Laura Ginès IN RESiDENCE at the School La Ribera

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Laura Ginès (Girona, 1975)

Laura Ginès Bataller has a degree in Arts and Design (UAB), is a senior technician in Illustration (E.  Massana) and has studied Architecture and Music.  Language hybridisation, music as a driving force behind fiction and the urban environment as a character are some of the common threads running through her work as an audiovisual artist. Some of her pieces are part of the Arxiu Xcèntric at the CCCB, dedicated to experimental cinema, and she has showcased her work at internationally renowned centres such as the San Francisco Film Archive, the Anthology Film Archives in New York, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid.

She also teaches at BAU Centre Universitari d’Arts i Disseny and at the UPF's Audiovisual Communication department, and runs projects to promote experimental cinema at cultural institutions such as the CCCB (Mediation and Xcèntric Department), Matadero Madrid, Arteleku (San Sebastián), Habitació 1418 (MACBA) and CaixaFòrum. She has given talks at art schools such as LAV Madrid, the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (Cologne), the Akademia Sztuk Pięknych (Wrocław) and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

She was included in the series Del trazo al píxel. Más de 100 años de animación española, which toured art centres and festivals around the world and arrived at MoMA in New York in September 2016.   Her animation project Our Notebooks was part of one of the episodes of the web series Mon œil, produced and distributed by the Centre Pompidou (Paris). Her interactive installation Grafia animada per a després del diluvi has been exhibited in several Catalan cities (Girona, Barcelona, Lleida, Terrassa, Granollers), at the Berlin Animation Festival 2023 and, until October 2025, is part of a collective exhibition on contemporary cartoon animation at the Horst Jansen Museum (Oldenburg, Germany).

Information updated as of September 2025

School La Ribera

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Institut La Ribera (La Ribera, Montcada i Reixac) is participating for the third consecutive time in EN RESiDÈNCiA. In the 15th edition (2023-2024), Rodrigo Laviña worked on the creation of “Drac, Barra, Emprempta”, which was exhibited in Montcada i Reixac and later at the “Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana” biennial. In the 16th edition, Natalia Domínguez created “Un so que no se sent, una pols que no es veu”, which was unveiled to the public at La Capella (June 2025). Institut La Ribera is participating again with a group of third-year ESO students.

The area surrounding the Institut La Ribera, located very close to the Besòs River, is going through a process of transformation, driven by the La Ribera River Park project and the Neighborhood Plan initiatives. It also has a partnership with the University of Barcelona, as part of the MAGNET programme and with the support of the Montcada i Reixac Town Council. 

Information updated as of September 2025

Participants

Third-year ESO students

Teachers
Vanessa Sanz and Núria Julià 

Curator and coordinator
L’Afluent 

Direction
Besòs Consortium and Barcelona Institute of Culture