Designer and visual researcher from Barcelona.
Co–founder of Oblicuas collective.

Mail: hello@elsacasanova.com
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Exhibitions
2024 Wet Dreams, Group Show, Mayrit Biennial, Centro Centro (Madrid, SP)
2024 Reframing Material Culture, Group Show, Frappant Galerie (Hamburg, DE)
2023 (Oblicuas) Contemporanis 2022 (Manlleu, CAT + Manresa, CAT)
2022 (Oblicuas) ‘Función Rota’, Group Show, Sala d’Art Jove (Barcelona, CAT)
2022 DAE Graduation Show 2022, Group Show, Microtuin, Dutch Design Week (Eindhoven, NL)
2022 (Oblicuas) ‘Fer el Got: Vermut Performàtic‘, Performance, Centre d’Arts Contemporànies ACVic (Vic, CAT)
2021 ‘Erratic Logic’ GEO–Design, Screening, Milano Design Film Festival (Milano, IT)
2021 ‘Infrastructures to Capture’ at Pedagogies of the Sea, Performance, MAAT (Lisboa, PT)
2021 Ways of Protest, Group Show, Elysum Gallery (Swansea, UK)
2020 ‘The Table Knife Project’, Group Show, Barcelona Design Week (Barcelona, CAT)
2019 SOS show, Group Show, South London Gallery (London, UK)
2019 (Oblicuas) Objectar el Món, Group Show, Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona, CAT)
2019 Understanding L’Hospitalet, Group Show, Cervantes Institute (Milano, IT)
2018 La Noche de los Jueves, Group Show, _2B Space to Be (Madrid, SP)
2018 The Future Starts Here, Group Show, Victoria & Albert Museum (London, UK)

Residencies
2023 Art i Natura, La Panera + CAN Farrera (Farrera, CAT)
2023 WOW Arts & Culture (Amsterdam, NL)
2022 Xarxes de la PAAC, with Verde Chroma (online)
2019 SOS School of Speculation (London, UK)

Teaching & Workshops
2023 (Oblicuas) ‘Entre Esquinas: Ciudades Seguras’, Espacio El Dorado (Bogotá, COL)
2022 (Oblicuas) ‘Cosas Rotas: Re–thinking functionalities’, ELISAVA (Barcelona, CAT)
2021 (Oblicuas) ‘Performing Objects’, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (online)
2019 (Oblicuas) ‘Formas Disidentes: Design for the Otherness’, ELISAVA (Barcelona, CAT)
2019 ‘Fake, copy and remake. Design objects in the 4.0 Rev.’ MW, L’Ex-Designer (Barcelona, CAT)

Talks
2023 ‘Art i Natura’ Ecologies Queer, La Panera (Lleida, CAT)
2023 (Oblicuas) ‘10x10 Manifestos: Violence’, Model Architectures Festival (Barcelona, CAT)
2023 ‘Todo Mal: How to Busines’ with Julia Urreaga on X Elevator Radio, Salone del Mobile (Milano, IT)
2023 (Oblicuas) ‘Conversaciones Entre Esquinas’, Espacio El Dorado (Bogotá, COL)
2022 ‘Learning with...’ Formafantasma DDW Symposium, Kazerne (Eindhoven, NL)
2022 ‘Todo Mal: How to Transit + How to Settle’ with Julia Urreaga on DAE Arena, DDW (Eindhoven, NL)
2022 (Oblicuas) ‘Función Rota: Microalteraciones Objetuales’ with Oblicuas. CineDesign3 (Barcelona, CAT)
2021 ‘Todo Mal: Precarity and/in Design. How to Exist’ with Julia Urreaga on Elevator Radio, DDW (Eindhoven, NL)
2020 (Oblicuas) ‘Making Of... Design and Identity’ with Oblicuas, Utopia126, (Barcelona, CAT)
2019 (Oblicuas) ‘L’Art com a Eina de Lluita’, Cortsenques Dissidents (Barcelona, CAT)
2018 ‘17è Fòrum Indigestió’, Nativa (Barcelona, CAT)

Grants & Fellowships
2024 INJUVE Creación
2024 Creació, Sala d’Art Jove
2023 Beques Art i Natura, La Panera 
2023 Barcelona Crea
2022 Building Talent, Stimulering Fonds
2022 (Oblicuas) Beca Creació, Sala d’Art Jove 

Publications
2023 Noia Magazine, Issue 4: States (IT)
2022 “Hunting Instructions” in Spread Mag Issue 5 (Rotterdam, NL)
2020 (Oblicuas) “Què Premiem? / What Do We Award?” with Oblicuas in ADI Book (CAT)
2018 “Culte a la Còpia: Una petita reflexió –com a disenyadora– amb voluntat imparcial”, Nativa (CAT)

Education
2022 MA GEO–DESIGN, Fine Arts and Design, Design Academy Eindhoven (Eindhoven, NL)
2020 PgD Capitalism Analysis and Transformational Policies, Postgraduate Diploma on Political Science, UAB/UB (Barcelona, CAT)
           * Granted with the Red Renta Básica fellowship
2018 BE Industrial Design Engineering + BA Product Design, ELISAVA (Barcelona, CAT)



(Full portfolio + CV upon request)



Mark