About

Magdalena Hart. UK / Uruguay, in Barcelona

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Magdalena Hart practices porosity as a methodology that allows her to inhabit decomposition and sustain sensitivity within contexts of accelerated change and deep erosion. Her work unfolds through sensitive devices and interactive installations that expand her modes of perception beyond dominant forms of knowledge production.

Artist Magdalena Hart working on a glass and light installation, shadows cast across the gallery wall
Tall glass vessels holding a flower bud and dried flowers, with their shadow on the studio wall
Two looped blown glass tubes hanging on a white wall

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Materially, her sculptural language is built from blown glass and the accumulation of residual elements, intertwined with multispecies alliances and low-tech practices. She approaches her research as a composting process, understanding her archive as a territory that ferments, decomposes, and reorganizes into new forms of intimacy. From this dialogue she learns from the gentleness of deterioration, an intelligence that inhabits things as they open toward their own undoing.

Blown glass coils and spirals with residual materials on the studio floor
Magdalena Hart glass studio: blown glass pieces, tools and a keyboard on pink fabric
Magdalena Hart crouching beside hanging blown glass tubes in her studio

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She is currently a resident of the following spaces: Difusions (Barcelona), Hangar (Barcelona), Tandem x Casa R.A.R.O (Barcelona), and Maker Sherpa at the Centre Cívic Convent Sant Agustí (Barcelona).

Installation of sunflowers held in glass vessels arranged in a grid, by Magdalena Hart
Grid of sunflowers in glass vessels connected by thin cables, installation view
Close view of sunflowers in glass vessels from the grid installation by Magdalena Hart

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She holds a Master’s degree in Audiovisual Innovation and Interactive Environments from BAU, Barcelona (2019). Her work has been exhibited in the following spaces: the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, The New York Times, CosmoCaixa, By Invitation of the Equestrian Circuit, the Contemporary Art Space of Uruguay, Apoc London, Madrid Design Festival, Mira Festival, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona Design Festival, Metal Magazine, Art Connect, among others.

Blown glass wall sculpture hanging beside a steel rail
Looped blown glass tube hanging from the wall down to the studio floor
Installation of blown glass tubes and residual elements under red light on the studio floor

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Recognitions include: Barcelona Crea: Practicable Research and Experimentation Grant from Hangar (with Manglar Collective), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Residency Programme, Support for Digital and Electronic Art from MEC Uruguay, and the Performing Arts Fellowship from Fonds Darstellende Künste (with Akyute Collective).

Coiled blown glass tubes with a white lily, sculpture by Magdalena Hart
Detail of textured blown glass against a steel rail
Looped borosilicate glass sculpture with hand-formed joints on a white wall
Coiled blown glass tube sculpture by Magdalena Hart, close-up

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Since 2019, she has led Akyute, an artistic duo exploring ecological sensitivity through interactive installations and performances. From this dialogue, she created Rain and Rivers in 2023, a practice based on research into glassblowing, water, and wearables. In 2023, she co-founded Manglar, a transdisciplinary collective of Latin American artists and researchers brought together at Hangar’s WetLab. This experimental project proposes situated sciences that de-universalize the scientific gesture, integrating the body as both site and perspective.

Blown glass tubes connected to a small electronic device, a sensitive device by Magdalena Hart
Spiral blown glass sculptures holding white flowers on a concrete floor
Magdalena Hart wearing a glass sculpture with a white lily, wearable glass by Rain and Rivers

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Long blown glass sculpture lying in a strip of sunlight on a dark floor