Exhibitions

Sewing universes from Catalonia to Bogota

Visions of Catalonia — Crafting Art / Sewing Universes: Homo Faber, Homo Ludens claims contemporary craftsmanship as a space for dialogue between creation, matter and collective identities.

bonart bogotà - 09/10/26

Contemporary craftsmanship is presented as a territory of research, experimentation and connection with origins in Visions de Catalunya — Crafting Art / Coser Universos: Homo Faber, Homo Ludens , an exhibition that opens its doors at the Felicidad Center (CEFE) in Chapinero, in Bogotá, from October 9 to 20, 2026. The exhibition proposes a renewed look at manual crafts and their capacity to generate new cultural imaginaries, establish links between disciplines and explore other forms of relationship with the contemporary world.

The project is part of Visions de Catalunya , an initiative launched to promote the international projection of Catalan creation and foster dialogue between craftsmanship, art and design. With the collaboration of Bonart, the Lluís Coromina Foundation and the Generalitat de Catalunya, the exhibition brings to the Colombian capital a selection of works that explore the expressive possibilities of artisanal knowledge and its dialogue with current artistic practices.

The exhibition brings together works by Antoni Marquès, Eva Mazana, Francesc Ruiz, Francesca Piñol, Madola, Ivan Forcadell, Jesús Galdón, Mònica Campdepadrós, RibasFrosum and Vayreda, whose proposals allow us to approach the diversity of languages, materials and processes that coexist in contemporary creation. Through their works, craftsmanship manifests itself not only as a set of inherited techniques and knowledge, but also as a field open to experimentation, the transformation of matter and the construction of new cultural narratives.

The proposal is based on a fundamental idea: the concept of craftsmanship has changed over time, transformed by successive social, cultural and technological disruptions. However, behind these mutations, some of its essential values persist, such as the accumulated knowledge of the trades, the direct relationship with the materials and the understanding of the work processes that link the hands with the matter.

In a context marked by digitalization and the acceleration of production rates, manual work regains prominence as a form of knowledge and a way of inhabiting the world. The artisanal gesture is not limited to preserving a tradition, but allows it to be reinterpreted, explore new languages and generate forms of creation capable of connecting heritage with the concerns of the present.

This perspective also responds to a growing interest in recovering the link with nature, the materials and processes involved in the creation of objects. At the same time, artisanal crafts become tools to reaffirm individual and collective identities, recover shared memories and claim uniqueness in the face of cultural standardization.

The title Homo Faber, Homo Ludens alludes precisely to the encounter between two complementary dimensions of human experience: the capacity to make, transform and construct, and the faculty to play, imagine and experiment. In this confluence, craftsmanship is presented as a space in which technical knowledge coexists with creative freedom, and where tradition ceases to be understood as an immobile legacy to become an active source of new possibilities.

The presence of Visions de Catalunya in Bogotá reinforces the will to establish cultural bridges between Catalonia and Colombia, placing artisanal creation in a context of international exchange. Beyond the preservation of crafts, the project invites us to reflect on how manual knowledge can contribute to imagining other ways of relating to objects, territory and communities.