Prats Nogueras Blanchard

Prats Nogueras Blanchard is the union of two established galleries, Galeria Joan Prats and Nogueras Blanchard in March 2024. The merging of our two projects is a transformative synergy that promises to contribute significantly to the Spanish and international art scene.  Prats Nogueras Blanchard, has bases in Madrid and Barcelona, and is committed to curating and to the production of discourse in dialogue with artists. Our combined roster of artists is intergenerational, and while representing a genealogy of Spanish artists, we bring together diverse voices, disciplines and practices from a wider international perspective with a focus on the Mediterranean and Latin America. 

Galeria Joan Prats has been a pioneer since its establishment in Barcelona in 1976 championing conceptual practices of Spanish artists such as Muntadas, Perejaume, Joan Miró, or Joan Brossa, and international artists such as Ed Ruscha, Christo & Jeanne Claude or Hannah Collins. NoguerasBlanchard was founded in Barcelona in 2004 and opened in Madrid in 2012, supporting an international and intergenerational array of artists, from Ester Partegàs and Mercedes Azpilicueta to Ana Mendieta or Antoni Tàpies. Alongside the galleries’ exhibition programme, we have produced publications, organized talks, performances and events in support of the artists’ multidisciplinary and critical practices. Our gallery’s commitment to showcasing curatorial excellence and providing unwavering support to artists, have made them key players in the Spanish art scene over the past decades.

Represented artists:

Francesco Arena, Mercedes Azpilicueta, Erick Beltrán, Cabello/Carceller, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Victoria Civera, Hannah Collins, Anne-Lise Coste, Leandro Erlich, Luis Gordillo, Joseph Grigely, Joan Hernández Pijuan, Lola Lasurt, Chema Madoz, Ana Mendieta, Muntadas, Ester Partegàs, Perejaume, Pablo del Pozo, Fernando Prats, Wilfredo Prieto, Caio Reisewitz, Julião Sarmento, Shimabuku, José María Sicilia, Antoni Tàpies, Ignacio Uriarte, Juan Uslé, Richard Wentworth

Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s unrealized projects were never abandoned dreams—they were fully conceived works that lived through drawings, models, and vision. For them, the process was the artwork: from the first sketch to public hearings, from engineering studies to political negotiations. Each project—whether wrapping a monument, building a mastaba, or veiling walkways in fabric—was imagined with precision, intensity, and independence. They refused commissions and sponsorships, believing that true freedom was their only material. Many proposals were halted by bureaucracy, others by shifting interest or time, but all were pursued with the same devotion as their realized works. The drawings themselves—layered with photographs, fabric samples, pastel, and industrial paint—were not preparations, but manifestations. These projects live on as acts of radical imagination, challenging conventional definitions of sculpture and permanence. Unrealized did not mean incomplete. For Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the idea was already a form. Even without ever being built, these projects exist—with clarity, conviction, and presence.