My artistic practice originates in a rupture: a physical limitation that interrupts the continuity between body and mind, displacing experience into an unfamiliar territory. What initially appears as loss—the inability of the body to sustain its former intensity—gradually becomes an opening. The energy once anchored in the physical is reconfigured as thought, attention, and perception.
From this point, art does not emerge as a choice but as a necessity: a space in which to inhabit and think through that fracture. Painting becomes a site of condensation where time, matter, and experience intertwine. It does not represent; it articulates. It constructs fields in which the visible and the invisible coexist, where form does not assert but sustains tension.
Within this process, time ceases to be linear and unfolds instead as duration and waiting; space ceases to be a container and becomes relational; matter ceases to be a support and becomes thought. The work thus takes shape as an open system in constant transformation, where uncertainty is not a lack but a potential.
Physical limitation, rather than closing down possibilities, reveals them. It marks the boundaries of the body while activating an intuition of a mental expansiveness that largely remains unexplored. In this threshold, artistic practice operates as a device of attention and displacement: a way of interrogating the structures—visible and invisible—that shape our experience, from the most intimate to the systemic.
Power, in this context, is no longer understood as control, but as the capacity to sustain, to listen, and to remain within what is unresolved. The work does not seek to close meaning, but to open it: to make perceptible that, even within limitation, there persists a field of possibility—mental, perceptual, and vital—that exceeds what we believe we know.
MARTA JUVANTENY COLELL
Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Barcelona, 1981
Visual Artist · University Lecturer · Specialist in Painting Techniques, Materials and Processes · Director of Artistic and Curatorial Projects.
Professional Profile
Artist and lecturer with more than 20 years of experience at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona, specialized in pictorial processes, material research, project methodology, and mentoring young artists. With an established artistic career at an international level, I have exhibited in Germany, France, the Netherlands, South Korea, Madrid, Panama, Catalonia, England, and the United States.
Founder of the hybrid studio Garage 23, a space for research, teaching, and artistic production based on experimental methodologies, interdisciplinarity, and knowledge transmission. I combine professional artistic practice with project direction, mentoring, and pedagogical innovation.
Academic Degrees
• European Master’s Degree in Artistic Production and Research, Faculty of Fine Arts. UB, Barcelona (2016–2017)
• Certificate of Pedagogical Aptitude (CAP). Barcelona (2006)
• Miró Foundation Scholarship, Palma de Mallorca – Printmaking. Woodcut with Japanese printing with Wayne Krothers. Mallorca (2006)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts. UB, Barcelona (2006)
• Member of the Guild of Jewelers, Goldsmiths and Gemologists of Catalonia (JORC). Barcelona (2002)
• Escola d’Arts Aplicades Llotja, Barcelona (2001)
Teaching Experience and Project Direction
• Associate Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts (UB), Barcelona (2007–…)
Courses: Pictorial procedures, techniques and materials; Introduction to processes and projects I and II – Painting; Laboratory of pictorial and sculptural techniques and materials; Drawing: materials and techniques – Restoration; Painting II; Final Degree Project tutoring.
• Founder and Director of Garage 23, hybrid studio and space for artistic projects, multidisciplinary experimentation, workshops, courses, and exhibitions. Sant Feliu de Llobregat (2017–…)
• Director of curatorial projects related to processes, materials, and contemporary heritage. Garage 23 Studio (2017–…)
• Mentor for artistic projects, undergraduate final projects, and emerging artists.
• Advisor for artistic projects and processes, specialized in methodology, conceptualization, and technical resolution.
• Member of the M.I.M.A (Matter and Memory) research and teaching innovation group — University of Barcelona.
