Arcana: los secretos del tarot

Chiquita Room C/ Villaroel, 25, Barcelona

Video art, drawing, embroidery and textile, musical composition, engraving, photography, publications, ceramics, painting, installation and performance give life to the exhibition, curated by the director and founder of the space, Laura González Palacios. ARCANA is a trip to the hands of 22 artists who reinterpret the 22 major arcana of the tarot and propose, from […]

Mise en images

Chiquita Room C/ Villaroel, 25, Barcelona

Mise en images brings together a selection of artists’ publications based on the accumulation of images. The two editors –so to speak– of this exhibition share a passion for this transverse knowledge. For Rosa Lleó, everything began in the bookshop where she worked in London, as these were the only publications she could “read” while […]

To talk about trees

Chiquita Room C/ Villaroel, 25, Barcelona

To talk about trees is a project by Sara Agudo Millán that reflects on the way we perceive our current relationship with nature and the environmental crisis. The exhibition consists of a publication displayed in the space that compiles texts from different sources, a series of records, photographs and an ephemeral installation of plant elements. […]

Time Bends as We Come Closer

Chiquita Room C/ Villaroel, 25, Barcelona

Time Bends as We Come Closer is an exhibition by Pedro Torres as part of Barcelona Gallery Weekend. The exhibition is about the curvature of the spacetime and our relationship with the force of gravity. In classical mechanics, gravitation is an attractiveforce that acts between bodies with mass, but since the general theory of relativity […]

Ubi Consistam

Chiquita Room Villarroel 25, Barcelona

Ubi Consistam is a project by Marina Sagona on the construction but also on the diffusion of identity. This Latin quotation is used to express the idea of a stable point and also the search for one's own identity. As Archimedes said, "give me a fulcrum and I will see the earth". The project began […]

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The Yellow Book

Chiquita Room C/ Villaroel, 25, Barcelona

The Yellow Book is a project by artist Jaro Varga, curated by Erich Weiss, which questions the universality of hegemonic knowledge through books and libraries. Between March 15 and May 15, Varga presents a comparative critical reading of Arús Public Library, Antoni Tàpies Foundation and Picasso Museum bibliographic collections with references from the artist’s personal […]

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Otrografías

Chiquita Room C/ Villaroel, 25, Barcelona

Seminar given by psychoanalyst Montserrat Rodríguez Garzo.  What causes the emergence of artistic writings? What do we know about their syntax? What about their orthography? What causes the artist's perseverance? It is not until the late Middle Ages that the concept of art is formed in the current sense of the notion, a matter that […]

Títol de l’exposició

Chiquita Room C/ Villaroel, 25, Barcelona

Títol de l'exposició is the provisional (or not) title of the exhibition Yannick Sánchez will present at Chiquita Room as part of Art Nou 2021. If we are to assume that the purpose of an exhibition proposal is to explain the exhibition project, it’s important to first clarify that this exhibition does not centre on […]

Memory Strata

Chiquita Room C/ Villaroel, 25, Barcelona

On this second occasion that Chiquita Room participates in Barcelona Gallery Weekend, we present the work of Carmen M. Castañeda. Through the translation of hand embroidery techniques from haute couture to a conceptual and experimental framework, the artist investigates the fragility of memory with an abstract, multidisciplinary and material language. The repetition of the same […]

COUSCOUS

Chiquita Room C/ Villaroel, 25, Barcelona

It is with great joy that we announce the participation of Chiquita Room in the Loop Festival 2021 with the artist Marina Sagona and her work "COUSCOUS". In it, on some family pictures taken in Tripoli in the early 60's, the artist's father's voice explains his couscous recipe in Italian. While he speaks, a text […]

Traginadores

Chiquita Room C/ Villaroel, 25, Barcelona

For four days the installation "Traginadores" can be visited in the gallery. In this series, Isabel Banal Xifré places herself inside different containers used in the rural world, some of them made with traditional materials such as wicker or cane and used to transport food, household goods, crops, stones.... The artist makes the gesture of […]

Orden público: Vagos, Maleantes y Peligrosidad Social

Chiquita Room C/ Villaroel, 25, Barcelona

“Orden público: Vagos, Maleantes y Peligrosidad Social” es un proyecto de Daniel Gasol que realiza contrabando de expedientes de la Ley de Vagos y Maleantes (1933-1970) y Peligrosidad Social (1970-1995) para pensar cómo la legislación convierte a las clases desfavorecidas en delincuentes que deben redimirse a través del trabajo para el Estado.

