4 February 2025 – 31 July 2025
Paula Blanco (Oviedo, 1996) is a visual artist based in Asturias. Her practice explores painting beyond traditional media, liberating it to become an autonomous entity.
Through experimentation with translucent materials and pigments, she creates light pieces that function as primal beings or fragments of the world.
Her work has been shown in recent exhibitions, including the solo show Urphänomen (Stain Projects, Palma de Mallorca, 2025) and Art-O-Rama (Marseille, 2025). She was selected for the Principality of Asturias Plastic Arts Exhibition (MAPPA) in 2022 and 2023, and completed an artist residency at Jumeirah Creekside (Dubai, 2022).
Project in residence
Goethe believed in the existence of a protoplant (Urpflanze) that would be the original plant, the model plant. Tireless in his research and studies, the poet created the field of morphology to, through the study of forms, find the unity that underlies the great variety of plants and animals. Paula Blanco shares this fascination with the search for unity among the forms of nature. To achieve it, she constantly researches materials and techniques, even developing her own by working with fiberglass and other materials to create veils of color, translucent sheets that, accompanied by the structures that the artist creates at the same time, generate ambiguous beings with characteristics of plants or insects. For Urpflanze, Paula will observe different types of plants, as well as their development, to subsequently create a series of large and medium format pieces that, through their shape, color and composition, pose different proposals of what could be that primordial plant. The project thus provides a solid focus from the plant life to the search for the original that the artist has been carrying out for years.
