Celia Lees is an artist whose practice explores lived experience, memory, and the passage of time through large-scale, expressive painting. Her work channels emotional states and human connection into intuitive compositions, shaped by a strong sensitivity to materiality, texture, and colour, an awareness informed in part by her background in fashion. Rooted in the physical act of mark-making, her paintings reflect an ongoing dialogue between instinct, movement, and embodied experience.
Loosen Your Grip centres on the tension between control and release. Emerging from an impulse to fix and hold things together, the works trace a shift toward recognising the limits of control. Dense, compressed gestures sit alongside more open, minimal areas, creating a rhythm between restraint and letting go. The paintings do not resolve this tension; instead, they remain within it, embracing ambiguity and the discomfort of stepping back. Through this body of work, Lees invites viewers to consider what emerges when control is loosened, and whether there is a quiet strength in allowing things to unfold on their own.

Escat Gallery presents ‘Una habitació pròpia’ (A Room of One’s Own), a group exhibition inspired by Virginia Woolf’s essay (1929), in which she advocates for women and creative work from the independence and privacy afforded by a space of one’s own, free from the pressures of a fast-paced, materialistic world that has historically excluded women from cultural spheres. From March 19 to May 16, 2026, this intuition is revisited through the contemporary voices of Blanca Nieto (Salamanca, Spain, 1991), Diana Ruban (Kremenchuk, Ukraine, 1999), Iris Sanmartín Dalmau (Barcelona, Spain, 1996), Alba Fabre (Barcelona, Spain, 1994), and Suna Imre (Solihull, United Kingdom, 1971).

Escat Gallery Trafalgar presents for the first time a solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Júlia Martins Miranda (Belo Horizonte, Brasil, 1989). The exhibition, titled PINDORAMA, opens on March 12 and will be on view through May 2, 2026.

This January, Escat Gallery presents ‘Il Giardino’, a solo exhibition by Mirko Baricchi (La Spezia, Italy, 1970). The exhibition will open at the Escat Gallery Sarrià space on January 15 and will be open for viewing until February 28, 2026.

Escat Gallery Trafalgar presents Portals Origin of the Void, a solo exhibition by Mexican multidisciplinary artist MAREO (Mareo Rodríguez, Mexico City, 1981), currently based in Barcelona.

Escat Gallery is pleased to present ‘Unfolding’, the first ever solo exhibition by Carolin Kreutzer (Hamburg, Germany, 1981). The show will open at Escat Gallery Sarrià on November 27th 2025 and will be on view until January 3rd, 2026.

Flora Castiglia, an Argentinian artist born in Buenos Aires, was introduced to art at an early age by her mother, also an artist. Observing her mother work from their home studio instilled in her a deep sense of discipline and creativity that continues to shape her artistic practice.

Escat Gallery presents ‘Imprints of Absence’, the inaugural exhibition of its new space in the Sarrià neighborhood. The show brings together works by Silvia de Marchi (Melzo, Italy, 1967) and On Hansen (Barcelona, Spain, 1974). It will be on view from September 25 to November 19, 2025, marking the opening of the gallery’s new season.

Black becomes both medium and metaphor: overlapping layers, impulsive gestures, and fragmented forms evoke that which vanishes before it can be remembered. In Only Shadows Know, Beñat Olaberria investigates the fragility of memory and the spaces where recollections dissolve between presence and absence, clarity and forgetting.

The exhibition Time Anchors to the Past and Fireflies in the Sky marks a new chapter in Ricky Lee Gordon’s practice, unfolding in dialogue between Barcelona and Bali. In this series, the South African artist continues his exploration of the relationship between nature, memory, and spirituality, developing a material language rooted in the principle of “painting nature with nature.”

MEDITERRANEAN is the solo exhibition by ELIURPI, the creative duo formed by Elisabet Urpí and Nacho Umpiérrez. Together, they work with shapes and volumes to create unique pieces that capture the essence of contemporary art and sculpture.

Eric Stefanski (1987, Chicago) is an artist whose practice centers on the highs and lows of sustaining a contemporary art career, marked by sincerity, humor, and a constant reflection on failure.

Escat Gallery is pleased to participate in SWAB Barcelona 2025, showcasing a curated selection of works by Celia Lees, Emma Labattaglia, and Danny Avidan. Together, these artists embody a diverse dialogue between abstraction and figuration, material experimentation, and personal narrative.