Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts

Irena Visa

Visual artist and teacher

Qualifications and academic training

  • Master in Artistic Production and Research / Line of research, University of Barcelona
  • Graduate in Audiovisual Communication, Pompeu Fabra University
  • Studies in Arts Applied to Sculpture, La Llotja School

Activity and/or professional career

Her works have been seen at the Brossa Foundation, the Espai Bòlit, the Santa Mónica Art Center, the MAC Mataró, the Grec festival or the Miró Foundation, among others.

Since 2019, she has collaborated as a stage playwright with the Contenidos Superfluos collective. For the last two years she has been an artist in residence at the Santa Monica Arts Center in Barcelona.

His artistic career has had the support of the Sala d’Art Jove, the OSIC (Generalitat of Catalonia), the Barcelona Provincial Council, the Gerona Provincial Council, the Guasch Coranty Foundation, Lo Pati, BCN Produccio and the International Film Festival of Berlin, among others.

She has developed artistic mediation projects in the educational field in collaboration with CaixaForum, el Culturista, En Residencia, Bòlit mentor, Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica, and (I) densitat. She has been a teacher at the Open University of Catalonia and has collaborated as a teacher at Pompeu Fabra University.

Investigation

Her artistic practice is frequently interested in signs that indicate hypothetical phenomena in the museographic context, but also in the natural and artistic environment.

Work

  • Això is not res. Brossa Foundation, Barcelona (2024)
  • Brollant de la font de llac (cançó i ball per a una font). BCN Producció (2023-24)
  • Ha plogut or han regat. Bòlit, Girona (2023)
  • Ciutat dormitori. Teatre Lliure, Barcelona (2021)
  • Res a veure. Archaeological Museum, Banyoles (2021)

Awards

  • BCN Producció. Offshore projects (2024)
  • Post Brossa production scholarship. Joan Brossa Foundation (2024)
  • Acquisition “Ha plogut o han regat” by the National Art Fund of Catalonia (2022)
  • Guasch Coranty Foundation Creation Grant (2019)
  • Scholarship for artistic production, Sala d’Art Jove (2014)

 

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