EXHIBITORS GENERAL 2025 – SWAB Barcelona Art Fair

GENERAL PROGRAM

Swab presents a new General Program in response to the current dynamics of contemporary art. What were previously differentiated spaces at the fair — General, Emerging, Seed — is now articulated into a single integrated program. This reconfiguration responds to a broader change: the boundaries between galleries and independent initiatives are increasingly blurred, and practices that were once considered peripheral are now taking a central place.

Artist-run spaces, emerging galleries, and experimental initiatives continue to operate on the margins of the market, but they are setting the pace of discourse, taking risks, and proposing new models of sustainability.

In this new format, all participants will share a common space, with booths adaptable to different formats and needs, reflecting the art market we want to help build: a more plural market, where different scales and modes of operation coexist, and where the most independent initiatives maintain direct dialogue with the commercial circuit.

LIST OF EXHIBITORS

a66 Gallery (Mallorca)
Abbozzo Gallery (Toronto)
ADN Galeria (Barcelona, Paris)
ATM + Jorge Lopez (Gijón-Valencia)
a-topos’ (Marseille)
BETA Contemporary (Barcelona- Berlin)
B Gallery (Barcelona)
Dilalica (Barcelona)
Escat Gallery (Barcelona)

ethall (Hospitalet de Llobregat)
Ge53 (Valencia)
INGAHEE (Seoul)
ISEURRAT ARTROOM (Seoul)
Le Labo (Suiza)
MATTER (Tokyo)
PALMADOTZE (Barcelona)
Reiners Contemporary Art (Marbella)
SC Gallery (Bilbao)

Sham Gallery (London)
Siddiq Projects (Hamburg)
Silica (Cannes)
SOL (Nexø)
THA HOUSE (Madrid)
Trastienda Machete (Mexico)
we see items (Tbilisi)

a66 gallery

Founded in 2024 by Anja Maria Wolf, a66Gallery is a vibrant space dedicated to contemporary art. Anja Maria’s extensive academic background in art history and design, combined with her years of experience as a mediator between artists and collectors, shapes the gallery’s mission. Located in Santanyí, Mallorca, the gallery aims to enhance the island’s art scene. It fosters meaningful conversations about art, welcoming both enthusiasts and newcomers. With regularly changing exhibitions featuring emerging and established artists, a66 Gallery strives to make contemporary art accessible to everyone, enriching the cultural fabric of the region.

Proposal

Painting and Sculpture as Reflections of inner and outer processes. States of Transformation brings together four artistic positions that use painting and ceramics as expressions of inner change and collective memory. The works oscillate between figuration, abstraction and ritual object art, creating poetic spaces where identity, materiality, and transience are renegotiated.

Abbozzo Gallery

Abbozzo Gallery is a stylish Toronto-based gallery representing regional and international early to mid-career contemporary and ultra-contemporary artists. Predominantly showcasing painters, printmakers, and photographers, Abbozzo Gallery has committed to championing the diverse artworks of emerging artists in our programme and fostering their careers. Abbozzo Gallery follows the ethos of being an unintimidating and welcoming environment to all and focusing on community based and collaborative programming.

Proposal

Abbozzo Gallery is presenting a single artist proposal featuring Toronto based artist Jake Santos (b. 2004) working primarily in airbrush painting within a photographic painting tradition. Fascinated by the spiritual architecture of images, Jake’s imagery aims to explore desire, memory and the sublime. By employing his distinct airbrush technique – where no contact is made with the surface of the canvas or panel at all – Santos creates out-of-focus, foggy, yet dreamlike and visceral compositions.

ADN Galeria

ADN Galeria is a hybrid platform combining commercial mediation and cultural contribution, with the aim of promoting current artistic trends. Our program focuses on artists whose work reflects the social context in which it is produced.
They support the development of artists’ careers through an active policy of media outreach, online communication, and participation in art fairs. They are committed to fostering debate around the driving forces of contemporary creation, both nationally and internationally, through ongoing collaboration with intellectuals and professionals in the field. They also support emerging collectors by offering continuous and personalized guidance.

