BARBARA ALEGRE

Education

2018/2020 MA Painting, Royal College of Art & Design, London

2003 BA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London

1999 Foundation diploma in Art and Design, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London

1998 Grau tècnic superior d’Arts plàstiques i Disseny- Arts Aplicades al Mur, Llotja, Barcelona

Selected solo and group shows

2018 A matter of Time, Miquel Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona

2018 Barcelona Plan B, Chiquita Room, Barcelona

2018 Affordable art fair Brussels, Brussels

2017 31st Edition of the BMW painting award, Centro Galileo, Madrid

2015 HerTiki, Curated by María Pons, Aloha Tiki, Barcelona

2015 Swab, International Contemporary Art Fair, Swab Seed, La Galería Encantada, Fira de Montjuïc, Barcelona

2014 20 x 20, La Galería Encantada, Barcelona

2014 Fem Art’ 14, Cos Desobedient, Ca la Dona, Barcelona

2014 Swab, International Contemporary Art Fair, La Galería Encantada, Fira de Montjuïc, Barcelona

2014 You, Me, Swab and the Local Artists, Street Banners at Paseo de Gracia, Barcelona

2014 Familiar, La Galería Encantada, Barcelona

2004 49 Salon Européen des jeunes créatures, Montrouge, Paris

2003 Reduced, Acava Cremer Street Studios, Shorditch, London

2003 Artexpo, Espai d’Art Emergent, Fira de Montjuic, Barcelona

2003 Mix & Stir, BA Fine Art show, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London

2001 View, Bryan Shaw College, London

1999 Founded, Foundation Art show, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London

Awards

2016 Preselected at the 31st Edition of the BMW painting award, Madrid

Think of a subject of your interest. Any subject.
Now, ask yourself how this subject is related to Time? Absolutely everything is made up of Time. My work talks about Time as a prompt to raise questions of memory, parenthood, genealogy, identity, origin, presence-absence and human concerns. We are filled with Time and tormented by its implacability. We are bound to memory in order to avoid forgetfulness. We crave continuity by extending our genealogy as if it was a solution to our future emptiness. Humans have always been interested in measuring time in order to understand fate and exert some control over it.

`Timeless ́ or `Time flies ́
My recent work, addresses the nonexistence of Time according to modern physics and the search of models for its measurements. In these paintings I use the colour of the sky as a magnitude.

Bárbara Alegre is currently undertaking an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in London.