Studio interview for El Grito read here. photograph by Silvia Coca

Studio shot for ICON El Pais, read here.
photograph by Yago Castromil

Catch a Rainbow While You Can. read here, online
with texts by Iñigo Villafranca Apesteguia, Lu Millet and Esther Merinero.
Designed by Clara Pessanha
With the support of Can Felipa Arts Visuals and CAPdept.

AD SPAIN (Sept 2023), Escala de Valores. p. 26
Photography: Pablo Zamora
Stylist: Ana Rojas

based between London & Madrid

Esther Merinero (b. 1994, Madrid) studied her BA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts. She graduated in 2021 from MA Sculpture at the Royal College of Art with the support of Fundació “La Caixa” as she was awarded a fellowship for postgraduate studies. In recent years, she has been awarded grant for visual arts from La Comunidad de Madrid or the XXXIII Circuitos Fine Art Award. Her work has been included in international exhibitions at Sandretto Foundation (Ateneo, Madrid), CentroCentro (Madrid), Pradiauto (Madrid), or VO Curations (London), Cromwell Place (London), Saatchi Gallery (London), Can Felipa Arts Visuals (Barcelona), CCCC (Valencia), Dada Post (Berlin) or Charsoo Honar (Tehran). In October she presented her first artist book ‘Catch a Rainbow While You Can’ which accompanies her solo show in Can Felipa Arts Visuals (Barcelona). She is currently working towards her first individual international show curated by Cristina Anglada, and her El Chico presentation at their main site, during Apertura 2027.

She has participated in international fairs like ARCO (Madrid) or ArteSantander (Santander) with the gallery Pradiauto (Madrid).
Esther has given lectures and workshops internationally at institutions such as University of the Arts (London), University of the Creative Arts (Farnham) and now also teaches at Expositivo Academy (Madrid) and IED (Madrid).

“In my work I investigate the notions of accident, displacement, encounter, love, and fragility, responding to a personal urgency that arises from our contemporary context. It is a time marked by constant change, uncertainty, and rapid communication, where intimacy and vulnerability are often at odds with the pace of modern life; reconsidering ways of maintaining our connections, both to ourselves and to others.

These ideas are developed through a variety of media that coexists with each other; moving images, objects or words that tend towards a sculptural, narrative and scenic materiality. This emphasises the tactile and spatial presence of the work, transforming concepts into tangible, lived experiences that resonate on both an emotional and physical-bodily level. Energetically, there is always a balance, a sense of unfolding, of having the lingering sensation they are about to activate, and therefore the possibility that they are activated through concrete agents and the public.”

COMING UP & ON

murmur. El Chico (off-site)
17th September - 17th October 2026

SELECTION OF SOLO EXHIBITIONS

OUTSTRECHED
Ex, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat

la 1:11 i se t’escapa
Can Felipa Arts Visuals, Barcelona

Heart Keeper
Pradiauto, Madrid

Enredo; un hilo de plata
Feria ArteSantander, Santander

Holding me, aprieta bien el puño y un rato más
Habitación Número, Madrid

I broke out of silk walls for you
Aparador Monteleón, Madrid

I’ll be home soon
Alimentación 30, Madrid

SELECTION OF RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026
Lluerna. Fundació Miró, Barcelona
Salón ACME. Ciudad de México

2025
Trailing Orchids. Noho Showroom, London. Curated by Selina Dreijer

2024
La Sagrada Familia Is Under Construction. Sandretto Foundation, Ateneo, Madrid. Curated by
Nikki Nita Ramírez, Phokeng Setai y Kaushal Sapre.
To Her, A Memoir. Noho Showroom, London. Curated by Selina Dreijer
Ensanchar la puerta. Centro Centro, Madrid
ARCO 2024, Duo Booth. Pradiauto, Madrid

2023
Hall of Mirrors. PLOP, London. Curated by Georgia Stephenson
TODOTERRENO. Guetadar, Navarra
Todo lo demás. Centro Centro, Madrid
Between Here and There. Season SZN, London

2022
Fertile Soil. VO Curations, London
La Cámara del Eco. Sala Arte Joven, Madrid
Around, Above and Beyond. Pradiauto, Madrid
La flecha que mata el tiempo. ABM, Madrid

2021
London Grads Now. Saatchi Gallery, London
Meatspace. The Koppel Project, London
De oro en su nucleo. Pradiauto, Madrid
El Dormitorio. CCCC, Valencia
PROXY. Cromwell Place, London
Hot Links. Pradiauto, Madrid