Anna MALAGRIDA

Presentation

Since the late ‘90s, Anna Malagrida, acclaimed Spanish contemporary artist, has developed video and photography work with impressive consistency. The window, the endless subject for many of her series, represents the passage from an intimate universe to the exterior world. It depicts frontiers in the literal sense (video Fronteras, 2009) figuratively suggesting absence and presence, the visible and the invisible, reality and its interpretation. Anna Malagrida tackles with great poetic delicacy controversial subjects such as war, politics, and women in the Middle East, while subtly working with direction and playing with light and chiaroscuro, confusing the pictorial gesture as an artist who transcends photographic and video media into so-called “classic” art.

Biography

Born in 1970 in Barcelona, Spain; Lives and works between Paris and Barcelona

1996
Degree in Communications from the Universidad Autónoma of Barcelona, Spain.

1993
Degree from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Photographie in Arles, France.
 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023
- L'attente, La filature de Mulhouse, Mulhouse, FR.
- Ce qui demeure, Centre régional de photographie Hauts de France, Douchy-les-Mines, France.

2022
- Paris, megalopolis y espacios en crisis, Galerie Philipp Von Rosen, Cologne, Allemagne. 

2021
- Vitrines et Paris Barricadé, Galerie RX, Paris, France

2019
El peso de las cenizas. Galeria 6, IVAM (Institut Valencià of Modern Art), Valencia, Spain.

2018
- En Trace, Museum of Modern Art of the Diputació, Tarragona, Spain.
Espace liminal, Galerie RX, Paris, France.
- Cristal House, Von Rosen Galerie, Cologne, Germany.
- The weight of the ashes, Galeria 6, IVAM, Valencia, Spain.

2017
Mérignac Photographic Festival, Mérignac, France.
- Cristal House, Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain.

2016             
Cristal House, Carte Blanche PMU, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
-  (In)Visibilidad, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Corunna, Spain.      

2015
De ma fenêtre, Frac PACA, Marseille, France.

2013
Sòcol, Galerie Senda, Barcelona, Spain.
Sockel, Galerie Figge Von Rosen, Berlin, Germany.
- Danza de mujer, Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa.

2012
Frontera, LOOP, Videoarte Festival, Barcelone, Spain.
- Schaufenster, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne, Germany.

2011
- Galerie RX, Paris, France.
- Centre Photographique d’Ile de France (CPIF), Pontault-Combault, France.
Photographies, [Studio]GwinZegal, Guingamp, France.
- Pallazzini dei Giardini, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italy.

2010   
- Fondation Ecureuil pour l’Art Contemporain, Toulouse, France.
- LOOP, Festival de Videoarte, Galeria Vanguardia / Senda, Barcelona, Spain.
- Galerie Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Mapfre Foundation, Madrid, Spain.
- Marangoni Foundation, Florence, Italy.

2009
- Galeria Brancolini Grimaldi, Rome, Italy.
- Kunstfilmbiennial, Galerie Figge Von Rosen, Cologne, Germany.
Art Brussels, Galeria Senda, Brussels, Belgium.
- Forteresse de Salses, France.
Vues voilées, Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain.

2008
Vues voilées, Galerie RX, Paris, France.

2007    
Point of view, Galerie Figge-Von Rosen, Cologne, Germany.
Vistas Veladas, Espai 4, Casal Sollerich, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
En Dehors, Galerie Le Lieu, Lorient, France.
Point of view, Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain.
Espai 4, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Fenêtres, Galerie RX, Paris, France.
En Dehors, Centre photographique de Lectoure, Lectoure, France.

2006
Point de vue / Vista, punto , Institut Cervantes, Paris, France.
Interiores (Las fachadas), Espai 292-Senda, Barcelona, Spain.
Paisajes urbanos, Institut Français, Barcelona, Spain.

2004    
Hisrorias Privadas – historias p·blicas, projection, Centro Cultural Conde Duque, PhotoEspagna, Madrid, Spain.
Barrio Chino, Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain.
- Barrio Chino, Galeria 779, Paris, France.
- Barrio Chino, Galeria Vanguardia, Bilbao, Spain.
Barrio Chino, Les Ateliers de l’image, Autour Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Saint-Rémy de Provence, France.

2003    
La dormeuse, video installation, LOOP Festival de Video, Galeria Kowasa, Barcelona, Spain.
Interiores, Artline Gallery, Waterloo, Belgium.

2002
Interiores, Le Mois de la Photo,  Galeria 779, Paris, France.
Interiores, Photomuseum, Zarautz, Espagne.
Interiores, PhotoEspagna, galeria MarÌa MartÌn, Madrid, Espagne.

