Claudia Pagès Rabal

Claudia Pagès Rabal 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, global migration movements, territorial appropriation, and the cultural diversity and mix in the Mediterranean region. Spurred by her interest in historical contexts, she tackles questions about social hierarchies, structural power relations, and colonial violence. At mumok, Claudia Pagès Rabal expands on her longstanding research into the Silk Route, the legendary network of trade routes that stretched from Central and East Asia to the Arab Mediterranean and North Africa, transporting not only goods but also capital in the form of knowledge for centuries.

Claudia Pagès Rabal’s installation Feudal Holes at mumok builds on the exhibition Five Defence Towers, which was on show at London’s Chisenhale Gallery in early 2025. While the artist developed a five-act theater piece for Five Defence Towers, recounting the silent settler violence and its contradictions and ambivalences in a script from the perspective of the towers, she explores the remains of a sixth tower in the video work Feudal Holes and exposes moments of surveillance and control in its architectural form.

Claudia Pagès Rabal (* 1990, Barcelona) lives and works in Barcelona.

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Opening: December 3, 2025, 7 pm