2024

On May 9, 2024, the XXI Fine Arts Prize of the ‘Xam’ Rotary Club Palma Ramon Llull was awarded to Francesca Martí at the Casal Solleric Museum in Palma de Mallorca. In the presence of the Mayor of Palma Jaime Martínez, the prize was officially presented to the artist by head of the Chamber of Commerce and art patron Sebastián Escarrer. The prize […]

Articles published in Spanish in Ultima Hora, May 8, 10 and 11, 2024, and in German in Mallorca Magazin, Thursday May 9, 2024, talking about Marti’s new video installations in La Soledad, «Exploring neighbourhood change, social inclusion and feelings of belonging through the faces of the migrant community.»

Francesca Martí’s ongoing Copper series explores many different aspects of contemporary life, several of which are highlighted in May in Palma at her presentation in the industrial spaces at the new Art & Design District.  Standing at more than three metres tall, Martí’s monumental sculpture Venus in Copper (2022-2024) is like a guardian angel. Cast in aluminium, the artist has tightly bound this large-scale, copper-coloured female figure

Francesca Martí’s Quondam installation is featured as part of a studio presentation at the Art & Design District in La Soledad neighborhood Palma de Mallorca, a new cultural complex established by Johann Nowak from DNA Galerie in Berlin.Projected onto a large satellite dish retrieved from the roof of the building where it is now temporarily installed, Martí’s Quondam video

A series of recent works by Francesca Martí has been installed in the lobby of the Jumeirah Hotel & Spa, including her monumental Humilis sculpture standing guard in a shimmering, circular pool, overlooking the bay of the Port de Sóller. Focusing on aspects of human behavior, Martí’s sculptures are symbols of positive change, unity, action and progress.  As they stand,

Francesca Marti interviewing residents from La Soledad district in Palma de Mallorca for her Quondam video (filmed by Ricardo Blazquez) The new Quondam video by Francesca Martí looks at how our personal stories continue to evolve, but how they are always affected by what came before. Plotting change over time in the Soledad neighbourhood of Palma in Mallorca, the video focuses on different generations from

As part of the events celebrating 20 years of its activity, Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani in Palma is uploading a biography of its collection and the history of the different exhibitions it has held in the 21st Century. This includes the Echoes exhibition of video installations and paintings by Francesca Martí in 2008, which took place in the