Isabel Val Sánchez

Born in Barcelona in 1988
isabelval.com // valsanchez.isabel@gmail.com

Education
2011 BA - Artistic Photography and Visual Arts, EASD Serra i Abella, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, ES
2008 BA – Media Production, EMAV, Barcelona, ES

Residencies
2026 Fabra i Coats Fàbrica de Creació, Barcelona, ES
2025/26 Residència Radiofònica, Ràdio Paquita / La Bonne, Barcelona, ES
2024 Emergêncies 6, FemArt / Ca la Dona, Barcelona, ES
2024 B5 Arteast Residency Programme, Târgu Mures / Marosvásárhely, RO
2023/24 Residència Radiofònica, Ràdio Paquita / La Bonne, Barcelona, ES
2022 Casa d’Artistes, Menorca, ES

Scholarships & Fellowships
2023/24 Inspiration Forum Lab: Bodies of Water research program, Ji.hlava IDFF, CZE
2023 Embodied Relations training, Flechtwerk Association, Vienna AT
2022 Ecology of Love with Dr. Andreas Weber, advaya / Be The Earth Foundation
2021 Art & Politics: Containment, IMMA Summer School, IRL
2020 What Makes a World? - A Horizon, Nadira Husain’s Expanded Painting Course, Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, AT

Solo and Duo Shows
2024
From Lost to the River, B5 studio, Târgu Mures / Marosvásárhely, RO
Entre altres secrecions (cossos d’aigua), CACiS El Forn de la Calç, Calders, ES
2022
El Mar son las Raíces, Centre Cívic Guinardó, Barcelona, ES
Comes in Waves, MyMuseum Gallery, Budapest, HU (duo show with Eirini Sourgiadaki)
Back to the Present, Budapest Photo Festival, Budapest, HU (duo show with Krisóf Murányi)

Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
B5 AiR 2024, MAGMA Contemporary Art Space, Sfântu Gheorghe, RO
Tot el que no hi cap, FemArt / Ca la Dona, Barcelona, ES
2024
Bodies of Water, Display, Prague, CZE
El desig (cossos d’aigua), El Corralito, Terrassa, ES
Best of, MyMuseum Gallery, Budapest, HU
Si els cossos fossin cossos (cossos d’aigua), Centre Cívic Barceloneta, Barcelona, ES
2023
Microcosmos, Cosmopolis Festival, Kavala, GR
On the Road, MyMuseum Gallery / Budapest Photo Festival, Budapest, HU
Working Title 3, MAGMA Contemporary Art Space, Sfântu Gheorghe, RO
Blue Humanities Archive, Nuremberg House, Krakow, PL
Solar Storm X, MyMuseum Gallery, Budapest, HU
2022
Lost in Translation, MyMuseum Gallery, Budapest, HU
2021
Conversations with Me, MyMuseum Gallery / Gallery Weekend, Budapest, HU
Stripart Festival, Barcelona, ES
2019
Natural Randomness, MyMuseum Gallery, Budapest, HU
2018
The Vinyl Shop Effect, MyMuseum Gallery, Budapest, HU
Relative Time, Tavaszi Festival, Budapest, HU
2017
Stop the Music!, MyMuseum Gallery, Budapest, HU
Outside the Box, MyMuseum Gallery, Budapest, HU
2016
Invisibles, Fòrum Fotogràfic Can Basté, Barcelona, ES
Light and Sound Show, Pinhole World Day, Barcelona, ES
2015
Inicis, Barcelona Visions, Barcelona, ES
Light and Sound Show, Revela-T Festival, Vilassar de Dalt, ES
LaColect, Madrid, ES

Listening Sessions
2026 Antena para miroondas, 14ª Muestra Internacional de Arte Sonoro e Interactivo, IN-SONORA, Madrid, ES
2023 L’aigua és una força de treball (cossos d’aigua), CC Can Felipa, Barcelona, ES

Sound Transmissions
2026
From Lost to the River - Posverso Bienal, AR
Antenna for Microwaves - On Air on Site Festival
100 Años Luz - Tsonami Arte Sonoro, Valparaiso, CL
Radio Ritual for Heartbreak - LYL Radio
Ritual Radial - Rastros de Carmín, El Prat Ràdio, ES
Antenna for Microwaves - Dundee Radio Club Listening Festival, SCT
From lost to the river - Festival de Arte Sonoro Tsonami, CL
2025
Going downstream. A soundwalk across solstice liminalities (with pantea) - Solstice Radio, Pam Common Art Collective / Shortwave Collective
From lost to the river - Radiophrenia // Framework Radio #924 // Dundee Radio Club Listening Festival // On Air On Site Festival

