Àngels Ribé

Àngels Ribé (born 1943 in Barcelona) is considered one of the most important Catalan conceptual artists of the 70s. With a strong international presence, she worked alongside such artists as Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Gordon Matta-Clark, Lawrence Weiner, Hannah Wilke, Martha Wilson, Francesc Torres, and Krzysztof Wodiczko, among others.

Biography Ribé moved from Barcelona to Paris in 1966, and in 1969 began creating sculpture and installations, later actions and performances, working primarily with space and the body. During her years in Paris she studied sociology and ceramics and worked as an assistant to the sculptor Piotr Kowalski.

In 1972 Ribé moved to the United States, where she lived and worked for several months in Chicago before settling in New York City. She returned to Barcelona in 1980.

Work Ribe's work, contextualized in the conceptual art of the late 60s and 70s, utilized nontraditional material, which she gradually discarded to concentrate on the ephemeral—light and shadow—and the location of the body in space. In Catalonia, her work is in the collections of the Vila Casas Foundation and the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art MACBA. Her work from 1969 to 1984 was the subject of a retrospective at MACBA in 2011. For a period she signed her work as "A. Ribé" to avoid prejudgement based on her gender. Acció al parc (1969) Escuma (1969) 3 punts (1970–1973) Transport d'un raig de llum (1972) Invisible Geometry 3 (1973) Light Interaction and Wind Interaction (1973) N.A.M.E. (1974) Performance Véhicule (1974) Performance at la Galérie de Mont-real. Two Main Subjective Points on an Objective Trajectory (1975) Can't Go Home (1977) Amagueu les nines, que passen els lladres Triangle (1978) Ornamentació (1979) Paisatge (1983)

Main exhibits

Awards 2012 - Premi Nacional de Cultura 2019 - Honorary GAC Award (Premi Honorífic GAC), awarded by the Gremi de Galeries d'Art de Catalunya 2019 - National Plastic Arts Prize (Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas), awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture 2021 - Creu de Sant Jordi