Ana Garcia-Pineda (1982) is an artist, performer and a bunch of atoms who got a Spanish passport by being born in Sabadell, peripheral city of Barcelona. G-P holds degrees from the Fine Arts University of Barcelona and Universität der Künste Berlin as well as post graduate degrees from Goldsmiths College London and FdM Barcelona. She has exhibited in Argentina, Brazil, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Paraguay, Spain and the US.
I grew up in a peripheral and migrant neighbourhood of Sabadell. At the age of 3, I discovered that the language of cartoons was also spoken by human. My teacher did. I learnt Catalan.
I ask myself a lot of questions. Questions like: Who is the asshole of the knife that separates the better halves? If I plug all my holes, will I hear my inner self? I collect data, connect and build narratives that offer perspectives on how things work. I invent machines, machines to turn atoms into glitter or make Alzheimer’s only affect our sad memories.
I have made individual exhibitions (such as “Fiction is a reality to happen” in Espai13 Fundació Miró, Barcelona) and participated in groups (Dia Art Foundation, New York), biennials (Aboa Vetus Ars Nova Museum, Turku), festivals of video and poetry. I have been able to carry out my work thanks to scholarships (BcnProducció08), prizes (Generations 2019 or Best Catalan Artist Fundació Corominas, 2015) and art residencies (Fonderie Darling, Montreal 2018). I have written a book that I just reissued (“More Machines and Machines” 2008-2018) and performed several times; the last one: on March 31 in Paris (“Lines: fiction, guidance, identity & repression” AKA “Straight lineIAlive line, Sleeping line_Deadline, bending lines & (), __ =…”), in the Drawing Now19 performance program.
Although the most important thing is that, although the cells that formed me ten years ago no longer exist, here I continue and my mission is the same: to save the world.
PD: I have to admit that sometimes I wanted to destroy it and that, at times, I just have to understand something. Whatever the things and things are.
Ana Garcia-Pineda (Sabadell -Barcelona-, 1982)
Education -selected-
Fine Arts Degree, University of Barcelona – Universität der Künste Berlin, 2006
Guest student at Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, 2017
Solo Exhibitions -selected-
Flesh color is not just a color, MiniPanera, Centre d’Art La Panera, Lleida, 2019
Glass is a supercooled liquid, Bianyal, Forests in Olot, 2018
There is no need to turn lights on when you are blindingly obvious (No necesitas una apisonadora cuando tu lógica es aplastante), Creadors en Residencia, ICUB-Consorci, C.C. Baró de Viver, 2017
Fiction is a reality yet to happen, Blanquerna Cultural Center, Madrid, 2017
Blood is red and so are some apples, Palmadotze Gallery, Vilafranca del Penedès, 2017
Balloons and Sandwiches, SIS Gallery, Sabadell, 2016
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky, +R Gallery, Barcelona, 2014
Columns and answers, Et Hall, Barcelona, 2011-12
Burying problems in order to wait for the zombies’ arrival, Abisal Art Space, Bilbao, 2010
Break it all so it makes la-la-la, Abelló Museum, Mollet del Vallès, 2008
Save the World, Soler i Palet Art Space, Terrassa, 2007
The Best of Valls, Sant Roc’s Chapel, Tarragona, 2006
“Soy mariquita”, Cultural Space Caja Madrid, Barcelona, 2006
ananaesana, Young Artists Space – Council Hall – Generalitat, Barcelona, 2005
Group Exhibitions – selection
Suero, Pamplona, 11/5/2019
Generaciones 2019, La Casa Encendida, Madrid 2019
Aquí hemos encontrado un espacio para pensar, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Fabra i Coats, Barcelona, 2019
Mostra de Arte Naturgy, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Gas Natural Fenosa, La Coruña, 2018
Turbulence. Contemporary Art. Caixa Forum, Barcelona, 2018
Malla pictórica. Batalla de Ojitos, Mexico City, 2018
Fresh Ink. Editions from La Panera’s Center of Documentations, La Panera Contemporary Art Museum Lleida, 2018
Make DF Great Again, Espacio Función Lenguaje, Madrid, 2017
Hau Ruck, Schönbrunnerstr. 6, Vienna, 2017
Sabadell Obert, Sabadell’s Art Museum, Sabadell, 2016
Rafael Patxot. Mecenes, científic…, l’home, Palace Robert, Barcelona, 2016
Restless Gardens, La Panera Contemporary Art Museum, Lleida, 2015
Untitled, Espai del Campanar, Sabadell, 2015
Rafael Patxot. Mecenes, científic…, l’home, Santa Caterina Art Space, Girona + History Museum, Sant Feliu de Guíxols + Granollers Museum, 2015
Sekw, 6+1 Gallery, Madrid, 2014
Chronicle. Narration, History and Subjectivity, Fabra i Coats Art Space, Barcelona, 2014
A dilemma. Contemporary art and investing on uncertainty, Ars Santa Mónica Centre for the Arts, Barcelona, 2013
Valls Biennale, Valls Museum, Valls, 2013
1776 km, Feinkünst Krüger Gallery, Hamburg, 2013
Ideas and Budgets, Liebre Gallery, Madrid, 2013
La Vie en Gomme, +R Gallery, Barcelona, 2013
Reset, Palma Dotze Gallery, Vilafranca del Penedès, 2013.
