Exhibitors 2020 – SWAB Barcelona Art Fair

A program that puts the focus on one of the most innovative artistic contexts on the international scene: South Korea. Focus Korea presents four of the most representative galleries in the country, and does so through a series of exhibition proposals that combine traditional Korean imagery with the freshest and most contemporary artistic disciplines.

Art Delight, Seoul

Gallery Absinthe, Seoul

G.Gallery, Seoul

One Four, Seoul

Swab Seed

Swab Seed showcases eleven independent and artist-run spaces that share experimentation as a common denominator. Swab Seed seeks to give visibility to new platforms and proposals that are shaking up the contemporary scene. For this edition, Swab Seed joins forces with the Fundació Vila Casas, which sponsors the participation of four independent Catalan spaces.

ABRIR, Lima

ARMEN DAGUER, Guadalajara

COMA, Sydney

GOMO Art Space, Vienna

Mélange, Cologne

The Balcony, The Hague

Vellum Projects, New York

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–Sponsored spaces by Fundació Vila Casas:

Groc Projects, Badalona.

Homesession, Barcelona.

La Trastera, Tarragona

Trama 34, Barcelona.

Swab on Paper

Parallel Reality, is the title of the new program curated by Carolina Diez-Cascón, for this edition Swab on Paper 2020, where the limit of paper is challenged through illusion, an optical illusion that plays in the constant existence of two realities, a flat reality of the essence of paper, which will be invaded by means such as plastics or fabrics that deceive this dimension.

Under this parallelism the 6 proposals of the program travel between two worlds or truths, the conscious and the unconscious, the inside and the outside or the before and now.

Alfa Gallery, Miami

Artists: Bea Last, Maarja Nurk and Gamaliel Herrera

MM Gallery, Buenos Aires

Artist: Carolina Simonelli

Montoro12, Brussels

Artists: Chloé Arrouy, Martin Coste and Anthony Ngoya

Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London

Artist: Varvara Shavrova

PIEDRAS, Buenos Aires

Artist: Teresa Giarcovich

Ravnikar Gallery Space, Eslovenia

Artist: Maja Babic Kosir

Reading

Swab Barcelona presents Swab Reading, a program that aims to merge design and reading, art and publishing. This edition of Swab continues to open up a space for publishing disciplines and invites twoo European projects to exhibit their books

Highchair Editions, London

Monorhetorik, Amsterdam

Video Box

South-East Asia takes over the Video Box program, which has established itself as the video art section of the fair. This edition will feature six audiovisual works that explore the dimension of tradition and progress, and reflect on this through the visions of participating countries such as Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam and the Philippines.

Gallery VER, Bangkok

MoT + + +, Ho Chi Minh

Pablo Gallery, Taguig

PURE EVER, Singapore

Studio Batur, Bandung

Supernormal Space, Singapore

My First Art Fair

Selection of four young contemporary art galleries, under two years old, that still have not participated in any international fair. Swab offers this space free of charge to help promote new emerging galleries.

G/ART/EN, Como

Kino Tonalá, Ciudad de México

Spazio ORR, Brescia

Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Köln

Ephemeral

Curated by Caterina Almirall, this program presents installation proposals by artists in residence at the Fàbriques de Creació in Barcelona: Fabra i Coats, Hangar and La Escocesa. The works exhibited in this section play with space and interaction with the visitor.

Eulàlia García Valls. Hangar

Paula Bruna. La Escocesa

Maria Alcaide. Fabra i Coats