BARBARA VIEL
Visual Artist
Painting - Engrave / Peinture - Gravure
Barbara Viel was born in Nantes,France in 1971.
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After applied arts studies in Paris, she began to travel and chose Mallorca as her base for many years. There she discovered the etching at the Miró Foundation in Palma de Mallorca. And then proceed with it at the BBK in Berlin where she spent a few years. This experience with printmaking greatly influenced her painting. Her solo trips allowed her to exhibit in different countries. She also spent a few years living in Tokyo, Budapest, Paris, Bangkok, Lisbon.
She approaches social themes.
She explores human perception in this uncertain time, hesitating between a bygone past and a future whose outlines are barely visible, lost between apathy or fury, expectations or disillusion.
Above all, she talks about human dignity and denounces the social regression of our century advancing rapidly towards more inequalities. She evokes the conflicts and the migrations which result from it. She points out the effects of the globalization and the climate changes has desertification and the water war that has already begun.
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Barbara Viel est née à Nantes, France en 1971.
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Après des études d'arts appliqués à Paris, elle commence à voyager et choisit Majorque comme sa base pendant de nombreuses années. Elle y découvre la gravure à la Fondation Miró de Palma de Majorque. Elle continuera de l'explorer au BBK de Berlin où elle passera quelques années. Cette expérience de la gravure a grandement influencé sa peinture. Ses voyages en solo lui ont permis d'exposer dans différents pays. Elle a également vécu à Tokyo, Budapest, Bangkok, Lisbonne.
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Son travail aborde des thèmes sociaux.
Elle exlore la perception humaine dans cette époque incertaine, hésitante entre un passé révolu et un futur dont les contours sont à peine visibles.
Elle parle, avant tout, de la dignité humaine et dénonce la régression sociale de notre siècle qui avance à grands pas vers plus d'inégalités. Elle évoque les conflits et les migrations qui en résultent. Les conséquences de la globalisation et du changement climatique comme la desertification des sols ou la guerre de l'eau qui a déjà commencé.
Studies
1990 Applied Art – Lycée technique de Sèvres – France
Ceramic specialization
1991 Training in scenography - Ecole Rue Blanche – Paris 9e
1991/92 Workshops with the Artist Nina Vidrovitch – Paris 4e
1993/94 Ateliers de Montparnasse – Paris 14e
1996 Engraving workshop at the Miró Foundation with Joan Barbara – Palma de Majorca - Spain
1997 Engraving workshop at the Miró Foundation with Ricard Martínez Pinjol – Palma Majorca - Spain
2023 Lithography residence at the Experimental Graphics workshop - La Habana - Cuba
2023 Silkscreen residence at the René Portocarrero serigraphy workshop - La Habana - Cuba
2024 Etching residence at Künstlerdorf Neumarkt - Austria
Individuals Exhibitions
2022 Cultural Center Can Gelabert – Binissalem – Majorca - Spain
2019 Gallery Arte Graça – Lisboa - Portugal
2018 Gallery La Canopée – Lisboa - Portugal
2009 Gallery SKL – Palma de Majorca - Spain
2007 / 2005 / Gallery La Resistencia – Palma de Majorca - Spain
2006 Théâtre du Lierre – Paris 13e - France
2004 / 2003 / 2002 / 2001 / 2000 / 1999 / 1998 / 1997 Gallery Printemps Ginza – Tokyo - Japan
2001 Gallery Yvart – Paris 15e - France
2000 / 1999 / 1998 / 1997 – Gallery South West – Hiroshima - Japan
2000 Hotel Le Capricorne – Tulears - Madagascar
1999 Gallery Nouridine – Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia
1999 Gallery Cerf Art – Quartier Montorgueil – Paris 3e - France
1997 Gallery Villa d’Artagnan – Paris 11e - France
1992 Gallery Nina Vidrovitch – Paris 4e - France
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Collective Exhibitions “selection”
2023 "Paris - Mallorca" Cultural center Les Blancs Manteaux - Paris - France
2023 "8 Mil Millones"- Cultural Center Can Garau - Sencelles - Majorca - Spain
2022 Art Inca XIII Award exhibition (winner) - Sa Quartera - Inca - Majorca - Spain
2022 Cultural Center Pere Ignasi – Campos Town Hall – Majorca - Spain
2022 Gallery Editions L.Mauguin – Paris 13e - France
2021 XII Plastic Art Contest – Sa Quartera (selection)– Inca - Spain
2021 IX Ibero-american Biennial of Graphic Work (selection)- Palacio de la Isla - Caceres - Spain 2018 Collectif du fil de la vie – Paris 13e - France
2012 / 2011 / 2010 The Affordable Art Fair – London - England
2004 Art Fair Metz - France
2000 The Affordable Art Fair – London - England
1999 L’Escorxador – Marratxi - Majorca - Spain
1998 Ayuntamiento de Andratx – Majorca - Spain
1998 Miró Foundation – Palma de Majorca - Spain
1997/98 Gallery La Madeleine, Les 3 quartiers – Paris 8e - France
1994 Gallery 74 – Paris 4e - France
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Award Inca Art Award XIII - Certamen de Artes Plasticas de Inca - 2022
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Collaborations “selection”
1992 Scenography Assistant for the play “Parade” de Jean Potocki – Theater de L’Odéon – Paris 6e
France
2008 Realization of a Chanel display – Chanel shop, Place Vendôme - Paris 1er - France
2015 Realization of the scenography for Red Bull Music Academy – Theater Gaité Lyrique - Paris 3e
France
Represented by the gallery Kaplan Projects in Palma de Mallorca - Spain