TheCentre Excursionista de Catalunya, la Fundació Enric Miralles, el Museu Frederic Marès, el Museu Picasso, el Reial Cercle Artístic will host a video of a local artist presented by a curator linked to the city of Barcelona, in an ideal chain operation aimed at celebrating the vitality of the local artistic framework and all its agents.
Centre Excursionista de Catalunya (08-18 November)
Bárbara Sánchez Barroso & Adriana Vila Guevara, The Knots We Knot, 2022 (Curated by Marta Pol Rigau)
Fundació Enric Miralles (08-30November)
Clàudia del Barrio, quality time | GRWM, 2022 (Curated by Carla Gimeno Jaria)
Museu Frederic Marès (05-20 November)
Paolo De, The Monarch’s Game, 2022 (Curated by Leslie Fonseca Tundidor)
Museu Picasso (08-20 November)
Matilde Amigo, Believe II, 2022 (Curated by Eva Paià)
Reial Cercle Artístic (08-20 November)
Laura Moreno Bueno, Event 0 (Curated by Gerard Borràs)
Matilde Amigo carries out transdisciplinary research processes alongside different work teams, looking for new possible venues in her own points of view and to challenge the consensus-based approach to information. She seeks to connect knowledge to sensitivity, starting from a space of true listening and revelation.
She is the creator of JUNTA (2015), GRUPO H (2016) and HISTORIA NATURAL (2018). She developed the project MARCIAL (2018-2022) at El Graner, L´Estruch, La Poderosa or La Visiva. She was awarded a prize by la Feria Barcú (Bogotá) and Amalgama Art, and has participated in the “Opposing Frictions” exhibition at Koppel X (Londres).
She has recently collaborated in APOCALIPSIS ENTRE AMIGOS (2021-2022) by Julián Pacomio; RELÁMPAGO (2021) by Sofía Montenegro; TWO PLANETS HAVE BEEN COLLIDING FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS by Dora García (2022) and FRONTERA/PROCESIÓN by Amanda Piña (2022).
She is currently a resident at La Escocesa and is an associate of the Centro de Creación Nave in Chile.
Video artist whose practice focuses on the construction of identity through the intersection of popular culture with the narratives of fiction that emerge from new visual media. Graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona (2016). She has participated in the exhibitions: Un alfabet a les fosques at Center d’Art Maristany (2022), Fin de Fiesta at Sala d’Art Jove (2022), MMMAD x MIRA Festival (2021), State of Mainstream at Homesession (2021), See Time Go By at Upstream Gallery Amsterdam (2020), Albacete, destino para las artes y el recreo at La Casa Vieja (Albacete, 2019), Mostra3 at ROVER (Palermo, 2018), Certified fresh, free range, organic art at La Cera 13 for LOOP Festival (Barcelona, 2018), Hotel Andalucía at etHALL for Art Nou (Barcelona, 2018), among others. He has completed residencies at the BilbaoArte Foundation (2017), at the RAD’ART Project (2017) and at the Fàbrica de Creació Fabra i Coats (2016).
PAOLO DE (Cuba, 1987) is a self-taught multimedia artist whose work is indexed on the web based on the nominal identity of the digital platforms he inhabits: Paolo De Insta, Paolo De Yimeil, Paolo De Feisbeul, Paolo de Tuiter, etc. Paolo De focuses on media art, and specifically on trends such as Crypto-Art, Game-Art, Net.Art and Video-Art, and he has covered subjects concerning social networks and their influence on the dynamics of social relationships, as well as on the dissemination and consumption of information in the modern age, the crypto market and geo-regulated blockchain technology, spaces of censorship and the false decentralisation policies of online communities, the internet as an architecture of power, manipulation, and a surveillance centre, digital identity, and interaction and discursive narratives in modern video games, among others. He is deemed to be one of the first NFT artists in Cuba.
Laura Moreno Bueno (1995) takes an interest in the coding and decoding of analogue and digital media.
She majored in audiovisual communications at the Rey Juan Carlos university of Madrid.
After having worked as a teacher in film workshops, she studied Creation at Elías Querejeta zineskola (San Sebastián, 2019-2020), which allowed her to continue to research bodily representation and to delve further into analogue processes.
In 2021, she began to work in “El sonido de las imágenes” (The sound of images), a project in which she manufactures photosensitive microphones that translate the light from a processed celluloid screening into sound, thanks to her residence fellowship in collaboration between Hangar-Casa Velázquez and LIFT, the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto.
