"Memento Mori", 2025. Photo: Bernat Daviu
Activity
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Let’s visit the studio of artist Bernat Daviu
Exclusive activity for Collection Friends and MACBA Friends
An intimate, privileged look into the artist’s universe
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We invite the MACBA Friends to discover the creative universe of Bernat Daviu, an artist featured in the MACBA Collection, with an exclusive visit to his studio to find out about his work and his creative processes.
Bernat Daviu invites us into his studio to immerse ourselves in his work space, so that we can see first-hand where his work stands at the moment: what he is busy with and what ideas and materials he is currently experimenting with.
This is a chance to see closely an artistic practice that constantly pushes the boundaries of painting, opening up paths to other languages. Daviu is interested in activating painting, making it mutate and relate it to everyday life, the codes in the art world and its conventions. He sees painting as a starting point rather than a limit, often making his paintings dialogue with other forms of expression, such as costume, performance or installation. This visit will let us see how these different registers coexist in his studio, and how they take shape through processes that are often collaborative and open.
An intimate, privileged look into his creative universe, inviting us to think about the possibilities of painting and the tensions between art and everyday life.
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Bernat Daviu studied at Central Saint Martins, London. His work encompasses painting, video, costume design, food and performance. Both his images and performances are built with multiple layers of meaning that refer to the fusion between art and life, between personal experiences and anonymous stories. Often ironic and with connotations of the absurd, his work reflects on artistic modernity, mixed with elements of everyday life. His interest also lies in the shifts of meaning created by time and context. Another important aspect of his work is activation, as witnessed by his collaborations with dancers, filmmakers and other creators.
Daviu’s solo shows include Studio 1, London (2010), Uma certa falta de coerencia, Porto (2014), LOOP Festival, Barcelona (2016), Fundació Arranz-Bravo, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona (2017) and Mataró Art Contemporani (2021). He has held performances at MACBA, Barcelona (2017), Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona (2018), Caixaforum, Madrid (2019) and Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona (2021). His work is included in the MACBA Collection, Barcelona.
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