Marta Juvanteny

My artistic practice originates in a rupture: a physical limitation that interrupts the continuity between body and mind, displacing experience into an unfamiliar territory. What initially appears as loss—the inability of the body to sustain its former intensity—gradually becomes an opening. The energy once anchored in the physical is reconfigured as thought, attention, and perception.

From this point, art does not emerge as a choice but as a necessity: a space in which to inhabit and think through that fracture. Painting becomes a site of condensation where time, matter, and experience intertwine. It does not represent; it articulates. It constructs fields in which the visible and the invisible coexist, where form does not assert but sustains tension.

Within this process, time ceases to be linear and unfolds instead as duration and waiting; space ceases to be a container and becomes relational; matter ceases to be a support and becomes thought. The work thus takes shape as an open system in constant transformation, where uncertainty is not a lack but a potential.Physical limitation, rather than closing down possibilities, reveals them. It marks the boundaries of the body while activating an intuition of a mental expansiveness th...

European Master’s Degree in Artistic Production and Research, Faculty of Fine Arts. UB, Barcelona (2016–2017)
• Certificate of Pedagogical Aptitude (CAP). Barcelona (2006)
• Miró Foundation Scholarship, Palma de Mallorca – Printmaking. Woodcut with Japanese printing with Wayne Krothers. Mallorca (2006)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts. UB, Barcelona (2006)
• Member of the Guild of Jewelers, Goldsmiths and Gemologists of Catalonia (JORC). Barcelona (2002)
• Escola d’Arts Aplicades Llotja, Barcelona (2001)

Finalist – Antoni Vila Casas Painting Prize. Museu Can Framis. Barcelona (2025)
• Finalist – Centelles Prize. Barcelona (2024)
• Finalist – BBVA Ricard Camí (2017)
• Finalist – Vila Casas Foundation Prize (2016)
• Finalist – Biennal Salou Pictorial Research (2016)
• Runner-up – II Sabadell Young Art Biennial (2015)
• Finalist – XIV International BBVA Ricard Camí Contest (2015)
• Finalist – XV International Miquel Viladrich Painting Contest (2015)
• First Prize – International Contemporary Art Contest Centre Jujol Can Negre (2007)
• First Prize – XIV Young Contemporary Art Tran Art Barcelona (2008)

Private Collections
• Central Hotel of Panama, Panama City (2016)
• Multiple Sclerosis Foundation (FEM)
• German Chamber of Commerce Barcelona (2016)
• Banc Sabadell (2015)
• MRW Courier Group S.L. (2017)
• Espronceda Art & Culture Center (2016)
• Private collections
. Monastery of Pedralbes (2024)