Claudia Valsells

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Claudia Valsells is an artist who has made color both her subject and her language. Her works always emerge from a triad of forces that balance one another: the technical knowledge of color, the intuition of gesture, and the resonance of the emotional power generated through chromatic interactions. Her artistic practice is defined by a strong chromatic instinct and a distinctive ability to select and combine colors, searching within their configurations for a unique chromatic signature. Her work unfolds through shifting tonalities placed in dialogue, generating subtle rhythms of tension and harmony. Valsells pursues what she refers to as the “reason of color,” an exploration aimed at understanding color as a living presence. It is through this search that the persistence and resistance inherent to the practice of painting find meaning.

Born in Barcelona in 1969, Valsells trained in mural painting at the Institut Supérieur Van der Kelen et Logelain in Brussels before founding her own studio, arts&claus, through which she collaborated with architects and designers for more than two decades. She created color charts still used today by leading Spanish architects, establishing herself as a reference in color consulting before fully dedicating her practice to painting. Since 2005 she has exhibited regularly with Alzueta Gallery in Barcelona, Madrid, and Paris, as well as internationally in Tokyo, Hamburg, Paris, and Mexico. Her work is held in major private and public collections including Fundació Vila Casas, Fundació Banc Sabadell, the Hayot Collection, and the Martinez Collection, among others. Today she lives and works in Barcelona, continuing to develop her research into color while combining her activity as an artist with select projects in design and architecture.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Moll de l’os. Peintures 2026, Alzueta Gallery, Paris, France (2026)
«Mira’m, no deixis de mirar-me», Palau de Casavells, Casavells, Spain (2025)
Painting as a gift from colour, Gallery BR, Tetbury, UK (2024)
Transitions, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2023)
Color Dialogues, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2021)
What’s color?, Espacio Pavillion, Madrid, Spain (2021)
What’s color?, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2020)
Aoo & Claudia Valsells ‘Silla8’ Conceptual Design show, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2020)
Solo Exhibition, Almost Perfect Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2019)
T10 Project, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2018)
Solo Exhibition, Palau de Casavells, Casavells, Spain (2018)
Color i forma, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2017)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Shift Towards Coincidence, Alzueta Gallery – Palau de Casavells, Casavells, Spain (2026)
Marco. Límite y lugar, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2025)
Season Opening, Palau de Casavells, Casavells, Spain (2024)
What abstract art means to me, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2024)
La Terre est bleue comme une orange, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2023)
Group Exhibition, Axel Pairón Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (2016)

ART FAIRS
ZONA MACO, Alzueta Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico (2026)
ESTAMPA, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2025)
THE ARMORY SHOW, Alzueta Gallery, New York, USA (2025)
LUXEMBOURG ART WEEK, Alzueta Gallery, Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2024)
ZONAMACO, Alzueta Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico (2024)
ART ROTTERDAM, Alzueta Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2023)
ART PARIS, Alzueta Gallery, Paris, France (2022)
ESTAMPA ART FAIR, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2021)
ART PARIS, Alzueta Gallery, Paris, France (2021)
ART MADRID, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2021)
ART ÉLYSÉES-ART & DESIGN, Alzueta Gallery, Paris, France (2019)
ART PARIS GRAND PALAIS, Alzueta Gallery, Paris, France (2019)
ALMONEDA, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2019)
ART MADRID, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2019)
THE AFFORDABLE ART FAIR HAMBURG, Alzueta Gallery, Hamburg, Germany (2018)
STOCKHOLM INDEPENDENT ART FAIR, Alzueta Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (2018)
JUST LX, Alzueta Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal (2018)
ALMONEDA, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2018)
ART FAIR GRAND PALAIS, Alzueta Gallery, Paris, France (2018)
EURANTICA ART FAIR, Alzueta Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (2018)
ART MADRID, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2018)
ART PARIS, Alzueta Gallery, Paris, France 2017)
ART MADRID, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2017)
ANTICA NAMUR, Alzueta Gallery, Namur, Belgium (2016)
SCOPE BASEL, Alzueta Gallery, Basel, Switzerland (2016)

ARTWORK IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Fundació Vilacases (Barcelona)
Banc Sabadell (Barcelona)
Collection Hayot (France)
Martinez Collection (Mexico-US)
Niederberghaus Collection (Germany)
Collection Richard (France)
Smith Collection (Wyoming, US)

PUBLICATIONS
Exploring colour harmony, One (2019)
Artist Colour Chart for architects and designers (2019)
Hic Arquitectura (2018)
NR magazine (2018)
Toyonarts Newsletter (2018)
AD, arquitectura y diseño (2017)
Efímere (2017)
Time Out Barcelona (2017)
Uterqüe AW 2017 press book (2017)
Arts&claus colors, 150 Color chart references (2000)
Arts&claus soft colors, 55 pastel references colour chart (2004)
Pez de plata. Barcelona, ciudad creación y color (2006)
BMW El Color (1998)
Editorial Blume Interviews and publications at El País Semanal, Casa Viva, ABC, Diseño Interior, La Vanguardia among others.