About – Marta Lapeña

Marta Lapeña es artista plástica y muralista.
Vive y trabaja en Madrid.

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After she finished her degree in Interior Design by the Politecnica University (Madrid), she decided to devote herself to painting and the research and knowledge of different techniques, focusing at a later time on the conception and development of artistic projects.

She has attended several courses and taken part in relevant experiences which have led her to participate in different galleries, art fairs, cultural centres and urban art festivals, as part of her career path.

Her work lies between painting and muralism, sometimes materialised into specific projects and other times more experimental proposals. Her art is naturally influenced by daily life experiences, people she has met, behaviours that she has witnessed and social issues which concern her.

Ultimately, through her art she searches for equality at all levels: social, cultural and natural. She addresses topics such as depopulation in rural areas, inequality and violence; any sort of violence but especially gender-based violence. The social component is the absolute central theme of her work.

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Tras graduarse en Arquitectura de Interiores por la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Marta Lapeña decide por vocación entregarse a la pintura y a la investigación de diferentes técnicas, centrándose más adelante en la concepción y desarrollo de proyectos artísticos, sociales y personales.

Su obra se sitúa entre la pintura y el muralismo, a veces materializada en proyectos específicos y otras en propuestas más experimentales. Su trabajo está innatamente influenciado por experiencias de la vida cotidiana, personas que ha conocido, el entorno que le rodea y los temas sociales que le preocupan.

Las obras de Marta Lapeña (Soria, 1993) recrean escenas cotidianas que sugieren calma y sosiego, en contraposición con un mundo actual lleno de sobreinformación y estímulos visuales. Distracciones que influyen tanto a la hora de observar y sentir como de crear con calma desde la parte más instintiva y natural del ser humano. Este es el punto de partida de la artista: su instinto. Con él muta los niveles de realidad a los que estamos constantemente sometidos y convierte la pintura en una vía de escape y en un medio para evocar su propia realidad.

Encontrar la belleza en lo que nos rodea y definir el momento simplemente con objetos a través de la pintura son las dos grandes obsesiones de Marta Lapeña. Sus composiciones, generadas a partir de elementos que ella misma encuentra, recoge y fotografía, reúnen ciertas características que las hacen únicas: el momento (la luz), el lugar (el espacio) y sus patrones estéticos (la visión), tres constantes en su proceso creativo. Tanto la técnica como la composición nunca dejan de ser una preocupación en sus obras, en una búsqueda constante de la armonía, donde combina además dos mundos diferentes bajo un mismo proceso: el lienzo y el muro; la calle y el estudio. De ahí su inclinación por el gran formato y por la síntesis del color, clara influencia de su formación como arquitecta de interiores, reflejada en las composiciones e integración en el entorno. “Alejando estas composiciones de los patrones clásicos o establecidos y dejándome llevar por la estética que funciona ante mis ojos, todo es reemplazable. Nada es fijo ni predecible”.

EXPERIENCE

URBAN ART

SELPIA CONTEMPORÁNEA
Artistic residency in
Navas del selpillar, Córdoba.
September 2023

FESTIVAL MARCO
Participatory Culture Festival
Organized by Asociación “la fresnedilla”.
Obejo, Córdoba
2023

FAZUNCHAR
Urban art festival managed by Mistakermaker
Figueiró dos Vinhos, Portugal
2023

MOOD INDIGO
Urban Art Festival
IIT BOMBAY
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Mumbai, India.
December 2022

QUAI_36
Artistic performance in the former auction room of the Maison Drouot in Paris
Paris, France.
November 2022

23700
LINARES URBAN ART Festival
Organized by Rampa.Pro.
Linares, Jaén.
October 2022

QUAI_36
Urban Week 2022
Mural intervention
Paris, France.
September 2022

B-MURALS
Urban art festival “OSONA ART I MUR”.
San Julián de Vilatorta
Barcelona
2022

ACE Cultural Action Spain
“Xacobeo” Project. A route through the territories of our imaginary
Mural in Jaca, Huesca
2022

GULIA URBANA
YLBERI” PROJECT
Urban art festival in Santa Sofia d’epiro, Italy.
July 2022

SEISDEDOCE
Mural intervention in the
Open air museum of Los Realejos, Tenerife.
July 2022

MURO CRÍTICO
Urban Art Festival in the Rural Environment.
Villar del Pedroso, Cáceres.
May 2022

MURAL TRIBUTE TO ANNA VEIGA
Dones de ciència’ (Women of science)
Dones de ciència’, a project promoted by the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) and the innovation center ‘Las Naves’.
2021

T.R.U.ST.
Curated by
GULIA URBANA
Urban art festival in Taranto, Italy.
“Musealità a cielo aperto”.
September 2021

SCARPIA 2021
Contemporary art festival
El Carpio, Córdoba.

INVASION ART FESTIVAL
Urban art festival managed by Misterpiro
Plasencia.
2021

ALFAMÉN
-ASALTO Organization-
Urban art festival.
Alfamén, Zargoza.
2021.

WOOL | Covilhã Urban Art
Urban art Festival
Covilhã | Portugal
2021

REXENERAFEST
International Public Art Festival – Carballo, Galicia.
2021

PARETS
Platform of artistic interventions
Valencia.
2021

ASALTO 2020
International urban art festival, Zaragoza.