VIII Leandre Cristofol Biennale, La Panera Contemporary Art Museum, Lleida, 2013
Postinternet art aus Berlin, Dam Gallery, Berlin, 2012
Rumours about an exhibition, Zero1 Art Space, Olot, 2011
Belvedere, Estrany de la Mota Gallery, Barcelona, 2011
Patterns of the mind, Turku Biennale, Turku, 2011
Recursos propis, travelling exhibition around Catalonia: Vic’s Contemporary Art Centre, Cerdanyola’s Art Museum, Art Space at Ripollet, Sala Muncunill (Terrassa) and Betúlia Space (Badalona), 2010-11
Injuve09 travelling exhibition: Albéitar Space (University of León), Pescadería Vieja Space. EU Youth Conference (Jérez), Artendencias (Pozuelo de Alarcón), Centro Cultural de España (Asunción), ARJUVE Centro de Apoyo a los Jóvenes Artistas Locales (Buenos Aires), Centro Cultural de España (Sao Paulo).
Injuve09 Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, 2009
Recursos propis, Bòlit Girona’s Art Museum, 2009
Expoesía Euskadi’s experimental Poetry Biennale, Laúnicapuertaalaizquierda, Bilbao, 2008
45 Visual Arts International Contest, Pollença Museum, Pollença, 2008
I will not throw rocks, Form & Content Gallery, London, 2007
Plants, animals and other companions, 2nou2 Gallery, Barcelona, 2006
MICA, Miquel Casablancas Museum, Barcelona, 2006
Screenings and performances – selection
Lines: Fiction, Guidance, Identity and Repression, performance, Programa oficial Performances Drawing Now, Paris, 31 marzo2019
Chasing the forgotten, performance en el marco Drawing Now, 30 marzo 2019, Paris
Common Past-Common Future, Performance Festival, Schleifmülgasse 12-14, Vienna, 2018
Red Snow, White Fire, Performance, Prince Studio, Fonderie Darling, Montreal, 25/2/18
The blues, Performance, Ephemeral Swab, Barcelona, 2017
88, Performance, Espacio Función Lenguaje, Madrid, 2017
Forget, Performance, XARXA ZANDE, Ars Santa Mònica Centre for the Arts, 23-4-16
88, Performance, Plaga Festival, Nook, 2016
Young Catalan Video Art, CICUS Concert Hall, Seville, 2015
Cosmopolitan Barcelona, Dia Art Foundation, New York, 2008
Vidioteque (inside Calypso exhibition), Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, 2008
Component de quotidianeitat Espacio Movistar, Barcelona, 2008
Fragile, Video Europa, Ubú Space, Barcelona and Le Carré-Musée Bonnat, Bayonne 2008
Who I am… and other videos about me and the others, Art Santa Mònica Centre for the Arts, Barcelona, 2006
FIAV’04 (Festival d’Images Artistiques Vidéo), Centre Culturel Français, Milan, 2004
Grants, Bursaries and Prizes
Prize Generaciones 2019, Fundación MonteMadrid, Madrid, 2018
Grant by Institut Ramón Llull, Barcelona, 2018
Fonderie Darling, Funded by Conseil des Arts et des Letres du Québec, Institut Ramón Llull and Generalitat de Catalunya Departament de Cultura, 2017
NXT Residency, Funded by ELIA + EU Creative Program and hosted by Center for Knowledge Transfer East, Vienna, 2017
Estruch residency, Sabadell, 2015-16
Best Catalan Artist Prize, Corominas Foundation, 2015
Leonardo da Vinci Grant, University of Leon, 2012
