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(Sabadell, 1996)

Martí Madaula Esquirol is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Madrid and Barcelona. He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, Master of Visual Arts from the LUCA School of Arts of Ghent (Belgium) and a Master of Fine Arts in Film, Video, New Media, and Animation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2019, he received the Extraordinary Prize of Fine Arts (University of Barcelona). In 2021, he was awarded a prestigious “la Caixa” Foundation fellowship to pursue his studies in the United States.

Madaula’s latest film, “Tramuntana,” had its World Premiere at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, as part of Doc Fortnight 2025, MoMA’s prestigious Festival of International Nonfiction Film and Media. His first film, “The Living Wardrobe,” had its World Premiere at Visions du Réel 2024, one of the most important non-fiction and documentary film festivals in the world. This film has also been shown in major non-fiction film festivals such as Festival dei Popoli or the Kassel Documentary and Video Film Festival, among others. He published his first book, “Com Conquerir l’Espai” (“How to Conquer Space”), thanks to the Art Jove 2020 Creation Grant and the support of the Centre d’Art La Panera.

Madaula has participated in art residencies at prestigious institutions like Centre Pompidou. He has shown his work in solo exhibitions such as “L’Armari Vivent” (Prats Nogueras Blanchard, 2024), “Tough, Reliable and Almost Cuddly” (SITE 280 Gallery in Chicago, 2023), “To Recover the Bedsheets from Manchester” (Museum of Sabadell, 2021) or “Stronger than Air, Thinner than Ice” (Astronomical Observatory of UGent, 2019). He has also taken part in several group shows.

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Contact:
mmesquirol@gmail.com

"A central aspect of Martí Madaula’s artistic practice, which is deployed in videos, publications, performances and installations, is the articulation of narratives in which writing and images are combined. Madaula focuses on everyday life, the construction of bonds, intimacy and affect, and engages these from a fine sensibility with a deeply personal poetics and an emphatic attention to what is simple but profound."