Fina Miralles Nobell

Fina Miralles Nobell
Fina Miralles at the presentation of her work "Serrallonga" in Agramunt in 2015
Born (1950-09-27) September 27, 1950
Sabadell
Movementconceptual, nature art
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Fina Miralles Nobell (born 27 September 1950 in Sabadell) is a Catalan artist working across conceptual art, land art, performance art and painting. She is considered one of the most significant Spanish artists active from the 1970s onward, and was among a group of Catalan conceptual artists who worked with nature and the body during the final years of the Franco dictatorship.[1][2]

Art career

She studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. She took part in founding and running several emblematic contemporary-art spaces in Catalonia, including the Sala Vinçon in Barcelona, Sala Tres in Sabadell, and Espai 13 at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona.[1] From 1983, she left the world of professional art and travels to Latin America and France. Settled permanently in Cadaqués in 1999, after twenty-five years of pilgrimage.[3][4]

Work

Miralles began her career in the early 1970s with a body of conceptual and land-art work centred on the relationship between nature and artifice. Her best-known series include Translacions (Translations, 1973–1974), in which natural elements were displaced into non-natural settings, among them the performance Dona-arbre (Woman-Tree, 1973) carried out at Sant Llorenç del Munt, and Relacions (Relations, 1975), documenting the relationship of the body with natural elements.[1][2] In 1974 she presented Imatges del zoo (Images of the Zoo) at the Sala Vinçon in Barcelona, staging the exhibition space as a zoo in which the artist herself appeared as one of the caged subjects.[5] In the 1980s, following extended travels in Latin America, France and Italy, her work shifted toward painting and graphic work marked by a search for spirituality; after 2000 she returned to action and performance art in dialogue with the land and sea, and in later years has published poetry.[1] Her work is held in the collections of the Museu d'Art de Sabadell, the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, and MACBA in Barcelona.[1]

Exhibitions, a selection

  • 1972 Sensitiveland. First solo exhibition.
  • 1978 Mediterrània t’estim. Muntatge. XXXVIII Venice Biennale.
  • 1980 Les mides del marc. Muntatge. Espai b5-125 of the Art Department of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
  • 1981 Terra. Muntatge. Acadèmia de Belles Arts de Sabadell.
  • 1982 En l’aire. Muntatge. Metrònom, Barcelona.
  • 1996 Memorial. Sobre el tema de la rosassa de les catedrals gòtiques. Oli sobre tela de gran format. Sabadell
  • 2016 Reposició de Naturaleses Naturals, Sala Vinçon, Barcelona, and at MAN National Archaeological Museum, Madrid.
  • 2020–2021 Fina Miralles: I Am All the Selves that I Have Been (Soc totes les que he sigut), curated by Teresa Grandas, at MACBA, Barcelona.[5]

Awards

  • 2018 - National Culture Award of Catalonia.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Fina Miralles". MACBA, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Retrieved 2026-06-20.
  2. 1 2 "Fina Miralles". AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions. Retrieved 2026-06-20.
  3. ↑ «Fina Miralles Nobell». L'Enciclopèdia.cat. Barcelona: Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
  4. ↑ «Fina Miralles, idear, crear i llegar l'experiència de vida». Generalitat de Catalunya. [Consulted: 11/4/2013].
  5. 1 2 "Fina Miralles: I Am All the Selves that I Have Been". MACBA, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Retrieved 2026-06-20.
  6. ↑ «Fina Miralles Nobell». Consell Nacional de la Cultura i de les Arts - CoNCA.
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