Herrera Gallery
Herrera Gallery (Barcelona)
Founded in late 2025 by Clara Cortés, Herrera Gallery is a contemporary art space inspired by a family legacy of artistic practice spanning generations. The gallery takes its name from Herrera, the surname of Clara’s mother and grandmother, and pays tribute to her great-grandfather, painter Fernando Herrera. Rooted in this artistic heritage, it honours a tradition of creativity, dedication, and curiosity. Created in response to the challenges of gentrification and mass tourism, Herrera supports research-driven artistic practices through exhibitions, presentations, and gatherings that foster interdisciplinary collaboration, intergenerational exchange, inclusivity, a culture of care, and a gender perspective.
Proposal
Herrera Gallery proposes a dialogue between Irma Marco and Daniela Labrín, whose practices explore systems of connection and collective experience. Marco presents an installation combining an automated kinetic work and handwoven textile pieces that examine the compulsive gesture of scrolling, reflecting on digital attention, information overload, and the rhythms of contemporary life. Labrín’s “Festín”, created with white ceramic and brioche bread, unfolds as an evolving installation where durable clay meets perishable matter. Activated through sharing and transformation, the work invites reflection on food, ritual, care, and the forms of community we build around everyday acts.
Irma Marco is an artist, researcher, and educator. She holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona and is a Lecturer at the Open University of Catalonia (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya). Working from a site-specific perspective, her practice spans installation, text, sound, and editorial publishing. She is interested in collaboration, appropriation, and exchange as strategies for creating spaces for dialogue. Her current research explores how art can foster civic conversations about the transformation of everyday life in the digital age.
Marco has led numerous art and education projects in collaboration with institutions including ICUB, MACBA, and CCCB. Her work has received recognition through the Intercambio Internacional a Cobert–FAAD UCT Chile, CMCV aCasa CCCC (2023), the Permanent Collection of the Miguel Hernández University (2022), the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2022), and the Vila Casas Painting Prize (2022).
She has exhibited internationally at venues including the Centro Cultural de España in Santiago (AECID, Chile), Feral File (USA), the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales (Havana), the Museo de Arte Moderno de Santo Domingo, Matadero Madrid, CA2M, Fundación Telefónica, Galería Blanca Soto (Madrid), Centre del Carme (CCCC), SET Espai d’Art, Espai Tactel (Valencia), Bòlit Centre d’Art Contemporani (Girona), MAC Mataró, ACVIC Centre d’Arts Contemporànies, Adoberies (Vic), MACBA, Arts Santa Mònica / ISEA2022, Espai Souvenir, SWAB Art Fair, Tangent Projects, CCCB, Cinema Zumzeig, Primavera Pro, ExAbrupto, and Sónar Festival (Barcelona), among others.
Daniela Labrín (Santiago, Chile, 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist and baker based in Barcelona. With a background in industrial design and applied arts in ceramics and glass, her practice explores ritual, everyday gestures, and material transformation as ways of reflecting on relationships, the structures that sustain collective life, and the ways we inhabit shared spaces.
Through open-ended processes in which play, time, and the inherent behaviour of materials become integral to the making of the work, Labrín develops a practice that positions everyday objects as catalysts for encounter and exchange.
She is the founder of LACCCASSSA, a creative space whose name stands for La Acción Creativa Común Conlleva a Sostener Sistemas Sociales Afectivos (“Common Creative Action Sustains Affective Social Systems”). Conceived as an extension of her artistic practice, the space understands creative action as a tool for strengthening social bonds and fostering new forms of gathering and collective experience.
