Marta Fàbregas (Barcelona, 1974) is an artist, activist and photographer formed at the Institute of Photographic Studies of Catalonia. Fàbregas has articulated her feminist practice transversally in her works as well as in her daily life.
Anything that has to do with image is part of her DNA. She has always felt passionate about the visual language, and that’s why she chose to devote herself to photography, her passion, which allows her to combine both her artistic and entrepreneurial sides. Her main talent is knowing how to capture, in a fast and natural way, the beauty in the things that surround her. That’s where the power of her work comes from.
Undoubtedly, empathy, implication and creativity are what gives every project in which she engages a power and a character that makes it special and unique.
She worked in several photo studios in Barcelona such as Ferran Freixa’s and, in 1998, co-founded Estudi La Fotogràfica (www.lafotografica.com) with the also photographer Marc Vidal.
From then on, she has been mainly devoted to her studio, where she developed personal and artistic work, along with commissions from museums, businesses, and private clients. She also teaches classes, workshops and seminars.
She works actively for the SETBA Foundation, as director and artistic mediator, conducting artistic activities and workshops for groups at risk of social exclusion, highlighting "Traspassant l’Objectiu", a photography project carried out since 2020 with women in prison centers, such as Brians 1, Wadras, or Ponent, and which has its own publication (Brians, Mujeres Invisibles. Editorial Lumínic). In addition, she has exhibited at the Frederic Marès Museum in Barcelona, as well as at the Palau Robert in Barcelona and at national and international fairs and galleries. Her work is part of the private collection of the Lluís Bassat Foundation, the Artemizia Foundation, and the SETBA Foundation, among others. She is the President of a women’s entrepreneurs’ network, the Xarxa de Dones Empresàries i Emprenedores de Sant Cugat (XDESC), the city where she currently lives.
Selection of solo exhibitions:
2024 El Claustre Gallery, Girona: “Marta Fàbregas”
2024 El Claustre Gallery, Figures: “Marta Fàbregas”
2024 Soda Istambul, Istambul: “Lilith’s Daughters”
2023 Saraceno Gallery, Roma: “Solo Show- Mujeres”
2023 Jorge Alcolea, Madrid: "Solo show- Infinita Magnitud"
2023 Fundació Setba, Palau Robert: “Brians: mujeres invisibles”
2023 Pigment Gallery, Paris: “Solo Show- Inmaculadas”
2022 Pigment Gallery, Barcelona: “ReBeladas”
2021 Festival Mitgeres, Valls: Mural intervention on the facades of a building on the center of the city
2021 Galeria Anquin’s, Reus: “Intervenció mural al Casal de Dones, de dins el programa del 8M”
2021 Anquin’s Gallery, Reus: “Identities”
2020 Exposició Online: "Off 2020" (PHotoESPAÑA)
2020 InCadaqués Festival, Girona: Mural intervention on the facades of the village
2020 Mural Action in Ciutat Vella, Fundació Setba, Barcelona: “Muses”
2020 Pigment Gallery exhibition, Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca: "Marta Fàbregas"
2019 Barcelona Gallery Weekend, Pigment Gallery, Barcelona: "Universos en suspensión”
2019 Ariel Jakob Galerie, Paris, France: “Colonized”
2019 Revela’t Festival, Vilassar de Dalt, Barcelona: Mural intervention on the facade of the church
2019 Pigment Gallery, Barcelona: “Colonized”
