La Caja Blanca is an independent art gallery and production space which specialises in the production of site-specific projects within the gallery space, site-specific projects in public spaces, and the publication of catalogues and artist books.
Many of our projects are produced in collaboration with the galleries which represent the artists, public institutions, and private collectors.
"Leave to Remain" (Permiso de Residencia)
La Caja Blanca is pleased to present two solo exhibitions running concomitantly under the title "Leave to Remain" (Original title in Spanish: "Permiso de Residencia"). The two exhibitions with works by Murad Khan Mumtaz and Yara El-Sherbini bring together a collection of site-specific works developed in the context of artist residency programmes in Europe throughout 2012 at The Hayward Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum in the UK, ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Germany, and La Caja Blanca gallery in Spain. Special thanks to Tracy Williams gallery (New York, US), ZKM Center for Art and Media (Germany), Victoria & Albert Museum (London, UK), Hayward Gallery (London, UK). The exhibition was organised in collaboration with Art Palma Contemporani. Catering courtesy of Puro Hotel.
Press Release (PDF document)
(UK, 1978)
Born in the UK, to parents of Egyptian and Caribbean descent. She is currently based in London and Amsterdam. Her practice straddles a variety of artistic disciplines ranging from live participatory performances, to large-scale installations and sculptures, which are inspired by traditional game-playing and the rules of popular social interactions. Humour is a leitmotif, which she uses to challenge "politically incorrect" subjects, and compel audiences explore the invisible processes which shape individuals beliefs and behaviour in society at large. El-Sherbini's work not only challenges social apathy and conformism, it takes a starkly defiant position with regards to traditional art world market-driven systems; which explains why her work is supported by some of the most reputed institutions despite appearing very rarely in the commercial art gallery scene. This show brings together three projects developed as a direct response to the cultural, geographic and political contexts she encountered with during her participation in curated residency programs in the UK (Victoria & Albert Museum, Hayward Gallery), and Germany (ZKM).
Press Release (PDF document)Yara El-Sherbini (artist page)Yara El-Sherbini (ZKM)
Biennale di Venezia 2013
Richard Mosse will represent Ireland with The Enclave, a major new multi-media installation at the 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. The Commissioner and Curator is Anna O'Sullivan, Director of the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny. Richard Mosse's first solo show in a gallery took place in 2007 at La Caja Blanca in Spain, after which he completed his MFA at Yale University. Mosse is the recipient of a Gugenheim Fellowship, a Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in Performing and Visual Arts and a Visual Arts Bursary form the Irish Arts Council. He is currently represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York.
Biennale di Venezia (official website)Richard Mosse (project in la caja blanca, 2006)Richard Mosse (official website)
Guggenheim blog
Article on contemporary miniature painting by artist and researcher Murad Khan Mumtaz.
Miniature Painting in Pakistan (link to article in Guggenheim blog)
Nit de l'Art 2012
Private view: Thursday 20th September 2012
Address: La Caja Blanca, Calle Can Verí 9, Palma de Mallorca 07001
La Caja Blanca is pleased to present Alyssa Pheobus Mumtaz's first solo exhibition in Spain. An American artist currently based in Charlottesville, Virginia, Pheobus Mumtaz is best known for monumental drawings that link archaic architectural forms to a hieroglyphic language of abstraction.
Created in the context of La Caja Blanca's Artist Residency Program in Mallorca, the works assembled in the exhibition reflect the artist's expansion into new drawing strategies that incorporate collage, graphite rubbings and ikat weaving. Like her abstract works on paper, these new projects display a sensitive engagement with materials that echoes her deep reverence for traditional and devotional craft practices.
With special thanks to: Teixits Bujosa, Monasterio de la Purísima Concepción (Palma de Mallorca, Spain). Tracy Williams, Tracy Williams Ltd. (New York).
press release (pdf document)La Nit de l'Art (official website for la nit de l'art)Programme 2012 Edition (official programme in pdf format)
Conference and artist talk
with Murad Khan Mumtaz (Pakistan) and Alyssa Pheobus (USA)
Date and time: Monday 2nd of july 2012 at 20:00 h
Address: Caixafòrum, Calle del General Weyler 3,
07001 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Price: Free (confirmation required)
Confirmations:
Mª Ángeles González
Tel. 971 722 364 | recepcion@lacajablanca.com
Organized by: Círculo de Bellas Artes
press release (pdf document in spanish)
How to stop being friends with someone you no longer have anything in common with
Venue: Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX
Date and time: 05.07.2012 from 17:00 to 18:30h
During the weeks leading up to the opening of Wide Open School, resident artist Yara El-Sherbini will work with The 'Huddle', a visual arts youth group at Southbank Centre, to create and enact a syllabus that provokes people into asking how we know what we know.
