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Margherita Isola is a transdisciplinary artist of Mediterranean origin, living and working on an itinerant basis and currently based in Barcelona. Rooted in contemporary dance, since 2007 she has progressively expanded her practice into an ecosystem of visual, performative, and social forms. Her work moves fluidly across textile art and embroidery, performance and dance, collage, installation, and community-based projects, and is often marked by autobiographical tensions and the lingering shadows of Western culture.Margherita engages with questions of ecology, feminism, and ancestrality, while experimenting with clothing as a social layer. Making art is her way of rethinking our way of being in the world and rediscovering a sense of wonder.
In recent years, she has also developed experience in body-centered therapeutic practices.
Since 2024, together with Senegalese artist Lamine Ndiaye, who is currently imprisoned, she has been part of Deffndamn, a transracial and cross-disciplinary alliance that embraces art as a space for practicing forms of freedom and solidarity.
GRANTS and AWARDS
. Empact Artistic Residency, Espacio Rojo, Madrid, 2023
. Art Research grant at La Escocesa, Barcelona, 2021
. Community Art Awards UNZIP, Barcelona, 2021
. Awards Premis Barcelona 2020, Barcelona City Council
. Artist in Residence at FAAP, São Paulo, 2017
. Artist in Residence at Choreographic Center,
Rio de Janeiro, 2016
. Art Contest, Young Artists Prize, Brussels, 2010
SELECTED SHOW & PROJECTS
17.04-19.05.2026- Guerrilla Drugstore/Afinidades Radicales, comunitay art project, Jardin Ambulant, Macba/ Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona
30.03-15.05.2024-Embrace Empathy- Exploring the Spectrum of Understanding, Vorres Museum, Greece
27. 03 -16 .06 .2024- Fluxos (in) Fluxo: Transitoriedade, Migração e Memória, Centro de Arte Helio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro
19.04 - 24.05.2023, Guerrilla Drugstore/ Punto Sabias, comunity art project, Museum CA2M, Madrid
18.03. - 9.04.2023, Utopicalipse, group exhibition, Funarte, São Paulo
2.7.2022 - 2.4.2023, Huerta Hertz, site specific project, Historical Botanical Garden of Barcelona
4.02.2022 - 18.03.2022, Fluchtpunkt/Vanishing Point, collective exhibition at Tangent Project gallery, Barcelona
4.08.2021 - 29.08.2021, Revolutionary Herbarium, solo show at National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon
26.11.2020 - 2.4.2021, Plaga, Centre d'Estudis i Documentació, MACBA/ Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona
6.3.2020 - 3.4. 2020, Lucha como un brezo, solo show, Tangent Project Galery, Barcelona
31.1.2019 - 31.3.2019, Untitled Migrant, solo show, Museum of Lace &Fashion, Brussels
1.9.2018 - 20.10. 2018, Contextile-Contemporary Textile Art Biennial, Guimaraes, Portugal
30.10.201 - 2.12.2017, Aqui bem ao Sul, collective exhibition in the frame of BienalSur, FAAP, São Paulo
1.9.2016 - 1.10. 2016, Hamlet in Harar, solo show, Galeria ICG, Niteroi
3.10.2013 - 20.10.2013, Shape Open Exhibition - collective exhibition, Nunnery Gallery, London
12.3.2014 - 29.3.2014, Shape Open Exhibition - collective exhibition, Lewisham Arthouse, London
27.4.2013 - 8.6.2013- Arte, uma politica subversiva- Homenagem à Zuzu Angel, collective exhibition, Tech Art Lab, Antica Fabrica Bhering, Rio de Janeiro
1.7.2010 - 30.7. 2010, International Biennial of Young Art, Moscow
7.5.2009 - 25.7.2009, Dress code, collective exhibition, ISELP, Brussels
12.3.2009 - 9.4.2009, Rotte Metropolitane, collective exhibition, Villa Romana, Florence
6.10.200 - 4.11.2007, Identities- Guerrilla Girls and Young Italian Artists, collective exhibition, MACN, Monsummano Terme, Italy
PERFORMANCE
2023, Contact Drawings, Fundació Valvi, Girona // Sala Coll Alas, Gandia.
2023- 2022, Pacha Manas, Reading Performance, Bienal de Mujeres en las Artes Visivas
2020, Contact Drawings, WAC Festival, Barcelona
2011, The mirror dancing walk , CharleroiDanses Biennial
+ Grace Exhibition Space, New York
2011, Inevitable, White Night Brussels, Beursschouwburg, Brussels
2011, Fucking Voodoo, Design Center De Winkelhaak, Antwerp
COLLABORATION
2023- 2020, Pacha Manas, by Marina Alegre and Margherita Isola, Goethe Institute, São Paulo
2017, Half of a house, performing art projet by N.O.W, Festival Fabbrica Europa, Firenze
2015, Corpos Impares, co-creacion together with Cia Pulsar, Choreographic Center, Rio de Janeiro
2001, Le Plateau de l'Umanitée, Biennial of Venice. Choreographies by Carolyn Carlson performed by the dancers of Accademia Biennale Danza Venezia