Claudia Pagès Rabal (born 1990, lives and works in Barcelona) is a visual artist and writer. In her video installations, performances, sculptures, and drawings, she often addresses knowledge domains and themes relating to the protean history of the Iberian Peninsula, global migration movements, territorial appropriation and control, as well as the cultural diversity and mix in the Mediterranean region. Pagès Rabal’s work is centered on condensation: the complexity of spatial, temporal, visual, and textual layers unfolds in the combination of seemingly contradictory and asynchronous elements and their multifaceted entanglements. In the exhibition Feudal Holes, Claudia Pagès Rabal expands on her longstanding research into the Silk Road, the legendary network of trade routes that stretched from Central and East Asia to the Mediterranean region, transporting not only goods but also capital in the form of knowledge for centuries. 

Selected exhibitions include: Catalonia in Venice: Paper Tears, 61. Venice Biennial, 2026; 18th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, 2025; Aljub, Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, 2025; Five Defence Towers, Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2025; Manifesta 15, Barcelona, 2024; Scene I. Making landscape, IVAM, Valencia, 2024; Typo Topo Time Aljibe, SculptureCenter, New York, 2023; Uno, CA2M, Madrid, 2023; Banditry, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 2023; Gerundi Circular, Tabakalera, Donostia, 2022; Some of It Falls from the Belt and Lands on the Walkway Beside the Conveyor, Vleeshal, Middelburg, 2022; Panorama, MACBA, Barcelona, 2022; Rats and Roaches, CAPC, Bordeaux, 2022; and The Living House, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, 2021. She published her hair in 2020 with Onomatopee, her first novel Més de dues aigües in 2024 with Editorial Empúries, and will launch her new book Gerund Violence with Wendy’s Subway in 2025. Pagès was awarded the Ojo Crítico Visual Arts Award in 2022 and has been an artist in residence at Gasworks, London, 2017 and Triangle France, Marseille, 2020. 

Curated by Franz Thalmair

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