A home for art
Chiquita Room is a contemporary art center that works simultaneously as a gallery, a residence for artists and an artist book publisher. We are dedicated to accompany artists along their projects, reflecting relevant issues to society through a critical, innovative and collective approach, while exploring the poetics of artistic expression from the interaction between art and other disciplines. Our aim is to make people aware of art as a way to live a better life, as a source of knowledge and beauty, in order to expand their points of view and interpretations of reality. All this is possible thanks to a team of good people, wo work committed, skilled and passionately taking great care of the processes and details.
Louise Bourgeois
Contemporary art gallery
Chiquita Room is the heir to the artist’s book publishing project Chiquita Ediciones, which opened in 2018 as a commitment from its director, Laura González Palacios.
Chiquita Room exhibits artists and curates projects that want to reflect relevant issues for contemporary society with a critical and innovative approach, while exploring the poetics of artistic expression through the interaction between art and other disciplines. The public that visits Chiquita Room is invited to reflect, analyze or discuss the proposed topics, expanding them with personal points of view and interpretations. Each artistic project on display is expanded with an edited book.
In its five years of experience, Chiquita Room has maintained a constant activity and presented more than 30 exhibitions, including solo and group shows. During this time, it has published more than twenty publications, has been nominated for the Catalan Association of Art Critics award in 2020 and 2024 and has received the award for Best Gallery in Barcelona in 2021, by Time Out magazine.
Publishing house
Chiquita Ediciones was born in 2013 as an independent micro-publisher specialized in artist’s books, from unfinished publications, Chiquita Ediciones invited artists to participate in them in order to generate a dialogue and interaction. All exhibitions held at the art center have an associated publication.
Artist Residency
Chiquita Room is a home for international artists, it offers a space for accommodation, artistic production and exhibition. Through its own residency program, it invites artists to live in Barcelona, integrate and be inspired by the city and carry out the entire creative process.
Artists in residency
Salamanca, España
Lara Ruiz
Madrid, España
Iñaki Domingo
San Francisco, Estados Unidos
Lynn Marie Kirby
Amsterdam, Países Bajos
Annosh Urbake
Zaragoza, España
Laía Argüelles Folch
Londres, Reino Unido
Louis Porter
Praga, República Checa
Jaro Varga
Nueva York, Estados Unidos
Marina Sagona
Lisboa, Portugal
Xana Sousa
Lucerna, Suiza
Barbara Davi
Santander, España
Marta Valledor
Santiago, Chile
Alfredo Da Venezia
Team
Direction: Laura González Palacios
Communication: Erica Volpini
Graphic design: Ámbar Amill Bosco
Press: Teresa Vallbona
Website: Alejandro López