2017 Pigment Gallery, Barcelona: "Trobades en una cadira"
2016 Galeria Moncada, Barcelona: "Colonized"
2016 La Fotogràfica, Barcelona: "Colonitzades"
2015 Galeria Mito, Barcelona: "You are here"
2015 La Fotogràfica, Barcelona: "Barcelona"
2015 Galeria Mito, Barcelona: "You are Here"
2014 La Fotogràfica, Barcelona: "Pepe Rubianes"
2010 Galeria Hartman, Barcelona: “Trobades en una Cadira”
2010 Teatre Romea, Barcelona: “Les cares del Romea”
2012 La Fotogràfica, Barcelona: “Next Station: Digipovera”
2003 La Fotogràfica, Barcelona: “Blanc sobre Blanc”
Art fairs and selection of collective exhibitions:
2024 Anquin’s Gallery, Reus: “Amb veu de Dona”
2023 Soda Gallery, Istanbul: “Contemporary Art Istanbul”
2023 Pigment Gallery, Barcelona: “Col·lectiva d'estiu”
2023 Anquin’s Gallery, Reus: “Vincles”
2023 Jorge Alcolea, Madrid: "Feria SAM"
2023 BlinkGroup Fine Art Gallery, Miami, USA : “Art Wynwood”
2023 BlinkGroup Fine Art Gallery, Miami, USA : “Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary”
2022 Kronos Festival, Palau Robert, Barcelona: "Kronos’22"
2022 Jorge Alcolea, Madrid: "Colectiva de mujeres artistas"
2022 Pigment Gallery, Bordeaux, France: "BAD+"
2022 Galeria Anquin’s, Karlsruhe, Germany: “Art Karlsruhe ”
2022 Jorge Alcolea, Madrid: "Colectiva de verano"
2022 Galeria Anquin’s, Stockholm: “Affordable Art Fair”
2022 Pigment Gallery, Paris, France : "Art Paris"
2022 BlinkGroup Fine Art Gallery, Miami, USA : “Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary”
2022 Jorge Alcolea, Madrid: "Feria SAM"
2022 Los Angeles, USA : "LA Art Show"
2021 BlinkGroup Fine Art Gallery, Miami, USA : “Context Art Miami Fair”
2021 Bilbao, Feria Internacional de grabado y arte sobre papel: “FIG Bilbao”
2021 Galería Nueva, Madrid: “Colectiva”
2021 Pigment Gallery Paris, Paris: “De Barcelona a Paris: Retrato de una galería”
2021 Espai Cavallers, Lleida: “Al·legoria de la forma”
2021 Hamburg, Alemania: “Affordable Art Fair”
2021 Museu Frederic Marés, Barcelona: “Convidats & Amfitrions”
2021 Espai Cavallers: “#Universfemení”
2021 Pigment Gallery, Barcelona: “Dualidades”
2021 Pigment Miramar Gallery, Barcelona: “Winter collective”
2020 El Claustre Gallery, Girona: “Les nostres artistes”
2020 Fundació Setba in Pigment Gallery Hotel Miramar, Barcelona: “De l’ombra a la Llum” 2020 Grand Palais, Paris, France : "Art Paris"
2020 Online exhibition: "Off 2020" (PHotoESPAÑA)
2020 Fundació Setba in Pigment Gallery Hotel Miramar, Barcelona: “Muses”
2020 New York, USA: “Art on paper”
2020 Madrid, Spain: “Art Madrid”
2020 Los Angeles, USA : "LA Art Show"
2019 Strasburg, France : "ST-ART"
2019 Madrid, Spain: “Estampa Contemporary Art Fair”
2019 Milan, Italy: “GrandArt Fair”
2019 Istanbul, Turkey: “Contemporay Istanbul”
2019 Dornbirn, Austria: “Art Bodensee Fair"
2019 London, England: "Draw Art Fair London"
2019 San Francisco, California, USA: "Art Market San Francisco"
2019 Amsterdam, Netherlands: "KunstRai Art Amsterdam"
2019 Forni Gallery, Bologna, Italy: “MIA Photo FairArt Milan"
2019 Grand Palais, Paris, France : "Art Paris"
2019 Wolfsen Gallery, Denmark: "Art Herning"
2019 Los Angeles, USA : "LA Art Show"
2018 Strasburg, France : "ST-ART"
2018 Milan, Italy : "GrandArt Fair"
2018 Liceo Theatre, Barcelona: “The Great Sacrifice of freedom”
2018 Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France: “Byopaper"
