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Marina Planas Antich (Palma, 1983)

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Visual artist, researcher and cultural producer.

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Her work in revolves around the borders be-tween art and life, reality and visual representation, fiction and memory. She currently carries out projects on issues related to archives. In recent years her work has focused on postcards and the idea of generating fiction and desire through tourist utopia.

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She is also director of the Casa Planas Centre for Contemporary Research and Culture, where she has initiated the Art Investigation Programme, which focuses on contemporary creation through residencies.  The goal is to activate Planas Archive and encourage creation through her art practice. In this programe she has collaborated with artists like Joan Fontcuberta, Antoni Muntadas, Dora García and Pedro G. Romero. +info: www.casaplanas.org

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Her installations, videos and photographs have been presented at Anthology Film Archive (Nyc), in the con-text of the Venice Biennale, at the Centre d'Arts Santa Mónica (Bcn), FRAC-Corse (France), at the Museu es Baluard (Palma), Just Mad (Madrid), Frac Córsega, Reina Sofia Library, Longueuil Biennale (Montreal), among others. 

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She has won art investigation scholarships from the governments of the Balearic Islands, Canada and the UK, Pilar Juncosa i Sotheby's scholarship for residency at Slade School of Arts, London. Her work has been commissioned by a variety of national and international art institutions.

 

As a recipient of the Alice Beck-Odette scholarship, she enrolled in master's degree studies, (Photography, Video & Related Media) at New York’s School of Visual Arts, where she also worked as a

photography and video TA in the Fine Arts department. She has a degree in Visual Communication.

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After living in Barcelona and New York she moved to Palma where she now lives.

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In New York she studied master's degree studies (Photography, Video & Related Media) at SVA, with the Alice Beck-Odette scholarship she received in the years 2012-13, where she also worked as a photogra-phy and video TA in the Fine Arts department. She has a degree in Audiovisual Communication.  In 2019 she was the vice president of the Association of Visual Artists of Balearic Islands.

Individual Exhibitions

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2022 // "Greetings from Mallorca" // Convendum // PM

2021 // Coastal Memory. Urban intervention and social action // Playa de Palma

2020 // "Warlike approaches to tourism: all inclusive" // Es Baluard // PM
2018 // "Happy Holidays" // Selva Town Hall // Mallorca
2017 // "Profiles" // Gallery 300 Stvorcov // Slovakia
2012 // Multimedia Performance "Password" // La Nacional // NY

 

Collective Exhibitions

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2023 // Warlike approaches to tourism: all inclusive // Cortona on the move. Internac. Photo Festival // Italy

2023 // "Touristic Digestion" // Revela't. International Photo Festival // Barcelona

2022 // "Touristic Digestion" // La isla de las amas de casa // Leipzig 2022 // "Body desintegration II" // Bio Eco Arte Digital //Las Cigarreras // Valencia

2022 // Badlands // Logueuil Biennial // Canada

2021 // Exhibition: Departures - "Peripheries of pleasure" // Mama Gallery // Rotterdam

2020 // Archipel Ouest: Îles du Future - "La fiction prémonitoire du dromadaire Mohamed" // FRAC // Corse
2019 // Possible physicalities and new powers of the an/archive - "Balearic Hotel Taxonomy according to Mohamed" //Museu Es Baluard // PM
2019 // Holidays - "Digestión Turística II" // Museu de Porreres // Mallorca
2019 // Finalist City of Palma Award Antoni Gelabert d'Arts Visuals // "What Martin Parr would have seen" // Palma de Mallorca

2018 // Impossible Works // 1st Step // Murcia
2018 // "Body Desintegration II" // JustMad // Madrid
2017 // Expo: Ciutat de Vacances - "Variacions d'un arxiu" // Museu Es Baluard // PM
2017 // Projection "Imatges turístiques. Historical Approaches // Grimani Palace // Venice
2017 // Projection "Imatges turístiques. Historical approaches // Centre Arts Sta. Mònica // BCN
2017 // Expo "A very festive death" // Biennale Genova
2013 // "Body Desintegration" screening // Anthology Film Archieves // NYC
2013 // "Courtyards" screening // La Nacional // NYC