Proposal

Their proposal centers on the idea of fragility. Through works created in various media—drawing, photography, found footage, and models—the featured artists explore a series of social and historical events that allude to painful experiences. These works are marked by a tense calm that enables a political analysis of feelings and emotions.

ATM + Jorge Lopez

ATM is a platform that hosts projects that go beyond the traditional exhibition format, offering residency programs and various collaborations. It features artists from diverse backgrounds as a way to highlight artistic work beyond conventional classifications. ATM aims to promote a solid line of work intended to bring its artists to the international contemporary art scene.

Jorge López Galería, founded in 2022, works from an approach centered on the dialectical framework between Europe and Ibero-America, tracing invisible maps and routes that cross the Atlantic and weave complex networks of meaning and belonging. The gallery is part of LAVAC and the Consortium of Spanish Contemporary Art Galleries, and has collaborated and conducted exchanges with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Culture of Argentina, the program Cultura Argentina al Mundo, the Ministry of Culture of Uruguay, the National Directorate of Culture, the Petronas Uruguay Program, Miguel Hernández University, and the CIA Center for Artistic Research, among others, reinforcing its commitment to the development and promotion of contemporary art.

Proposal

For this edition, they present the work of Marta Valledor, whose practice moves fluidly between drawing and painting, eloquently fusing both languages. What initially appears to be drawing reveals a pictorial truth, and vice versa. This initial presentation offers sufficient context to engage with her proposal. The arrangement of the works and the intervention in the booth reflect a radical commitment to museography, conceived almost choreographically, as an intrinsic gesture within the exhibition discourse. The project aspires to a purely exhibition-oriented approach, marked by the highest aesthetic and conceptual ambition.

a-topos'

a-topos’ was born as a collective operating in pair and based on a duality of backgrounds, generations, itineraries and sensitivities. Sharing observations and issues, taking up challenges and aiming for common objectives, the members of a-topos’, John Tayeb and Gaya Goldcymer, decided to create their structure. This is how they, individually or collectively, stayed and worked internationally and how these crossings of territories, cultures and societies allowed them to open up their projects and collaborations with emerging artists as well as recognized ones. But also as part of the Galerie Épisodique in Paris which they run in parallel.

Proposal

The proposal presents a solo exhibition by French multidisciplinary artist Arthur Hoffmann, showcasing a new series of shaped and stretched canvas works created specifically for the SWAB 2025 art fair.

This body of work merges Hoffmann’s signature gradient painting techniques with influences from his recent photographic prints on aluminum. Drawing inspiration from architectural forms, modern landscapes, and the visual language of Postmodern conceptualism, these sculptural paintings blur the boundaries between image and object.

Hoffmann’s exploration of shape, surface, and perception offers a bold reinterpretation of the canvas, continuing his investigation into spatial dynamics and the evolving dialogue between photography and painting.

BETA Contemporary

BETA is an art gallery that represents artists who explore inter-disciplinary and experimental approaches in their practices. Founded in Berlin 2020, we produce solo and group exhibitions, and assist in building new collections of contemporary art. Berlin, renowned for its avant-garde spirit, served as an ideal incubator for BETA’s formative years, providing a fertile ground for experimentation and collaboration.
Now permanently based in Barcelona, BETA Contemporary is positioned at the intersection of tradition and innovation within one of Europe’s most dynamic cultural hubs. The gallery continues to showcase a program that focuses on nurturing ambitious projects by both local and international artists, expanding their presence on the global stage.

Proposal

BETA presents Crossing Lines, an ode to painting as a living, expanding, and continuously redefining language. In a landscape that seems to be dominated by digital, installation, and performative practices, this project reaffirms painting’s role as an active and growing medium. Founded in exile, the gallery is defined by the intersection of territories, generations, and languages. In line with this, we bring together five artists with radically distinct approaches: abstract, narrative, symbolic, gestural, or spiritual. Tyrell, Batista, García, Vallverdú, and Loyola embody that diversity. A deliberate friction that, for us, constitutes an honest reflection of painting today and of what it continues to become.

