(eng) "Any experience painting is an opportunity to try something I’ve never done before. I like to “listen” to the spaces where i work before interacting with them. They always have some information to reveal and the more you understand the environment, the better the result.

(or the better i feel about it)" Ekosystem Street Artist Interview



Sakristan is a multidisciplinary creator, has always mixed art, design and life to erease limits between esthetic codes, techniques and artistic languages...



After being honored in Visual Arts by the "Faculty of Fine Arts" (Complutense University. Madrid. Spain), focused her activity in developing projects about "Research on Creativity" as artist, designer and consultant for companies, combining her artistic proposals with activities like these:



. Associated Director of Rojo Magazine. 04-07

www.rojo-magazine.com



. Consultant of the Design Department at F A B R I C A (Treviso, Italy). 00-01

Research Center about Creativity and Communication.

www.fabrica.it



. Director of I.E.D. Moda Lab (Instituto Europeo di Design). (Madrid, Spain). 97-05

www.ied.it



In 2006 she moves to NYC and experiments a big progressive change, developing her projects in public spaces and researching in the possibilities of Art to contribute to social changes.



Her works have been developed and exhibited in Madrid, Barcelona, Berlín, Florencia, Milán, Polonia, Francia, Ghana, Rio de Janeiro, Hong Kong, Taiwan , San Francisco , Atlanta, Toronto and New York. At this moment, her creative base is between Barcelona and Madrid.



EXHIBITIONS:

- SURPAS 10. PORTBOU. Experimental Art Festival. Wall painting and installation. (August)

- EPACIO ESPORA. MADRID 10. "DA =".Exhibition and Mural painting with Skount. Jan-Feb

- FUNDACION BADALONA OBERTA 09. "Street Colors 2009". Group Exhibition + Book. (Dec)

- MAD IS MAD GALLERY. MADRID 09. "Auto(re)trato". Group Exhibition. (Sept-Dec)

- SURPAS 09. GIRONA. Experimental Art Festival. Artistic residency. (Sept)

- CRUX 09. ALMAGRO. Exhibition and live painting. (July)

- MADPOSTER 09. MADRID. Work exhibited in public wall + Espora Gallery. (March-April)

- C8ARTWINDOW. BARCELONA 08. "Audiovisión Lowtech". Performance + Istallation (Decem)

- MAPA 08. Site Specific Art Festival. Artistic residence and project development.(Sept)

- GALERIA OBERTA. BARCELONA 08. (Jun).

- SUBAQUATICA.MADRID 08. Group Exhibition. 5º Anniversary. (May-Jun).

- MURMURS 01. MENORCA 08. Group live painting and exhibition at LA FABRICA. (March).

- MISCELÄNEA. BARCELONA 08. “Sobre Todo Destrucción”. Exhibit with Albert Bertolín.(Jun)

- FEM 7. Festival International Edition Madrid about Art and Design. MADRID 07. (Oct).

- ROJO ART SPACE. BARCELONA 07. “Out of Here”. Solo Exhibition. (Oct-Nov).

- MC GALLERY. NEW YORK. 06 . “Hopescotch” Solo Exhibition. (May).

- URBIS ARTIUM GALLERY .SAN FRANCISCO. 05. “Golden” .Group exhibition. (May).

- LA SANTA GALLERY. BARCELONA 05. “ ®Motee Installation”. Group exhibition.(Sept-Oct)

- STAY GOLD GALLERY .NEW YORK. BROOKLYN.05 Group Exhibition. (May).

- STAY GOLD GALLERY .NEW YORK. . BROOKLYN. 05. Group Exhibition (Feb-March).

- FEM 4. Festival International Edition Madrid about Art and Design. MADRID 05. (Jan).

- XANON GALLERY. MADRID 04. “Sin tiempo”. (Video+installation+sketchbook).(Dec)

- IGUAPOP GALLERY .BARCELONA 04. “Yhasa.” Group Exhibition. (Feb-March).



SOME CREATIVITY PROJECTS:



- CURARTE project. MADRID 10. Gregorio Marañón Hospital + Curarte Foundation. (August)

- SPRITIVITY. BEIJING 09. Zenzone Media Arts Lab of China Culture Admin Society. (August)

- ®OUT . Urban Art Exhibition in Bilboards . BARCELONA 08. (Febraury-March)

- CREATIVITY WORKSHOP for the students of IED (Instituto Europeo di Design) BARCELONA.

“Before and After” December 07 , “Out of here” February 08

- Hand painted bags produced by PINZAT. BARCELONA. 07, 08

- CASADECOR 07. BARCELONA. Installation. Antigua Fábrica Fabra i Coats. (Nov- Dec)

- TOY2R. Group exhibition. HONG KONG 2006. (www.toy2r.com)

- TOY2R 10th Anniversary World Wide Tour . Group exhibition with shows at:

ROMA at Luisa Via Roma. (Jan 2006), HONG KONG at Lane Crawford Pacific Place.(Dec 2005) ,NYC at The Weiss NYC. (Nov 2005) and BARCELONA at T CONTI 24 kts (Jul 05)



- Invited arist by VITRA DESIGN MUSEUM and the Ecole National Supérieure d´Art Limoges in Domaine de Boisbuchet. FRANCE 05.

Developement of a “Porcelain Workshop” in collaboration with Jaime Hayon.

- Art work for BBB Festival. BARCELONA 05.

- Invited artist in the three editions of ARTSTORM project .Organized by Quartermaster. (Italy)

V 3.0 - BARCELONA 04. (April) Location: Fundación Palo Alto

V 2.0 - BERLÍN 04. (Jan) Location: Bread and Butter. (Siemens Cabelwerk)

V 1.0 - FLORENCIA 03. (Nov) Location: Art Polimoda (Villa Strozzi)





- HEADS OR TAILS. Artist book edited by ROJO EDITIONS Barcelona 2006.





PRESS:



WAD Magazine. (France 05) ; FLUID. (Poland 06) ; "El Pais” .EP3. (Madrid, August 06);

LA MONO Magazine. (Barcelona 07); BCN URB 4. Magazine published by Actar and L´Ajuntament de Barcelona. 08, “La Vanguardia” (Barcelona, August 08).

ADN.es (Barcelona August 08) . “El Mundo” (Barcelona, May 08). El Pais.com. Babelia (Jun 08).

http://www.sakristan.com