2001                    
- FIAC’2001, One women Show, galeria Senda, Paris, France.
Interiores, Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Espagne.

1999    
La baignoire, Installation, New Art, Galerie Senda, Barcelona, Spain.
- Espejismos, Galerie MarÌa MartÌn, PHotoEspagna, Madrid, Espagne.

1998    
- La sphère de l’intime, Le Printemps de Cahors, commissioner : Jérôme Sans, Cahors, France.
- Deambulaciones, Galerie Forum, Tarragona, Spain.
- Deambulaciones, MetrÚnom,  Fondation Rafael Tous d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain.
- Espejismos, Galeria Senda, Primavera Fotografica de Barcelona, Spain.
- Deambulaciones, Galeria del Passatge, Igualada, Spain. 


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021
- Womanology, Jose Ramon Prieto collection, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Spain.
- Exhibition of the new acquisitions, MAMT Tarragona, Spain
- Exhibition of the new acquisitions of the Nathalie Guiot’s collection, Thalie Fundation, Ixelles, Belgium

2020
- Càpsules de confinament, Museu Can Framis, Barcelona, Spain.
- Cámara y Ciudad. La vida urbana en la fotografía y el cine, coproduction Fundación La Caixa/Centre Pompidou, CaixaForum Madrid and Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
- Tedium, videoart projection program, Pushkin Museum of fine arts of Moscow, Moscow, Russia.
- Domestic Odysseys, Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain.
- Poètiques empeltades, Museu de la Garrotxa-Fundació Vila Casas, Olot, Spain.

2019
- Paris Photo, Galerie RX, Paris, France.
- Photographie et documents, 1983-2018 / Frac PACA, Marseille, France.
- Cámara y Ciudad. La vida urbana en la fotografía y el cine, coproduction Fundación La Caixa/Centre Pompidou,Fundación CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain.
- Manifesta, Lyon, France.
- La forma del temps, Casa Elizalde, Barcelona, Spain.
- Œuvres Choisies, Galerie RX.
- Filigranes, Filles du Calvaire Gallery, 30 years of edition, Paris, France.
- The spark of God !, Diocesan Museum, Bamberg, Germany.

2018
- Paris Photo, Galerie RX, Paris, France.
- Deserunar emocions. 80 anys del bombardeig a Granollers. Art i Memòria, Museu de Granollers, Granollers, Spain.
- Escape, Frac Occitanie Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
- Fotografia com a espai públic, Bòlit, Contemporary Art Center, Girona, Con-Secuencias. Colección DKV, Fundación DIDAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
- Elèctric i llunyà. Fotografía contemporénea colección color visual, Centre d’Art Tecla Sala, L’Hospitalet, Spain.

2017
La ville dans tous ses états, MAIF Social Club, Paris, France.

2016
- Winter, Galerie RX, Paris, France.                                                                                                                                                                                               
- Retratos, Colecciones Fundacion Mapfres, Museo de arte contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain.
- Foire-Paris Photo, Galerie RX, Paris, France.

2015
La construcción social del paisaje, CAAC -Centro de Arte Andaluz Contemporáneo of Seville, Spain.
- Photo Speaks 2015, International Photo Exhibition, the Society of Korean Photography, Seoul, South Korea.
- IN SITU, Patriomoine et art contemporain 2015 , Languedoc-Roussillon, France.
- Conférence « Images-Cité », Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris, France.

2014
- A cop d'ull. Cultura Visual Recent., La Virreina, Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, Spain.

2013
- Au dèla de mes rêves, Espace d'Art contemporain, Bourg en Bresse, "Résonance de la Biennial de Lyon 2013," France.
Arquitectura inadvertida, Musée d'art contemporain d'Alicante (MACA), Alicante, Spain.
- Recorridos fotográficos por ARCOmadrid, 15 Years of Photography in Spain, Atrium Collection, Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo.
- Landscapes: nature and artifice, Photography of the DKV Collection, Zaragoza, Spain.

2012
La nuit de l’Instant, Ateliers de l’image, Marseille, France.
upon a time the screen. Del vídeo monocanal al univers del cinema, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain.
Urbscapes: espacios de hibridación, Sala Dventrisky, Maribor, Slovenia.
Figures du voile, La Fabrique-Le Cube, Université de Toulouse II, Toulouse, France.
- Plaisir, Galerie RX, Paris, France.