B Gallery

B Gallery is a multidisciplinary space founded by Jan Bailo i Lladó and Berta Colomer i García in Horta, Barcelona.
The gallery was born to connect art and environment, proposing a curatorial approach beyond the “white cube,” staying true to each artist’s message.

We support distinctive creators and emerging projects, prioritizing the artistic process over commercialization.

B Gallery is an agora where artists and the public engage in dialogue within a space that is inhabited, lived in, and shared.
Multidisciplinarity guides our exhibitions, where every work has meaning and is born out of necessity.

Proposal

Presents the project: “What is Art?” by Clàudia Vives-Fierro, a multidisciplinary proposal that originates from a mail art action, in which the artist sent a letter to 120 friends asking them the question: What is art?
Based on the responses, she presents a multidisciplinary installation featuring ceramic works, a sound poem, and a video art piece that reflects on the boundaries, functions, and paradoxes of contemporary art.
The project is fully aligned with the gallery’s conceptual vision, which seeks to contribute to critical debate around the role of contemporary art — from an open, inclusive, and committed stance toward new forms of representation.

Dilalica - Premio Swab Barcelona, Artnou 2025

Dilalica is a collaborative curatorial practice that manifests itself through exhibition formats, books, and web projects. We have a space in Barcelona and exhibit in other institutions. While not exclusive to our practice, we share a particular interest in computational methods, photographic imagery, collaboration, and the questioning of individual authorship.

Proposal

The exhibition “Mi voz en su dedo más pequeñito” seeks to inhabit the sculptural surface as a place of encounter between bodies. Communication between surfaces often reveals itself to be more complex than expected. To think about the possibility of touching emptiness with the hand. An open mouth and a hand so small that it cannot reach the walls.

Escat Gallery

Escat Gallery, directed by Pau Escat, was founded in 2022 as a hybrid space in Barcelona and, by 2024, established its presence on Trafalgar Street. It stands out for its rigorous curatorial approach and strong commitment to contemporary art.

The gallery has expanded with a new location in Sarrià, focused on dual emerging practices, and a private studio in Menorca dedicated to artist residencies.

Escat Gallery fosters cultural dialogue and meaningful relationships with collectors, blending tradition and innovation. Each exhibition aims to provoke reflection and connection among artists, artworks, and audiences, reinforcing its mission to create transformative experiences through art.

Proposal

This proposal brings together three artists who approach painting as a territory for emotional and symbolic exploration.
Danny Avidan begins with the figure to speak of the body as a driving force for transformation.
Emma Labattaglia delves into personal memory through layered paintings imbued with intimate history.
Celia Lees, based in Toronto, creates large-scale abstract compositions born from physical gesture and the use of unconventional materials.Together, their visual languages form an intuitive and visceral painterly landscape, where the inner self becomes shared form and emotion.

ethall

A project, a space with its own memory where situations are generated and artists are accompanied in the development of their work. An interdisciplinary exhibition sequence that proposes formal investigations, speculative processes, and collective experiments, driven by the conviction in the transformative power of art.

Proposal

For this edition of SWAB, ethall proposes a dialogue between a selection of works by Martín Vitaliti and Diego Paonessa, resulting from the plastic formalization of the study of reality through physical phenomena.

Ge53

Founded in 2024 in a basement in Ruzafa (Valencia), GE53 is a countercultural project that supports young local and national artists. It breaks with traditional exhibition models by hosting a different artist each week to create a site-specific intervention. In just three and a half months, it presented 17 solo shows. The limitations of the space became a strength, fostering dialogue with its domestic architecture. After losing its original venue in March 2025, GE53 continued across different locations and now operates at Espiral Valencia with Pluto, staying true to self-management and community values: privileging ideas and available spaces over resources.

