General Program
Selection of established national and international galleries with a remarkable trajectory in the contemporary art circuit.
*Associated galleries of Art Barcelona.
ADN Galeria*, Barcelona
Ana Mas Projects*, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat
ARTNUEVE, Murcia
ATM Galeria, Gijón
Badr El Jundi, Marbella
Cosita Rica Galería, Lima
Espacio Mínimo, Madrid
etHALL*, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat
Factoría Santa Rosa, Santiago de Chile
Galería Alegría*, Barcelona
Galería del Paseo, Punta del Este-Lima
Galería Fran Reus, Mallorca
Galería Punto, Valencia
Galería Senda*, Barcelona
Galería Zielinsky*, Barcelona / Porto Alegre (BR)
Galerie de la Scep, Marseille
galerie ulf larsson, Cologne
Gallery Nosco, Marseille
House of Chappaz*, Barcelona/Valencia
Harlesden High Street, London
LA BIBI, Palma de Mallorca
La Única galería, El Salvador
Lily Robert, Paris
Max Estrella, Madrid
MONEV CONTEMPORARY, Sofia
Montoro 12 Gallery, Brussels/Rome
Pabellón 4, Buenos Aires
Palmadotze*, SMMonjos (Barcelona)
Patricia Fleming, Glasgow
PIEDRAS, Buenos Aires
Polarraum, Hamburg
Set Espai d’Art, Valencia
SGR Galería, Bogotá
Suburbia Contemporary, Barcelona
Vangar, Valencia
Zeller van Almsick, Vienna
3 Punts Galería*, Barcelona
Emerging
Swab Emerging is a subsection of the General Program, presenting galleries with less than five years of trayectory.
Focus LATAM joins Swab Emerging as a curated section by Santiago Gasquet, co-director of PIEDRAS (Buenos Aires), who will present the most promising emerging proposals of the Latin American contemporary art scene.
For this first edition of Focus, Gasquet proposes a selection of six hybrid and self-managed spaces that, with less than five years of trajectory, already make up a network of new dynamics of art circulation in the Latin American context.
The galleries participating in this program explore alternative formats of production and management and, within the framework of the fair, present artistic proposals that seek to generate a field for the construction of knowledge, discourses and identity given by the characteristics of the context each one of them inhabits.
A.MORE gallery, Milano
Andrea Festa Fine Art, Rome
BARK BERLIN GALLERY, Berlin
CAVE-AYUMIGALLERY, Tokyo
Dilalica, Barcelona
Selenas Mountain, New York
LATAM Focus:
+ Arte Galería, Quito
Constitución, Buenos Aires
MARGEN, Santiago de Chile
Moria Galería, Buenos Aires
Selvanegra Galería, Buenos Aires
Focus Eastern Europe
As every year, Swab presents a special geographically localized program, and this 2021 puts the spotlight on Eastern Europe. A selection of emerging galleries from this context will present the freshest proposals defining the art scene of their context.
Karpuchina Gallery, Prague
Krupa Gallery, Breslavia
Lectwo gallery, Poznán
Ravnikar gallery, Liubliana
Photoport, Bratislava
Swab Seed
Swab Seed showcases twelve 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 Fundació Vila Casas, which sponsors the participation of four independent Catalan spaces.
AA Collections, Vienna
ad / ad, Hannover
FILAF, Perpignan
GiG Munich, Munich
new jörg, Vienna
NVS, Lisbon
VF Art Projects, Luxembourg
Sponsored spaces by Fundació Vila Casas:
Chiquita Room, Barcelona
Espai Colona, Barcelona
FASE, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat
Tangent Projects, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat
The Green Parrot, Barcelona
Swab on Paper
This year again, Swab presents the program Swab On Paper, curated by Carolina Diez-Cascón, which explores the conceptuality and technique of this medium.
This edition focuses on photocollage, observing the deformations of photographic reality and the classic paper-collage through the manipulation of the medium itself in response to a society that reflects on its own reality and identity.
A PICK GALLERY, Torino
Artists: Gema Rupérez, Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos
Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna
Artist: Dieter Fuchs
LAGE EGAL, Berlin
Artists: Nina E. Schönefeld, Peter Freitag and Gonzalo Reyes-Araos
Montoro12 Gallery, Brussels and Rome
Artists: Larissa Sansour and Steve Sabella
Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London
Artists: Alice Quaresma, Susan Stockwell, Irina Magurean
Transmitter, New York
Artist: Andrea Monti
Swab 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 two European projects to exhibit their books
Monorhetorik, Amsterdam
Rafael Melendez, London
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.
Ephemeral
Curated by Caterina Almirall and Margot Cuevas, 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.
La Escocesa, Barcelona
Artists: Joana Capella and Helena Vinent
Hangar, Barcelona
Artist: to kosie (Katarzyna Kosierdarzka)
Fabra i Coats, Barcelona
Artist: Alexander Arilla
Performance
Curated by Gisela Chillida, this program presents four performances by four galleries of Art Barcelona.
Locations and timetable will be soon announced.
ADN Galeria, Barcelona
Performer: Laura Llaneli
etHALL, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat
Perfomer: Violeta Mayoral
Galeria Senda, Barcelona
Performer: Gino Rubert
Palmadotze, SMMonjos (Barcelona)
Performer: Mariona Moncunill