Marc Badia (b. 1984, Esparraguera)

Lives and works in Barcelona

Marc Badia (1984, Esparraguera) holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, where he studied a master’s degree in Artistic Production and Research, and is an exchange student at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (HFBK Hamburg). His work is mainly focused on the hermeneutics of images in a pictorial and installative practice, using humour and mystery as tools of critique.

He has exhibited at Centro del Carmen de Valencia (Valencia), Espositivo Mad (Madrid), Galería Fran Reus (Mallorca), La Capella (Barcelona), Fundación Arranz Bravo (Barcelona) and at Arco Madrid with the L21 gallery (Mallorca). He has held residencies at the Free University of Tbilisi (Georgia), the DE Kaaij festival (Nijmegen, Holland) and Major 28 (Lleida).

CV

Education

2014

MA Fine Arts, Faculty of Fine Art, Universitat de Barcelona (ES)

2011

BA Fine Artsm, Faculty of Fine Art, Universitat de Barcelona (ES)

Selected exhibitions

2022

(Forthcoming) Jamás oirás a una estrella decir “ahí va un hombre fugaz”. L21 Gallery, Palma de Mallorca (ES)

Todo es de color, The Curators Room, Amsterdam,2022 (NL)

2021

ARCO Madrid, L21 Gallery (ES)

El dormitorio, Centro del Carmen, Valencia (ES)

COUGH, COUGH, BANG, BANG (solo show), Taca Studio, Mallorca (ES)

2020 

It’s no dirty it’s painted, FASE, Barcelona (ES)

The drawing lesson, Museu Molí de Capellades, Capellades (ES)

2019

10 anys, Fundació Arranz Bravo, Barcelona (ES)

Casantillon, Casa Banchel, Madrid (ES)

Jumanji (with Yann Leto and Jan Monclús), Espositivo Mad, Madrid (ES)

Sinopsi Art Nou, La Capella, Barcelona (ES)

2018

The foolosopher (solo show), Hans & Fritz lab., Barcelona (ES)

Archipiélago, Antigua embajada Britanica, Madrid (ES)

Panorama #2, Galería Fran Reus, Mallorca (ES)

2017 

Kaia shechema, Visual Arts and Design School, Free Univeristy of Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Georgia.

Let me die alone, but please film it collaboration with Jan Monclús curated by Jordi Antas at Fundació Arranz Bravo, Barcelona (ES)

Sublimey, Hans & Fritz contemporary, Barcelona (ES)

2016 

Sans air, Intervention at Fundación Olivar de Castillejo. Madrid (ES)

2015 

Los perros de Goya, curated by Anna Dot and Bernat Daviu, Plaga V, Barcelona (ES)

Le Peintre de la Pipe. Passatge Studio. Barcelona (ES)

2014 

My sweet collection (solo show), Vitrine(Bauhuaus-Universität). Weimar, Germany (DE)

No mistakes, just happy accidents collaboration with  Jan Monclús, Untitled Bcn. Barcelona (ES)

Artificialia, Cyan Gallery, Barcelona (ES)

2013 

PictoBcn, Hangar, Barcelona (ES)

2012

Japan Independence. The National Art Center of Tokyo, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum. Japan (JP)

2011 

The School, Rye, United Kingdom (UK)

The pleasure of conspiracy, Vorwerkstift, Hamburg, Germany (DE)

New classics, Electrohouse, Hamburg, Germany (DE)

2010 

Autocugat, Barcelona (ES)

Prizes and grants

2017

Artist in residence at Visual Arts and Design Eschol, Free University of Tbilisi, Georgia, Fundació Ramon Llull y Jiwar Barcelona (ES)

2015

Artist in residence at DE Kaaij, Nijmegen (NL)

2015

III convocatoria de los premios Mardel (ES)

2011

Erasmus at Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany (DE)

2010

2a Mención de honor, III Beca de estudis artistics Autocugat. Barcelona (DE)