Alícia Vogel Olot, b. 1991

Alicia Vogel combines drawing, painting and video with textile design, music and the intervention of objects. With a raw but delicate outlook and a firm yet shaky stroke, Vogel works with the power of tension and its limits or fissures. Her interest in contrast can be both literal, with a characteristic black and white which runs throughout her work, and also symbolic, exploring visual, musical and cinematographic imagineries where there is an abundance of paradox, discomfort and the absurd, as well as vulnerability and the sinister.

 

She obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Primary School Education with a specialization in music from the University of Girona, at the same time as an advanced qualification in transverse flute from the conservatory of the same city, and lived in Germany for a while, where she worked in architectural restoration. When she returned to Barcelona, she took a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts with a specialization in engraving and screen printing at the University of Barcelona, and an Advanced vocational training course in Plastic Arts and Design in textile art at Escola Massana. With her degree final project she won an extraordinary prize and an international grant from the Japanese Department of Culture to hold an exhibition at the Tsukuba Museum of Art in Ibaraki, which was subsequently displayed at Museu Can Framis in Barcelona and was acquired in its entirety by PATRIM, the University of Barcelona’s Heritage Collection.

 

Recently, her work has also been displayed at Tinta invisible (“Qui juga no dorm”, 2017), La Plataforma (“Broken Things”, 2019), Espacio Busquets (“Faîtes vos jeux, rien en va plus”, 2021) and Espacio88 (“How to Disappear Completely”, 2023) in Barcelona; and at the Museu Enric Monjo (MEM) in Vilassar de Mar (“Genealogies. Carícies de pell girada”, 2017), the Museu de la Garrotxa in Olot (“A land is land is a land is a land”, 2021), at Mas Sobeies for the Girona Bianyal (“Morir d’un llamp”, 2022) and at la Canònica de Santa Maria de Vilabertran in Girona (“És a no dir”, 2023). For the production company CANADA she has designed graphic image, textile pieces and film credits (Manson for ACNÉ Studios and Arquitectura-G). She has also designed and produced pieces for video clips, fashion films, fashion publishers and brands from various sectors (including Industrial Akroll, Canal COSMO, Blend, Laagam, Garage Beer Co., Naida C. Castel, Olskins, Vans, and Ölend).