Galeria Joan Prats

Balmes 54, 08007 Barcelona

Regular hours
Tue to Fri: 11 am–2pm / 4pm–8pm;
Sat: 11am–2pm;

+34 93 216 02 84

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About the gallery

Galeria Joan Prats has been one of the pioneer galleries in the international contemporary scene since its opening in 1976, when it started exhibiting and promoting the works of the artist it represents. The gallery is committed to spread and to provide the lecture on the different languages used by the artists contributing thus to the realization of specific projects.

Represented artists:

Erick Beltrán, Alfons Borrell, Cabello/Carceller, Victoria Civera, Hannah Collins, Carles Congost, Luis Gordillo, Hernández Pijuan, Annika Kahrs, Alicia Kopf, Lola Lasurt, Chema Madoz, Enrique Martínez Celaya, Muntadas, Javier Peñafiel, Perejaume, Pablo del Pozo, Fernando Prats, Ràfols Casamada, Caio Reisewitz, Julião Sarmento, José María Sicilia, Juan Uslé

Exhibition: Pictorial Curation I: Esther Guillén, her contemporaries and the School of Vallecas

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Pictorial Curation I: Esther Guillén, her contemporaries and the School of Vallecas: Lola Lasurt. Photo Eva Carasol

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Pictorial Curation I: Esther Guillén, her contemporaries and the School of Vallecas: Lola Lasurt. Photo Eva Carasol

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Pictorial Curation I: Esther Guillén, her contemporaries and the School of Vallecas: Lola Lasurt. Photo Eva Carasol

UNTIL NOVEMBER 11TH

Lola Lasurt's project for the upcoming Barcelona Gallery Weekend wants to vindicate abstract artistic practices that interest the artist through her painting, she tries to paint abstraction figuratively.   

The project has two parts with which Lasurt approaches pictorially, first, the Escuela de Vallecas (1920-39) and, later, the ceramics of Esther Guillén (Lleida, 1943). This artist has produced relevant and little-known work since the 1960s, characterized by an abstraction based on organic forms that, according to Lasurt, seems to be influenced by the artistic avant-garde prior to the Spanish Civil War and also by ceramic artistic practices that took place during the last years of the dictatorship and the first years of the democracy. Many of these practices were influenced by the lessons that Angelina Alòs taught from the thirties to the eighties at the Escola del Treball in Barcelona.   

A selection of ceramics by Esther Guillén will be presented in the exhibition, together with the works by Lola Lasurt. Lasurt thus composes an exhibition device that generates a genealogy of practices through formally connected works and elements.

Exhibition: artist(s)

Lola Lasurt (Barcelona, 1983) works with displaced time aspects, avoiding historical doctrine as an open and self-critical enterprise and formalizing her artistic investigations through pictorial installation, video, and through collaborative processes.

Among her individual exhibitions, the following stand out: Ensayo para Deep Song, Centro Federico García Lorca, Granada (2022); El Ganxo, Fundació Joan Brossa, Barcelona; Cardiograma, IVAM, Valencia (2021); Joc d'Infants, La Capella, Barcelona (2020); Donació, Barcelona Gallery Weekend'16; Promenade, 105 Besme, Brussels; Exercici de Ritme, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona (2015); Doble Autorització, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2014) and Amnèsies, Sala Moncunill, Terrassa (2013). Lately she has participated in collectives such as: Another end. The Remainder, El Born CCM, Barcelona (2022); Efecto Coloso, Centro de Arte José de Guimaraes, Portugal; Uns altres temps, Green Parrot, Barcelona (2021), Mitos del futuro próximo, TEA, Tenerife; Otros Campos, CDAN, Huesca (2019); 15th Naturgy Art Show, MAC, A Coruña; Habitación, with Pedro G. Romero, CA2M, Madrid/ La Nau, Valencia/ MNAC, Barcelona, among others.   

Graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, she is currently completing a Master's in Art Research from the Royal College of Art in London. She has been an artist-in-residence at HISK, Ghent; La Ene, Buenos Aires; Kunsthuis SYB, Friesland; Greatmore Art Studios, Cape Town and Hangar, Barcelona.  Nominated for the Young Belgian Art Prize'15, she received the Miquel Casablancas'15 prize (Sant Andreu Contemporani, Barcelona) and the Fundació Ciutat de Valls '17 prize. In 2018, she was part of Generación'18 (Fundación Montemadrid / La Casa Encendida) and won the prize at the 15th Naturgy Art Show (MAC, A Coruña). In 2019, she received the Leonardo Scholarship for Researchers and Cultural Creators from the BBVA Foundation.

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Activities

Saturday 16.09 - 11:00

Guided tour to the galleries: Galeria Joan Prats, Galeria Marc Domènech, Zielinsky, ProjecteSD.
Limited capacity. Meeting point: Galeria Joan Prats, Balmes, 54.

SOLD OUT

In collaboration with the ARCO Foundation, Barcelona Gallery Weekend is once again offering free guided tours to the participating galleries: seven walks guided by a local expert in which gallerists and artists will present their exhibitions first-hand. Each itinerary will take place twice during the weekend. In Catalan/Spanish.

Sunday 17.09 - 11:00

Guided tour to the galleries: Galeria Joan Prats, Galeria Marc Domènech, Zielinsky, ProjecteSD.
Limited capacity. Meeting point: Galeria Joan Prats (Balmes, 54).

SOLD OUT

In collaboration with the ARCO Foundation, Barcelona Gallery Weekend is once again offering free guided tours to the participating galleries: seven walks guided by a local expert in which gallerists and artists will present their exhibitions first hand. Each itinerary will take place twice during the weekend. In Catalan/Spanish.

Thursday 14.09 - 18:30

Comented visit to the exhibition Pictorial Curation I: Esther Guillén, her contemporaries and the School of Vallecas together with Esther Guillén and Neus Miró.
Please confirm attendance at: galeria@galeriajoanprats.com