1rst Prize Injuve Visual Arts, Instituto Juventud, Madrid, 2009
Production Grant – Olot’s Visual Arts Grant, Olot, 2008
Production Grant – Guasch Coranty Foundation, Barcelona, 2008
Production Grant – Bcn Producció’08, La Capella-ICUB Cultural Institute of Barcelona, 2008
Production Grant for the project of curating “Copyzine-1”, Abisal Space, Bilbao, 2007
Residency at Hangar, Production Centre, Barcelona, from 2007-09
Production Grant – Artistic Creation Incubator Project, Olot Town Hall, 2006
Collaborator’s Grant – University of Barcelona Fine Arts Faculty, 2006
Erasmus Grant at Universität der Künste, Berlin, 2004
Residency Grant. La Nau, Artistic Production Centre, Sabadell, 2004
Collections
Banc Sabadell Atlántico Foundation, Catalan Studies Institute, Cal Cego Contemporary Art Collection, Centro de Documentación MUSAC, Centro de Estudios y Documentación MACBA, Corominas Foundation, Guasch Coranty Foundation, La Caixa Foundation, Patronat Facultat Belles Arts de Barcelona, La Panera Arts Museum, Le FRAC Corse, Montehermoso Foundation.
Publications
More Machines and Machinations, Ediciones Analógica, 2018
Fiction is a reality yet to happen, Blanquerna Cultural Center, Madrid, in progress.
Caminar en círculos, rizarse el pelo y enroscar espaguetis para sobrevivir al huracán, produced by Espai Zero1 Olot, 2011.
Text, self edited, 2010
Machines and Machinations, produced by ICUB Cultural Institute of Barcelona, 2008
4X12 i el gat, produced by Palma XII Gallery, edited by Paperback, 2008
1,2,3 DIE (fanzine), produced by Sant Andreu District, Barcelona, 2007
Problems and Solutions, produced by Terrassa’s City Council (Interferències), 2007
Other projects
Visual voices, Against stigma. Project with Mental Health Department at Sant Joan de Deu Hospital, Terrassa, 2019
Encaixa’t, art for babies and toddlers, La Panera Contemporary Art Museum, Lleida, 2017-19
Workshop for children, All flesh colors, Centre d’Art La Panera, Lleida, 30-5-19
Workshop for social workers. Creativity for social change, Apropa Cultura, 25-5-19
Workshop for young artists Día de Mierda, Centre d’Art La Panera, 12 y 13 juny 2018
Big Draw, workshop, Picasso Museum, Barcelona, 2017
Master Class at Maristany Art Centre, Sant Cugat, 2016
Jury at Sabadell Obert Residency, Estruch, Sabadell, 2016.
Professor and head of the Drawing Department at LCI University, Barcelona, 2016-17
Artistes en residencia, Research project with high-school students, ICUB – Barcelona Institute of Culture, 2016-17
Seminar for teenagers From drawing to performance, La Panera Contemporary Art Museum, Lleida, 2016
Seminar for adults From drawing to performance, Estruch, 2015
Jury at Miquel Casablancas’ Art Prize, 2010.
Transform kids into trees, polar bears and turtles (and so produce oxygen and increase the number of extinct animals), workshop for children, La Factoria de Sant Andreu, Barcelona, 2010
Copyzine #1 Bilbo, Sala Abisal, Bilbao, 2008 (co-curated show)
Curating Fictions, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2007 (co- curated series of events)