UPCOMING: INVESTEC CAPE TOWN ART FAIR 2026
PUEBLO DE SAL | Gabriel Pinto

ART FAIR

19-22 February 2026

Pueblo de Sal a solo project by Gabriel Pinto

ICTAF, Investec Cape town Art Fair, South Africa
Curated program: 'TOMORROWS/TODAY'

UNIVERS-BLOC

Laia Garcia & Rita Sala Treig

ON VIEW DUO EXHIBITION
11.12.2025 - 05.02.2026

11. December 2025 - 05. February 2026
C/Monistrol 21, 08012 Barcelona

Presented Artists:
Laia Garcia & Rita Sala Treig

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Univers-bloc presents itself as a single unified entity shaped through the encounter between the two artists. In this joined field, Garcia and Sala open new circuits within their imaginaries with machines that mark the path, landscapes that shift and set traps, and figures that move through intuition.

Their paintings draw together memories and meanings, physical, emotional and symbolic, where color intensifies, textures come forward and the natural world approaches myth and new beginnings.

Developed through ongoing dialogue, the exhibition comes from a body of work conceived together for this occasion. It reflects a conversation that deepens through proximity and allows each artist’s search to extend while maintaining the clarity of their individual voices. This approach is rather intuitive than conceptual, where playfulness, exploration and discovery are the driving force.

Pedro BatistaMESA

SOLO EXHIBITION

16 October - 27 November 2025
C/Monistrol 21, 08012 Barcelona
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MESA, the table appears not as an object but as a symbolic territory. A place where time folds and settles, like dust, into layers of memory, gesture, and silence. These paintings were born from observing a gesture as ordinary as it is profound: sitting at a table. Being still. Listening. Thinking. Waiting. Speaking. Falling silent. (...)

By Invitation

Salón de Arte Moderno y Contemporaneo

ART FAIR

06 - 09 November 2025
Carrer de Balmes, 169 bis, Sarrià-Sant Gervasi,
08006 Barcelona, Spain

Presented Artists:
Miriam Dema & Rita Sala Treig

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We are pleased to announce our participation in By Invitation 2025, taking place at the Círculo Ecuestre, Barcelona.

For this edition, we bring a duo presentation by Miriam Dema Rita Sala, conceived as an exhibition specifically for the fair.

Installed in the salon-bar of the Círculo Ecuestre, the project brings together both artists in a shared exploration of matter as a living space, where time, gesture, and presence coexist. Rather than two distinct statements, the presentation develops as a dialogue that reflects on painting’s ability to hold memory, resonance, and encounter.

SWAB Barcelona Art Fair

Vortex | BETA Contemporary - Salón Comunal

ART FAIR

01 - 05 October 2025
Pabellón textil de la Fira de Montjuic, Av. de Rius i Taulet, 10, 08004, Barcelona

Presented Artists:
Carlos Herraiz & Bernardo Montoya

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This joint presentation, the result of an exchange between a gallery in Colombia and one in Barcelona, is conceived as a territory of dialogue where the practices of Carlos Herraiz and Bernardo Montoya converge in an exploration of matter and its expressive potential. The collaboration embodies a conversation between contexts, geographies, and ways of inhabiting time through materiality (...)

SWAB Barcelona Art Fair

General Program

ART FAIR

01 - 05 October 2025
Pabellón textil de la Fira de Montjuic, Av. de Rius i Taulet, 10, 08004, Barcelona

Presented Artists:
Pedro Batista, Laia García Adell, Fernando Loyola, Madison Rose Tyrell and Jan Vallverdú.

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BETA presents an ode to painting as a living, expanding, and continuously redefining language.

In a landscape that seems to be dominated by digital, installation, and performative practices, this project reaffirms painting's role as an active and growing medium.

Madison Tyrell
LOOKING FOR CLOVERS

SOLO EXHIBITION

09 September - 04 October 2025
C/Monistrol 21, 08012 Barcelona
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We are delighted to announce LOOKING FOR CLOVERS, the debut solo exhibition of Madison Tyrell at the gallery.

“The result of three years of searching, Tyrell’s Looking for Clovers transforms nature into spiritual terrain and painting into a devotional, sacred practice. Her work toes the line between the sinister and the pastoral: burning flowers, melting figures, and light-dappled forests populate her canvases. Nature becomes a force of reckoning, overtaking the remnants of the industrial world.”

Extract from the curatorial text by Isabella Fox Arias

Artist Residency // LENTA
CASA PARDAL x BETA

ARTIST RESIDENCY

Lenta is an Artist Residency, conceived by BETA Contemporary and Casa Pardal to provide artists with the freedom and conditions to engage deeply with their practice.

It calls for a deliberate step away from external demands, commercial pressures, and the relentless pace of production. More than time and place, Lenta offers a framework for reflection, experimentation, and renewed artistic clarity. The residency offers an environment where process is protected, urgency is suspended, and artistic work can unfold at its natural pace (...)

More Information coming soon..

BETA in Art Nou
14th Edition / 2025

ART FESTIVAL

Art Nou has officially begun, and we’re proud to be part of this year’s festival with Not yet, the latest solo exhibition by Jan Vallverdú, co-curated by Alex Belli.

Art Nou is a city-wide celebration of emerging creation, reactivating galleries as spaces for exchange, critical thinking, and collective experience. As part of the program, we’re hosting three events throughout July:

Guided tour with co-curator Alex Belli
July 3 | 19:00

Poetry event with Jan Vallverdú and Guim Valls
July 17 | 19:00

Finissage
July 31 | 19:00–22:00

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

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“... 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.”

Jan Vallverdú - NOT YET

Curatorial collaboration with Alex Belli

SOLO EXHIBITION

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

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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. “  