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Glimpses of contemporary miniature
Venue: La Caja Blanca
Private View: 24.03.2012 From 11:00 to 14:00
Participating in Art Palma Brunch 2012
Mumtaz (Pakistan 1980) is one of the most prominent members of the new generation of contemporary master miniaturists who develop their practice at the crossroads between Western and Eastern traditions in visual arts with a special emphasis on ancient techniques such as Mughal Miniature. For Mumtaz's first exhibition in Spain, La Caja Blanca brings together a selection of miniature paintings developed on newspaper clippings and dollar bills, which the artist created during a Fullbright scholarship in Columbia University, and a series of new pieces previously unseen where the artist uses original Pakistani rupees.
More information on the artist (currently available in spanish only)
press release (pdf document in spanish)
art palma brunch (artpalmabrunch.com)
Torn with Fire XV (2010)
Opaque watercolour and graphite on dollar bill.
Imagen cortesía del artista, Tracy Williams y La Caja Blanca
Feel
Venue: FUNDACIÓ CULTURAL COLL BARDOLET C/ BLANQUERNA 4, VALLDEMOSSA, Mallorca
Private View: 26.04.2012 at 20:00h
The Coll Bardolet cultural foundation is pleased to introduce artist Kira Ball's latest body of work.
The exhibition will be open to visitors until the 29th May 2012.
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press release (pdf document)
Exhibition: "Doubting Thomas"
Museo ABC. Calle Amaniel Nº 29 - 31. 28015 Madrid
Exhibition: 31.01.2012 - 18.03.2012
We are very pleased to celebrate Noa Lidor's first individual museum exhibition in Spain at the ABC Museum.
The inauguration will be held this Monday 30th January at 20:00 hrs at Calle Amaniel 29 -31 (Madrid). The inauguration celebrates the 2011 ABC Museum Drawing Award; a joint project between the JustMad art fair and the museum, created to identify the most outstanding artist in the field of contemporary drawing.
The installation "Till Human Voices Wake Us" by Noa Lidor, produced by La Caja Blanca gallery in September 2010, was chosen for the award.
Thanks to this recognition, the artist has been invited to exhibit her solo show at the museum, coinciding with the week Madrid celebrates the art season in 2012.
more information on the artist (Noa Lidor)
view selection of works
press release (pdf document in spanish)
more information (museoabc.es)
more information (pdf document in spanish)
Regina José Galindo in Artium
Exhibition: "Piel de Gallina"
Artium, C/ Francia, nº 24 01002 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Exhibition: 27.01.2012 - 01.05.2012
Performance: 27.01.2012 at 20:00h
In Conversation: 28.01.2012 at 12:30h
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view selection of works
more information (Artium.org)
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Yara El-Sherbini performance "Pub Quiz"
Subject: "This week Hamas freed Israeli Solider Gilad Shalit in exchange for Israel freeing 1,027 Palestinian political prisoners. Using this exchange rate, if Hamas freed 8 Israeli prisoners, how many Palestinian prisoners would be freed?"
Friday 21st of October at the Cafeteria in the National Portrait Gallery, London at 19:00
Saturday 22nd of October at The Quad Gallery, Derby at 19:00
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JeongMee Yoon Finalist in the "Sovereign Asian Art Prize"
With her work "Pink & Blue Project II - Lauren & Carolyn and their Pink & Purple Things"
The work will form part of a travelling show to Singapore, Korea and Hong Kong throughout 2012
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more information on the pize (Sovereign Art Prize)
ATSUKO NAKAMURA
In Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4's New Sensations
Date: 11th of October to 17th of October 2011
Location: Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, London WC1
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Regina José Galindo wins the Grand Prize Award at the 29th Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts
September 2011
The jury of the 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts (Dave Beech, Christian Höller, Urška Jurman, and Ulay - Frank Uwe Laysiepen) has awarded the Grand Prize to Regina José Galindo for the works: Confesión (2007) , Caparazón (2010) e Móvil (2010).
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REGINA JOSÉ GALINDO OBTAINS THE PRINCE CLAUS AWARD
The Prince Claus Awards are presented annually to individuals, groups and organisations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean for their outstanding achievements in the field of culture and development and the positive effect of their work on their direct environment and on the wider cultural or social field.
