Blanca Pujals
Grapa Residency
October 2024 - April 2025
Blanca Pujals is an architect, spatial researcher, writer and filmmaker. Her cross-disciplinary practice uses spatial research and critical analysis to engage with questions around the geopolitical configurations of contemporary techno-scientific infrastructures, the geographies of power on bodies and territories and the geopolitics of materials. Her work encompasses film, architecture, lecturing, curatorial projects, teaching and critical writing.
She holds a GArq and MArq in Architecture from ETSA Barcelona (UPC), an MA in Critical Theory and Museum Studies from the Independent Studies Programme of MACBA Museum, tutored by the philosopher Paul B.Preciado and an MA with distinction from the Centre for Research Architecture (Visual Cultures Department) at Goldsmiths, University of London, directed by Susan Schuppli and Eyal Weizman. In 2024, she completed her practice-based PhD in Art and Science (Philosophy, Visual and Material Cultures) with the project ‘Sensing Infrastructures: A spatial examination of soft power, the neutrino particle and underground fundamental physics laboratories’.
She developed projects in Europe, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Antarctica, Colombia or the US. Her work, publications and lectures have been presented at Arts Catalyst London, Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, FACT Liverpool, The Showroom London, Sonar+D, MAO Museum of Architecture and Design Ljubljana, CCCB, Institut of Physics London, Centre d’Arts Santa Mónica, Es Baluard Museum, Real Academia de España en Roma, Tabakalera Donosti, CentroCentro Madrid among others.
She lectured and has been invited for crits and jurys at Columbia University-GSAPP New York, BASc-UCL (BA in Arts and Sciences at University College London UCL), the Design Academy Eindhoven, Goldsmiths University of London, the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA, London), RCA School of Architecture (Royal College of Art, London), The Bartlett School of Architecture (University College London, UCL), HEAD Gèneve, Barcelona School of Architecture (UPC), Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM) at FHNW Academy of Art and Design (Basel), among others.
Since 2021, she is a member of the DMAMCM (Dark Matter-Anti-matter-Condensed Matter) working group, a collective study of how concepts from quantum physics and conceptual maths can help us think about sociality and politics. With Karen Barad, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Valentina Desideri, Laura Harris, Alexander Moll, Fred Moten, Arjuna Neuman, Amilcar Packer, Nat Raha, Arika, Emily Roff, Jackie Wang, Susanne M. Winterling, Fernando Zalamea.