Proposal

For SWAB 2025, GE53 presents a project by Mario Manso (Logroño, 2004) and Pablo Quesada (Valencia, 2001). A horizontal platform unfolds at eye level, transforming the stand as if floor and ceiling had folded into a new context. Built with construction materials, it acts as support, frame, and display device, creating an in-between space where works can engage in new formal dialogues. The installation brings to SWAB the logics of self-managed art spaces: inventing formats, adapting to precarious conditions, and offering necessary platforms for young artists. Manso and Quesada’s practices intertwine fluidly, shifting between surface and volume in response to architecture.

INGAHEE

INGAHEE, located on Sowol-ro in Itaewon, Seoul, presents curated exhibitions focusing on Korean and global contemporary art. The gallery collaborates with artists to showcase experimental yet collectible works across diverse media. It engages the local community through IN-CU, a window display exhibition that supports experimental installations. Ingahee also promotes art patronage with programs and tours designed to deepen collectors’ understanding of contemporary art. The gallery’s mission is to connect artists, curators, critics, collectors, and gallerists, offering a fresh vision for Korean culture and the arts.

Proposal

INGAHEE’s booth ‘Latent Futures’ at SWAB 2025 presents five artists—four Korean and one American—whose practices explore memory, technology, and future potential. Kim Shinwook reimagines historical narratives through constructed landscapes, while Katya Savel examines the body–technology interface. Hyeon O critiques hyper-competitive systems with animation-inspired paintings. Park Hyewon weaves cultural memory into spatial installations rooted in Korean landscape traditions. Woongchul Lee revives obsolete media through sound, evoking extinction and continuity. Spanning painting, sculpture, sound, and new media, the booth becomes a porous, multi-sensory space that asks: “At the threshold of history and the future, what remains to be seen?”

ISEURRAT ARTROOM

Iseurrat Artroom is a contemporary gallery located in Seoul’s Bangbae district, known for its calm yet culturally rich atmosphere. Building on the foundation of artist collective h:art, which has curated exhibitions and published art journals since 2021, the gallery opened in 2024 to further this vision through a dedicated space. It supports emerging and mid-career artists working across diverse media, with a focus on materiality, experimentation, and poetic sensibility. Its aim is to expand the boundaries of contemporary art and contribute to a dynamic and constructive Korean art scene.

Proposal

Iseurrat Artroom presents Traces of the Unseen, a duo exhibition featuring Jaehyoung Im and Jooyoung Park, who translate imperceptible phenomena into visible form. Through images of rising smoke, faded flowers, wind-blown strokes, and vanishing silhouettes, the exhibition captures what escapes the eye but leaves an imprint on the mind. These are paintings not of what is plainly seen, but of what lingers: the heat after the flames, the hush within the wind. In different ways, both artists attempt to visualize presence through absence, turning what slips away into a quiet, lasting structure.

Le Labo

Le Labo is an independent artist-run space based in Geneva, dedicated to fostering experimental practices and collaborative projects. Since 2008, it has hosted exhibitions, residencies, and workshops supporting emerging and mid-career artists. Le Labo prioritizes in situ creation, interdisciplinary approaches, and sustainable, locally-produced works, creating a space for dialogue between artists, audiences, and the urban context.

Proposal

For SWAB 2025, Le Labo presents a curated selection of six Swiss artists—Davide Cascio, eden levi am, Keiko Machida, Nina Rieben,
Tara Ullmann, Matteo Moschella—featuring photographic prints and works on paper. The project continues the research initiated with Lovesongs for Plants while offering emerging voices a platform for international visibility, fostering professional networks and cultural exchange within the art fair context.

MATTER

MATTER is a dynamic art space in Tokyo, directed and curated by Kenji Sakai, offering creators a platform for experimental and boundary-pushing art. Located in the basement of Hirakawacho’s office district, a minute from Hanzomon Station, it functions as both gallery and event venue, hosting exhibitions, performances, and cultural programming in an intimate, offbeat setting.

Sakai fosters a “small avant-garde” ethos: a space for connection, shared contemplation, and artistic coexistence beyond mainstream galleries. Its underground location supports emerging voices and site-specific works, inviting visitors into reflective, immersive experiences.