2011
Urbscapes: espacios de hibridación, EFTI, Madrid, Spain.
- Video(S)torias, ARTIUM, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
- Coletiva de fotografia contemporânea, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

2010                                                                                                                                         
Paris Photo, Paris, France.
Newera, Galerie RX, Paris, France.
Casanova forever, L’Evasion, Paris, France.
La vision de las creadoras, Instituto Cervantes, Belgrade, Vienna, Bucharest.
- Group Show, Galeria Marlborough, Barcelona and Madrid, Spain.
A man is not a Tree, Galeria Sherin Najjar, Berlin, Germany.
- Cazadores de Sombras, Cultural Center of Spain, Mexico City, Mexico.

2009
Fronteiras do Género, Encontros da Imagem é09, Braga, Portugal.
- Video arte en España, Ucca, Ullens Center, Beijing, China.
Tilt, Le temps suspendu, Œuvres du Centre National des Arts Plastiques. Musée Château Saint-Jean de Nogent-le-Rotrou, France.
Ecriture-abstraction, Galerie RX, Paris, France.
- Festival International de Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy.
Proje4L, Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey, Cazadores de Sombras, National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba, Havana / Caraffa Fina Arts Museum, Córdoba, Argentina.
Visión:f(icción) Itinerancia Instituto Cervantes: Beijing/Shanghai/Amman/Dublin/Sao Paulo.
Frecuencias, itinerancia Instituto Cervantes Marrakech, Tétouan, Morocco.
Nuevas historias, A New View of Spanish Photography and Video Art, itinerancia: Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway.
- Kuntsi Museum Of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland.
- National Museum of Photography, Den Sorte Diamant, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Fronteiras do género, Encontros da Imagem ’09, Braga, Portugal. 

2008
- Paris Photo, Frace.
Neuvas historias, A New View of Spanish Photography and Video Art, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden.
Frecuencias, Institut Cervantes, Tangier/Casablanca/Fez/Rabat, Morocco.
Empty Paradise, Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands.
- Creadoras del siglo XX, Fondation Caja Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.
Nou Now, F/Stop, Festival international de photographe, Leipzig, Spain.
Ere de repos, Château d’Avignon, Arles, France.
Spring, CCA Gallery, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Andratx, Spain.
- Ideas y propuestas para el arte en Espana, Ministy of Culture, ARCO 08, Spain.
Cazadores de sombras, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Panama / Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile/ MADC, Museum of Contemporary Art, San José, Costa Rica / Cultural Center, San Marcos, Lima/MASP, Museum of Art of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Préoccupation, FemLink, Collage video international.

2007
- Cazadores de sombras, Biennial of Photography, Bogota, Colombia.
- MAMBO, Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Colombia.
- House Trip, Art Forum, Berlin, Germany.
- Nou-Now, Contemporary Catalan Photography, Spain.
- Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt, Germany.
- Mediterrania(es), Centre d’art la Panera, Lleida, Espagne.
- MAEC, Château de Haute Serre, Flaujac-Pujol, France.
- AquÌ y ahora, Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Espagne.
- New Faces From Spain, KIAF, Seoul, Korea.
El ojo que ves, Premio Internacional de Fotografia Contemporanea Pilar Citoler, Palacio de la Merced, Cordoba, Spain.
- Premi Ciutat de Palma, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
- Resistance, FemLink, Internanational Video Collage.

2006
Glaskultur, ¿qué pasó con la transparencia?, curador MartÌ Perán,  Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastián, y Centre d’Art La Panera, Lleida, Spain.
- Dormir, rÍver et …autres nuits. Capc Musée, Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France.
- El rostro y la muscara, Galeria NomésArt, Gerona, Spain.
Check in Europe, EPO Building, curador Erno Vorneen, Munich, Germany.
En la sombra, Loop, VideoArt festival, Espai 292-Senda, Barcelona, Spain.
- Femlink, Fragility, International Video Collage, Spain.
- Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montevideo, Uruguay.
- Biennial Européenne d'Art Contemporain de Nîmes. France.
- Exposition Internationale d'Art Contemporain "Jeune-Création", La Bellevilloise, Paris, France.
- Nuit Blanche de Paris, during the night of the October 7th-8th, Paris, France.

2005    
- La photographie espagnole, L’Insensé, Colette, Paris, France.
- Galeria Senda, ARCO, Madrid, Spain.

2003
New Perspectives, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan.
- Imágenes desde Europa, Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba.
- Llistes d’espera, Espai Volart, Fondation Vilacasas, Barcelona, Spain.
- Purificación Garcia, Jardin Botánico, Madrid, Spain.

2002    
- Dones fotògrafes, Galerie Ferran Cano, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
- ArtExpo, comisario Juan Naranjo, Barcelona, Espagne.

