Lúa Coderch
Fine Arts, Installation Art, Performance, Production, Sculpture, Video
Spain
Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts. Artistic Production
Degrees and Academic Background
- PhD in Fine Arts (Advanced Studies in Artistic Production) from the University of Barcelona
- Master’s Degree in Artistic Production and Research from the University of Barcelona
- Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona
- Advanced Diploma in Applied Arts to Sculpture, Escola Massana
Professional Activity and/or Career
She works in sculptural practices, audiovisual languages, and processes of research and experimentation in art and design. Her work combines narrative and object-based practices in videos, performances, and installations, conceived as research devices that articulate the relationship between the superficial, aesthetic, and phenomenological dimensions of our shared life and their latent philosophical and political implications.
Research
She is currently a member of the IMARTE research group (Art, Science and Technology Research Group) at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona, working on the current research project IN>TRA2. Reading as an Artistic Practice: New Models of Creative Decoding (PGC2018-093862-B-C21).
Publications
- Barriga. To lose your head (idols). Catalonia in Venice = Perdre el cap (ídols), pp. 108–131. Barcelona: Tenov. (2019)
- Sentido. Humanities in Action, pp. 217–226. Barcelona: Rayo Verde. (2019)
Works
- Vida de O, CentroCentro, Madrid (2018)
- [Shelter], BBVA Foundation, Madrid (2018)
- The Girl With No Door On Her Mouth, Àngels Barcelona (2018)
- [Shelter] As Long As Summer Lasts, The Ryder, London (2018)
- Souvenir (Onyx), Art Institute Vienna (2017)
- The Rainbow Statement, BGW, Barcelona (2016)
- Night in a Remote Cabin Lit by a Kerosene Lamp, Àngels Barcelona (2015)
Grants and Recognitions
- FPU Academic Grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports (2015)
- BBVA Foundation Grant for Video Art Creation (2015)
- Guasch-Coranty Foundation Artistic Grant (2013)
- A’dam Hangar-SMART Grant, HANGAR-AECID International Exchange Program (2012)