Proposal

MATTER presents a new generation of Japanese talent, featuring three emerging artists based in London: Ayaka Endo, BIEN, and Kenji Sakai. Each carries the sensibility of their Japanese heritage while expanding their practice globally.
Ayaka Endo explores the balance between nature and human intervention, inviting reflection on coexistence and transformation. BIEN draws from street culture, anime, and symbolism, creating abstract compositions with urban energy. Kenji Sakai examines the tension between the collective and the individual, blending structure and emotion.
Together, these artists showcase the diversity, innovation, and strength of a new wave of Japanese creators redefining their practice beyond national borders.

P A L M A D O T Z E

Founded in 1989 in Vilafranca del Penedès (Barcelona), since 2012 the gallery is located in a 15th-century farmhouse in Santa Margarida i els Monjos, 45 km from Barcelona. Its non-urban setting allows for an artistic project where art and nature coexist, promoting contemporary art locally and internationally. The gallery collaborates closely with emerging and established artists on site-specific projects, solo, and curated exhibitions, showcasing diverse media and new trends. Its program also includes activities beyond traditional exhibitions. Palmadotze represents both national and international artists, fostering innovative and interdisciplinary contemporary art.

Proposal

In the upcoming SWAB 2025 edition, Palmadotze Gallery will present works by three female artists: Marta Marcé, Eva Miquel, and Mariona Moncunill. This project promotes contemporary female art through a cohesive presentation of established artists linked to the gallery. Using distinct yet complementary practices—documentary installation, photographic drawing, and ecological process painting—they explore themes like the human condition, symbolic memory, nature, and systems of knowledge. Their work offers a reflective, poetic, and critical perspective on human fragility, time, and the relationship between individuals, environment, and nature, encouraging reflection and engagement with contemporary art’s vital issues.

Reiners Contemporary Art

Founded in Marbella in 2019, Reiners Contemporary Art promotes contemporary art with a focus on Brazilian, German, and Afro-descendant artists. In 2024, the gallery opens a new venue on a nature-surrounded estate. The spaces “La Ermita” and “Caballeriza” offer a unique setting for exhibitions and immersive experiences. The gallery embraces all that is noble and pure, bringing Brazilian visual poetry to Europe. Reiners remains deeply committed to its artists and to ensuring their projects receive the international visibility and recognition they deserve.

Proposal

Reiners Contemporary Art presents for SWAB Barcelona 2025 the work of two distinguished painters: Stephan Kaluza and Yana Abramova. Their works explore the thresholds between perception and reality, nature and abstraction, creating a dialogue between hyperrealism and introspective reflection on identity and landscape. Based between Düsseldorf and Dubai, Abramova merges abstract forms with hyper-realistic textures to investigate interconnectedness, perception, and identity. Kaluza approaches nature as both sublime and unsettling, blending hyperrealistic and abstract landscapes to reveal tensions between beauty and historical trauma.

SC Gallery

SC Gallery, based in Bilbao since 2008, is an active platform for contemporary art production, exhibition, and development. Committed to interdisciplinary dialogue, it organizes exhibitions, collaborations, and projects linking artistic creation with critical analysis and cultural exchange. The gallery regularly participates in international fairs and offers a dynamic program embracing diverse approaches and aesthetics. Its mission is to support artistic production, critical thinking, and the circulation of contemporary ideas. SC Gallery represents artists like Pablo Merchante, Julia Santa Olalla, Grip Face, Gabriel Coca, Kiko Miyares, and Isaac Cordal, and collaborates with Paco Pomet, Ana Barriga, Santiago Ydañez, among others.

Proposal

SC Gallery announces its participation in SWAB 2025, presenting works by Julia Santa Olalla (Granada, 1985) and Pablo Merchante (Huelva, 1982). Both artists have established solid international careers, with exhibitions across Europe and Latin America. For this edition of the fair, they showcase a selection of their most recent works.
Their paintings explore the challenge of representing the immaterial: figuration intertwines with abstraction and the intangible. Materiality is not merely a support, but an active part of life, memory, and emotion. Through repetition, their works provoke reflection and insight, becoming exercises in rereading the everyday. The proposal for SWAB 2025 invites viewers to perceive the ordinary through a different lens, where each object becomes a portal to the invisible.