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ATSUKO NAKAMURA
The Pulsating Earth
Nit de l'Art 2011
Date: Thursday 15th of September 2011 from 19:00h - 23:00h
Location: Various locations in the City of Palma de Mallorca
Atsuko Nakamura's first site specific solo show
press release
more information about the project (the pulsating earth, 2011)
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NIT DE L'ART 2011
Palma de Mallorca
Date: Thursday 15th of September 2011 from 19:00h - 23:00h
Location: Various locations in the City of Palma de Mallorca
The following document contains a list of all galleries and institutional spaces which participate in the event including a map of their locations and the event they will be sharing:
NEWSHA TAVAKOLIAN TRAVELS TO LA CAJA BLANCA
Artist Talk
Date: Thursday 28th of July 2011 from 20:00 -21:00 h
Location: Auditorium, Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma
Admission: Free entrance for guests of La Caja Blanca
Special thanks to: Nazila Noebashari
Collaborators: Es Baluard, El Corte Inglés, La Agencia, Hotel Melià de Mar (Guest Experience Partner and Cultural Ambassador).
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conference press release
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NEWSHA TAVAKOLIAN
Listen
Solo Show and Conference
16th of June 2011
Solo show by artist Newsha Tavakolian (Tehran, 1981), one of the most promising photographers emerging from the Middle East. The young photographer began her career working as a photojournalist at the age of 16 and is a regular collaborator for international magazines such as: Time Magazine, The New York Times, Newsweek, National Geographic and Stern.
Her artistic work has been presented in various international festivals such as: Visa pour l'image in Perpignan (France) and the Photojournalism Festival in Gijón (Spain). "Listen", focuses on women's role living under Islamic rule in the 21st Century.
Special thanks to: Nazila Noebashari
Collaborators: Art Palma Contemporani, El Corte Inglés, La Agencia (www.laagencia.info)
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Regina José Galindo en el ICA
A Dying Artist
Symposium
22 - 23 of April 2011
The ICA presents A Dying Artist – a two-day symposium and online archive organised by artists Ed Atkins and Siôn Parkinson.
Artist Regina José Galindo’s video, ‘Reconocimiento de un Cuerpo’ will be screened, as selected by Stewart Home. It features the artist examined, postmortem, completely anaesthetised.
ART MONTHLY
March 2011: Issue #344
Feature
Frames of Resistance
Francis Frascina on the aesthetics of violence
On Regina José Galindo's project "Confesión", produced by La Caja Blanca in Palma de Mallorca.
link to art monthly magazine website
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RADIO PROGRAMME "FLUIDO ROSA"
Radio 3, Radio Nacional de España
Presented by Rosa Pérez
MADRID 21.02.2011
Interview with Regina José Galindo about her audiovidual intervention "Alarma" in the Metro Station Banco de España in Madrid.
Presentation of "Earth-Moon-Earth" by Katie Paterson in the presidential suite of the Hotel Gran Melià Fénix under the full moon on the evening of the 18th of February 2011.
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I EDITION, "PREMIO DE DIBUJO MUSEO ABC"
Noa Lidor obtains first prize, awarded by the ABC Museum of Drawing in Madrid
MADRID 20.02.2011
Noa Lidor, has been awarded the first prize by the selection panel composed of members from the Museum and the Art Fair, Just Madrid for her installation "Till Human Voices Wake Us", presented by La Caja Blanca at Just Madrid Art Fair.
more info on this artist
museo abc
press clipping abc 21.02.2011
press release museo abc 21.02.2011
ARTIST INSTALLATIONS EMBEDDED INTO MADRID’S URBAN LANDSCAPE
Katie Paterson: "Earth-Moon-Earth"
18.02.2011 from 19:00 to 21:00 hrs
Presented in: Presidential Suite, Hotel Grán Melià Fénix, Madrid
Sound installation by Katie Paterson (UK, 1981)
Presented to the public in one of Madrid’s most unique
rooftop locations, with panoramic views across the city, coinciding with the full moon.
For this work,
Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata has been translated into Morse code and sent to the moon via E.M.E.
Returning to earth ‘fragmented’ by the moon’s surface, it has been re-translated into a new score, the
gaps and absences becoming intervals and rests. In the exhibition space the new "moon–altered' score
plays on a Disklavier grand piano.
ARTIST INSTALLATIONS EMBEDDED INTO MADRID’S URBAN LANDSCAPE
Regina José Galindo: "ALARMA"
17.02.2011 - 20.02.2011
Presented in: Banco de España Station, Madrid
This Site – specific video installation by Regina José Galindo, was commissioned by La Caja Blanca
gallery for the tunnels adjacent to the vaults which protect Spain’s national gold reserves. Whilst on the
streets of Madrid, the growing sense of social unease becomes palpable, a crisis is strangling the
economy, breaking down the borders that once preserved the privileged life of a carefree European city.
With breathtaking speed and the unmistakable sound of a siren, the streets of Madrid merge with those
of Guatemala City.
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press release 17.02.2011
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artpalmacontemporani.com