Marta Garcia Cardellach
Photographer and visual artist. Graduated in Humanities, she completed her training in photography between CENFOTO (Chile) and the Centre d’Art et de Photographie de Lectoure (France). In Barcelona, she studied participatory photography and advanced lighting and retouching techniques at IDEP.
Specializing in the field of culture and performing arts, since 2011 she has worked on commission for artists, festivals and cultural institutions, which has led her to work in Europe and Japan.
He develops projects for educational centers and various spaces. He has collaborated with the Photographic Social Vision foundation. He created the photo-pedagogical collective Construïm Mirades (2017–2020) with Oriol Segon and Xenia Gasull.
Her work has been exhibited in Catalonia, Chile, Sweden and Argentina. Awarded with the Mollet Art Biennial 2024 (Abelló Museum) by Glòria, the Lacetània Art and Culture Awards by Òmnium Bages, the 1st photography prize at the Besmina Festival Barcelona and finalist of Mirades amb veu by Metges del Món.
Letter of intent
From an intimate perspective, her work addresses vulnerability and social criticism, understanding the body as a space of research and resistance. Her practice investigates the relationships between body, image and power, articulating between memory and affections to analyze how the image constructs stories, identities and forms of perception.
It integrates different languages—photography, video, performance and Humanities—and at the intersection with the performing arts, it explores other ways of creating images and understanding them as relational spaces.
The diversity of formats responds to the desire to investigate the production of meaning and activate critical thinking, emotion and dialogue, both in individual and collective processes and in multicultural and intergenerational contexts. From here, it understands humanity as a shared space where differences merge.
Residences
2025 / Roca Umbert Arts Factory with “Glòria”
2024 / The Corralito with “Glòria”
2023 / Farrera Art and Nature Center with Neus Solà with “Roseta”
Individual exhibitions
2026 / (coming soon) “Glòria” premieres exhibition at the Abelló Museum.
“The Winter Circus” Ateneu Popular de Nou Barris, Llinars del Vallès City Council.
2024 / “Glòria” installation Abelló Museum finalist Mollet Art 2024, Mollet del Vallès.
2023 / “Nus” Sant Martí Civic Center, Besòs i Maresme Civic Center, La Central del Circ.
From 2022 / “Die” peepshow installation, Cultura i Conflicte collective. Temporada Alta de Girona, Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, Inundart Festival, Espai Connecta Mataró, Matadepera Cultural Center, Sala Muncunill de Terrassa.
2022 / “Rites of passage” Terrassa Crea grant, bus stop installation, Terrassa.
2021 / “Simulacrum of a legacy” exhibition by Nilak Circ Teatre Itinerant, Villalba dels Arcs.
2020 / “Focus” exhibition 1st Terrassa Photography Festival
2016-2025 / “Being: instant in motion”, exhibited at: Album Terrassa Festival, Llavors de Balaguer Festival, Espai Anònima de Manresa, Casal Pere Quart de Sabadell, Academy of Medical Sciences of Sabadell, Cotxeres Borrell Civic Center and Casa Elizalde.
2015 / “Rizhom@” exhibition 1st Patagonia Analog Photography Festival, Rio Gallegos (Argentina).
2014 / “Circus and disambiguation” exhibition awarded by the Besmina Festival, exhibited at; 6th Terrassa Circus Festival, Terrassa Library, Barcelona Civic Center Elèctric, Reus Trapeze Circus Fair, Barcelona Parc Sandaru Civic Center, Terrassa Cultural Center, Fort Pienc Civic Center. Barcelona, La Central del Circ de Barcelona.
2013 / “Contemporary Circus” 5th Terrassa Circus Festival.
2012 / “Five years of circus” 4th Terrassa Circus Festival.
2011 / “The circus in Terrassa” 2nd Terrassa Circus Festival.
Collective exhibitions
2026 / “An image that swallows, that sucks” Roca Umbert Fàbrica d’Arts
2023-2025 / “Roseta” exhibition with Neus Solà at the Farrera Art and Nature Center, La Panera art center in Lleida, Juneda Art and Memory Center, Inundart Festival, Trementinaires Museum.
2022 / “01 Photographers”, UPIFC Image Union of Barcelona and House of Culture of Girona.
Ramón Moscardó Gallery, Cadaqués.
2019 / “UP!” exhibition within the framework of the Besòs Circus Festival, Barcelona.
“Collective of photographers” exhibition at the Lluerna space in Terrassa.
“Women and Circus” exhibition at La Central del Circ in Barcelona.
2018 / “Sportjugend Vollversammlung” exhibition in Biblis, Germany.
2017 / “The discovery of the performing arts” exhibition of the inclusive dance project organized by Maria Ribera and the Manresa City Council.
“Vi lever mitt i världen” Wij Trädgårdar Cultural House exhibition in Ockelbo. Konst & Landskap Association, Sweden.
2016 / “Om föreningen Konst & Landska”, Gävle Museum. Social inclusion of war refugees in Sweden.
“Att komma till ön med skatten är inget aventir”. War refugee children in shelters in Marma and Tosaker, Sweden.
2015 / “Stripart” Art Exhibition, Barcelona.
“Month of the Circus of Santiago de Chile”, National Council of Culture and the Arts of Chile.
“The Popular Party. Civic Catalanity”. Government of Catalonia.
Recognitions
2024 / Winner of the Mollet Art 2024 Museu Abelló biennial for the piece “Glòria”.
2021 / Finalist of “Mirades amb veu” for “Body, woman and photography. Beyond the selfie”, participatory photography, Doctors of the world.
2019 / Lacetània Awards for Arts and Culture, Òmnium Bages-Moianès. “Invisible Circus” award for career in multiple circus projects.
2013 / 1st Prize for Photography at the Besmina Art Festival 2013, Barcelona.
Clients and collaborations