Works mainly in video and video installation. His work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at the Joan Miró Foundation and La Capilla, Barcelona, Spain; and in group exhibitions at the MoCA Taipei, Taiwan; Lissone Museum of Contemporary Art, Italy; MHKA, Antwerp, Belgium; Naturgy Foundation, A Coruña, La Panera Art Center, Lleida; Center for Contemporary Art in Quito, Ecuador; Sala Amadís, Madrid; B’Chira Art Center, Tunisia, and Fran Reus Gallery, Mallorca, among others. He has completed postgraduate studies at HISK, and is currently studying artistic research at Lund University, Sweden. His works are part of the Han Nefkens Foundation and the Naturgy Foundation.
Filmmaker, artist and anthropologist (Caracas, 1981). Her work embraces the materiality and immateriality of film, moving between analog photochemical and video formats, as single-channel projection, filmic performance and installation. Her expanded cinema pieces travel through ceremonial and phenomenological forms, questioning identity in relation to the changing world, the transformation of states of consciousness, between poetics and politics. Co-founder of the analog and independent film laboratory Crater-Lab in Barcelona, currently resident at Hangar. She has screened her work in numerous festivals and art spaces around the world including IFFR Rotterdam Film Festival, Oberhausen IFF, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Cinema Arts, Primavera Sound, Centro de Arte Santa Monica, La Virreina, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Museo de Arte Moderna da Bahia, FID Marseille, Margaret Mead Film Festival, Microscope Gallery NY, Crossroads SF MoMa, among others.
Gerard Borràs studied documentary film at the Film School of Catalonia (2015-2019). Since then he has worked as an editor in independent film and has carried out advisory and installation tasks at the Ethall gallery (Hospitalet de Llobregat).
Lesly Fonseca Tundidor is a curator, art critic and techno-cultural researcher. She holds an MA in digital art curation (ESDi) from the Ramón Llull University of Barcelona. She majored in hart history (University of Havana, Faculty of Arts and Humanities), her research has focused on the field of new media, specifically game studies. She has given conferences on video art in spaces including summer seminars at the Pérez Art Museum (PAAM) of Miami; Conversando sobre Arte Contemporáneo by video art critic Magali Espinosa; Charlas Continuas at Galería Continua; at Galería Factoría in Havana; at the Asimtria experimental sound and video festival in Peru; in the Comic Art Festivals of the Camagüey Council of Plastic Arts; at GAIA 2021 (Game Arts International Assembly); and at the 2021 Toda la Teoría del Universo Festival (Chile). Her writings can be found in El Oficio (a Cuban art magazine); Art Crónica; ArtonCuba and in the Lenguaje Sucio anthology of Cuban art.
Carla Gimeno Jaria (Barcelona, 1994) is a curator and researcher. Her practice explores the impact of semiocapitalism on bodies; how are constituted, how do they affect each other, relate and behave in this context. After studying Comunication and Cultural Industries in Universitat de Barcelona, she did a Postgraduate in Contemporary Art Analysis in the same university. In 2018 she graduated in the Master’s degree in Curating & Collections by the University of the Arts London (UAL). Recently she has curated projects in South London Gallery, London; The Koppel Project, London; Flat Time House, London; CC Can Felipa, Barcelona; àngels barcelona, Barcelona; Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona; CC La Farinera del Clot, Barcelona. She has also written articles for OnCurating, ISIT Magazine, METAL Magazie, El Punt Avui and Häsel i Gretel.
Eva Paià is the Artistic Director of Sala d’Art Jove and Assistant Curator at Loop Festival 2025. She holds a Master’s degree in Advanced Studies and a Bachelor’s degree in Art History, both from the University of Barcelona. Since 2020, she has been collaborating with the MACBA’s Education Department, reflecting on the institution and proposing alternative ways to engage and give voice within the museum. She has collaborated with institutions such as MACBA, La Escocesa, or Fabra i Coats, with projects like Idensitat, with galleries such as àngels barcelona, and with festivals like Loop Festival or Art Nou. She has written for A*desk, El Temps de les Arts, and La Maleta de Portbou.
PhD and degree in Art History from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, studies at Sotheby’s Educational Studies, London, “Master in Cultural Management” and Postgraduate Diploma in “Cultural Management and Policies” from the University of Barcelona.
From his professional beginnings until today, he has combined curatorial practice with research and publication in specialized journals. Recently, he curated the re-enactment project-essay at the Casa de Cultura de Girona (2021-22); has collaborated in the exhibition “Action. A Provisional History of the 90s” at the MACBA (2020); since 2012 he has directed the ARBAR Art and Culture Center (Association for Biocultural and Artistic Research of the Sierra de Rodes), the Santa Creu Valley, the Port de la Selva, Girona; and,co-directs Fugas e interferencias- Performance Art Conference held by the CGAC of Santiago de Compostela, with the support of the University of Vigo (2016-present).