Alba Suau
Pollença, Spain, 1997
About
Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
Alba Suau approaches painting as a living event rather than a fixed image. Her work emerges from aimless walks that open a meditative space, allowing her to attune to subtle details in the landscape: textures, colors, and quiet rhythms. These impressions, once filtered through memory, return to the studio as layered compositions where observation and recollection coexist. Using oil, acrylic, dry pastel, and casein on canvas, Suau creates works that explore the porous boundary between the remembered and the real. Her references include Ximena Maldonado, Agnes Martin, Andreas Eriksson, and Joaquín Sorolla. Her recent projects, such as Las dos rocas and Entre casa María y la mía, explore childhood geographies and symbolic terrains, drawing on personal and collective relationships with place.
Alba Suau studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona and INSEAMM Marseille, and earned an MFA in Painting from La Cambre, Brussels. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Alzueta Gallery (Madrid), The Merode (Brussels), Kaplan Projects (Palma de Mallorca), and Museu de Mallorca, among others. She has participated in group shows at Moonens Foundation, Dorotheum, Casal Solleric, and Studio Weil, and has been awarded the Prix Laurent Moonens (2023), the Prix des Amis de La Cambre (2023), the Mallorca International Art Award (2022), and the Barbara H. Weil Award (2021).
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SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS
Plaza Blanca, Palau de Casavells, Casavells, Spain (2025)
Entre casa María y la mía, Alzueta Gallery Madrid, Spain (2024)
Touch Only With Your Eyes, The Merode, Brussels, Belgium (2023)
Estona amb sàlvia i mantega, Kaplan Projects, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2023)
Arròs melós, Museu de Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2022)
Dentro, Kaplan Projects, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2020)
Moi Moi, Taca Studio, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2020)
GROUP EXHIBITION
Inborn Territories Maps, Jonathan F. Kugel’s, Brussels, Belgium (2025)
Fons-Figura: Espais Liminars, Far de Ses Coves Blanques – Off CAN Ibiza, Ibiza, Spain (2025)
Alumnis Manibus, La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium (2025)
Art Pollença – 2025, Claustre de Sant Domingo, Pollença, Spain (2025)
40 X 10, Moonens Foundation, Brussels, Belgium (2024)
Spiraling Bees, Moonens Foundation, Brussels, Belgium (2024)
Beyond The Horizon, Dorotheum, Brussels, Belgium (2024)
Prender la mirada, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2024)
Friendship, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium (2024)
Maison de Fumée, Moonens Foundation, Brussels, Belgium (2024)
Territoire et Memoire, Artesio, Brussels, Belgium (2023)
Doline. Après chaque pluie, Polyclinique, Brussels, Belgium (2023)
Mallorca International, Art Award 2022: A Review, TOR Art Space, Frankfurt, Germany (2023)
Are you still in one piece or, are you already dissolved?, Salon Mommen, Brussels, Belgium (2023)
Tell me louder, Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium (2022)
12 voces en Studio Weil, Studio Weil, Port d’Andratx, Spain (2021)
Marine Aspirations, Taca Studio, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2021)
Space is the place, Atelier Hyph, Marseille, France (2018)
Uncommon Ground, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France (2018)
ART FAIRS
LUXEMBOURG ART WEEK, Alzueta Gallery, Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2024)
AWARDS
«Prix Laurent Moonens»’,», Brussels, Belgium (2023)
«Prix des Amis de La Cambre», Brussels, Belgium (2023)
«Mallorca International Award», Mallorca, Spain (2022)
«Barbara H. Weil Award», Port d’Andratx, Spain (2021)
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Alzueta Gallery Artist Residency, La Bisbal d’Empordà, Spain (2025)
Fondation CAB, Brussels, Belgium (2025)
The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, New Mexico, USA (2024)
Laurent Moonens Foundation, Brussels, Belgium (2023)
Creative Centre of Stöðvarfjörður, Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland (2022)
DNA Artist Residency, Massachusetts, USA (2022)
Weil Art Exchange, New York, USA (2022)
Creative Centre of Stöðvarfjörður, Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland (2021)
