General program
A selection of established art galleries that features both national and international emerging artists. The space is divided into 4 types of booth: 25, 20, 15 and 10 m2.
ADN. Barcelona
Ana Mas Projects. Barcelona
Ángels Barcelona. Barcelona
Double V. Marseille
Espacio Pla. Buenos Aires
Espacio Valverde. Madrid
Espai Tactel. Valencia
Espositivo. Madrid
Fuori Campo. Siena
Galerie Iragui. Moscow
Galerie Rolando Anselmi. Berlin
Galeria Alegría. Madrid
Galeria Breve. Mexico City
Galeria Rafael Ortiz. Sevilla
Galeria Tokio. Lima
Goldberg Galerie. Munich
Granada Gallery. Buenos Aires
Heinrich Ehrhardt. Madrid
Last Resort. Copenhagen
MAAB Gallery.Milano
Pabellon 4. Buenos Aires
Pantocrator Gallery. Suzhou
Rafael Pérez Hernando. Madrid
Ribot Gallery. Milano
Rincon Projects. Bogota
Rocio Santa Cruz. Barcelona
SGR. Bogota
The Drawing Room. Philippines
The Gallery Apart. Rome
Victor Lope. Barcelona
The Desert and the Cactus
“The desert and the cactus” is a six galleries selection curated by Omar López- Chahoud, an independent curator established in New York. All of them are leading exhibition spaces from the city.
This program features works by American artists who express their increasing interest in preserving nature, and portray a search for our most primal origins in order to restore contact with earth.
In this sense, the cactus symbolizes the adaptation capacity to the extreme conditions the humankind will have to face if we do not take good care of the planet.
Deli Gallery. New York
Dutton. New York
False Flag. New York
Rawson Projects. New York
321 Gallery. New York
American Medium. New York
Swab on paper
“Swab on paper” is a special program curated by Carolina Diez-Cascón, and it presents different artworks that share a common denominator: “Paper is a thin material produced by pressing together moist fibres of cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets. It is a versatile material with many uses, including writing, printing, packaging, cleaning, and a number of industrial and construction processes”.
Is its large communicative ability that what defines this media: paper has greatly simplified communications by generating multiple languages supported in one single material. Depending on its colour and shape, it can even become a concept with an self-contained meaning. That is what we find most interesting about paper: it has evolved from a means of expression to a message itself.
ALG. contemporary art. Aix-en-Provence
Galeria Nordés. Santiago de Compostela
Galería Angeles Baños. Badajoz
Ibirapi Contemporânea. Lisbon
La Carboneria. Huesca
55 SP. San Paolo
Set Espai d´art. Valencia
Swab seed
Presenting its 4th edition, Swab Seed features eight independent, self-managed and experimental spaces from all around the world. This program seeks to shed light into those experimental platforms and proposals that work aside from the fixed system and are shaking up the contemporanean art scene.
Mutt Collective. New York
Satélite. Ciudad de Querétaro
Square Projects. London
Estudio 101. Bogotá
Arcade+One’s Room. Okinawa
The Switch. Lisbon
Campur Rasa. Bali
Nottwins. Barcerlonaa
MY FAF (My First Art Fair)
Each year, Swab Barcelona hosts a selection of three contemporary art galleries, that are less than two years old, who have not previously participated in any international art fair and which feature artists born after 1975. Swab offers this space free of charge as a way to boost young new galleries and to give a chance to emerging artists.
Swab performance
Swab Performance presents its 4th edition and reinforces its mission of providing the fair with the presence of new independent formats.
Seven artists discuss contemporaneity’s fundamental issues and analize the effect of society imposed boundaries. They reflect about the role of art and culture in the present context, and aim to find a way to recover basic human values.
While dealing with spatial and physical resources, these independent creators will use the artistic expression to achieve a direct impact in the audience.
Ariadna Guiteras
Bartomeu Sastre
El Palomar
Julia Mariscal
Lolo&Sosaku
Victoria Macarte
Ephemeral
by Cateriana Almirall, and presents a set of installation artworks located both in and out of the fair. Creation centers such as Hangar, Escocesa and Fabra i Coats will use audience interaction and participation to reflect about our standing in an increasingly capitalist and over-accelerated world, one that doesn’t give us the time to think about our role as individuals in a globalized society.
Swab Reading
Swab Barcelona presents Swab Reading, a program that aims to put together design and reading, art and literature. The 11th edition of Swab leaves some room for editorial disciplines, and invites two european projects to showcase their publications.
a/b Books. Switzerland
Paranoia Publishing. Estonia