Gemma Solà Sotos was born in 1993 in Barcelona, Spain and currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria. She studied between 2014 and 2018 at the University of Barcelona to obtain a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts. In 2018 she moved to Munich, Germany, to continue her education at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, in the class of Gregor Hildebrandt. She graduated in February 2024 and currently lives and works between Vienna, Munich and Barcelona.
In her work, the canvas becomes a space for revision and exploration of a variety of topics of the contemporary subject, connecting it with a specific space and its symbols. Reality and fiction, the natural and the artificial, the representation of the self or the irruption of thoughts or state of mind through social media are part of the themes in which Solà is interested, reviewing them with sometimes humor, irony, or a heavy seriousness.
Without starting from a pre-established idea and using acrylic, airbrush, oil pastel and cheerful colors with a naive style, painting becomes a medium that conveys what is perceived from both physical and virtual reality. The pictorial elements and how they act as emotional triggers of memories play a major role. Through abstraction and a new interaction on the canvas, they lose their original context and open up a new narrative.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS
TBA, Nina Mielcarczyk. Solo show. January 2026. Leipzig
TBA, HEUSSEN Perspectives. Young Artist Award in cooperation HEUSSEN Law and CAA Berlin. Group show. May 2025. Berlin
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Souvenir, Artco Gallery x Galerie Probst. Solo show. 04.04.2025 – 20.05.2025. Berlin
Spark Art Fair. Solo Presentation with Galerie Tassilo Usner. 20.03.2025 – 24.03.2024. Vienna
ART FAIRS
Spark Art Fair. Solo Presentation with Galerie Tassilo Usner. 20.03.2025 – 23.03.2024. Vienna
Positions Berlin – Academy Positions. 12.09.2024 – 15.09.2024. Berlin, Germany
Enter Art Fair with ARTCO Gallery. 29.08.2024 – 01.09.2024. Copenhagen, Denmark
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Fragments And Relation, The Space City. 27.02.2025 – 26.04.2025. Hamburg
El Arte Con Valencia, Circulo de Bellas Artes. 21.11.2024 – 02.12.2024.. Madrid
Dream Journeys, The Space City. 07.09.2024 – 26.10.2024. Hamburg
Red Sunset, IMGallery. 29.06.2024 – 04.08.2024. Guangzhou, China
Backyard archive x Tassilo Usner. 22.06.2024 – 27.07.2024, Vienna
Tap in Tune, Nina Mielcarczyk. 08.06.2024 – 20.07.2024, Leipzig
There's a Tear In My Beer, AdBK. Diploma exhibition. 08.02.24 – 13.02.24, Munich
Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Augsburg. 10.12.23 – 28.01.24, Augsburg
Studio Talks, ARTCO. 04.08. 23 – 04.09.23, Berlin
Fabulierende Objekte, Galleria Alberi. 26.08.2022 – 27.09.2022, Vienna
Steine auf der Laufwahn, Urban Space. 01.06.2021 – 01.07.2021, Munich
BLICK ZURÜCK NACH VORN, Galerie Klüser. 11.03.2021 – 22.05.2021, Munich
To the land, Perlacher Forst. 01.08.2021 – 01.09.2021, Munich
Galerie U 108. Group show. 2020, Munich
Der River, Baumwollspinnerei. 21.02.2020 - 04.04.2020, Leipzig
Let’s go home and watch Harry Potter, Louandlouise Gallery. Duo show with Erik Esso. 2020, Munich
Annual Exhibition Academy of Fine Arts Munich, AdBK. 2020, Munich
Contactes. Art Nou Primera Visió. M10 Space. 2019, Barcelona
I don’t like crack jokes anymore, AdBK. Duo show with Erik Esso. 2019, Munich
Kalaschnikow, Galerie Kalaschnikow. 2019, Munich
Eix vital a les Naus Bessones, Llum Barcelona Poblenou. 2019, Barcelona
Sense Títol, Universitat de Barcelona - Facultat de Belles Arts. Final work exhibition. 2018, Barcelona
Fleeting, AdBK 2018, Munich
Academix, La Virreina Centre de la Imatge. 2018, Barcelona
Béns pel Bé, CREA space. 2017, Barcelona
PRIZES / SCOLARSHIPS
HEUSSEN Perspectives. Young Artist Award in cooperation HEUSSEN Law and CAA Berlin, October 2024
Jubiläums-Stipendien-Stiftung der Landeshauptstadt München, July 2020
College graduation in Fine Arts. Final thesis grade: 9.4/10. Publishedin CRAI (Centre de Recerca per l’Aprenentatge i la Investigació / Resource Cen-ter for Learning and Research), June 2018
Akademie der Bildenden Künste München,Erasmus+ scholarship, October 2017 – February 2018
PRESS / INTERVIEWS
González, Alexandra. October 2019. Eine Klasse für sich. WeltKunst. Das kunst
Magazine der Zeit. p. 13-23
Interview with Malte Kaltenbrünner, Studio Talks. January 2023.
EDUCATION
Diploma of Fine Arts at the academy of fine arts Munich at Prof. Gregor Hildebrandt, 2018 – 2024. Munich, Germany
Bachelor of Fine Arts at Universitat de Barcelona, 2014 – 2018. Barcelona, Spain
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