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Awards & scholarships

2020 // ILLENC Creation Support Grant // Balearic Islands

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2019 & 2021 // Finalist award Ciutat de Palma Antoni Gelabert of visual art// "What Martin Parr would have seen" // Palma de Mallorca

 

2018 & 2020 // Finalist VI Francisco Bernareggi d'Arts Visuals Santanyí Prize // "Digestión turística II" // Mallorca

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2012-13 // ALICE BECK-ODETTE Scholarship MFA Master studies // School of Visual Arts // New York

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Art Residencies

2019 // Pilar Juncosa i Sotheby's Scholarship. Fundació Miró Mallorca // Artistic Residence at Slade School of Arts // London

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Education

 

2014 // MFA Photo, Video & Related Media // School of Visual Arts // NYC
2006 // Audiovisual Communication // Ramon Llull University // BNC
2008 // Seminar on Photography and Journalism. Joan Fontcuberta // Albarracín
2016 // Memory and disagreement. Archive, registry and family album policies // Directed by Víctor del Río // Huesca
2017-18 // Es Baluard Clinics: Ana Laura Aláez, Martí Manen, David Barro // Palma de Malorca
2018 // The new encyclopaedists: the artist as a collector // the collector as an artist // Directed by Joan Fontcuberta // Santander

2020 // Endless Writing. Fernando Castro Flórez // La Central // Online

2021 // Dream Cities. Ramón José del Castillo // UOC

2021 // Reclaiming public space: gentrification, control, surveillance. Antoni Muntadas // Es Baluard // Palma de Mallorca.

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Awards

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2018 and 2020 // Selected for the VI Premi Santanyí Francisco Bernareggi of Visual Arts // "Tourist digestion II" // Mallorca

2019 // Pilar Juncosa & Sotheby's scholarship Prize // Fundación Miró Mallorca

2018 // Selected for the Ciutat de Palma d'Antoni Gelabert d'Arts Visuals  Award // "What Martin Parr would have seen // Mallorca
 

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Published Work

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2021 // Iteraciones Bárbaras // The world of yesterday.  Author's magazine // Barcelona

2019 // "A tiro de Piedra: acercar lo posible" // Reina Sofia Museum // Madrid // In collaboration with Es Baluard and 1r Escalón.
2018 // New Patronages. Images and objects from popular tourism // Mallorca

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Work Experience

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2015-23 // Director of the Centre for Research and Contemporary Culture Casa Planas // Mallorca // www.casaplanas.org
2017-23 // Art Investigation Programme // Arxiu Planas // Joan Fontcuberta, Angela Bonadies, Daniel Gasol, Sa Glania, Platform Harakat, La Perifèrica, Marc Caellas, Margalida Riera, Laura Marte...
2018 // Jury IV Visual Arts Competition of Felanitx // Mallorca

2018// King Jaume's Photography Awards Jury // Mallorca
2019 // Vice President Associació Artistes Visuals // Mallorca
2013-14 // Photo and Video Teacher // School of Visual Arts // NYC
2012 // Visual Collective Film Festival Coordinator // Anthology Film Archives // NY

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Speeches

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2021 // The illusion of tourism. Narratives of travel and its representation and thought in contemporary artistic practices contemporary artistic practices // Menéndez Pelayo International University, TURICOM and VISIONA // Online

2021 // International Congress ADD + Art. Social Art on the Internet // University of Barcelona. Online.

2021 // Lecture. Archival practices in contemporary art // Universitat de les Illes Balears. 

2020 // Conference. New formulas of cultural production // University of Barcelona // Barcelona // Online

2019 // Speaker at the II International Congress Art and Politics of Identity. Visualities and Narratives of memory: urban space, nature, migrations, technology and gender // Fine Arts University // Murcia
2019 // From the Nuit Blanche to the Nit de l'Art // Mallorca
2018 // Addressing the different economies of culture // Mallorca
2017 // Our spaces for art // Mallorca
2017 // World Day of Audiovisual Heritage // Mallorca

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