Bianca Batlle-Nguema (b. 1980, Spain) is a painter of Catalan and Equatoguinean heritage.
One of the pioneering contemporary Spanish visual artists of African descent, her work has
been presented internationally for the past two decades, in the United States, South Africa,
and across Europe. In 2023, she received the prestigious International Minority Artists First
Prize, awarded by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
(OHCHR).
Her work emerges from an intimate search for identity and belonging. Her practice focuses
on the representation of Afro-descendant women and the body as a space of memory,
presence and emotional truth. Through painting, Batlle-Nguema transforms this search into
image. Her pieces help her see herself, contemplate the shapes of her body, become aware
of the colour of her skin, and deeply feel where her soul comes from. With every brushstroke,
she honours her predecessors, their struggle and their extraordinary strength, contributing,
in her own way, to a process of symbolic healing.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Bodies Vibes – Bianca Nguema, Casa la Punxa, - Tiana, Barcelona
2023 Non objectication- Nickie Robinson NY, Online exhibition
2022 Her Soul Up Close, In Colour' - Dancing in la Mirada Feminina -Madlozy Art Gallery, Artsy.
2021 Sobre Speaking Bodies - Espai Cultural Junts, Tiana, Barcelona.
2021 Investesc Cape town Art fair- Madlozy Art Gallery, Cape town.
2021 Speaking bodies – Madlozy Art Gallery, Artsy.
2020 Speaking Bodies - Nickie Robinson NY, Online exhibition.
2018 Espacio a las Ancestras (=Space to Ancestresses) - BlackBarcelona Festival - MACBA · Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona
2018 Mirades cap a Àfrica (=Glances towards Africa) - Can Manyé - Alella, Barcelona
2017 Mirades cap a Àfrica - Taller Tiana gallery - Tiana, Barcelona
2016 Open House - Taller Tiana gallery - Tiana, Barcelona
2013 N’Bolas (=Stark-Naked) - Mongat library - Montgat, Barcelona
2012 N’Bolas – Casa la Punxa, - Tiana, Barcelona
2012 N’Bolas - Cirera Espai d'Art gallery - El Born, Barcelona
2012 N’Bolas - El Mirall restaurant - Manresa, Barcelona
2010 El amor locura (=Crazy Healing Love) - Cirera Espai d'Art gallery - El Born, Barcelona
2002 Untitled - DaVinci Art School - Barcelona
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Arts, Minorities and Human Rights. Ecolint, Centre des Arts, Geneve, Swiss.
2023 Minority artists working on Intersectionally Themes, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Swiss
2023 Black Barcelona, Periferias Cimarronas, Barcelona.
2023 Inbody her, Madlozy Art Gallery, Latituds, South Africa. Online.
2023 The universe is Black, Novartis Art Gallery, New Jersey, United States.
2023 Inbody her, Madlozy Art Gallery, Muholi Art Institute and Aspire Art, Cape Town. South Africa.
2022 SALON AFRICA, District Six Museum Beneft Auction, Madlozy Art Gallery. Artsy.
2022 #FRESHPAINT – In Studio & ON the Easel with Contemporary Visual Astists Across the Diaspora- Madlozy Art Gallery. Artsy
2022 SALON AFRICA' - Contemporary Painting Heads West to Celebrate Africa's Gold & Continental Coasts & Visual Cultures- Madlozy Art Gallery. Artsy
2022 Tiana per la pau.- Espai culturalJunts per Tiana., Barcelona.
2021 Investesc Cape town Art fair- Madlozy Art Gallery, Cape town.
2021 Obsidiana- Madlozy Art Gallery. Artsy
2021 Black Artist in a white world.- Online exhibition, Nickie Robinson, NY.
2020 Healing - Biennial of Women in Visual Arts (BMAV20) - Rara Residencia Espacio de Arte gallery - Málaga, Spain
2020 Healing - With María Bueno & Julia Cabrera - MAV - Online exhibition
2019 Art Garden Market - Tiana, Barcelona
2019 L’Alegria (=The Joy) - Casal de Tiana gallery - Tiana, Barcelona
2018 Black Sheroes Month - Ugly Duck - London, UK
2018 Artbox Project - New York, NY, USA
2018 Art Garden Market - Barcelona
2017 Art Garden Market - Barcelona
2016 Casa de la Punxa (='Punxa' House) CATERVA Group - Barcelona
2015 Casa de la Punxa - CATERVA Group - Barcelona
2002-2005 Several group exhibitions - DaVinci School of Art - Barcelona
Prix et résidences.
First prize in the 2023 International Art Competition: Celebrating Artists from Minority Backgrounds, organised by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Freemuse and Minority Rights Group International (MRG).
2023 Artist in residency at Muholi Art Institute.