2018 Cosmos Arles Books, Arles, France: "Dear Family of No Man"
2018 Pigment Gallery, Barcelona: “Summer"
2018 New York, USA: “Art on paper”
2017 Paris, France: “Art París”
2017 Fundació Setba, Barcelona: “Música Pintada”
2017 San Francisco, USA: “Art Market San Francisco”
2016 Galeria Barcelona La Fotogràfica: "Mercat d'hivern"
2016 Chicago, USA: “SOFA”
2016 Fundació Setba, Barcelona: “Capses Màgiques”
2015 Colonia, Germany: “Art Fair”
2015 Fundació Setba, Barcelona: “De la Vanguardia al Sidecar”
2014 Strasbourg, France: “St. Art”
2013 Gran Hotel Central, Barcelona: “Indrets”
2013 Gràcia district, Barcelona: “L/Aparadart”
2013 Gran Hotel Central, Barcelona: “Realment Barcelona”
2012 Paris, France: “Art París”
2010 Colonia, Germany: “Art Fair”
2009 Galeria Montcada, Barcelona: “Dracs”
2008 FAD premises, Barcelona: “Moda FAD 25 Editions”
2005 Paris, France: “Art París”
2002 Strasbourg, France: “ST-ART”
2000 Creation of the “Digipovera” project.
1998 Galeria La Santa, Barcelona: “Pintem el Mar de Blau”
1997 UB (University of Barcelona), City of Barcelona Selection, “VIII Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean”
1996 Virreina, Barcelona: Fotomercè 95
1995 Virreina, Barcelona: Fotomercè 94
Awards:
2021 Honorable mention in the awards “Impulsa Cultura” of the Fundació Catalunya Cultura, for the project “Traspassant l’Objectiu” of the Fundació Setba
1997 Shortlisted for the VIII Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (Torino, Italy)
1994 Secondary b/w award Fotomercè 94. Barcelona city council
1995 Second Prize b/w Fotomercè 95- Barcelona city council
Books Published:
Fàbregas, Galvez-Rain, Oliveira, Kiprisly, (Barcelona 2022). Brians, mujeres invisibles. Editorial Lumínic.
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA (Barcelona 2017). Col·lecció MACBA. Ed. Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA).
Antonio Monegal (Barcelona 2016). Frederic Amat. Ed. Teatre Lliure de Barcelona.
Barcelona City Council (Barcelona 2015). 2012-2013 El creixement de les col·leccions. Ed. Museu del Disseny de Barcelona.
Sigalit Landau (Barcelona 2015). La danza fenicia de la arena. Ed. Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA).
Barcelona City Council (Barcelona 2014). Del món al museu, disseny de producte, patrimoni cultural. Ed. Museu del Disseny de Barcelona.
Barcelona City Council, (Barcelona 2014). 100 mirades a la col·lecció. Ed. Museu del Disseny de Barcelona.
Barcelona City Council (Barcelona 2014). El cos vestit, Siluetes i moda. 1550-2015. Ed. Museu del Disseny de Barcelona.
Barcelona City Council (Barcelona 2012). Pedro Rodríguez, Catàleg dels vestits de Maria Brillas. Ed. Museu del Disseny de Barcelona.
Mecanoo, Labb (2010). La Llotja de Lleida. Lundwerg Editorial.
Actar (2009). Barcelona Brand New Fashion Designers. Actar Editorial.
Kiki Smith (2009). Her memory. Ed. Fundació Joan Miró.
Dani Coma (2007). Macedònia. Ed. La Galera.
Miguel Silveira (2003). A educar también se aprende. Alba Editorial.
Raquel Mancena (2002). Guia off de Barcelona. Alba Editorial.
IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez. Fundació Caixa de Catalunya (1997). Aladdin Toys. Les joguines de Torres-García. Ed. Fundació Caixa de Catalunya.
Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya, COAC ( Tarragona 1997). Arquitectura del camp. Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya, COAC.
Academic activity:
She gives photography and portrait workshops and courses at her studio La Fotogràfica (Workshops La Fotogràfica), and also coordinates courses and teaches at IED Barcelona and in ELI (“El Líder Imperfecto”), SETBA foundation.
She currently teaches:
“Traspassant Objectius” SETBA Foundation, Brians 1 (Women’s penitentiary)
“De L’Ombra A la llum” SETBA Foundation, Pati Llimona
“Imaginadores” SETBA Foundation
Photography Master for Creative Professions at Istituto Europeo di Design Barcelona (coordination and teaching)
Artwork from Marta Fàbregas Aragall
Exhibitions from Marta Fàbregas Aragall