Exhibitions
• Group exhibition “Tovallons d’art: A través del territori a l’art de la cuina”. Touring exhibition in Spain. 2025(…)
• Finalist Exhibition — Antoni Vila Casas Painting Prize 2025. Museu de Can Framis. Barcelona. 2025
• Group exhibition “Rodalies informa”. Tangram Gallery. Barcelona. 2025
• Direction, production, research, art and mentorship of the Site-Specific exhibition project — “Cultius: Fent ciutat amb les persones” on the biographical memory and living history of Magí Boronat i Franschesc and the historical transformation of Sant Feliu de Llobregat from the 1970s to the present. Restoration of the Silk Warehouse of Can Bertrand. Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Barcelona. 2024
• Exhibition with the collective Transurbància Sant Feliu — “Viatge a Sant Feliu” — XI Poetry Week. Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Barcelona. 2022
• Solo exhibition “Rhetorics of Blue Light” – Digital screen – Tangram – Barcelona. 2019
• Solo exhibition “Rhetorics of Blue Light” – Carme Malaret, independent space for free, participatory and activist creation. Sant Just Desvern, Barcelona. 2019
• 12th Independent Art Festival Pepe Sales 2019 “Angles de Reflexió” – Richard Van der Aa Gallery – Girona. 2019
• Group exhibition “Custòdia” – Espai Carme Malaret. Sant Just Desvern. Barcelona. 2018–19
• Group exhibition “Mans ocupades” – Can Ginestà – Sant Just Desvern. Barcelona. 2018
• Solo exhibition “0=I” with ONCE – La Destil·leria. Mataró. Barcelona. 2018
• Solo exhibition “0=I” – Palau Falguera. Sant Feliu de Llobregat. Barcelona. 2018
• Group exhibition “Cuks” – Casa Saladrigas – Blanes – Girona. 2018
• Group exhibition “Crosswords” – Espronceda Center for Art & Culture. Barcelona. 2017
• Group exhibition Finalists of the BBVA Ricard Camí Painting Contest. Terrassa. Barcelona. 2017
• Group exhibition FIC – Fabra i Coats – Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona. Curatorship: Maria Teresa Blanch. Barcelona. 2017
• Group exhibition with the CuKs collective, “Enllaços” – Palau Falguera Marquès de Vilallonga. Barcelona. 2017
• Central Hotel of Panama, World Heritage Site. Panama. 2016
• Group exhibition “CuKs” – Castell de Remei. Lleida. 2016
• Finalist Exhibition — Vila Casas Painting Prize — Museu Can Framis. Barcelona. 2016–2017
• Group exhibition Finalists — Biennal Salou Pictorial Research Prize. Tarragona. 2016
• Group exhibition “Wireless Connection” – German Chamber of Commerce. Espronceda Art & Culture Center. Barcelona. 2016
• Group exhibition “Burbuixes de l’Oci” – Espronceda Center for Art & Culture. Barcelona. 2016
• Contemporary Art Fair JUSTMAD – Alejandro Gallery. Madrid. 2016
• Solo exhibition — II Sabadell Young Art Biennial Contest – Fundació Privada de Belles Arts. Sabadell. Barcelona. 2015
• Contemporary Art Fair Art Show Busan 2015 – Alejandro Gallery. Busan. South Korea. 2015
• Group exhibition Finalists — BBVA Ricard Camí 2015. Barcelona. 2015
• Group exhibition Finalists — II Sabadell Young Art Biennial. Barcelona. 2015
• Group exhibition Finalists — Miquel Viladrich International Painting Contest. Lleida. 2015
• Group exhibition Parallax. London. United Kingdom. 2015
• Solo exhibition “Parables of Refuge. Languages and Conversations Among Others”. Barcelona. 2014
• Solo exhibition “Wireless Connections” – Tangram Gallery. Barcelona. 2014
• Group exhibition “Layers” – Temporary Gallery. Berlin. Germany. 2014–2015
• Group exhibition The New Artist Fair London. United Kingdom. 2014
• Solo exhibition “Refuges of an Obsession” – Fine Arts Academy of Sabadell. Barcelona. 2014
• Coordination and execution of the project “Garage 23” – 23 projects and artists in collaboration with UNHCR. Sant Feliu de Llobregat. Barcelona. 2013
• Group exhibition Sharing Art – Maatschappij Arti et Amicitiae. Amsterdam. 2011
• Group exhibition Sharing Art – Club Antares. Seville. 2009–2010
• Solo exhibition “Urban Densities” – Trans Art Contest – Can Ricart. Sant Feliu de Llobregat. Barcelona. 2005–2006
• Solo exhibition “Urban Densities” – Centre Jujol Can Negre. Sant Joan Despí. Barcelona. 2005–2006
• Group exhibition “Impressions” – Imarte. Barcelona. 2003–2004
Competitions
• Finalist – Antoni Vila Casas Painting Prize. Museu Can Framis. Barcelona (2025)
• Finalist – Centelles Prize. Barcelona (2024)
• Finalist – BBVA Ricard Camí (2017)
• Finalist – Vila Casas Foundation Prize (2016)
• Finalist – Biennal Salou Pictorial Research (2016)
• Runner-up – II Sabadell Young Art Biennial (2015)
• Finalist – XIV International BBVA Ricard Camí Contest (2015)
• Finalist – XV International Miquel Viladrich Painting Contest (2015)
• First Prize – International Contemporary Art Contest Centre Jujol Can Negre (2007)
• First Prize – XIV Young Contemporary Art Tran Art Barcelona (2008)
Private Collections
• Central Hotel of Panama, Panama City (2016)
• Multiple Sclerosis Foundation (FEM)
• German Chamber of Commerce Barcelona (2016)
• Banc Sabadell (2015)
• MRW Courier Group S.L. (2017)
• Espronceda Art & Culture Center (2016)
• Private collections
. Monastery of Pedralbes (2024)
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