Monika Ardila

Mónika Ardila is a multidisciplinary artist based in Stockholm whose practice explores the relatioship between femininity, nature, memory, and transformation. Working across painting, collage, installation, and mixed media, her work inhabits a space between tenderness and unease, where fragmented bodies, animal forms, and organic landscapes become emotional terrains.

Her earlier works investigated identity and materiality through sculptural and installation-based practices. After moving to Stockholm in 2019 to work within the fashion industry, and later experiencing motherhood, her artistic practice underwent a profound interruption and transformation. Returning to painting in recent years, Mónika developedan intuitive visual language rooted in instinct, vulnerability, and emotional reconstruction.

Through layered gestures, soft yet intense color palettes, and symbolic forms, her work reflects on care, displacement, femininity, and the fragile coexistence between human and natural worldsI develop my work by building an imaginary context, through a process of composing, decontextualizing, rearming or loosening elements and messages altogether, from our era. All this with the aim of bringing them to a common language and at the sam...

2013 - 2014
Programa de estudios en arte contemporáneo, A*Desk, Barcelona

2011 -
Workshop “Playing the stage” Jan Mech, Hangar, Barcelona

2006-2009,
Escola Superior de Disseny ESDi, Electronic Art and Digital Design, Sabadell, Spain.

2004-2006
Universidad Pompeu Fabra, First Cycle, Barcelona, Spain

EXPOSICIONES:
2016 - Muestra individual , ESTUPENDO, espacio Montolio, Barcelona
2016 - Mundo Collage,exposición colectiva en Las cosas de Martinez, Barcelona
2014 - Performance Una charla con Raimundas Malasauskas, A*desk
2014 - Performance Sweet Wall, A*Desk en colaboración con la Fundacion Toni Tapies.
2013 - Proper Pride, collage - textil art, La Lleonera, Barcelona
2013 - Untitled, Exposición Colectiva, Taller La Reina, dentro del marco -
Tallers Oberts Ciutat Vella 2013 Barcelona.
2012 - Exposición colectiva, Barcelona Showcase en la Casa Batlló, Barcelona.
2011 - Exposición y venta en “El Festivalet” en el FAD, Barcelona.
2011 - Exposicion Individual, Dibujo e ilustración, Centre d’Art Juneda, Lleida
2010 - Selección de Videos en el proyecto Fabrica de Sueños, Barcelona.
2008 - Video-creación selecionado por Esdi para el festival internacional de videoart LOOP, Barcelona
2008 - proyecto “Adaptados” seleccionado para la muestra artistica dentro del proyecto/evento
Red Bull Music Academy, Barcelona, en Fabra I Coats

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PUBLICACIONES:

2014 - Girls Get Busy, online magazine #22
2011 - Selected works, Carpaccio Magazine #32
2011 - “My Boy“ Mixed media Collage, Art We ...