Meet Douglas Knesse, Denis Ymeri Shkalla and Maria Naidyonova: three recent additions to Escat Gallery. From gestural landscapes and tactile structures to intimate figurative scenes, this selection introduces distinct ways of connecting the painted surface with memory, place and human experience.

Presented by Escat Gallery for SWAB Barcelona Art Fair 2026, this duo presentation brings together Barcelona-based artists Alba Fabre and Vivian Alarcón. Through painting, charcoal, glass and organic materials, their works explore the female body, memory and transformation through a reduced palette of black and white.

Escat Gallery presents The Art of Trying, a selection of works by American contemporary artist Eric Stefanski. Beginning with language and embracing the uncertainty of painting, Stefanski explores persistence, failure and the daily realities of artistic practice. Through text, gesture and material experimentation, his paintings reveal the tension between intention and unpredictability.

Building Our Own Territory extends Federica Furbelli’s Las nubes no tienen casa beyond the gallery space. Through journeys, field research and encounters with earth, water and found materials, the project traces how lived experience becomes painting. Landscape emerges not as something to represent, but as a territory to inhabit, transform and carry with us.

This Viewing Room provides an in-depth look into Mareo’s artistic practice, focusing on his exploration of the portal as a symbolic structure and the void as a generative inner space. Through painting and spatial thinking, Mareo proposes abstraction as a tool for transformation—inviting viewers to engage with his work as a contemplative and experiential journey.

Pindorama, meaning “land of the palm trees” in the language of the Tupi-Guarani people, was the name used by Indigenous communities to describe the territory now known as Brazil. In this series, Júlia Martins Miranda revisits the idea of homeland through memory and distance, transforming cultural references from her native Brazil into vibrant compositions that oscillate between remembrance, imagination, and reinvention.