Laia Ventayol
Laia Ventayol (1984, Mallorca). In her work she observes the movement, transition, ephemeral transformation and change that takes part in her everyday life. She started her studies in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona and continued untill 2016 at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Nürnberg. She specialized in moving image, particularly in performance practices, by Prof. Heike Baranowsky. In 2017 she received the "Meisterschüler" qualification for her carreer in Nürnberg.
Laia Ventayol García (1984, Artá, Mallorca) is a visual artist. She studied at the University of Barcelona and at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg (Prof. Baranowsky). In 2023 she is artist in residence at Sant Andreu Contemporani in Barcelona. In 2022 she obtains the international residency for artists SeMA Nanji at the Seoul Museum of Art. In 2020 she is awarded special mention at the Amposta Art Biennial of Lo Pati, Centro de Arte de las Terres de l'Ebre. She has exhibited individually, for example, at the Galería Maior in Palma, at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nürnberg or at the CCA in Andratx. She has participated in various group exhibitions, such as Exchanges in Dilalica in Barcelona, All together now at the Nanji Residency Seoul Art Museum, Speculative fermentations at the Arbar Center in the Santa Cruz Valley, Diary of a body during the LOOP festival in Barcelona, Una altres temps at The Green Parrot Barcelona, The King, The Garden City, The Chorus & The Captain at Arnis, Goldrausch 2017 at the Kunstquartier Bethanien Berlin and Die Offene Seite at Wiensowski & Harbord Berlin, among others. Some collective projects are Casi Voz – Episode #4 Sentir Veus, directed by Caterina Almirall; the GRAF route o tengo una grabadora y mi madre me deja una pala, by Marc Vives, and An inquiry into modes of existence, by Bruno Latour.