Everyday Life
8 — 29, October
Everyday Life celebrates gratitude — for the food we share, the gestures we exchange, and the people who surround us. These moments may appear ordinary, yet they carry weight, necessity, and permanence.
They remind us that the present is precious, never to be repeated.
This exhibition brings together three artists whose practices transform the ordinary into sites of reflection, memory, and meaning.
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Alina Zaikina
Born in Russia in 1990 and now based in Barcelona, Alina Zaikina is an artist whose practice turns everyday objects into vessels of introspection and symbolism. With a background in communication and creative direction, she shifted from building narratives for brands to painting as her primary form of expression.
Her work reinterprets the still life tradition: single objects are suspended in abstract spaces, charged with poetic resonance. Through textured surfaces, nuanced palettes, and organic forms, she explores themes of emotional memory, vulnerability, and the layered nature of the self.
For Everyday Life exhibition, Zaikina has developed two key series: Fruitful Collection, where cut fruit becomes a metaphor for authentic self-discovery, and Inside Beauty, where oyster shells reveal human fragility and inner richness. Both invite viewers to reflect on their own emotional landscapes, celebrating openness and inner depth.
Alina has participated in many exhibitions around Spain.
Cristina Blanch Valls
Barcelona-born in 1966, Cristina Blanch Vallhonrat is a painter and educator whose work explores emptiness, memory, and the body. With over 35 years of practice, she combines refined draftsmanship with a vibrant, personal color palette. Her figurative works, often centered on women and girls, balance realism with abstract backgrounds that evoke fragmented memory and emotional depth.
Trained at the Académie Julian in Paris, Blanch draws from realism, pop art, cinema, and expressionist abstraction, creating a distinctive and contemporary language. She has exhibited widely in Spain, France, and across Europe and Asia, while also teaching from her Barcelona studio.
At Everyday Life, her paintings reflect the subtle, essential rituals that shape women’s daily lives: cooking, sharing, listening, and caring. Figures emerge from dissolving backgrounds, where tangible gestures meet diffuse emotions and memories. In this interplay of presence and abstraction, the everyday becomes universal—projecting intimate moments into a shared emotional space.
During Cristina's artistic career, she has exhibited in many global countries.
Ola Johansson
Ola Johansson is an award-winning graphic designer and Creative Director, celebrated for his refined sense of form and timeless elegance. His collaborations span Sweden’s leading artists, The Absolut Group, and even the Swedish Royal Court—projects that merge creativity with enduring style.
After relocating from Sweden to Barcelona, Johansson turned to ceramics. What began as a pastime quickly became a passion: a tactile exploration of balance, craft, and expression. In clay, he found both freedom and belonging, uniting craftsmanship with artistic intuition. His ceramic practice continues his lifelong pursuit of harmony between material, form, and meaning.
For Everyday Life, Johansson presents Silent Hunger, ceramic objects imprinted with the trace of a bite. This fleeting gesture evokes both desire and absence—temptation without fulfillment. The works resonate with silence, longing, and fragility, but also extend outward to the global reality of enforced hunger. With echoes of Gaza and beyond, Silent Hunger becomes both bodily and political—a cry for justice, survival, and dignity.
We are proudly presenting Ola's first exhibition.