Marina Planas

Visual artist, researcher,
and cultural producer

Currently, she is working on projects related to the theme of the archive. Marina's family was involved in the production of postcards during the 1950s, 60s, and 70s for the tourism industry, thus generating the iconography and vacation imagery of the Balearic Islands. In recent years, her work has focused on postcards and the idea of generating fiction and desire through tourist utopia.

She is also the director of the Center for Research and Contemporary Culture Casa Planas, where she launched the Uncovering Archive program, focused on creating residencies to intervene in and vitalise the Planas Archive.

Her installations, videos, and photographs have been exhibited at the Anthology Film Archive (NYC), La Nacional (NYC), within the context of the Venice Biennale, at the Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona), at the Museu Es Baluard (Palma), Just Mad (Madrid), Frac Corsica, the Genoa Biennale, Casal Solleric, 300 Stvorcov (Slovakia), and in various national theaters.

In 2018, she was selected for the Premi Ciutat de Palma Antoni Gelabert d’Arts Visuals and the VI Premi Santanyí Francisco Bernareggi d’Arts Visuals of Santanyí. In 2019, she won the Pilar Juncosa i Sotheby’s Scholarship for an artistic residency at the Slade School of Arts, London.

She completed her master’s studies (Photography, Video & Related Media) at SVA in New York with the Alice Beck-Odette Scholarship, which she received in 2012-13. During this time, she also worked as a photography and video teacher in the Fine Arts department. She holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication. She has worked as a photographer, cultural writer, screenwriter, camera operator, and film restorer (at Infinia, a post-production company that worked on films by Bigas Luna and Almodóvar), curator, and vice president of the Association of Visual Artists.

After living in Barcelona and New York, she moved to Palma, where she currently resides.