14, 15 and 16 July from 10.00 to 13.00
Please sign up by email at activitats-centredart@bcn.cat 

Practicum* is a series of sessions with artists, in summer school format, that combines workshops and tutoring to encourage artistic experimentation and professional development among the participants. Over three consecutive days, guest artists will share their practice through a combination of conversations, experimentation and collective work. The aim is to create an educational environment in which different methodologies can be explored and to encourage educational experimentation, using art as a tool for transmitting knowledge.

Programme
14/7 with André Romão 
15/7 with Mònica Planes 
16/7 with Toni Hervàs

André Romão (Lisbon, 1984). His practice mostly assumes the form of sculpture and poetry. His work has been featured at the Serralves Museum (Porto), the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon), the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, the Liverpool Biennial 2021, MAAT (Lisbon), the Berardo Collection Museum (Lisbon), FUTURA (Prague), The Green Parrot (Barcelona), MACRO (Rome), Astrup Fearnley Museet (Oslo), CAPC (Bordeaux), Spike Island (Bristol), Kunsthalle Lissabon, among others. He has also held art residencies at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin, 2010), MACRO (Rome, 2014), and Gasworks (London, 2020), among others.

Mònica Planes (Barcelona, 1992) has a master’s in Artistic Production and Research (2016) and graduated in Fine Arts from the Universitat de Barcelona (2014). She has held solo exhibitions at Fundació Suñol (2017), the Arranz-Bravo Foundation (2018), at the Can Felipa community centre (2020), with Pipistrello (2021), at the Gelateria Sogni di Ghiaccio in Bologna (2022), at the àngels barcelona gallery (2025, 2021, 2017) and at the Fuocherello gallery near Turin (2025). She has also exhibited collectively at the Sala de Arte Joven in Madrid (2021), at TEA in Tenerife (2023), at the C3A in Cordoba with TBA21 (2023), at La Casa Encendida (2024) and at the Museo Patio Herreriano in Valladolid (2024). Last year she held a residency at the Bulegoa z/b research space in Bilbao and another at the Real Academia de España in Rome (Italy). Her work is part of the collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the National Collection of the Generalitat de Catalunya and that of Barcelona City Council – MACBA.

Antoni Hervàs (Barcelona, 1981) studied Fine Arts at the Universitat de Barcelona (2006). Notable solo exhibitions include Hèrcules a la Lluna at Espai Cultural Caja Madrid (Barcelona, 2012); El misteri de Caviria at La Capella (Barcelona, 2016); Sausages at Okela (Bilbao, 2020); Copacabana at The Ryder Projects (Madrid, 2021); The Awakening at The Green Parrot (Barcelona, 2022) and at Human Resources (Los Angeles, 2023); and Màquines del temps at Centre d’Art Santa Mònica (Barcelona, 2024). He has received support from foundations such as MonteMadrid, Botín and ”la Caixa”, and was presented with the City of Barcelona Award in 2016.

* Practicum comes from Late Latin, which in turn comes from the Greek praktikós, meaning “fit for action” or “active”. In the academic field, practicum refers to an educational experience in which students apply the knowledge acquired during their theoretical training in a professional environment and under supervision. This practical stage, typically found in disciplines such as education, health and the arts, allows students to face real-life situations in the profession, develop specific skills and strengthen the connection between theory and practice, as a fundamental part of their learning process.