Rebeka Elizegi is a visual artist and graphic designer graduated from the Massana School of Art and Design from Barcelona.
Collage is the artistic medium that she uses to develop her small, medium and large format pieces, always applying the classic manual collage technique based on the exploration of various materials.
The female figure occupies an important place in her work, although she also focuses on issues such as gender diversity and other issues of a social nature. The images of bodies are also a constant in his work; the body understood as a space that oppresses, that marks and stigmatizes by color, age or gender, that is so often a reason for submission, and that she tries to liberate through his compositions.
Parallel to the exhibitions, which have a more artistic and personal nature, her collages have also illustrated book and magazine covers, as well as records and posters, and have formed part of decoration projects. She has published several illustrated books using the collage technique and is the author of the books collage therapy and Collage signed by Women (Promopress Editions) and creative collage (Editorial Soul).
She has worked for clients like Alma – Obra Social de La Caixa, San Telmo Museum, Gran Meliá Hotels, Mut Project, Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, km kulturunea, Joven Dolores either jah chango and in the press she has collaborated with the newspapers The Vanguard , Der Spiegel and Le Monde Diplomatique.
Her work has been exhibited in Barcelona, Madrid, Donostia, Los Angeles, Warsaw either Berlin, and herwork has been shown in numerous specialist art and collage publications.
She is a member of the associations of visual artists MAV, BNM and VEGAP. In 2022 he received the award "Outstanding Member of the Year" Hand in hand with the National Association of Women Artists White, Black and Magenta .
PUBLISHED BOOKS:
- Creative collage. (Alma Editorial, 2021). Author of the text and illustrations.
- BEATNIK. A tribute to the poets of the beat generation (Fiasko Books 2020). Author of the book.
- Collage signed by Mujeres / Collage by Women (Promopress 2019 – Spanish and English). Author and curator of the book.
- Collage Terapia / Collage therapy / La thérapie du collage (Promopress 2017 – Spanish, French, English and Italian). Author of the text and illustrations.
- i minuscule (Balivernes Editions 2013 – French). Author of the illustrations.
- A spare flower for mom / A flower of recanvi per a la mare (Takatuka 2011 – Spanish and Catalan) / Ordezko lore bat amarentzat (Denonartean 2011 – Basque). Author of the text and illustrations.
WORK IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:
- RETROAVANGARDA GALLERY (Warsaw)
- DOUG + LAURIE KANYER ART COLLECTION (USA)
- MARIO VAQUERIZO (Spain)
- PABLO SYCET (Spain)
- COUPEE COLLAGE COLLECTIVE (Belgium)
SELECTION AND AWARDS:
- BNM: "Outstanding Partner of the Year" Award from the National Association of White, Black and Magenta Women Artists 2022
- VEGAP. Scholarship “HELP FOR CREATION – #SOSARTECULTURA 2021”, from the VEGAP Welfare and Cultural Fund. 2021
- DFERIA: Winning poster for the XXVII edition of the dFERIA Performing Arts Festival, Donostia / San Sebastian, Spain 2021
- BEATNIK: Series selected in the 13th Edition of the MULIER MULIERIS Visual Arts call, MUA Museum, Spain 2020
- COVID EXIT: Selected work for the international exhibition #CovidExit, organized by #MadridGráfica, Spain 2020
- MIX: Series selected in the 1st Edition of the call for Visual Arts PLURI-IDENTITATS, MUA Museum, Spain 2019
- INSOMNE: Work selected by Linus Art Gallery for the collective exhibition, «The Opposite Sex» Los Angeles, USA 2015
PRESS COLLABORATIONS:
- Le Monde Diplomatique
- The vanguard
- Der Spiegel
- Kolaj Magazine
- Visual
- Allbright Magazine
INDIVIDUAL EXPOSITIONS:
- Sala Ajuntament Vell – Formentera – Solo exhibition – Women at War – March 2022
- Arteuparte Gallery – Donostia – Individual exhibition – BEATNIK – December 2020