Sham Gallery

SHAM Gallery, founded 2024, embodies a grassroots, experimental ethos and serves as a platform that aims to defy the status quo of the traditional art world. Our fundamental principle is to empower and elevate underrepresented artists, with a focus on amplifying the voices of female, black, queer, non-binary, disabled and marginalised creators. By challenging conventional paradigms, we seek to reshape and redefine the art landscape through our commitment to investigation, unconventionality, non-compliance and rebellion. We foster an inclusive and nurturing environment, cultivating the meaningful connection between artist, collector, audiences and the community the gallery serves. We strive to inspire transformative dialogue and catalyse positive change.

Proposal

The booth presents sculptural vignettes exploring adolescence as a transitional, genderqueer experience. Precious cast objects, silver, porcelain, glass, populate the environment inspired by school locker rooms, evoking queer intimacy and vulnerability. Wall-based works distil these settings, transforming cast replicas of discarded objects through precious materials inviting viewers to reconsider their significance. Earlier sculptural works using reclaimed school furniture serve as a backdrop for hidden cast pieces, prompting close inspection and reflection on the quiet resilience of trans bodies navigating contemporary society. The overall installation transforms overlooked objects into sites of poetic, personal and collective meaning.

Siddiq Projects

Siddiq Projects is a multidisciplinary exhibition space with a focus on emerging artists from Europe and abroad. Aiming to provide a platform to varied positions, it serves as a catalyst for dialogue, cultural exchange and artistic autonomy. It was founded in late 2023 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.

Proposal

Siddiq Projects is proposing a solo presentation by Hamburg- based, Korean artist Jaewon Kim.

A focus on sculptural works and works on paper that draw attention to fragile ecosystems and threats of the 21st century.

‘Cross-Pollination’ is an innuendo on the analog-digital approach the artist has; but furthermore it is an allusion on the double edged sword that is our attitude towards ecological systems which are threatened by modern agriculture and humanities negligence towards this most vulnerable part of our existence. His practice aims to open up new perspectives, makes the fleeting tangible and sheds a light on hidden aspects of our surroundings.

Silica

Silica was founded in 2023 by Franck Vitetta, an art dealer based between the South of France and Italy. Positioned at the crossroads between private art consulting and a nomadic gallery, this hybrid project was created to promote a new generation of artists. Selected for their talent and clear-sighted vision of today’s transitional society, Silica serves as a symbolic platform for their artistic reflections through ephemeral exhibitions.

The project consistently seeks to establish a sensitive connection between the artworks on display, the surrounding architecture, and, at times, even the city hosting the exhibition.

Proposal

For their second participation in SWAB, they have chosen to continue the exploration of potential spatio-temporal rifts initiated in the previous edition with Morrow(s).
The works of Leilei Wu (China, 1997), Ugo Sebastião (France, 1998), and Stanislav Zábrodský (Czech Republic, 1996) align with a circular conception of time—a theme deeply resonant with the writings of Jorge Luis Borges.
Hybrid in both their content and artistic forms, these works seek to suspend elements within a specific sense of contemporaneity, while simultaneously evoking the aura of distant vestiges. Past and future collide and dissolve, giving way to an infinite, multifaceted present.

SOL

SOL is an artist run space for contemporary art in a former cooling storage facility on the harbour in Nexø on the Danish island Bornholm. Through collaborations with both national and international artists and curators, SOL wishes to challenge established formats of exhibiting and
strengthen the interest of contemporary art in our local environment. SOL opened during Spring 2019 and is run by the association Sol Nexø with artist Sofie Amalie Andersen as current artistic director.

