ARCO Lisboa 2025

PULSO

ART FAIR

29.May - 01 June 2025
Cordoaria Nacional, Av. da Índia 1300-598 Lisboa, Portugal

Presented Artists:
Lena Laguna Diel / Miriam Dema
Curated by Sofia Lanusse & Diogo Pinto

“... In ‘Pulso’, a joint presentation by Miriam Dema and Lena Laguna Diel, two distinct practices come into conversation through the language of tenderness. Dema paints from touch: not in the literal sense, but as a felt presence. Her works capture moments of intimacy suspended in memory—figures meeting through skin, through weight, through gestures offered without performance. Laguna Diel approaches from another side: her work traces what remains. She works with fragmentation, opacity, and distance. Her bodies are interrupted, split across surfaces, held in modules. They resist resolution, yet ask us to stay with them.”

On view: ‘NOT YET’

Jan Vallverdú | Curatorial collaboration with Alex Belli

CURRENT

22. May - 31. July 2025
C/Monistrol 21, 08012 Barcelona
Opening Hours:
Mo-Fri 17h-20h
Sat 12h-16h

We are pleased to invite you to the opening of ‘NOT YET’, the debut solo exhibition of Jan Vallverdú (Spain, 1995) at the gallery. This new body of work explores the tension between impulse and control, holding its intensity through the precision of gesture and a deep commitment to process. 

“His paintings press into a rhythm of restraint — not searching for image, but for weight, resistance, response. There is no final shape to chase here. The work unfolds through repetition, revision, and return. It sharpens. It hesitates. Each gesture moves closer to something unnamed, but felt. ‘NOT YET’ is a state — an insistence — not to finish too soon...”

Extract from the curatorial text by Alex Belli.

PHOTO LONDON Art Fair
‘Memoria viva’ BETA Contemporary & Sorondo Projects

FAIR AWARD

AWARD WINNER: Emerging Photographer Gabriel Pinto & Silvana Travale

We are thrilled to share that Gabriel Pinto and Silvana Trevale have been awarded the 2025 Nikon Emerging Photographer Award at Photo London, the fair’s most prominent prize celebrating outstanding new voices in photography.

“Presented jointly by BETA Contemporary and Sorondo Projects, their curated showcase, ‘Memoria viva’, brings together two visions of Venezuela: one that listens to life, the other that speaks with the dead...”

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Miriam Dema

la tendresa

EXHIBITION

08. April - 13. May 2025
C/Monistrol 21, 08012 Barcelona
Opening Hours:
Mo-Fri 17h-20h
Sat 12h-16h

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“Some gestures are born from the desire to approach, to offer, to melt into another. They carry their own weight, their warmth, and a tenderness that needs no words to be understood.

In 'la tendresa', Miriam Dema explores the language of touch as a space of closeness, care, and emotional memory. These works do not narrate; they invite: encounters shaped by soft pressure, shared breath, and the quiet pulse between bodies.

Built through fabric, line, and light, each composition arises from observation and recollection—moments felt more than seen. The result is not representation, but sensation. In the softness of gesture and the colors of night, tenderness takes form...”

Extract from the curatorial text by Juan Salazar.

Openhouse Magazine: The Art of Tenderness

Miriam Dema at BETA ContemporaryWritten and Photographed by Luna Schaffron

ARTICLE

“With la tendresa, the current solo exhibition by artist Miriam Dema, the gallery has once again embodied its mission: not only to present art, but to accompany and amplify it in every way possible.

One of the most distinctive aspects of BETA Contemporary is its commitment to transforming the gallery space for each exhibition. These aren’t just installations — they are immersive environments that frame and extend the artist’s work.”...

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Lena Laguna Diel

One of us still kicking

EXHIBITION

20. February - 27. March 2025
C/Monistrol 21, 08012 Barcelona
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BETA is pleased to announce ‘One of us still kicking’, a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Lena Laguna Diel.

