Claudia Pagès Rabal is a visual artist, performer, and writer based in Barcelona. In her practice, Pagès Rabal intertwines words, bodies, music, and movement, producing visual and linguistic devices such as video installations, works on paper, and books, where points of interest converge drawing from linguistics, psychoanalysis, and decolonial studies. Her work has been exhibited at institutions such as mumok, Vienna (2025); Index, Stockholm (2025); Chisenhale, London (2025); IVAM, Valencia (2024); Sculpture Center, New York (2024); CA2M, Madrid (2023); Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2023); Tabakalera, Donostia (2022); Vleeshal, Middelburg (2022); MACBA, Barcelona (2022); Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig (2021); Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates (2018). She participated in the 18th Istanbul Biennial (2025) and Manifesta 15, Barcelona (2024). Her first novel, Més de dues aigües, was published in Catalan by Empúries Narrativa in 2024.
Elise Lammer (b. Lausanne, Switzerland) is the director of Halle Nord, in Geneva. Her practice focuses on the role of space, both public and domestic, in the construction and expression of identity. Transdisciplinary in nature, her work adopts a transgenerational and intersectional approach to question and re-evaluate narratives that have suffered from monolithic and unilateral integration into history, while examining these issues from a contemporary perspective. As an author, researcher, and curator, she has contributed to numerous international projects, such as at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum (Lisbon); mumok – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (Vienna); MACRO (Rome); Schinkel Pavilion (Berlin); Swiss Cultural Centre (Paris); MAMCO (Geneva); Kunsthaus Glarus (Glarus); Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts (Lausanne); Swiss Institute in Rome (Rome), among others.
As a public institution dedicated to the international promotion of the Catalan language and culture, the Institut Ramon Llull produces and organises the participation of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands in the Collateral Events of the International Art and Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. It has been present at the Biennale Arte since 2009 and at the Biennale Architettura since 2012. The projects presented by the Institut Ramon Llull at the Biennale Arte and Architettura are selected by a committee of experts that changes every year. For more information about this year's process and jury, click here.