Un álbum

Chiquita Room C/ Villaroel, 25, Barcelona

On 15 February, a poet, a journalist, a calligrapher, an actress, a writer and a typographer dined at the gallery around a table that is Mercè Soler's album of experiences. An album that has no images, but a series of words inscribed in her memory. And in the table linen, crockery, cutlery and glasses. She […]

The Flat Catalogue

Chiquita Room C/ Villaroel, 25, Barcelona

The Flat Catalogue will temporarily establish an accumulation space at the Chiquita Room gallery in April 2022.

Diaris 2009 – 2019

Chiquita Room C/ Villaroel, 25, Barcelona

This exhibition is a beautiful testimony of intimacy. At the crossroads between biographical collection and work with shapes, colors and light, Alba Yruela brings together more than 500 photographs taken over 10 years. It is a work edited on her personal archive, which as an accumulation of images invades the walls of the gallery for […]

Maisons de week-ends imaginaires

Chiquita Room C/ Villaroel, 25, Barcelona

Maisons de week-ends imaginaires by Laía Argüelles is the result of an interest in private spaces and a desire for home as a sometimes inaccessible notion. The work is a polyptych composed by 12 pieces that are, at the same time, intervened diptychs: each one shows a print, taken from an old book of projected […]

Sobremesa

Chiquita Room C/ Villaroel, 25, Barcelona

Sobremesa is a project by Liliana Díaz in collaboration with Xavier Barriga that explores the way we feed ourselves and the content we choose to do so. The exhibition, oriented towards the exploration of the relationship between public and artwork through sculpture and bread, is an attempt to evidence the way in which we share and to question the permanence of sculpture and its function.

Parabolic Structures

Chiquita Room C/ Villaroel, 25, Barcelona

With Parabolic Structures, Phillip Maisel addresses his own family’s histories and broader notions of displacement, belonging, and what remains in our absences.

The heart’s eye saw something which the hand could never hold

Chiquita Room C/ Villaroel, 25, Barcelona

Based on the work of six artists and filmmakers, a series of practices that integrate a way of working based on the fleetingness of the gesture, on the delicacy of the unpredictable instant, while reflecting on the ways of inhabiting intimate spaces, will be shown.

Growth and degrowth of Howard Roark

Chiquita Room C/ Villaroel, 25, Barcelona

The Green Parrot and Chiquita Room present a double exhibition of the poet and sound artist Eduard Escoffet, his first solo exhibition in the city. It is also the first time that the two Barcelona galleries present a collaborative project.

Abismes

Chiquita Room C/ Villaroel, 25, Barcelona

We are aware of Isabel Banal's passion for the game of scales and miniature, for the diatribes of language.

Gynopia and the Spasm

Chiquita Room C/ Villaroel, 25, Barcelona

Due to the need for references and to share the experience of hysterectomy, Laia Arqueros presents the exhibition Gynopia and the Spasm, where she directly explores what it means to be a hysterectomized woman in contemporary society.

still

Chiquita Room C/ Villaroel, 25, Barcelona

Julia Aurora Guzmán's exhibition still refers to a void activated by the memory of its past presence. It is the externalization and formulation of a mourning process. Like the Japanese term nagori, meaning "the imprint of waves", it refers to the nostalgia of the ending cycle, the atmosphere of something that no longer exists or […]

A Catalogue of a Young Country Ladies Library

Terranova Comte Borrell, 99, Barcelona

A Catalogue of a Young Country Ladies Library is an exhibition by Louis Porter at Terranova bookstore in collaboration with Chiquita Room. Louis Porter compiles here a collection of photographic postcards depicting women engaged in the act of reading, juxtaposed with a list written by Anne Baker in 1712 of recommended items to be included […]