Martí Madaula Esquirol

Martí Madaula Esquirol (Sabadell, 1996) holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, a Master of Visual Arts from the LUCA School of Arts of Ghent (Belgium) and a MFA in Film, Video, New Media, and Animation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2019, he received the Extraordinary Prize of Fine Arts (University of Barcelona). In 2021, he was awarded a prestigious “la Caixa” Foundation fellowship to pursue his studies in the United States. 

His first film, “The Living Wardrobe,” had its World Premiere at Visions du Réel 2024, one of the most important documentary and non-fiction film festivals in the world. He has shown his work in solo exhibitions such as “L’Armari Vivent” (Prats Nogueras Blanchard, 2024), “Tough, Reliable and Almost Cuddly” (SITE 280 Gallery in Chicago, 2023), “To Recover the Bedsheets from Manchester” (Museum of Sabadell, 2021) or “Stronger than Air, Thinner than Ice” (Astronomical Observatory of UGent, 2019), among others. He has also taken part in several group shows.