Exhibition of Núria Güell
NEXT EXHIBITION
From September 4th to October 18th, 2025
Opening September 4th, 2025 at 7 p.m.
The list of Western cultural representations around love and passions would be endless: from Greek mythology and its tragedies, through Christian scholasticism, courtly love, the Golden Age and the Romanticism of the 18th and part of the 19th centuries, to the most popular or alternative cultural expressions of our day. All of these cultural representations are a testament to the caos caused by certain ideals of love.
On our plane of reality, we still endure the beliefs of those who would exterminate others out of love for a God; we endure nationalists who still throw themselves into mutual destruction for the love of homeland or motherland; young adults who confuse jealusy with signs of true love; the mother who kills her children so that they do not suffer; revolutionaries who sacrifice their lives or sacrifice the lives of others for the love of an idea of social revolution; or the lover who would kill their object of love, when they believe their love to be lost.
Is our present-day culture responsible for these paradoxes? How many dramaturgic archetypes have we experienced in our stories of love? Behind the mask of the ideals of love, what pleasures or illusions are hidden? Could the main cause of social conflict be, not hatred, but an excess of blind love? What effects would the de-idealisation of love have upon the social order? And what effect would have upon us?
In Words of Love. An essay on the passions, Núria Güell questions the institutionalised representations and learned cultural mandates around passionate love and its consequences.
Words of Love, is the winning project of the tenth edition of the Premi de Videocreació Video-Art Award. Co-production of a video project between the Centres Territorials del Sistema Públic d’Equipaments d’Arts Visuals de Catalunya*, Santa Mònica, Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya and LOOP Barcelona. The Award promotes the work of artists who stand out for their innovative approaches in the creative process.
*Centres Territorials del Sistema Públic d’Equipaments d’Arts Visuals de Catalunya (Regional Centres, Public Visual Arts Facilities in Catalonia):
ACVIC. Centre for Contemporary Arts, Vic; Bòlit. Centre for Contemporary Art, Girona; La Fabra Centre for Contemporary Art, Barcelona; M|A|C Mataró Art Contemporani; Mèdol - Centre for Contemporary Arts of Tarragona; La Panera Art Centre, Lleida; Lo Pati Centre for Art - Terres de l’Ebre, Amposta, and Tecla Sala Art Centre, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat.
NÚRIA GÜELL
Núria Güell (1981, Vidreres) graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona, specialising in sculpture, and continued her studies at the Cátedra Arte de Conducta (School of Behavioural Art) in Havana (Cuba). Her artistic practice is characterised by the confrontation and questioning of evidence and moral conventions, a practice which she understands as necessary from the social and political points of view, a practice in which the cultural and the established are brought into play.
Among her individual exhibitions, it is worth mentioning Confinements, Escape Plans, and Various Kinds of Jouissance, in Salle Principale (Paris, 2023); Tot ordre es vol pur. A retrospective exhibition, at Fabra i Coats (Barcelona, 2021); Nation State.Four Escape Strategies, at the Warszawa Biennale (Poland, 2019); Au nom du Père, de la Patrie et du Patriarchate, at CAC Brétigny (France, 2018); and Troika Fiscal Disobedience Consultancy, at Project Arts Centre (Dublin, 2016).
She has collaborated in group exhibitions such as The Museum of Arte Útil, at Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, 2013); Un saber realmente útil, at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, 2014); Today Is Our Tomorrow, in PUBLICS (Helsinki, 2019); Coreografies del gènere, at the CCCB (Barcelona, 2019); Un même monde, at the Maison des Arts Georges & Claude Pompidou (France, 2021); “Everyone is an Artist”: Cosmopolitical Exercises with Joseph Beuys, at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Düsseldorf, 2021); and Palestina libre. Exhibition in support of the Palestinian People and for the end of the Occupation, at Espacio Tangente (Burgos, 2024).
She has also received several prizes and scholarships throughout her career, and regularly collaborates with social and educational centres.
More information: www.nuriaguell.com
BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE
Table-talks in the square
20/09/25
12 p.m. to 1.30 p.m.
With L’Ortiga Feminista
ROUND TABLE WITH THE ARTIST
25/09/25
At 6 p.m.
Conversation between Núria Güell, Joan Burdeus and Núria Rocadembosch
SLAM POETRY WORKSHOP
Part of the Festival Protesta
12/10/25
From 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
With Adriana Bertran
REFLECTIVE VISIT
Free guided tours of the exhibition
Will be offered for groups of young people and adults, student groups, social, cultural and leisure education organisations, etc.
There will be a viewing of a fragment of the audiovisual artwork in the exhibition, a debate, and activities regarding the idea of romantic love and the messages transmitted to us through contemporary musical culture.
To book a visit: 93 885 37 04 or