On the second day of the year and a few hours before she returned to Berlin, I photographed Mariona Berenguer, an artist with a complex and powerful discourse. It seems that Mariona does not waste time on the superfluous and focuses her world on everything that moves her artistic performance. She has an attractive sweetness and at the same time a strong, determinant attitude.
This is how she defines her artistic approach: My artistic practice is fundamentally grounded in the exploration of conditions in which the possibility of opposites coexist, creating a unique tension between seemingly disparate positions that coalesce or combine into works which investigate a space “between”.
Mariona Berenguer studied at the Escola Massana in Barcelona, specializing in sculpture, and graduated at the University of Barcelona with a degree in Fine Arts.
She takes part in group exhibitions at LafuturA gallery (Barcelona), Fine Arts Academy (Sabadell), History Museum (Sant Feliu de Guíxols), TEDxBarcelonaWomen, San Salvador Monastery (Burgos), Maristany Art Centre and Es-Fiera 72 (Sant Cugat). In 2018, her work is selected for the XXI Biennial of Catalan Contemporary Art, where she presents Metástasi(s), an audiovisual installation with a performative extension in the company of the pianist Lucía Fumero. In 2019 she takes part in the Loop festival in Barcelona with an audiovisual installation in collaboration with the sound artist Juan Segura and a group exhibition in Kunsthaus Bethanien, the historical centre of art in Berlin. This last year she has been selected for the Felicia Fuster Foundation grants with the interactive installation About desire, a project with which she starts in the field of robotics and which she has exhibited in Monopol during this year's BerlinArtweek.
She lives and works between Barcelona and Berlin, where she combines her most personal work with the production of the German artist Michael Sailstorfer (König Gallery).
She is currently preparing a solo exhibition on production in art and at the same time she is developing the theme of desire, some of which will be shown at the GlogauAir art centre (Berlin) during the next year.
