Exhibitions
Summer season at La Panera: immersive art, visual criticism and shared creation
Four exhibitions that explore the relationship between language, space and sensory experience from a plural perspective open to critical thinking.
This summer, La Panera de Lleida presents a new season of exhibitions that offer diverse perspectives on contemporary art, focusing on perception, space and collective creation. Until October 5, the center hosts four projects that range from drawing to installation, including editing and visual criticism, starring Almudena Lobera, Karlos Gil, Editorial Brillo and Miguel Bustos. This program invites you to experience art as an active experience that unfolds in dialogue with the territory, pedagogy and the public.
La Panera thus reaffirms its commitment to plural and rigorous curation, working with works that explore materials, spaces and diverse ways of relating to the viewer. Between installations that play with memory and perception, editorial proposals and participatory activities, the season traces a journey that reflects the challenges of our time from very different perspectives.
Secuencia Plano Secuencia, 2025 © Almudena Lobera, VEGAP, Madrid, 2025
Almudena Lobera (Madrid, 1984) presents Secuencia Plano Secuencia, an immersive installation that transforms architecture into a space for visual reading. A blue stripe running along the walls generates an effect that evokes both the interior of a swimming pool and a palindromic narrative structure. This play between symmetry and ambiguity places the visitor in an intermediate territory between the physical and the mental. Curated by Tiago de Abreu Pinto, the proposal is part of the artist's career, which explores the relationship between language, space and sensory experience, delving deeper into perception and architecture as a space for experimentation.
On the other hand, Karlos Gil (Talavera, 1989) turns the columned room into the setting for Need for Speed, a work that combines agricultural past, industrial memory and the idea of imminent ruin. Through sculptures, video installations and technological materials, Gil poses a critical reflection on acceleration, obsolescence and wear and tear as characteristic signs of the present. The central piece, Fade, is a video installation recorded with a drone in abandoned factories and fields in Lleida, which is mixed with images of underground races. Other works such as Final Fantasy or Phantom Limbs complete a set that invites us to rethink time and speed from a critical and reflective perspective.
Need for Speed, Karlos Gil
The editorial proposal comes from Editorial Brillo, which occupies the space of the Documentation Center to reclaim the book as an artistic work and as a space for visual thought. Curated by Anna Roigé (el Soleràs, Lleida, 1980), the exhibition shows publications, models, processes and correspondences that value the editorial gesture as an act full of meaning and complicity between artists and publishers. This exhibition is committed to the idea of "brillo" as a spark of meaning that survives information saturation and reclaims publishing as an artistic practice in itself, beyond commercial dictates.
Brillo 4: eco, eco, eco eco. Elvira Amor. Brillo Editorial
Finally, Miguel Bustos (la Sénia, 1984) transforms the miniPanera space into an open workshop where drawing, color and humor combine to stimulate creativity. His proposal invites audiences of all ages to participate in a collective experience that allows them to intervene, create and transform. Curated by Elisa Munsó, this installation connects art and education from a close perspective, emphasizing the process and play more than the final result.
In short, this summer's programming at La Panera reinforces its commitment to immersive art, visual criticism and shared creation, following a plural, rigorous curatorial line that is open to critical thinking, and emphasizing art as a tool to slow down the accelerated pace of contemporary life.
Dibuixar paisatge, Miguel Bustos (2025)