Proposal

In their proposal for SWAB 2025, they present four artists with a strong connection to the island of Bornholm—whether as a birthplace, an adopted home, or a source of artistic inspiration. The participating artists are Silas Inoue, Nicky Sparre-Ulrich, Mette Rasmussen, and Sofie Amalie Andersen.
The project draws inspiration from the recent group exhibition Metanoia III (curated by Sofie Amalie Andersen and David Revés) and features works that engage with a range of thematic concerns. These intersect through a shared exploration of life, time, and death—ranging from speculative visions of alternative existences, to physical accumulations of time spent, to mythological creatures that act as reflections of ourselves.

THA HOUSE

Welcome to Tha House, founded in 2023, an artist-run space located in Carabanchel.
We take pride in being a vibrant, inclusive creative center that embraces all forms of artistic expression. From visual arts to performing arts, literature, and film, Tha House is a haven for artists and art enthusiasts alike.

Our main goal is to foster a sense of community and collaboration within the artistic field. We strive to provide a platform for both emerging and established artists to showcase their talent and connect with like-minded people. Tha House serves as a melting pot of ideas, encouraging interdisciplinary collaborations and pushing the boundaries of creativity.

If you are an artist seeking inspiration, Tha House welcomes you with open arms. Join us to celebrate the arts and let your creativity flourish within our walls.

Our mission is to support and share the work of artists internationally through a dynamic global program. This includes exhibitions, international fairs, artist projects abroad, and collaborations with curators.

Proposal

This proposal presents a new body of work by Martina Rodríguez Morán, focused on the technique of gilding as a contemporary language rooted in both architecture and intuition. Establishing connections across time, her practice evokes the spiritual resonance of medieval iconography, the luminous atmosphere of Claude Monet’s Impressionism, and the gestural energy of Abstract Expressionism. At the same time, it incorporates the industrial glamour of Andy Warhol’s Silver Factory—his iconic studio covered in aluminum foil—as both a conceptual and material reference.

Through reflective silver surfaces and layered compositions, Martina constructs visual spaces that oscillate between the sacred and the post-industrial, the intimate and the monumental.
Her work invites the viewer to engage in a dialogue through history, redefining traditional materials with a distinctly contemporary sensibility.

Trastienda Machete

Trastienda Machete is an independent platform focused on contemporary Latin American art, emphasizing emerging practices, feminist perspectives, and regional decentralization. Founded in 2017 and autonomous since 2022, it is based in Mexico City. In partnership with Alday Hunken Gallery (Atlanta) and others, it supports artists through exhibitions, fairs, commissions, and experimental formats. The program centers on collaboration, underrepresented voices, and transnational narratives. Working with artists from 10 Mexican states—82% identifying as women—its practices include painting, sculpture, installation, and craft grounded in material and process research. Trastienda is self-managed, self-financed, and rooted in care.

Propuesta

Trastienda Machete Galería presents a curatorial project featuring artists who use resistance, experimentation, and material interweaving to explore contemporary narratives. Their works unfold through fragmentation, with natural pigments, fibers, clay, metal, and digital technologies blending ancestral and speculative elements. These artists activate materials as living archives—earth remembers, pigments speak, and industrial objects bear social histories. Originating from marginalized regions rich in material culture, the project highlights resilient knowledge and sustainability. It situates contemporary Mexican art beyond unity or territory, focusing on the creative intersections of local and global, ancestral and speculative, human and non-human perspectives.

we see items

weseeitems – art gallery and concept store run by a curatorial collective. Founded on March 1, 2024, space is located in a historical heritage building in Sololaki. We don’t focus on any single discipline – our work spans visual art, performances, and design-related activities. We are passionate about discovering and showcasing unique, meaningful items. Our mission is to create a space where everyone can engage with and appreciate artistic expression.

Propuesta

‘Dreams & Dreams’ exploring fantasies and an uncertain future, we gather emotions and release them through dreams and dreams. In Georgian, dream (ოცნება/otsneba) and dream (სიზმარი/sizmari) have distinct meanings-one is a vision, the other a nighttime journey. We dream of freedom, while freedom lives fully in our dreams. Our dreams may hold fears and shadows, yet we long for love, peace, and simplicity. This project presents Georgian artists whose works explore dreams-mysterious and at the same time simple.