Juan Baraja and Ellen Kooi
STAND 1A05
IFEMA – Pavilion 1
From October 17 to 20, 2019 – Madrid
The ESTAMPA fair, which this year is once again organized in collaboration with IFEMA at Feria de Madrid, remains faithful to its mission of creating, fostering and disseminating the art market in our country, giving priority to Spanish and Portuguese collectors and gallery owners, in order to spread and promote it to collectors and professionals outside our borders through its international guest programs. As usual, both the General Program of galleries and the curated programs will be advised by a committee made up of private collectors, purchasing managers and curators of contemporary art collections in our country.
Juan Baraja (Toledo, 1984) has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. He has developed his entire artistic career in the field of photography, standing out among the latest generation of Spanish photographers, the same who have expanded photographic horizons by adding images in series linked to concepts, ideas or a story. His work has been exhibited in private galleries throughout the national territory, and also in institutions. His solo exhibitions include “Águas Livres” (Espacio Líquido, Gijón), “Catedrales” (Utopía Parkway) or “Archiitekturen” (Ufferstudios, Berlin). Among his group exhibitions, “El viaje a Roma” (Centro Niemeyer, Avilés) “Miró. Origen Revelat” (Casal Solleric and Fundación Pilar y Joan Miró, Palma de Mallorca), “Aus der Tiefe” (Sonia Recio Gallery, Switzerland), “Drink Me” (DA2, Salamanca) or “Contexto crítico. Fotografía española del siglo XXI” (Tabacalera, Madrid). He has participated in various competitions and biennials, winning awards in many of them, such as the XXV Certamen de Artes Plásticas de la UNED, the XVI edition of the Premio Arte Joven de la UCM; the PHOTO ART PRIZE FLORENCE-SHANGHAI; the Certamen de Jóvenes Creadores de la Comunidad de Madrid, the Certamen de Castilla-La Mancha or the Premio Ciudad de Alcalá de Fotografía, among others. In 2017 he was selected for the Fellowship of the Royal Spanish Academy in Rome. His work is present in collections such as the Fundación María Cristina Masaveu, Fundación DKV, Fundación Cerezales, Artphilen Foundation, Colección de Arte Contemporáneo de la UNED, La Colección de Fotolibros Españoles del MNCARS, La Academia de España en Roma and or the Museo de Pollença.
Ellen Kooi (Leeuwarden, Holland, 1962) is one of the most renowned Dutch photographers on the international scene. Academically trained in her native Holland, in the last decade Kooi has built up a brilliant curriculum with exhibitions. In recent years she has hung her work in Paris, New York, Brussels, Madrid and San Francisco, where her work has won the recognition of the public, collectors, critics and curators, and can be found in public collections such as: MUSAC. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, La Roche-sur-Yon Museum Collection, France;CBK Den Bosch, the Netherlands;Colección Norte, Gobierno de Cantabria, Spain;Collection Hermès, Luxembourg;Colección Olor Visual, Barcelona, Spain;ING Collection, the Netherlands;Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, the Netherlands;FNAC Collection, (French State Collection) Paris, France;Marsh collection, London, Great Britain;C.B.K. Groningen (centre of contemporary art), the Netherlands among others, as well as in private collections around the world.