Biography

Oliver Roura (1978, Barcelona, Spain) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He graduated in Applied Arts from the Escola Massana in Barcelona in 2008. His work has been exhibited in the following galleries: Meyer Riegger Berlin, Galerie Isa Mumbai, Knispu Galerie Bergen and Gadewe Galerie Bremen among others. Roura’s work can be found in public and private collections such as: Soho House Mumbai, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k) Berlin, Hotel de Crillon Paris, Cambra de la Propietat Urbana de Barcelona and Pinnae Foundation Barcelona. Recently in 2022 he received a production grant from NeuStartKultur in Germany and was awarded an Accésit of the Enate Painting Scholarship.
Oliver Roura’s work navigates between abstract painting and photography. His works are energized by constant technical experimentation, inspired by physical processes that occur in nature, such as the refraction of light. Roura works painting from the inside, composes symphonies of traces, allegorizing paths in which a vital experience is sedimented. Roura explores the qualities of painting beyond its classical conventions, creating a language of his own, in which the pictorial matter becomes the central axis of his work.

About the Process

Roura’s work is characterized by his peculiar way of creating his paintings. He paints on glass in such a way that the first layer of paint that he paints is the one that the viewer sees. He continues to add hundreds of layers of transparent paint and builds up the image until he finds the result he wants – those traces, those strokes, those paths. It is then that a process of closing the frame from behind begins, leaving it completely flat. Once he has closed the paint, he rips off all that skin, all that acrylic paint film and adheres it onto the aluminum dibond.”

Links

THE MONSOON SHOW - GALERIE ISA - MUMBAI
MEYER RIEGGER GALLERY, Berlin
UNTERWEGS - MADRID
UNTERWEGS - CATALOG