21 Exhitibions in Barcelona
Opening 19:00hs Monday 21/07
Opening 19:30hs Wednesday 23/07
Opening 19:30hs Thursday 24/07
Curador: Andrés Aguilar Caro
Opening 19:00hs Tuesday 22/07
Clara Garrido
Grains of Sands and Screens
Agate Tūna
Museum of Stones
Caroline Roberts
Variant
Christopher Bennett
Ella Morton & Dale Rio
Kaleidocity
Francesco Amorosino
Placenta Sinestetica
Giorgia Pinzauti & Tommaso París
Javier Talavera
My Irradiated Friends
Kei Ito
Les Instants Physique
Kevin Hoth
Mira Esas Flores, ¡Qué Obstinada su Belleza!
Lorena B. Grabinski
Marta Fàbregas
Slices of Life
Ralph Nevins
Séverine Chauveau
Customers
Wai-Hang Siu
Ludovica Bastianini
City of Ghost
Rob Macdonald
Residencia
Coordinadora: Célica Veliz
Colectiva Sostenibilidad
Curadoras: Arantxa Berganzo & Astrid Jacomme
BienCuadrado Gallery Art
Instant Flashes, Urban Traces
Instant Flashes, Urban Traces is an exhibition that seeks to break the barriers of traditional creation by merging the immediacy of instant photography with the ephemeral presence of street art. The exhibition invites experimentation and creative freedom, exploring authenticity and transience in the metropolitan landscape. The selected artists are Alex Mehiel, Andrea Cassady, Anika Neese, Clare Bailey, Cromwell Schubarth, Erin O'Leary, Felicita Russo, Gabi Torres, Jennifer Rumbach, Polaroscope, Mila Nijinsky, Natalia Romay, and Paolo DellaCiana.
Experimental HUB
El Sueño de Kivah
Inspired by the ethereal beauty of universal elements and its interaction with the planet earth, this project creates a narrative around the character Kivah, the spirit essence of helium. Portrayed as a muse, Kivah embodies the significance of helium—the second element to emerge after the Big Bang, fundamental to star formation and the nucleosynthesis that creates all other elements. The project captures the essence of pre-existence, with the desert symbolizing a time before the universe, where Kivah exists in a dream state, contemplating her emergence into the world. Each photograph represents a fragment of Kivah’s dream, illustrating her aspirations and connections to humanity. With a poetic narrative, the images explore themes of limitation and transcendence. Just as a helium balloon, bound by its earthly vessel, longs to escape the atmosphere, Kivah yearns to break free into the limitless universe. The text accompanying the visuals encapsulates her journey from dreaming to existing, capturing the allure of the infinite possibilities that lie beyond.
Fragments from a Torn Earth
Ella Morton & Dale Rio | CANADA Y UNITED STATES
Fragments from a Torn Earth explores the fragility and volatility of extreme landscapes through new works by Dale Rio and Ella Morton. In 2024, Dale documented the volcanic landscapes of Sicily, Italy, while Ella captured the contrast between the cold, arid deserts of Svalbard, Norway, and Atacama, Chile. Ella employs experimental techniques such as mordançage and film soup on large-format film to create surreal color shifts and emulsion lifts. Her work showcases landscapes of melting glaciers, floating ice, salt flats, volcanoes, and desert stars, reflecting the power of the earth and the rapid changes it is undergoing due to global warming. Meanwhile, Dale’s work explores how time manifests in volatile landscapes through sequenced images and photo installations that express the concepts of chronos and kairos. Both works address themes of deep time, human and non-human collaboration, and humanity’s relationship with the earth amid the ongoing climate crisis.
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Blueprints
In the context of engineering and architecture, the term blueprint is commonly used to refer to any type of plan or detailed graphic representation. In this broad sense, it designates any technical image that contains detailed information about an object or structure. Blueprints is an exercise in reflection on the body and its representation, a search for what persists beyond physical presence. The proposal takes shape through a series of 1:1 scale cyanotypes, the result of a process involving essential elements such as sunlight, seawater, and the bodies themselves. The imprints of the body, turned into vestiges, move between presence and absence. Identity is no longer defined by individual features but by the accumulation of forms that belong to no one and, at the same time, contain us all.
Musas: Mujeres que nos Inspiran
Musas: Women Who Inspire Us is a series of portraits of incarcerated women at the Brians 1 Penitentiary Center in Catalonia, created by artist, activist, and feminist Marta Fàbregas. As part of the "Traspasando el Objetivo" project by the SETBA Foundation, Fàbregas conducts portrait photography workshops for the inmates. The project aims to improve participants’ self-esteem and enhance their job reintegration, resulting in a series of images that explore empowerment through photography. After carefully selecting portraits she takes of them, on the final day, the artist uses her own technique, "Transphotography", a variant of photographic transfer, to create these unique large-format pieces that combine collage and textures, all sewn onto a canvas with string. With these unique pieces, Fàbregas positions these women as muses, thus bringing visibility to women as a collective and returning them to the light. The artist donated these pieces to the SETBA Foundation.
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The Shape of my Memories
In this exhibition, the artist explores the relationship between photography and memory, questioning what is remembered, what is forgotten, and what is chosen to be preserved. She raises questions about truth in memories: does it reside in the precise details of an image or in the sensations that linger in the mind? The artist reflects on how photography is often considered a faithful representation of reality, even though time affects both the image and its process and photosensitive material. Usually, a photograph evokes a memory, but sometimes the memory no longer aligns with the captured image. For this reason, in this exhibition, she reverses the usual process: instead of starting from an image to remember, she uses photographic material to create "memory-objects," pieces that reflect her memory more than reality. Thus, her work transforms photography into a personal interpretation of time and memory.
The Cruelty of Grace
In this work, the artist creates a poetics of home, exploring dead objects, historical memories, and the feelings connected to them. She transformed fabrics, clothes, and old photographs, combining them with objects found in flea markets, such as wedding photos, portraits of women dedicated to domestic life, and soldiers in their uniforms. Through these elements, an uncomfortable contrast emerges between the fragility of feminine grace and the violence implicit in its imposition. The pieces in the series, which include sewing needles, broken glass, and other domestic objects, show wounds and fractures, reflecting a beauty that conceals suffering. Additionally, pieces of colored leather from her father’s work are incorporated, giving the work a personal and intimate character. The piece invites reflection on rights won through effort and the need to preserve and improve them in the future.
+ Visiting all exhibitions is free and there is no need to reserve tickets.