Bernat Daviu is an artist who considers himself a painter first and foremost. A painter aware that the death of painting has long been anticipated but has not yet arrived. As such, he expands it and allows it to mutate into objects, costume design, dance, performance, video, music, and art installations. He activates painting, sets it in motion, and turns it into a mirror of our surroundings. Daviu is interested in the borderlands between art and non-art. He is interested in pushing the boundaries of the spaces of art and their codes of behaviour and reception. His work uses humour and the absurd as strategies for subversion and to connect with reality, as part of a collaborative practice in which choreographers, dancers, filmmakers, writers, and different kinds of artists give rise to polyphonic pieces and spaces of encounter.
Gallery Exhibitions
Bernat Daviu (b.1985, Fonteta) lives and works in Barcelona. He works with painting, performance and film.
His most recent solo exhibitions include There are more things (Joey Ramone Gallery, Rotterdam, 2023), Just before the end of painting (MAC, Mataró Art Contemporani, Capella del Cementiri dels Caputxins, Spain 2021) and Waiting Room (Bombon Projects, Barcelona 2021). Other recent group exhibitions include Deep Frieze (Torreloft, Copenhagen, 2023), Good evening. Do not attempt to adjust your radio… (Belo Campo, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisboa, 2023), Intenció Poètica, MACBA (Barcelona 2022-23) Ara Mateix: tot està per fer, Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona 2020-21) and Painting: a permanent challenge (Caixa Forum, Barcelona 2019-20). His projects and works have also been shown and presented at Fundació Tàpies (Barcelona, 2021), Caixa Forum (Madrid, 2020), Cuchifiritos Gallery (New York, 2018), Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona, 2018), Fundació Arranz- Bravo (L’Hospitalet, 2017), Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona, 2016), Nau Estruch (Sabadell, 2015), Galeria Balaguer (Barcelona, 2015), Uma certa falta de coerencia (Porto, 2014), Guest Projects (London, 2012), Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool, 2012) or Bienal de Jafre (Jafre, 2009), among others.