DIPTYCH “Swan” & “Glass”, mixed media on linen | 390 x 146 cm | 2025.
TRIPTYCH “Vega Painting”, “Awning”, “Shoes” Oil on linen | 70 x 50 cm | 2025
TRIPTYCH “Ball”, “Holow”, “Swan II” Oil on linen | 70 x 50 cm | 2025
ABOUT JULIA SANTA OLALLA:
Julia Santa Olalla (Granada, 1985) studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Granada.
Julia Santa Olalla represents disturbing images, crossed by something hidden. She shows events with an indefinite beginning and end. Here the narrative ellipses in the montage and what is blocked from view through the pictorial take on importance. This fact does not resolve the images, but poisons them with uncertainty.
Santa Olalla delves into the ordinary. That zoom-in which increases the perception of what surrounds us, whether intimate or strange. This search generates disturbance and enigma. The marvellous is equivalent to the poetisation of reality and the revelation of something contained in the everyday.
His narrative impulse is of minimalist economy where all the detail is in the manifestation of the painting. This happens through different degrees of iconicity and evidencing the process. Santa Olalla leaves the imprint of the painting, he does not represent the thing but presents the energy of the matter.
A deployment of resources from a cold strategy that gives the right space to the accident, avoiding conflicts and corrections to achieve a finish that gives sophistication to his work. Santa Olalla never ceases to talk to us and reflect on painting itself and its narrative power. At the same time, he questions us about the evocative capacity of the visual and about the responsibility we share when it comes to interpreting our reality in the face of ambiguity and indeterminacy.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Contemporary Art Museum. MARCO. Vigo,Spain.
SC Gallery. Bilbao.Spain.
2024 Lorgallery. Santo Domingo.
2023 Las Mirlas. F2 Galería. Madrid, Spain.
2022 La Caraluna. Galeria T20. Murcia, Spain.
Scarpia XXI. De lo espiritual. Arte Contempoáneo en El Carpio. El Carpio, Córdoba, Spain. 2021 La fuente del conejo. Di Gallery.
Sevilla, Spain. 2020 Entre el hueco y la pared. Espacio Iniciarte. Córdoba, Spain. 2019 Sodstory. Palacio Condes de Gabia.
Granada, Spain. 2018 Brillo de Cuervo. Amat arquitectos. Granada, Spain.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Andalucia perpetuum mobile. Caja de Granada Foundation.Spain
2024 Verduyn Gallery. Bruselas. Belgium
Di Gallery Sevilla.Spain
Mroom Gallery. Beijing. Chines
Ubran Spree Gallery. Berlin.germany
2023 Encuentros atemporales, curated by Mariano Navarro. Galería Marlborough. Madrid, Spain. 2022 Erretratu. SC gallery. Bilbao, Spain.
Selfie, curated by Ester Almeda. Galería Moisés Pérez Albéniz. Madrid, Spain. 2021 Las palabras azules. Trafalgar 45. Barcelona, Spain. 2020 Homemade. Di gallery. Sevilla, Spain.
Años 90. Galería La Causa. Madrid, Spain.
El eros en la pintura de hoy. MEAM. Barcelona, Spain. 2019 MACC19. Sala Juán Antonio Díaz Cabra del Santo Cristo. Jaén, Spain.
Treinta. Casa Colón. Huelva, Spain. 2018 De sonidos y silencios. The Blueant. Madrid, Spain.
Visiones figuradas. Centro Cultural Juan Prado. Madrid, Spain. Un día en casa de Sorolla. Museo Sorolla. Madrid, Spain. Mujeres artistas de hoy. MEAM. Barcelona, Spain.
2017 Homeless. Void Projects. Miami, USA. 2016 Cien por Cien. The Makers. Madrid, Spain.
Manos expertas mentes inquietas. The Makers. Madrid, Spain.
WORK IN COLLECTIONS
CA2M Collection, Entre Canales Collection,
Digood Collection, Rucandio Collection, Kells
Foundation, Sorigué Foundation, Cijuela Council,
Villargordo Council, Ubeda Council, Castellar
Council, Cazorla Council, Agua Granada Foundation, University of Jaén.
Fundación Sorigué. Lérida, Spain. Universidad de Jaén. Jaén, Spain.
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