Claudia Pagès Rabal (born 1990 in Barcelona) is a visual artist and writer. In her video installations, performances, sculptures, and drawings, she often addresses themes such as the protean history of the Iberian Peninsula, territorial appropriation, and the geopolitics of the Mediterranean region. In the exhibition Feudal Holes at mumok, Claudia Pagès Rabal expands on her longstanding research into the Silk Route. The show brings visitors to the ruins of a defense tower in the so-called Hispanic March, a buffer zone between European forces and Al-Andalus. Filmed with drones and 360‑° cameras, the artist explores the politics of verticality, enclosure and the construction of the „other“. Her video sculptures function as time machines that collapse time and space. The corresponding social entanglements and contradictions of this region have had a lasting impact in the Mediterranean and its ongoing colonial violence. Alongside the depictions of military ruins, the artist presents a series of drawings that record Forensic Architecture’s tracking system, which followed the journey of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition ships that attempted to reach Gaza during 2025. 

Claudia Pagès Rabal’s installation Feudal Holes builds on the exhibition Five Defence Towers, which was on show at London’s Chisenhale Gallery in early 2025. The accompanying catalogue—a co-production between mumok and Chisenhale Gallery—documents the presentations at both venues. 

Martí Manen is the director of Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation. Manen is also directing CuratorLab, the curatorial course at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. He has curated exhibitions at the Museo de Historia Natural (Mexico City), AARA – About Art Related Activities, Bangkok, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Konsthall C, Stockholm, CA2M, Madrid, and Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, among other places. Manen was the curator of the Spanish Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale and curated MOMENTUM10 biennial in Moss, Norway (2019). In the 1990s, he curated five years of exhibitions in his room in a student flat in Barcelona. Marti Manen has published books including Salir de la exposición (Leaving the Exhibition, Consonni), Contarlo todo sin saber cómo (Telling everything not knowing how, CA2M), and When Lines Are Time (Fundació Joan Miró). He is the co-author of books such An Art Center (with David Armengol) and Las Disidencias (with Raisa Maudit).

Book Presentations

February 3, 2026, 7 pm
LLibreria Finestres, Barcelona
Claudia Pagès Rabal in conversation with Franz Thalmair
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February 5, 2026, 6 pm
mumok cinema
Claudia Pagès Rabal in conversation with Martí Manen
Moderated by Franz Thalmair

Participation in the event is free of charge; all that is required is registration for an online ticket. You can find the registration option further down on this page.