Performances
2026
International Drone Day - Fabra i Coats, Barcelona, ES
Antena per a microones - Gràcia Territori Sonor, Barcelona, ES
2025
Antena per a microones - FemArt / Ca la Dona, Barcelona, ES

Screenings
2024
Les Instants Vidéo, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, FR
2023
Currents (with commonplace collective), Public Functionary Gallery, Minneapolis, USA
White Canvas, Les Instants Vidéo Festival / Aknoor Art Gallery, FR/IR
Magnetic Observatory, Mart Gallery, Dublin, IRL
2021
Joy Jubilee (with commonplace collective) Media Justice, USA/ Online
Puntomov Fest, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, MX
Dancing in the Park Online, Edmonton, CA
2020
Unseen, Simultan Festival, Timisoara, RO
Lichtblick, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin, DE

Publications
· Lantto Klein, M., Dawid, M., & Val Sánchez, I. (2026). Hydrosemiotic Entanglements in the (Sub-)Arctic: Scores from the Wetness Field. GeoHumanities, 1–11.
·· Michał Dawid, Mirjami Lantto Klein, Isabel Val Sánchez, “The Guild of Hydrosemiosis”, IF Lab, August 2024
· Kozák Iván, “Neon Budapest”, 2017, ISBN 978-615-00-0706-9
· “XYZ”, Edited by Kloss, Katharina, Café Babel, 2016, ISBN 978-2-95-589730-0 (page 66)

Workshops & Talks
2025
The Guild of Hydrosemiosis: Leakage Archive, TBA 21 Academy Ocean comm/uni/ty festival, online
The Guild of Hydrosemiosis, Goethe Institute / Sensorium Festival, Bratislava, SVK
2024
Disoñar la Balsa (cossos d’aigua), EINA, Barcelona, ES
Tast Liquiditzant (cossos d’aigua + Liminial), La Bonne, Barcelona, ES
2023
My tears are becoming a sea: una invitació al plor col·lectiu (cossos d’aigua), La Bonne, Barcelona, ES
Water and Memory, TBA 21 Academy Ocean comm/uni/ty, online
2022
Water and Memory, Centre Cívic Guinardó, Barcelona, ES
2021
The Grief Party: A Ritual and Community Care Workshop, Dice Festival + Conference, Berlin,DE
Symbiotic Collages: A Collaborative Practice, CCCB, Barcelona, ES
2018
Visual Narratives Through Photography, Instituto Cervantes, Budapest, HU
Collecting the City: Visual Storytelling, Ecole Supérieure des Arts Visuels de Marrakech, MA
Collecting the City: Visual Storytelling, Artemisszió Foundation, Budapest, HU
2017
Photography and visual storytelling, Instituto Cervantes, Budapest, HU
Creativity and Idea Generation, Brody Studios, Budapest, HU

Catalogues
· Budapest Photo Festival, Asssociation of Contemporary Photographers, 2022 (page 98)
· Stipart 2021, Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2021 (page 20)

Selected Press
Podcasts/Radio
· Marosvásárhelyi Rádió, Mindannyian víztestek vagyunk, August 2024
· Ràdio Far Menorca, Residents #21, May 2022
· Sample Filosòfic, Programa #12, April 2022
Video Report
· Centre Cívic Guinardó, El Mar son las Raíces, October 2022
Selected Articles
· Bordas, Alexandra, “From Lost to the River”, Zi de Zi Mures, August 30, 2024
· Vikárius, Réka, “The (neon) imprints of Budapest’s history in Isabel Val’s photographs”, Hype&Hyper, May 18, 2022
· Patkós, Luca, “Back to the present”, Budapest Photo Festival, April 29, 2022
· Manzanera, Silvia, “La Saviesa de les Àvies”, L’Independent de Gràcia, February 25, 2022 (page 14)
· Bartha, Dorka, “Discover Budapest’s Last Neon With A Unique New Guide And Map”, We Love Budapest, June 3, 2018
·Bakró-Nagy, Ferenc, “Fantasztikus album készült a budapesti neonokról”, Index, December 7, 2017
· Somsoi, Rita, “Wifin Érkező Művészet”, Fotóművészet, October 2017 (page 67)
· Telek-Nay, Ágnes, “Stop the Music! Exhibition Review”, Artportal, September 27, 2017
· Szőcs Lilla, “Budapest Neonfényei”, WMN Mag, September 23, 2017
· Sashegyi, Zsófia, “Megkopott Neonvarázs”, Magyar Nemzet, April 9, 2016 (page 27)
· Bravo, Eduardo, “Luminosos de Budapest: Neones que Nunca Vendieron Nada”, Yorokobu, April 4, 2016
· Reig Pellicer, Naiara, “Lights of Budapest: Lo que queda de la era socialista”, Café Babel, April 1, 2016