Carla Cascales Alimbau

Artist and sculptor from Barcelona

Carla Cascales Alimbau is a visual artist from Barcelona whose work brings together minimalism, natural materials, and elemental forms. She works in painting, sculpture, and installation, with the Mediterranean as a recurring thread in her creative language. Her handmade sculptures use wood, stone, metal, and other natural materials.

Career and gallery representation

Galería Senda in Barcelona represents the artist in Spain, and Tappan in Los Angeles represents her in the United States. Her work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions in New York, Barcelona, Madrid, London, Los Angeles, Berlin, Palma de Mallorca, Menorca, Kobe, Mexico City, and Seville, as well as at art fairs including ARCO Madrid in 2021 and 2022 and SWAB Art Fair in Barcelona in 2021.

Selected solo exhibitions

• Gaia, Armadillo, New York, 2025
• Como un Manantial, Galería Senda, Barcelona, 2024
• Pálpito y Flama, Aba Art Lab, Palma de Mallorca, 2022
• Le Temps, Galería Senda, Barcelona, 2020
• Tez Invernadero, The Sibarist, Madrid, 2020
• Closer than They Appear, WeCollect, London, 2019
• Étimo, WeCollect, Madrid, 2018

Museums, foundations, and collections

Her work has been shown at institutions including Fundació Mies van der Rohe in Barcelona (2025), Fundación Valentín Madariaga in Seville (2024), Matadero Madrid (2019), Disseny Hub in Barcelona (2018), and Club Matador in Madrid (2019). Her work is held in collections including Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson, MACBA (Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art), and the Josep María Civit Art Collection.

Residencies and awards

Her residencies include Fundación El Núcleo in Segovia (2025), Latera Art Farm in Viterbo, Italy (2024), Art Exchange Festival in Havana (2024), Boisbuchet in France (2023), Lugar Usual in Mexico City (2022), Almost Perfect in Tokyo (2019), Numeroventi in Florence (2018), and Varda in San Francisco (2017). She received the Eneas Acquisition Award with Saisho in Madrid in 2025 and the Best Emerging Artist award at Swab Barcelona in 2021, and was a finalist for the 2018 A-FAD Award.

Press coverage

Her work has appeared in publications including AD, Vogue, SModa, El País, Leibal, Ignant, Harper's Bazaar, La Vanguardia, and ABC Cultura.

Contact

For inquiries about artwork or exhibitions, contact the artist at hi@carlacascales.com. She is also active on Instagram as @carla_cascales_alimbau.