Shahin is an Iranian-born artist, based in Barcelona, who arrived in Spain four years ago.
She holds a degree in graphic design and a master’s in artistic research from Azad University of Art and Architecture in Tehran.
For 14 years, Shahin worked as a visual arts teacher in various schools in Tehran, and for three years, she taught art at the university.
She has held several exhibitions of painting, photography, and contemporary art.
Shahin has also worked as a photographer, video artist, painter, and graphic designer, for both the industry and the media and social networks, as well as portrait photography.
Currently, her art focuses on exploring Iranian motifs and several photography projects.
She believes that only through art can one’s internal feelings be expressed. And only art is limitless and free.
Lisa Rubin is a Hispanic-American artist currently residing in Barcelona.
She was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Her mother is from Valencia, Spain, and her father is from the Bronx, New York, of Jewish descent.
This multiplicity of identities has long influenced her work, and she considers herself a global citizen.
Lisa’s father, Dr. Edward Rubin, is a prominent environmental engineer, and his work to mitigate climate change, as well as the general values of her family, helped stimulate Lisa’s interest in creating sustainable art.
Working primarily with mixed media and collage, Lisa creates reflective and complex compositions inspired by the natural world and its cycles, as well as the contents of her noisy brain.
The human psyche, the secret life of plants, and mythology are themes that come into play, coming to life through a layering of images and found objects that she encounters by chance.
Working with mixed media and collage allows her the freedom to tackle many themes, but she also follows her belief that art should be made from everything.
Most of her materials are recycled, discarded, or found.
Her work is immensely symbolic, with each component having not just one, but many reasons for being there.
After living in cities such as Pittsburgh, New York, and Barcelona, Lisa longed for natural surroundings but was also drawn to the dynamic nature of urban life.
Her work explores and rethinks both land art and urban art traditions, questioning current trends.
Why does land art tend to be abstract rather than narrative? Have we seen enough spray paint in our cities?
Her recent artistic adventures include a group urban art show, Windows Art Circuit, shown at Poblenou Open Day in Barcelona, and a simultaneous group exhibition in Lisbon and Berlin, titled Sensing the City.
PLANTS & PLASTIC is the musical project of Norwegian artist Eirik A. Skaar. His music blends electronic and acoustic sounds, creating soundscapes that explore the relationship between nature and technology. The project aims to reflect the coexistence and tension between the organic and synthetic worlds, offering a unique auditory experience that invites reflection on our contemporary environment.
Before creating his own design studio, he studied at the EINA School of Design and the Massana School. As a teacher, he taught at Elisava, the University School of Design. He has been a member of the board of the Association of Professional Designers (ADP).
Alongside his professional work, he is involved in various interdisciplinary projects, including the creation of sculptures, blending static and dynamic objects, made from old iron finds and knick-knacks he collects in the rural environment. A selection of his works can be seen in his exhibitions across various locations in the country.
Karin Heinrich started her professional training as a piano technician, then studied design in Bern and Biel, obtaining a degree in industrial design from the Faculty of Design and Art at the University of Aarau. Since 2008, she has been creating her own objects and artistic installations in her workshop in Bern. Since 2012, she has combined her personal work with the direction and construction of sets for the Biena-Soloturn Theatre and the Zurich Opera. Since 2020, she has also worked for the Theater-Auditorium in Bern.
“I am interested in the experimental, playful, and humorous exploration of materials and simple, everyday objects. For me, this is as important and enjoyable as trying to perceive mental states. Between the material qualities and the mental characteristics, I often see states of similarity, which I place in context in my work. Currently, I am interested in ephemeral and often futile processes. I often work with ice. I am moved by the concentration and vulnerability that arises from predictable change. A careful and considerate approach to resources and living beings is a great personal concern of mine. This attitude is also reflected in my work.”
Moberly is a multidisciplinary artist based in Barcelona, primarily working in photography and sculpture. He documented the pandemic photographically, and he found it depressing to relive what he had photographed during the day once the images were downloaded. It was an endless stream of miserable masked people that became increasingly emotionally exhausting, so to counter this, he decided to have fun with the free creation of sculptures, some of which are shown here.
His sculptures have always been made from recycled aluminum, mostly collected from the street. He uses aluminum because he loves its look and can work with it at night, bending and shaping it by hand without making noise or disturbing the neighbors. Nowadays, he buys old aluminum pots and pans on Wallapop because many people are looking for scrap, and it’s hard to find. His motivation comes from a deep desire to create, which often arises after witnessing or seeing something that needs to be expressed. Above all, he wants to create beautiful work and have a good time doing it. He wants people to be able to touch it, ask questions, be moved and/or inspired by it, even be bothered… or simply learn something new, like what a pangolin is and why it’s endangered.
