work

few artists live up to their name as joan costa does - enhancing the meaning and our understanding of the word ‘coast’.

a sculptor from the island of mallorca (catalonia spain), his searches into the natural world have led him to the study of water from almost every possible viewpoint.

its boundaries, the space it inhabits,its form, movement, its social and human aspects. now its colour and sound are foregrounded in this recent work to be exhibited in london (gb) and amsterdam (nl) with additional shows planned in germany and the united states of america.

joan costa

born in 1961 in palma de mallorca, catalonia, spain.

lives and works in palma de mallorca, catalonia, spain.

education

1991 degree in fine arts academy of carrara (i) with teachers like pier giorgio balocchi, rino giannini, g. antognazzi, luciano pretti.

1987 technical education in arts ceramics, escuela de artes aplicades y oficios artísticos, palma de mallorca (e), with teachers like toni riera, lluis castaldo, damià jaume, tinus castanyer, toni capó, mercè alabern, carme ascolies, carmen crespí, jeroni arbós and bernat tries

exhibitions

solo exhibitions:

in germany in munich

in england in london

in france in paris

in italy in florence

in the netherlands in amsterdam

in spain in alcúdia, barcelona, binissalem, can picafort, donostia, ibiza, inca, formentera, madrid, mahón, manacor, palma de mallorca, son servera

group exhibitions:

in australia in sydney

in germany in berlin, schwäbisch hall

in england in ockley, surrey

in greece in athens

in italy in carrara, certaldo, forte del marmi, lucca, messina, la spezia, trento, turijn,

in spain in alaró, alcúdia, consell, delà, ibiza, madrid, manacor, menorca, palma de mallorca, pollença, san sebastián, valencia

in the united states of america in connecticut, new york

in switzerland in zurich

gallery 9 presents the work of joan costa since 2014:

solo exhibition in the gallery in 2014

25 years gallery 9 jubilee exhibition in the gallery in 2014

summer exhibition in the gallery in 2014

presentation in hooghstate museum in haastrecht (nl) in 2014

presentation on several art fairs such as:

raw art fair 2014 in cruise terminal rotterdam (nl)

art breda 2014 in breda (nl)

kunstrai 2014 in rai in amsterdam (nl).

awards and nominations

2005 ‘the shadows of sound’,  first award of the competition to make a memorial

         to the master eak tai ahn in palma, convened for the organisation of tourism

         of gyeonggi (korea) an  the city council of palma de mallorca (catalonia, e).

1994 selected for the premio internacional de escultura gioia lazzerini, pietra

         santa (i).

1990 award for the visual arts ‘beato angélica’, florence (i)

1989 special award of sculpture 7th review of academies of fine arts,

         expo bari ’89, italië.

1989 award city council palma ‘estimul d’activitats artistiques’, mallorca

         (catalonia, e).

collections

his works can be found in the public space of mallorca, balearen (catalonia, e)

and in private collections in germany, england, france, italy, the netherlands,

spain, the united states of america and switzerland.