CONEIX ELS ARTISTES DE LA NOSTRA EXPOSICIÓ INAGURAL
We scouted a dream-team of artists we love and all of them brought us joy. During the exhibition period we will tell you about each of them and their methodologies, but for now let’s celebrate a great-great opening we’re going to have in a couple of days!
SEE YOU ALL THIS FRIDAY 18.00
It started expanding in 2021.
That year Douglas Bowen @dougjbowen and Sean Kaye launched an extensive project focused on research of (anti)galleries as a statement rather than traditional artistic practice.
Gallery in the expanded field became a space for sharing knowledge, experience and rising a dialogue about FUNCTIONAL curation. I, Bogdana Skorik, was a student full of a passion for writing, talking and EXPANDING.
It’s impossible to describe how globally this project opened my eyes and mind. It showed me that gallery experiences can be something more than conservative and boring visit to the white cube.
I was responsible for 650mAh gallery - an exhibition space in London right inside a vape shop. They had an incredible choice of artists and activities and what is more - refused to work across academic abstruse languages.
Years and more than 20 shows curated/produced out of my hands passed. A new word came to our mouths - mediation. Functionality, as I already said.
And at this moment I’m brave enough to launch ARQA - a project for thinking, doing and, the most important, expanding conservative conditions of artistic institutions. I created this page more than a year ago, talking with my friends that we have to do something designed for new generations of artists and visitors. And here we go.
A hug,
Bogdana Skorik
many thanks for making me being ME to alma mater @bhsad@bhsad_foundation
Yuya Yoshimatsu @pen_public is an oil painter based in Barcelona, Spain, originally from Fukuoka, Japan.
His works under the psuedonym ‘Pen Public’ have involved him in a wide range of creative practices, including drawing, music, design, art direction, and more.
Yoshimatsu’s current work in barcelona is an evolution of a style he made prominent in japan, “Lines and Colours” now a new series of works in oil, premiering in Europe for the first time. Each piece begins with monochromatic lines running horizontally across the canvas, gradually building layers of various coloured lines until the canvas is completely filled.
ON VIEW TILL THE MAY 17th AT @afterschool.dept
ISLANOVA by Naked Space @makingspacepregnant
Naked Space, a project founded by Amber Zhang, is a Barcelona-based collective, specializing in spatial research on both human and non-human bodies within the environment.
The work is the central installation of the current exhibition, which reflects on our general curatorial idea — providing alternative methods of navigating, engaging with, and experiencing art. The inflatable object captures the space and domesticates it by creating a narrative point where one can stop, lay down and let it be.
Naked Space was presented in multiple venues across Europe, including Dropcity, Collectible, Vasto Gallery and Rizomes Festival
Natalie Dubrovska @natalie.dubrovska is a Ukrainian artist based in Barcelona, working across spatial design, sculpture, and material-led practice. Her work moves between interior architecture, site-specific installations, and collectible objects, with glass becoming the core material of her sculptural practice.
With a background in interior architecture and an MA from the Royal College of Art in London, her work is grounded in material research and cross-disciplinary methods. She is particularly interested in the relationship between precision and unpredictability - where planning, constraint, and structure coexist with intuition, experimentation, and the behaviour of heat-formed glass.
Her practice explores themes of memory, perception, and belonging, often looking at emotional geographies, collective rituals, and the fragile states people inhabit in a changing world. While some projects respond to experiences of displacement, her broader work focuses on how material, light, and space can shape emotional and social encounters.
ON VIEW TILL 17.05
Grateful to share images of our first exhibition at @afterschool.dept and to start introducing the artists
Guillem Caivano is a Barcelona-based Artist.
Born in 1977 in Barcelona, he studied History of Art (UlB-brussels) before moving to London where he obtained a BA in Fine Art and Art History at Goldsmiths College London Uk (2003), and an MA in the Royal Academy of Arts London UK, (2006.)
He co-founded Groc Projects in 2019, in a former Textile Factory, it hosts Artists studios and operates as an Exhibition project.
OPO series on view at “In between of joy and practice” till 17/05
BENVINGUTS
We’re opening the Afterschool Department this Friday, the 17th, at 6:00 PM.
We’re bursting into the permanent space at 08015 with an exhibition, performances, a DJ & live jam, and lots of fun.
In future posts, we’ll tell you about the artists, collaborators, and the program, which will span two days. After the opening, you’ll be able to visit the exhibition for a month, and we’ll be announcing additional events.
SAVE THE DATE YOU ALL
