Mireia c. Saladrigues is an artist and researcher, or rather, an artist-researcher. Her projects build on extensive inquiries while the particular research methodologies are based on her artistic practice.
Her current work explores the essence of sculpture and the impermanence of marble, tracing its transformation into dust and the memory it carries in disintegration. Collaborating with scientists, restorers, and stone professionals, she draws from their expertise to reflect on matter, preservation, erosion, and the afterlives of form.
She often remembers how her deceased father—an artisan pastry chef—used to blow flour over the work table. That gesture of dispersal, ephemeral and precise, has remained with her as a quiet metaphor for her own methods: laying out particles, observing what remains, working with what resists or disappears.
Saladrigues is a candidate of the International Doctorate (DFA) of the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki with ‘Behaving Unconventionally in Gallery Settings’.
During 2025, she held the solo shows ‘Cooked Marble’ in Galleria Sculptor and ‘From Sculpture to Cloud’ in Fondia, and participated in the group show Summer Rain in Kunsthalle Helsinki. In 2024, Pengerkatu 7 Työhuone held her first solo show in Helsinki. Among others, she was at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome in 2022 to produce ‘Crederrei, se fussi di sasso’. On this, Rai Radio 3 launched the audio-documentary ‘La Martellata’. The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut hosted Saladrigues’ lecture performance ‘Into Sugar We could Have Turned’. This was, among other places, also programmed by MNAC – National Museum of Art of Catalonia and Picasso Museum of Barcelona. Over the past two decades, her artworks have been shown across Europe, Asia, and United States, highlighting the Contemporary Art Centre of Barcelona, MACBA, 2nd Research Pavilion of the 57th Venice Biennale, Kiasma, Pori Art Museum, Joan Miró Foundation Barcelona, Le Lait art centre Albi, La BF15 in Lyon, CAA Washington, Videonale.13, Copenhagen National Museum of Photography, DIA Art Foundation, and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.
Her work is held in the collections of National Fund of Catalonia, MACBA and ICUB, as well as private collectors. Galeria àngels barcelona collaborates with Saladrigues on punctual occasions.
Mireia c. Saladrigues is the current secretary of the board of Hamaca, an independent cultural organisation distributing audiovisual works linked to Spain. She co-founded PAAC – Assembleary Platform of Catalan Artists and the cultural association Trama 34. She has participated in experimental pedagogical projects, notably as one of the early young artists invited to ‘Creadors en Residència’ (Barcelona), an initiative that brings artists into secondary schools to develop long-term collaborative projects with students and teachers.
Considering printed forms as an artistic practice, Saladrigues also worked in a bookstore, where she manage to stablish the first section dedicated to Artists’ Publications in Barcelona.