BEA SARRIAS BIO

Bea Sarrias was born in Barcelona, a city where she has found the themes and places that mark the most important aspects of her artistic work: architecture and light.

Sarrias doesn’t paint buildings, but creates portraits of spaces. Her work is anthropological and it’s composed of research, photography and even video to document the past and present of buildings, subtly hinting at the presence, and sometimes the absence, of their inhabitants.

Her paintings, based on the most important works of renowned Spanish and international architects, especially from the Modern Movement, have received various accolades and, in particular, recognition for their outstanding use of light and shadow.

Some of the names of international architects: Mies van der Rohe, Richard Neutra, Pierre Koenig, Le Corbusier, Gio Ponti, Paul Rudolph, Charles & Ray Eames (designers).

Spanish architects: José Antonio Coderch, Josep Lluís Sert, Antonio Bonet Castellana, Fernando Higueras, Miguel Fisac, Ricardo Bofill.

“I’m interested in perspective, composition and, above all, light. For me architecture is a tool with which to paint light. Light shapes spaces and creates presence. With light I aim to capture the very soul of the spaces I paint.”

Her most recent projects include the large-scale portrait he painted live in 2019 at the NATO headquarters in Brussels and an action painting at the Eurojust headquarters in 2023 invited by the Spanish government to celebrate the Spanish Presidency in the European Union.

She has had several solo exhibitions and some action art in Barcelona, Madrid, New York, Brussels, Amsterdam, Turin, Malmö and Oslo.

Her work can be found in different collections such as the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, the Eileen Kaminsky Foundation, the Saffca Foundation and the Open Earth Foundation.