After graduating in Architecture in Istanbul, Rana Tarhangil traveled to Spain and settled in Barcelona. She worked as an architect for 17 years in several countries but felt that she had lost her creativity. She started painting, creating sculptures, and making crafts. Additionally, during the pandemic, she took a course in industrial waste management and began collecting waste, conducting recycling workshops, and exhibiting art created from recycled materials. Rana feels “indebted” to nature and wants to contribute to raising awareness among people, not only about recycling plastics but also about the urgent need to stop using them. Her goal is to create an emotional reaction in the viewer, linked to the contradiction between the initial attraction of the beauty of the artwork and the awareness message it conveys, and to make people reflect on environmental, social, and economic sustainability.
Alfredo Blasco Nuin holds a degree in Information and Communication Sciences, is a journalist, and an advertising designer. He has worked for 30 years as an executive in the communication and advertising field, both online and offline, including managing newspapers, advertising marketing, brand strategy design, advertising design, event organization, logo creation, branding, corporate communication, e-commerce management, social media, and blogs.
He also has professional expertise as a teacher in Vocational Training for Employment, and extensive experience in press, product, and studio photography. Throughout his creative phases, he has always focused on conceptual composition, combining and integrating visual elements behind a socially conscious aesthetic.
In recent years, he has applied his experience and knowledge to the creation of sculptures and designs based on the reuse, recycling of discarded materials, and found objects, preferably of industrial origin. He seeks to integrate his works into other interdisciplinary projects in search of collaborative spaces united by the concept of “second chances,” reuse, and the evocative and emotional potential that objects once useful to us always carry.
“Eloquence in literary expression; the communication and expression of ideas through all aesthetic channels are a source of interpersonal enrichment, collective awareness, and ethical commitment to the environment and the moment in which we live.”
Virgínia Rondeel is a Dutch fashion designer who lived for many years in Barcelona and is currently based in Berlin. After working for ten years in industrial fashion design, she decided to leave “fast fashion.” She began experimenting with recycled materials and participated in several exhibitions.
Currently, she gives lectures and classes on sustainable fashion design, in addition to creating her own clothing collections. All of her designs are unique pieces, made entirely by her.
Mondragón realitza un màster de Cinema i Noves Tecnologies en la Universitat de París (2000 a 2005), Motion Graphics en Hyper Island, Estocolm (2012 a 2013), Editor en Mitjana Institut, Estocolm (2016 a 2017), Change makers education i disseny d’experiències immersives (2020 a 2021).
Treballa com a editor i animador UR per a la televisió sueca. Ha participat en projectes educatius i socials, en projectes d’intercanvi entre Mèxic i Suècia i amb la Galeria Candyland d’Estocolm en la construcció i gestió de la seva galeria en Hammarby, ArtPort.
Les obres presentades a Drap-Art relacionen l’artesania i les tècniques digitals, representen la cultura popular del vídeo joc, però amb una tècnica artesanal antiga. Els vidres són reciclats igual que els ossos, recuperats de les escombraries amb la intenció de crear narracions visuals que integrin la simbologia actual de la nostra cultura digital, però amb aquesta aura religiosa que té el magnetisme de la llum dels vitralls antics de les esglésies, ara reemplaçades per les pantalles LED o els dispositius mòbils que il·luminen els nostres ulls.
Valentina Greene is the creator and designer of the textile upcycling brand Green-e. A professional photographer with studies in industrial design and makeup, she took her first steps in fashion in 2009 when she opened a small boutique selling clothing imported from Argentina, where she spent several seasons and attended various workshops related to art and photography.
In 2015, with the desire to create her own designs and develop her own language, she took a course in cutting and tailoring, a key tool for personal experimentation in the world of fashion. Enthusiastic about this new world to discover, she closed her boutique and focused on developing her first pieces. Passionate about vintage and second-hand clothing since her adolescence, she visited fairs and markets in search of original and quality pieces to reuse in her designs. This is how she began her journey in upcycling, and by the end of 2017, she created her own sustainable brand, “Green-E.”
“The motivation behind my work is to recover discarded pieces to give them new life and revalue them. Upcycling allows me not only to express my own aesthetic language but also to show the narrative of each reused piece. With my work, I aim to visualize and inform about new, less-polluting textile practices that align more with today’s times.”
Amadeu Flix Miguel began his career in the art world in 1972 in Munich, creating pyrography works in a self-taught manner. He held several exhibitions in southern Germany, and in 1976, he participated in the III European Biennial of Art in Immigration at the Palace of Congresses and Exhibitions in Madrid.
Upon returning to Catalonia and coinciding with his retirement, the environment and recycling motivated him to enter the world of upcycling, a task to which he currently dedicates his free time. At his home in Malgrat de Mar, he has an incredible warehouse full of various objects and old trinkets, which he collects because he enjoys giving new life to pieces, objects, and remnants of nature.
