This year we return to Arts Libris, a publishing fair specializing in artist publications, photobooks, contemporary thought, self-publishing and digital publications. Chiquita Room is the result of a publishing project, Chiquita Ediciones, which focuses on the artist's book as a more accessible support for contemporary art. On Friday, June 18 at 7 pm, in the […]
"Ninja Papel Editora" is an independent publishing house created by Renata Gelosi in 2016 in Buenos Aires, currently based in Barcelona. It focuses on processes related to words and artistic experimentation, publishing so far poetry, documentary stories, an allegorical dictionary and a collection of interviews about the creative process and composition. He also publishes prints […]
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 […]
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 […]
Presentation of a small selection of old works by Yannick Sánchez, some of them never exhibited, which will set a background to understand the attitude and the future of this exhibition. Títol de l'exposició is the title, for now provisional (or not), of the exhibition presented by Yannick Sanchez at Chiquita Room for the Art […]
On the last day of the exhibition Títol de l'exposició by Yannick Sánchez, a closing ceremony will be held to inaugurate the exhibition, which has been taking shape during the months of its duration. Títol de l'exposició is the title, for now provisional (or not), of the exhibition presented by Yannick Sánchez at Chiquita Room […]
Títol de l’exposició, by Yannick Sánchez, comes to an end after a summer in which the artist has settled in the gallery and turned this space into his studio. Now, in the last few days you can see the fruits of his work in an exhibition and on the closing day, Yannick would like to […]
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 […]
The artist Carmen M. Castañeda invites us to an embroidery demonstration within the framework of the Barcelona Gallery Weekend, where she will show her way of working using the "Lunéville crochet" technique and the intuitive way in which she has produced the works in the exhibition. Carmen embroiders without seeing the front of the pieces, […]
from the past ∞ from the future is a dance piece that emerges from two early neon sculptures, From the Past (Score -h) and From the Future (Score v-), created as part of the exhibition project Time Bends as We Menja Closer, in which Pedro Torres investigates the curvature of space and the consequent gravitational […]
The artist Carmen M. Castañeda invites us to an embroidery demonstration within the framework of the Barcelona Gallery Weekend, where she will show her way of working using the "Lunéville crochet" technique and the intuitive way in which she has produced the works in the exhibition. Carmen embroiders without seeing the front of the pieces, […]
Chiquita Room participates again in Swab, the contemporary art fair in Barcelona, being one of four independent Catalan spaces sponsored by the Fundació Vila Casas. With artists Xavi Rodríguez Martín and Beatriz Dubois, the gallery joins self-managed spaces in the Swab Seed section with artists who work from experimentation. In her work, Beatriz uses photography […]
The artist Carmen M. Castañeda returns to invite us to a brocade demonstration where she will show us her way of working using the "Lunéville crochet" technique and the intuitive way in which she has produced the works of the exhibition. Carmen crochets without seeing the front side of the pieces, using the tacte to […]
Tejiendo la calle by Marina Fernández Ramos brings together the experiences of the homonymous project held in Valverde de la Vera, which she founded in 2013. A citizen cooperation project in which people, mostly elderly women, weave parasols reusing plastic and install them in the streets of the town to provide shade in summer. A […]
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 […]
As part of the LOOP festival, Chiquita Room will be part of a guided tour of galleries on Saturday, November 13. For more information and registration, you can visit this website. See you!
Can food build affections? In her project COUSCOUS the Italian-American artist Marina Sagona investigates her relationship with her father and the role that cooking has played between them, a kind of bridge structured by an imaginary emotional dictionary. On the 20th we invite you to share this experience at Chiquita Room with Oreste Sagona, his […]
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 […]
In the framework of the exhibition Public Order: Vagos, Maleantes y Peligrosidad Social, the artist Daniel Gasol will guide us through his extensive research on the files of the Vagos y Maleantes (1933-1970) and Peligrosidad Social (1970-1995) Law, analysing how the legislation often turns the underprivileged classes into criminals, who must also redeem themselves by working for the State.
Este próximo 2022 celebramos, por cuarto año consecutivo, nuestra ya tradicional Noche de Reinas. A la hora del té y en la víspera de la Epifanía, volvemos a compartir una lectura colectiva de tarot (cortesía de la habitación) para conocer los valores que nos ayudarán a abordar el año nuevo. Además, todas las personas que […]
In the framework of the exhibition Orden público: Vagos, Maleantes y Peligrosidad Social, Daniel Gasol invites us to participate in a workshop in the context of the La Model prison in Barcelona, one of the places where detainees under the Ley Vagos y Maleantes (1933-1970) and the Ley de Peligrosidad Social (1970-1995) were held and imprisoned in order to serve their corresponding sentences.
In the context of the ex La Modelo prison in Barcelona, we will be holding a round table with Daniel Gasol, with Antoni Ruiz and Silvia Reyes, two people sentenced under the Ley Vagos y Maleantes y Peligrosidad Social, who will share their experiences and legislative processes.
In the framework of the exhibition Orden público: Vagos, Maleantes y Peligrosidad Social, the artist Daniel Gasol will guide us through his extensive research on the files of the Ley de Vagos y Maleantes (1933-1970) and Peligrosidad Social (1970-1995), analysing how the legislation often turns the underprivileged classes into criminals, who must also redeem themselves by working for the State.
As the final party of Daniel Gasol's project, on Thursday 3 February we met up at the legendary bar El Cangrejo.