- La Isla Gallery – Madrid – Individual exhibition – March 2017
- Arteuparte Gallery – Donostia – Individual exhibition – March 2017
- El Imparcial – Madrid – Individual exhibition – February 2017
- Arteuparte Gallery – Donostia – Individual exhibition – June 2016
- La Fiera – Madrid – Exhibition and sale of large format pieces – 2011-12
- Consented – Madrid – Large format mural exhibition – 2011-12
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS:
- Géneris – Project selected for the Pluri-Identitats Visual Arts Biennial 2021. March 2021
- Charles Bukowski – «XIV edition of the Pepe Sales Independent Art Festival 2021» Girona – February 2021
- Prostitution – Collective exhibition organized by BNM – UNED Virtual Headquarters – February 2021
- Covid Exit: Exhibition organized by #MadridGráfica20 and Di Madrid
- Women Watching Women – Online – The Resilient – Collective exhibition organized by MMM – June 2020
- One Click Art – Online – Covid19 versus Coovid20 – Collective exhibition organized by BNM – April 2020
- Retroavangarda Gallery – Warsaw _ Poland – III International Collage Exhibition- April 2020
- MUA (Museum of the University of Alicante) – Mulier Mulieris – “Beatnik”, project selected for the Mulier-Mulieris 2020 Visual Arts Biennial. March 2020
- Museo de las Mujeres Costa Rica – Costa Rica – Imprisoned Women – Collective exhibition organized by BNM – February 2020
- Casa de Cultura Mieres – Mieres, Asturias – One in three – Collective exhibition organized by BNM – November 2019
- Center d'art Museum – Espace Monet-Rollinat – Fresselines – France – Journée internationales du Collage – Collective exhibition – October 2019
- Irudigileak-Illustrating Women – Donostia – Participation in the Olatu Talka festival – June 2019
- Toledo Rocket – Toledo – Urban Art Festival – May 2019
- Masham Gallery – North Yorkshire – UK – Cut & Paste – Collective exhibition – April 2019
- MUA (Museum of the University of Alicante) – Pluri-Identitats – «Remix», project selected for the Pluri-Identitats Visual Arts Biennial 2019. March 2019
- Hybrid Contemporary Art Fair 2019 – Madrid – Participation in the fair with the presentation of the “Beatnik” series by Arteuparte Gallery. March 2019
- UAM – Exhibition hall of the Autonomous University of Madrid – One in three – Collective exhibition – November 2018
- Florencio de la Fuente Museum – Cuenca – Women and the social fabric – Collective exhibition organized by BNM – September 2018
- Las cosas de Martínez Gallery – Barcelona – Puro Collage – Collective exhibition organized by the Societat Barcelona de Collage – May 2018
- Rizoma Gallery – Madrid – Art in emergency – Collective exhibition – March 2018
- Espai Cavallers Gallery – Lérida – Dones d'art – Collective exhibition – March 2018
- CC Julio Cortazar – Madrid – He does it because he loves you – Collective exhibition – March 2018
- Lecrác – Palencia – Imprisoned – Collective exhibition organized by BNM – October 2017
- CEART Fuenlabrada – Collective exhibition – September 2017
- Espai Cavallers Gallery – Lérida – Collective exhibition – July 2017
- Tigumigu Gallery – Terassa – Collective exhibition – May 2017
- Casa de la Mujer – Zaragoza- Death to great stories – Collective exhibition – April 2017
- Espai [B] Gallery – Barcelona – Collective exhibition – July 2015
- Artevistas Gallery – Barcelona – Exhibition and sale of original work – 2015
- Mutuo art center – Barcelona – Exhibition and sale of numbered reproductions – 2015
- Linus Art Galleries – Los Angeles – Work selected as “Juried Exhibition Winner” for participation in the collective exhibition “The Opposite Sex” – 2015
- Espai [B] Gallery – Barcelona – Participation in collective exhibition – December 2014
- Pop-Up Art Gallery – Berlin – Participation in collective exhibition – September 2014
- Fieber Festival – Berlin – Participation in a collective exhibition of plastic artists within the framework of the Fieber Festival 2013, held at the ACUD art center
