• Location:
    Palma de Mallorca- Islas Baleares, Spain
  • LensCulture Awards:
    Critics' Choice 2024, Critics' Pick
  • Schools Attended:
    Audiovisual Communication. Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona
    MFA Photo, Video & Related Media. School of Visual Arts, New York
  • Photo Associations & Memberships:
    Photoconsortium
About Marina Planas

Her work revolves around the borders between art and life, reality and visual representation, fiction and memory. She currently carries out projects on issues related to the archives. In recent years her work has focused on postcards and the idea of generating fiction and desire through tourist utopia. She is also director of the Casa Planas Centre for
Contemporary Research and Culture, where she has initiated the Art Investigation Programme, which focuses on contemporary creation through residencies. The goal is to activate Planas Archive and encourage creation through her art practice. In this programe she has collaborated with artists like Joan Fontcuberta, Antoni Muntadas, Dora García and Pedro G. Romero. +info: www.casaplanas.org

Her installations, videos and photographs have been presented at Anthology Film Archive (NYC), in the context of the Venice Biennale, at the Centre d'Arts Santa Mónica (BCN), FRAC-Corse (France), at the Museu es Baluard (Palma), Just Mad (Madrid), Reina Sofia Library, Longueuil Biennale (Montreal), Galeria Mama (Rotterdam), Cortona on the move, International Photo Festival (Italy), Houston FotoFest, among others.

She has won art investigation scholarships from the governments of the Balearic Islands, Canada and the UK, Pilar Juncosa i Sotheby's scholarship for residency at Slade School of Arts, London. Her work has been commissioned by a variety of national and international art institutions.

As a recipient of the Alice Beck-Odette scholarship, she enrolled in master's degree studies, (Photography, Video & Related Media) at New York’s School of Visual Arts, where she also worked as a photography and video TA in the Fine Arts department. She has a degree in Visual Communication.

After living in Barcelona and New York she moved to Palma where she now lives. In 2019 she was the vice president of the Association of Visual Artists of Balearic Islands.

Individual Exhibitions
2023 // War approaches to tourism: all inclusive" // Cortona on the Move. International Photo Festival // Italy
2022 // "Greetings from Mallorca" // Convendum // PM
2021 // Coastal Memory. Urban intervention and social action // Comissioned by local government
2020 // "War approaches to tourism: all inclusive" // Es Baluard //Comissioned by local government Contemporary Art Museum
2018 // "Happy Holidays" // Selva Town Hall // Mallorca
2017 // "Profiles" // Gallery 300 Stvorcov // Slovakia

Collective Exhibitions
2024 // Archaeology of leisure, Mohamed and the waterways // Thyssen Museum // Madrid
2024 // Warlike approaches to tourism: all-inclusive // “Ten by Ten” Houston FotoFest Biennial // USA
2023 // The eyes without a face // Film, photography and more festival // Catalunya
2023 // Performance “Autopista del sur” // Live for the Arts // Berlin
2023 // Touristic Digestion II // International Photo Festival Revela't // Barcelona
2022 // "Touristic Digestion" // La isla de las amas de casa // Leipzig // Germany
2022 // "Body desintegration II" // Bio Eco Arte Digital //Las Cigarreras // Valencia
2022 // "Badlands" // Biennale Longueuil // Canada
2021 // Participation In-Cadaqués International Photo Festival // Catalunya
2021 // Expo: Departures - "Pleasure Peripheries" // Galeria Mama // Rotterdam
2020 // Archipel Ouest: Îles du Future - "La fiction prémonitoire du dromadaire Mohamed" // FRAC // Corse / France
2019 // "A tiro de Piedra: acercar lo posible" // Reian Sofia Museum // Madrid
2019 // Possible physicalities and new powers of the an/archive - "Balearic Hotel Taxonomy according to Mohamed" // Es Baluard // PM
2019 // Holidays - "Digestión Turística II" // Museu de Porreres // Mallorca
2018 // Impossible Works // 1st Step // Murcia // Spain
2018 // "Body Desintegration II" // JustMad // Madrid
2017 // Expo: Ciutat de Vacances - "Variacions d'un arxiu" // Es Baluard // PM // Spain
2017 // Projection "Imatges turístiques. Historical Approaches // Grimani Palace // Venice // Italy
2017 // Projection "Imatges turístiques. Historical approaches // Centre Arts Sta. Mònica // BCN // Spain
2017 // Expo "A very festive death" // Biennale Genova // Italy
2013 // "Body Desintegration" screening // Anthology Film Archieves // NYC

Awards
2023 // Solo show Cortona in the move // Institut Estudis Baleàrics
2019 // Pilar Juncosa & Sotheby's scholarship Prize // Fundación Miró Mallorca
2019 & 2021 // Selected for the Ciutat de Palma d'Antoni Gelabert d'Arts Visuals Award // "What Martin Parr would have seen // Mallorca
2018 & 2020 // Selected for the VI Francisco Bernareggi d'Arts Visuals Santanyí Prize // Mallorca

Scholarships & art resdencies
2024 // IEB creation support grant // “Tourist swallowing” // Balearic Islands tourist”
2024 // Attendance to portfolio review Biennial FotoFest Houston // IEB // USA
2023 // Assistance to portfolio review Cortona on the Move. International Photo Festival // IEB // Italy // Balearic Islands
2023 // Scholarship to support creation IEB // Balearic Islands
2020 // Support to art investigation scholarship ILLENC // Balearic Islands
2012-13 // ALICE BECK-ODETTE Scholarship MFA Master studies // School of Visual Arts // New York

Published work
2021 // Iteraciones Bárbaras // The world of yesterday. Author's magazine // Barcelona
2019 // "A tiro de Piedra: acercar lo posible" // Reina Sofia Museum // Madrid // In collaboration with Es Baluard and 1r Escalón.
2019 // Art and Identity Politics. II Congress // Faculty of Fine Arts. Faculty of Murcia
2018 // Ciutat de Vacances // Es Baluard. Santa Mònica and Consorci Museus Generalitat Valenciana
2018 // New Patronages. Images and objects from popular tourism // Mallorca

Marina Planas's Projects on LensCulture