ASTARTÉ
Urban art festival in Iniesta, Cuenca, Spain.
2021

VILLANUEVA DE SAN JUAN.
Urban art festival
Seville
2021

ART FOR EQUALITY
Urban art intervention in
Vega de Espinareda, León.
2021

MSAP
Madrid Street Art Project.
Urban art festival for gender equality.
Alcobendas, Madrid.
2021

MUNICIPAL TRINQUET “ELS XOCATS”.
-Mural in tribute to the beginnings and tradition of Valencian Pilota.
MOIXENT, Valencia.
2021

PARQUE 8 de MARZO
– Mural project in memory of working women in rural areas.
MALLÉN, ARAGÓN
2020

CAMPROVINARTE
Street Art
-Urban art festival in Camprovín, La Rioja, Spain.
2020

RIVAS VACIAMADRID CITY COUNCIL /RIVASALDIA/ and MADRID STREET ART PROJECT
– Street Culture Festival.
2020

CONTORNO URBANO FOUNDATION
– 12+1 Project of Sant Vicenç dels Horts, Barcelona.
2020

UTRILLAS CITY COUNCIL
-FOLKLOREVIVO FESTIVAL
Las Parras De Martín, Aragón.
2020

LAGUNA RODRIGO CITY COUNCIL
-Project in memory of the worker in a rural environment.
Laguna Rodrigo, Segovia.
2020

ALMAJANO CITY COUNCIL, SORIA
-Mural project in memory of working women in a rural environment.
2020

COLEXCTIVO TOMATE, MEXICO
– Mural City Project, San Nicolás de los Garza, Monterrey, Mexico.
2019

“MADRID IGUALDAD”, MADRID CITY HALL.
– Project in tribute to the victims of male violence, designed by artist Lola Vendetta, La Latina, Madrid.
2019

NARROS CITY HALL, SORIA
– Mural project in memory of working women in rural areas.
2019

IMAGINA MADRID FOUNDATION, MADRID CITY COUNCIL.
– Collective Mural Project, a project that generates union and connection in a neighborhood in conflict.

– FESTIVAL AMAZÓNICO
against the logging of the Amazon and its consequent extortion of tribes and villages, Campo de la Cebada, La Latina, Madrid.
2017

MADRID STREET ART PROJECT
– Festival “C.A.L.L.E.”. Lavapiés neighborhood, Madrid.
2018

HYBRID
– Group exhibition “Latidos Street Art Gallery” in Tabacalera. Madrid.
– Mural intervention in creative space “LANAU”. Madrid.

NAGARE ART PROJECTS
-Festival “Cultura Inquieta”. Factoría de Mentes Inquietas Getafe, Madrid.
2018

MAD COOL + LATIDOS STREET ART GALLERY
-Mural intervention in the plastic arts section, Mad Cool, Madrid.
2018

SOCIAL ART GALLERY
Managed by Iris Serrano
– Festival “ROTOTOM Sunsplash” Benicassim, Castellón.
2018

TOWN HALL OF TRÉVAGO, SORIA.
– Mural project about women
2020

CIVIC CENTER, CITY COUNCIL OF NARROS, SORIA.
– Mural project on rural women

CITY COUNCIL OF ALMARAIL, SORIA.
– Mural project about rural women.
2020

ONDA,Valencia.
– Mural project about heritage and ceramic tradition.
2022

EXHIBITIONS

KIRK Gallery
Collective exhibition
Aalborg, Denmark
2023

Group show
KIRK Gallery
Aalborg, Denmark
2023/2024

“THE EVERYDAY”
Solo exhibition
WeCollect” Gallery
Madrid
July-August 2022

“WILDERNESS III”
Brooklyn, New York
Antler Gallery
2022

CULTURAL CENTER “San Clemente”.
-Collective Exhibition
Toledo 2023

“ANONYMOUS”
-Group exhibition
Organized by : RAMPA.PRO
Jaén 2022

PARETS FŌRUM.
-Group exhibition in “local amarillo”, Valencia.
2021

URBANSHIT GALLERY
– Group exhibition “Femmes Vandales”.
Hamburg, Germany.

CEART Tomás y Valiente Art Center.
– Group exhibition. Madrid, Spain.

HYBRID ART FAIR
– Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid.

MATADERO CULTURAL CENTER
– Group exhibition “Miradas Emergentes”, Madrid.

DEARTE
– Group exhibition. Contemporary Art Fair. Neptuno Palace, Madrid.

LA CASA ENCENDIDA
– Mutant Books” with Mah Studio. Madrid.

WHITE LAB Art Gallery
– Group exhibition with Marco Prieto. Madrid.
– Group exhibition in “Art Battalion Fest”. Madrid.

MENTORING

-FLIPAS – LABORATORY OF URBAN CULTURES 2021
Large format painting workshop at Casa de San Cristóbal, Madrid
With: Goethe-Institut Madrid,Fundación Montemadrid, Alliance Française de Madrid

-FRESCO.ART
Madrid 2022
Observing the everyday: Relationship between the object and its representation.
Large format still life workshop.

-UVEDOBLRE:ART
Barcelona, 2022
Large format and muralism workshop for creatives.

-UNIVERSITY OF FINE ARTS, Complutense University of Madrid.
Madrid 2022
Talk to students about creative processes applied to working life.

SCHOLARSHIPS

WE COLLECT Studios + Residency
Scholarship for the development and production of an artistic and personal project.
Carabanchel, Madrid 2022

INTERIORISM

ESTUDIORIORECIENTE Hotel in Plaza de Cervantes, Alcalá de Henares, /Madrid/

GOETHE-Institut, German Institute, Madrid/.

ASTOUNDING INERIORIORS /London/

CITYWAVE /Madrid/

CALUANA Plaza de Jacinto Benavente, /Madrid/

CAFÉ LION /Madrid/