-conceptual reading.
His main theoretical research interests focus on the structures that shape cultural, individual, and social identity, using both artistic and psychological tools for self-knowledge and the social sharing of emotions. These interests, intertwined with visual creation, result in a complex approach to producing artwork.
His work elevates the everydayness of the screen, translating it onto canvas while maintaining a dialogue with AI and traditional painting techniques. All of this is framed within an ongoing social critique of injustice and the abuse of authoritarian political sectarianism that seeks to erase identities and ways of existing outside the hegemonic "norms." The refinement of detail, the allure of color, and the use of shine close the circle of his work’s aesthetic output: performing life as a right to exist.