Sorondo Projects

Trafalgar, 32
08010 Barcelona

Opening hours during BGW 2026
Thu. 17, Fri. 18 and Sat. 19 September: 12 am — 8 pm;
Sun. 20 September: 11 am — 3 pm

+34 697 231 103

https://sorondoprojects.com/

juliana@sorondoprojects.com

About the gallery

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Sorondo Projects

Sorondo Projects is a contemporary project space located on Trafalgar Street in Barcelona. The gallery supports young and emerging artists by fostering a vibrant, inclusive artistic community in which diverse voices are meaningfully engaged. Its program focuses on practices that encourage reflection on collective identity, belonging, and difference, grounded in lived experience. With a particular commitment to Latin American artists and diasporic perspectives, the gallery supports practices within the cultural and material frameworks.

Sorondo places a particular emphasis on the act of making, process based practices are central to its curatorial approach.  The gallery is drawn to works in which materials are approached as storytellers in their own right, holding histories, tensions, and emotional weight. This focus frequently results in abstract forms that resist immediate definition, inviting viewers into moments of receptive intuition and sensorial contemplation. 

Through exhibitions and ongoing dialogues, the gallery cultivates an environment of exchange, reflection, and shared learning, open for all, where art becomes a means of understanding both the self and the world.

Represented artists:

Suwon Lee, Luis Renteria, Lucrecia Lionti, Arale Reartes, María Elena Pombo, Silvana Trevale, Nikolay Morgunov, Paula Cabral Muchacho, Armando Mesias, Daniel Santolo, Theresa Weber

Exhibition: Exercises on Permanence

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María Elena Pombo: Regulo y Carlos (2024)
Courtesy Sorondo Projects

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Miguel Braceli: Area2 (2014). Courtesy Sorondo Projects

Both María Elena Pombo and Miguel Braceli understand territory as a construct in constant transformation, shaped by relationships, gestures, and forms of participation. Their practices propose thinking about permanence through movement, collaboration, and change, rather than stability. Through different languages, both artists engage with what persists and what transforms: traces of collective actions, marks on the landscape, material remnants, and ephemeral gestures that exist only while they are shared. Their works activate spaces of encounter where knowledge is built relationally and new forms of belonging can emerge. º In both cases, the landscape ceases to be a passive setting and becomes a living agent, capable of bringing together bodies, histories, and communities around futures yet to be imagined.

Exhibition: artist(s)

María Elena Pombo (Caracas, 1988) is a Venezuelan artist and researcher based in New York. She has participated in residencies and fellowships at Smack Mellon, Yaddo, Wave Hill, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Bronx Museum, and NEW INC, the New Museum’s cultural incubator. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (USA), the Future Materials Bank at the Jan van Eyck Academie (Netherlands), among others. She has exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Somerset House, the Grand-Hornu Museum, Zona Maco, arteBA, and ARTBO, with exhibitions across the United States, Europe, Japan, and Latin America. She was awarded the Theme Medal at the 2021 London Design Biennale and has received support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NYFA, and other grants. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Vogue México, and i-D Italia. She is a professor at Parsons School of Design.

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Miguel Braceli (Valencia, Venezuela, 1983) is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of art, architecture, and social practices. His artistic practice focuses on participatory projects in public space, exploring both geopolitical and local conflicts through large-scale works across Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. Braceli has presented performances, exhibitions, and educational projects in collaboration with institutions such as MoMA PS1, Documenta Fifteen, The Bronx Museum of Arts, the Hemispheric Institute NY with MUAC-UNAM, Matadero Madrid, the Museo Moderno de Buenos Aires, the Athr Foundation, the Untitled Art Fair, and Pace Gallery. 
His work has been featured in influential magazines and publications including e-flux Criticism, Forbes, and ArtReview. 
He has participated in residencies and programs including MacDowell (2023), Fountainhead (2023), Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2022), Art Omi (2021), and McColl Center for Art + Innovation (2020). He was also an AIM Fellow at the Bronx Museum (2022) and a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center (2024).

Braceli’s recent recognitions include the Fulbright Fellowship (2019–2020), the Young Art Prize of the Principality of Asturias (2018), and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship Award (2024–2026). In 2021, he co-founded LA ESCUELA___ with Siemens Stiftung International. In 2022, he received a commission from the Percent for Art program to create a large-scale permanent public artwork in New York City.

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Activities

Thursday 17.09 - 17:30

Guided tour to 'Exercises of Permanence' by the artists María Elena Pombo and Miguel Braceli.
In Spanish / English.