Pere Llobera

Born in: 1970
From: Barcelona, Spain
Lives and works: Barcelona, Spain
Represented by: Bombon Projects

UN goals

I love impossible things, and I hate people who say that it cannot be done.

Biography

In spite of the formal precision of his painting, the conceptual weight of Pere Llobera’s work has always been one of the chief traits of his painting. A meta-referential analysis of his craft focused as much on the dysfunctionality of the pictorial activity as on its power to liberate. A useless and euphoric power – conveying everything that exists onto canvas is wonderful, but it is of no use – that turns the painter into a survivor who cannot help himself and must go on painting.

Career highlights

Solo shows

2020, La Capella, Barcelona, Spain: Faula Rodona
2019, Musuem Voorlinden, Amsterdam, Netherlands: Pere Llobera
2018, MNAC, Barcelona, Spain: Supuració etílica de la pedra
2018, Bombon Projects, Barcelona, Spain: Acció
2009, Museum Tongerlohuys, Roosendaal, Netherlands: Hey Hey, My My

Group shows

2019, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Fernando Centeno. Genalguacil, Málaga, Spain: Entre cortina y montaña
2017, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain: Autogestió
2014, Fabra I Coats Contemporary Art Center, Barcelona, Spain: I. Chronicle: Narrative, History and Subjectivity
2010, Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, Netherlands: What’s Up? De jongste schilderkunst in Nederland

Collections

Netherlands: ABN AMRO Art Collection
The Netherlands: ING Collection
Valencia, Spain: La Caixa

Media

Amsterdam, Netherlands: Akzo Nobel Art Foundation
2022, El País: Los nuevos territorios de la pintura toman la Fundación Miró
2018, Frieze Magazine: From Antic Assemblages to Cartoonish Canvases, Pere Llobera’s Stylistic Gambles

Selected artworks

Pere Llobera Blown up cake, 2018 Bombon Projects €2,200
Pere Llobera Joves caient (young people falling), 2019 Bombon Projects €4,200
Pere Llobera Self-harmed Superman, 2022 Bombon Projects €2,500
Pere Llobera Untitled, 2022 Bombon Projects €3,700
Pere Llobera Untitled, 2022 Bombon Projects €1,800
Pere Llobera Untitled, 2022 Bombon Projects €6,500