Ariadna Guiteras
Ariadna Guiteras, Barcelona 1986
Period of residency:
Short term residency: January – March 2015
Long term residency: April 2015 – 2017
Ariadna Guiteras’ work revolves around notions of control, body and performativity. Focusing on the body -not only as the subject but also as the medium of her practice- and the different axes that it is traversed with: the social, the political and the emotional. Her process leads her to an experimental state where to deal with matter and immateriality, gesture and memory, touch and affection. As a result, her work materializes mainly in performance along with sculpture and installation.
Ariadna Guiteras has exhibited and performed in (amongst others,) Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona 2016); Chalton Gallery (London, 2016); Fabra i Coats (Barcelona, 2016); Galeria Joan Prats (Barcelona, 2015); Antic Teatre (Barcelona, 2015); MACBA, (Barcelona, 2014); Fundació Suñol (Barcelona, 2014); Werf 52 (Düsseldorf, 2014); NauEstruch (Sabadell, 2013); Antigua Casa Haiku (Barcelona, 2011); Second Home (Berlin, 2010).
She is the recipient of a Miquel Casablancas Award (Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2016) and currently holds a two yearlong residency at Hangar (Barcelona 2015-2017). She is been supported by Homesession Artist Residency at THIS (London, 2016); MACBA Study Center (Guest Researcher, Barcelona, 2014) and Sala d’Art Jove Production Grant (Generalitat de Catalunya, 2014).