2001    
Fragments, Collection Rafael Tous de Arte Contemporáneo, Casa del Cordon, Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Spain.
- Fragments Collection Rafael Tous de Arte ContemporáneoSala Amos, Logrono, Spain.
- El viaje, Centro Cultural Espagnol de Coopération Iberoamericana, Miami, USA.
El Temps, GalerÌa Llucia Homs, Barcelona, Spain.
Cardedeu amb l’art vigent, Barcelona, Spain.
Joves Creadors, Centre Culturel de Montrouge, Paris (France),  Monestir St.Cugat del Valles (Spain), Porto,  Portugal.
- Salon Européen des Jeunes Créateurs, Centre Culturel de Montrouge, Paris, France.

2000    
- Introduction a l'histoire de la photographie en Catalogne, Museu Nacional  d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
- Retratos, GalerÌa dels Angels, Barcelona, Spain.
- Fragments,  Museu de Granollers, Coleccion Rafael Tous de Arte Contemporáneo, Granollers, Spain.
- Fondation Itaca, Sala Utrillo, Barcelona, Spain.
- Album de Barcelona, Galeria Llucià Homs, Primavera Fotogràfica de Barcelone, Spain.

1998
- Galerie Baro Senna, Sao Paolo, Brazil.


PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

- Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France.
- MACBA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain.
- MAGASIN 3, Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan.
- FMAC (Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain) Paris, France.
- FNAC (Fonds National d’Art Contemporain) Paris, France.
- Frac PACA, Marseille, France.
- Frac (Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain) Languedoc-Roussillon, France.
- MUSAC, Museum of Contemporary Art, León, Spain.
- MACUF, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Unión Fenosa, La Coruña, Spain.
- ARTIUM, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria, Spain.
- Madrid Collection of Contemporary Art, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain.
- Project 42 Istanbul, Turkey.
- National Center of Photography, Barcelona, Spain.
- Collection Ella Cisneros, Caracas, Venezuela.    
- Collection Neuflize Vie, Paris, France.
- Collection Société Générale, Paris, France.
- Fondation La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain. 
- Fondation MAPFRE, Madrid, Spain.

 

PUBLICATIONS

2018
- El pes de les cendres, textes de José Miguel Cortés et Alba Braza, Ed. Instituto Valenciano Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain.

2016
Cristal House, text by Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowski, Emmanuel Alloa, Ed. Filigranes, Carte blanche PMU / Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
- (In)Visibilidad, text by Marta Dahò et Fernando López, La Coruña, MAC gasNatural fenosa.

2010
Anna Malagrida, exhibition catalogue, text by Fernando López, Martí Peran, Isabel Tejeda, Rachda Triki, Fondation Mapfre, Madrid, Spain.   
Anna Malagrida, vistas Veladas, Ed. Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2007    
Anna Malagrida, vistas veladas Ed. Galerie Senda, Barcelona, Spain.

2006    
Point de vue/ Vista, punto. Text by Saskia Ooms. Ed. Institut Cervantes, Paris, France.
Anna Malagrida, photographies et installations (1999-2006), text by Marta Gili and Monica Regas. Ed. Actar, Barcelona, Spain.
Dormir, rêver et autres nuits, Capc, Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Fage Editions, Bordeaux, France.

2005    
100 photographes espagnols, Rosa Olivares, Ed. Exit publicaciones, Madrid, Spain.
La photographie espagnoleL’Insense, revista fotogr·fica, Ed. Paris, France.

2001    
Interiores, Anna Malagrida, Introduction by Marta Dah. Ed. Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain.

1999    
Anna Malagrida, Ed. Galeria Maria Martin, Madrid, Spain.

 

AWARDS

2016
- Laureate of Carte Blanche, PMU/Centre Pompidou.

2010
- Selected for the Premio Ciudad de Palma Antoni Gelabert de Artes Plásticas.

2008    
Parcours Photographiques d’Arco, ARCO ’08.
- Realization of the poster for the XXII Festival de Peralada.

2007    
- BMW Prize (Paris Photo ‘07, Paris). 
- Honorable Mention, Premio Ciudad de Palma Antoni Gelabert de Artes Plásticas.
- Nominated for the Prix Nièpce, France.

2006    
- Scholarship from the Fondation Arte y Derecho.

2005    
Prix au projet, Curator Marta Gili, Rencontres Internationales de la photographie d’Arles, France.

2004    
- FIACRE, Scholarship for the edition Anna Malagrida, photographies et installations (1999-2006).