“Some forces shape us in ways we can name. Others move through us unseen, emerging in gestures, in imprints, in the spaces between things. Lena Laguna Diel’s ‘One of us still kicking’ traces these invisible currents—the quiet transmissions of memory, the weight of presence and absence, the forms that hold what cannot be spoken...”

Extract from the curatorial text by Juan Salazar.

Interview for Notícies en Xarxa

María José Valdés & Fernando Loyola

NEWS

05. February 2025
C/Monistrol 21, 08012 Barcelona

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“Les galeries d'art són com petits museus a peu de carrer. Van canviant sovint d'obres i, a més, estan obertes al públic, sense necessitat de pagar entrada. La seva funció és donar a conèixer artistes menys reconeguts que els que s'acostumen a trobar als museus.

Ens hem fixat en una galeria molt jove, la #BETAContemporary, del barri de Gràcia de Barcelona, on aposten per artistes emergents i de diferents disciplines. Més històries com aquesta, cada tarda a les 18.30h al #Via15 a les teles locals i a @laxarxames”

Fernando Loyola

Trauma Café

EXHIBITION

09. January - 06. February 2025
C/Monistrol 21, 08012 Barcelona

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With ‘Trauma Café’, Fernando Loyola invites us into an evocative realm where abstraction meets narrative, and painting becomes a form of invocation. This new body of work, created specifically for his debut solo exhibition, reflects the intensity of Loyola’s process—one that oscillates between control and surrender.

Themes of trauma, discord, and unresolved emotion pervade Loyola’s paintings, yet they do not aim for catharsis. Instead, his works act as conduits, conjuring the intangible through layered marks and suggestive forms. The influence of Surrealism is palpable, not as a stylistic choice but as an outcome of Loyola’s engagement with automatism and chance.

Trauma Café is more than an exhibition of paintings; it is an experience that extends into the physical gallery space through site-specific interventions. In doing so, Loyola transforms the gallery into a meditative yet unsettling environment, echoing the dualities inherent in his work.

Juan Perdiguero Trillo

Cuando pienso dejo de sentir | Curated by Irene Sánchez

EXHIBITION

21. November - 19. December 2024
C/Monistrol 21, 08012 Barcelona

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BETA is pleased to present ‘Cuando pienso dejo de sentir’, Juan Perdiguero Trillo’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. ‘Cuando pienso dejo de sentir’ takes us into the tension between freedom and confinement, a quiet rebellion articulated through his hands and his medium. Here, painting isn’t bound to conventions or institutions, and its act is both instinctive and intentional.

Carlos Herraiz

NOMEOLVIDES | Curated by Vanessa Peña Alarcón

EXHIBITION

26. September to 07. November 2024
C/Monistrol 21, 08012 Barcelona
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NOMEOLVIDES' offers an introspective exploration of memory, where Carlos Herraiz challenges the boundaries between what we choose to remember and what we are willing to forget. Through a series of intricate works, Herraiz invites us to reflect on the fleeting nature of our memories and the subtle ways in which they fade over time.

SWAB Barcelona Art FairArt fair //‘24 Edition

ART FAIR

03.-06 October 2024
Pabellón textil de la Fira de Montjuic, Av. de Rius i Taulet, 10, 08004, Barcelona

Presented Artists:
Carlos Herraiz / Miriam Dema

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“...Carlos Herraiz and Miriam Dema each bring their unique artistic vision to the exhibition, touching upon themes deeply rooted in their home region. While Herraiz’s work explores the human connection both to the fast paced and exhilarating pace of city life, and to the beauty and tranquility of nature, Dema’s art delves into the intimacy of domesticity and family memories.”

Gabriel Pinto

EXHIBITION

El Diablo Anda Suelto | Berlin

09.-16 September 2025
Solaris Space | Urbanstraße 127, 10967 Berlin
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“The “Diablos Danzantes de Naiguatá” tradition is a Venezuelan cultural manifestation that has stood the test of time, transforming and adapting to contemporary realities. This ritual, loaded with symbolism and deeply rooted in the identity of the Naiguatá community, not only represents the eternal struggle of good against evil, but has also become a space for intergenerational cultural renewal. “  