Gabriela Malimbus

Malimbus Studio is the practice of Barcelona-based artist Gabriela Malimbus, whose sculptural textile works explore the boundaries between fiber art, installation, and object. Trained in Sculpture at Escola Massana Barcelona, with a background in sociology and communication, her work carries both material and conceptual depth.
Each piece is constructed using techniques of knotting, braiding, and weaving as tools of material investigation — combined with structural frameworks in hardwoods, bamboo, pine, fir, and iron rods. This three-dimensional approach, with depths reaching up to 20 cm, elevates site-specific installations that elevate the vernacular forms of knots into sculptural territory.
The studio takes its name from the weaver bird of sub-Saharan Africa, whose intricately constructed nests are a silent manifesto: structure, craft, and beauty are not separate things.
Her work is held in international private collections, has been featured in Selvedge Magazine, and presented in Barcelona, Paris, and across Europe. She has lectured on the history of textile art and resistance at the Museu del Disseny de Barcelona.

2016 Sculpture at the Massana School in Barcelona. Plastic Arts applied to Sculpture

2007 Complutense University of Madrid. Faculty of information science. DEA in the Department: Audiovisual Communication and Advertising

2001 Central University of Venezuela. BA in Sociology

2021 Story # 5 – Instincts from Heaven – A site, creators, a promise. Collective exhibition in Boost, Saint-Denis. KhaOs Space for poetry. Exhibition from October 16 to October 21. Paris, France

2020 Malimbus Studio, solo exhibition. Cloudworks, Barcelona

2019 Dona’m espai, collective exhibition. La Raposa, Barcelona

2015 Fresh Meat, Emerging Art Butcher’s, group exhibition. Walrus Hub en Mutuo Centro de Arte, Barcelona

2015 Exogen-Endogen. group exhibition. LafuturA Gallery, Barcelona