Oriol Vilanova
OVERVIEW
Oriol Vilanova（b. 1980, Manresa, Spain）is currently based in Brussels.
Vilanova graduated from the School of Architecture at La Salle, Ramon Llull University in Barcelona. Vilanova’s practice is grounded in the collection and documentation of images. Presenting his works as visual archives or encyclopedic systems, he seeks to deconstruct singular readings of the past. The flea market—his preferred site of research—serves as a key source for his extensive postcard collections, through which he attempts to create a “thinking machine” that provides the conceptual foundation for his installations and performances.
In 2019, Vilanova held his first major solo museum exhibition in USA at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, as well as his solo exhibition at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco. In 2022–23, he presented his solo exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bochum. In 2023, he participated in the two-person exhibition at KOTARO NUKAGA, and in 2025, he took part in the group exhibition at the Centre Pompidou-Metz. In 2026, as the representive of Spain he presented “Los restos” at the 61st Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition, the Spanish Pavilion.
His works are in the collections of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, the MACBA, the MACS, and the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, among others.
HISTORY
2026
’Original Copy’, KOTARO NUKAGA, Tokyo, Japan
’Los restos‘, La Biennale di Venezia 2026 Spanish Pavilion, Venice, Italy
’Oriol Vilanova: Crossreading. Monotony is nice‘, Walter & Nicole Leblanc Foundation, Brussels.
2024
’Trois secondes c’est un monde’, Garage Cosmos, Brussels, Belgium
2023
’Nous sommes arrivés jusqu’à ici’, openspace, Nancy, France
2022
’No hiding place is completely safe‘, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
’The end of the ancient world‘, Beige, Brussels, Belgium
’New Models‘, ICA Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
’Transactions‘, L’Appartement 22, Rabat, Morocco
’Segon mercat‘, àngels barcelona gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2021
’Con los ojos abiertos en la oscuridad‘, Elba Benítez gallery, Madrid, Spain
’Comme le mur qui attend le lierre‘（with Fiona Tann）, MAC’s Grand Hornu, Grand Hornu, Belgium
2020
’Chinese Whispers #10’, Meessen de Clercq gallery, Brussels, Belgium
’Entre deux portes’, JAP Entre deux portes, Brussels, Belgium
2019
’Anything, Everything‘, Buffalo AKG Museum, Buffalo, USA
’Une collection peut en cacher une autre‘, NMNM, Monaco
’Trois chambres‘, Centre d’Art Le Lait, Albi, France
2018
’Reversible’ (with Ignasi Aballí), Estrany de la Mota Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2017
’Sunsets from…’, Artlead Salon, Brussels, Belgium
’Old Masters’, Albert Baronian Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
’42 days’, Parra & Romero gallery, Madrid, Spain
’Sunday’, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
’Colección XV. Oriol Vilanova’, CA2M, Madrid, Spain
2016
’At first sight’, M-Museum Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
’Les mains dans les poches’, Musée d’Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
’Palabras prestadas’, Museo Cerralbo, Madrid, Spain
2015
’To be precise’, The Green Parrot, Barcelona, Spain
2014
’Renoncer à te décrire’, Centre d’Edition Contemporaine, Genève, Switzerland
’Petit taxi, grand taxi’, L’Appartement 22, Rabat, Morocco
2013
’She corrects manners laughinly’, Fundació Joan Miró, Espai 13, Barcelona, Spain
’The Small Collections Room’, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
2025
’Cactus‘, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco, Monaco
‘Fabular paisatges. Museu Habitat’, Palau Victòria Eugènia, Barcelona, Spain
‘Copyists – In an exceptional collaboration with the Musée du Louvre.’, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
2024
’Horizonte y Límite‘, CaixaForum Barcelona, Spain
’Von hier aus. Eine Bestandsaufnahme‘, DZ Bank Kunst Stiftung, Frankfurt, Germany
’La carte postale, objet de collection, œuvre d’art’, Le Delta, Namur, Belgium
2023
’De leur temps‘, Frac Grand Large, Dunkerque, France
’Blank. Raw. Illegible（1960–2022）’, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum & Papiermuseum, Düren, Germany
’Economy and Love’, KOTARO NUKAGA, Tokyo, Japan
’Merci Facteur! Mail art #6’, BPS22–Musée d’art de la Province de Hainaut, Charleroi, Belgium
’Colección INELCOM Arte Contemporáneo‘, INELCOM, Madrid, Spain
’Horizonte y límite. Visiones del paisaje’, CaixaForum Madrid, Madrid, Spain
’Hérétiques’, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, France
2020
’Daily nightshift’, Extracity Kunsthal, Anvers, Belgium
’Our world is burning’, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2019
’Picasso et l’exil’, Les Abattoirs, Toulousse, France
’Artificial Intelligence and emotions’, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
’Cartes Postales, Nouvelles d’un monde rêvé’, Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles, France
2018
’El paisaje reconfigurado’, Centro Botín, Santander. Spain
’The extended view’, Kunstverein Langenghagen, Langenghagen, Germany
2017
’Lección de Arte’, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
’Modus Operandi’, Société, Brussels, Belgium
2016
’Bateau Tableau’, ISELP, Brussels, Belgium
2015
’Unblinking’, FUTURA Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czechoslovakia
’Le monde entier jusqu’à aujourd’hui’, Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France
2014
’Before our eyes’, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
2011
’Revisiting time’, FRAC, Nord Pas-de Calais, France
Buffalo AKG Museum, Buffalo, USA
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona （MACBA）, Barcelona, Spain
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
Col·lecció Nacional d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco（NMNM）, Monaco, Monaco
Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Madrid, Spain
Institut Valencià d’Art Modern（IVAM）, Valencia, Spain
MACS – Musée des Arts Contemporains Grand-Hornu, Grand-Hornu, Belgium
FRAC Grand Large — Hauts-de-France, Calais, France
Centre d’Art La Panera, Lleida, Spain
M Leuven / Cera Collection, Leuven, Belgium
Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain
Fundación Montemadrid, Madrid, Spain
DZ BANK Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt, Germany
Colección INELCOM Arte Contemporáneo, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain
KAMU kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
WORKS
NEWS
Oriol Vilanova ‘Original Copy’
KOTARO NUKAGA Roppongi is pleased to present ’Original Copy,’ the first solo exhibition in Japan by Oriol Vilanova, from August 1 through September 12, 2026. Vilanova has made the rounds of flea markets and antique fairs around the world, and, using the postcards he has collected over many years as his primary material, he creates works that
Oriol Vilanova will present Los restos (The Remains) at the Spainish Pavilion as Spain’s selected project for the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
Oriol Vilanova will present Los restos (The Remains), representing Spain at the Spanish Pavilion of the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, running from( on view from) May 9 to November 22, 2026. The project proposes a large-scale intervention that transforms the interior of the pavilion into a pseudo-museum based on accumulation and memory. It is built around the systematic practice
UNLEASHED SPEED UNLEASHED SPEECH (MISFITS) Curated by Stefan Brüggemann
KOTARO NUKAGA is pleased to announce a group show UNLEASHED SPEED UNLEASHED SPEECH (MISFITS) curated by London and Mexico City-based contemporary artist Stefan Brüggemann. In this exhibition curated by Brüggemann, he will be presenting his work along with three other internationally-respected artists: Oriol Vilanova, Jay Rechsteiner, and Gardar Eide Einarsson. While the artists have a