Isabel Banal i Xifré

My origins have permeated all my work. A rural environment, the bond with nature, a tradition of landscape painting, the Nativity scene... I wanted to be a vet and in the end I studied Fine Arts. It was there, that the object of a table and the white appeared with intensity.

Castellfollit de la Roca, 1963

Isabel Banal i Xifré is a visual artist and teacher at the Massana School in Barcelona. Her origins have permeated all her work: a rural environment, the link with nature, the tradition of landscape painting and the nativity scene. She wanted to be a veterinarian and studied Fine Arts, where the figure of the table and the colour white appeared with intensity. She was awarded a scholarship by the Spanish Academy in Rome between 2013 and 2014. Her solo exhibitions include Jo també subscric la teoria de la bossa (Centre Cultural La Mercè, Girona 2026), Deus (Museu de la Garrotxa, Olot 2026), Arran de terra (ACVic Centre d’Arts Contemporànies, Vic 2026), Carta blanca (Centre d’Art La Panera, Lleida 2025), Vora de riu (Chiquita Room, Barcelona 2025), Abismes(Chiquita Room, Barcelona 2023), ad infinitum_nadala (Estrany-de la Mota Art Advisors, Barcelona 2020), in(certeses)(MUME La Jonquera, 2020), intents (Museo del Mediterráneo. Torroella de Montgrí, 2019), locus amoenus (Rad-Arte/ Bòlit. San Romano (Italy), 2019), Llunyanies. (Espai Dieu. Cadaqués, 2017), Natura morta amb passos (Fundación Miró, Barcelona 2016), Via Lactea (Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona 2014), La maleta [blava] de W.B. (Portbou, 2011), Ascensioni (Galleria Enrico Fornello. Prato, 2007), feix petit pel camí creix (Centro de Lectura. Reus, 2004), Allez (Centro de Arte Contemporain. Saint-Cyprien, 2004), Rumiant (Espacios. Girona, 2003), Sense revelar (Espacio Zero1. Olot, 2002).