Berni Puig (Castellbell i el Vilar, 1990) is a visual artist who lives and works at Konvent, a former late-19th-century convent now repurposed as a contemporary art center. Trained in illustration and printmaking, he began his practice in muralism, approaching the wall not simply as a support, but as a space for action and lived experience. That early relationship with the outdoors —with exposure to the elements, with urban and rural scale, with the body standing before the wall— continues to resonate in his work today. The wall often functions as a canvas, but also as the memory of that initial gesture of painting in the open air.

With Pintura Interior (2021), created in an abandoned house in Cal Rosal, Puig began a process of extraction and displacement: he collected fragments of peeling paint from the interior walls and relocated them —enlarged and rearranged— to the building’s exterior, turning the façade into an echo and extension of its own chromatic memory. This marked a turning point: the wall ceased to be merely a surface of inscription and became an archive, a skin. Characterized by formal precision and rigorous compositional control, this period situates the work between abstraction and geographical specificity, between geometric pattern and the memory of place.

At the same time, he developed a growing interest in color as a living, atmospheric, and site-responsive phenomenon. Projects such as Plein Air, Journée, and Tienda —the latter in collaboration with Anna Benet— explore how light transforms the tones of the landscape throughout the day, and how these variations can become a sensitive record of territory. Color is no longer just composition; it becomes time and exposure.

In the following years, Puig deepened his engagement with the strappo technique —traditionally associated with the removal of Romanesque frescoes— using it to extract fragments of mural, domestic, or graffiti paint from abandoned factories and houses, particularly in the textile colonies along the Llobregat river. This process gives the work a strong material presence and reactivates its connection to the outside world: the piece does not represent the wall but literally incorporates its skin. Strappo thus becomes both an act of displacement and preservation —a removal that transforms the wall into portable memory.

Over time, his practice has evolved toward a more organic process, less governed by strict geometry, while retaining strappo as a foundation due to his sustained interest in materiality and the physical trace of place. In series such as Blaus del blau, Intèrvals, and Gotera, geometry loosens, forms soften, and color gains autonomy, unfolding with a freedom that moves away from initial calculation toward a more atmospheric and permeable logic.

In his most recent work, Puig focuses on rural environments and their minor architectures: tool sheds, lean-tos, precarious structures, ruined buildings, and the interstitial spaces between houses. He is drawn to margins and voids, to what often goes unnoticed. His engagement with territory is not monumental but attentive and intimate —a way of cataloguing the involuntary memory inscribed on surfaces and within cracks. In this sense, his practice increasingly moves away from representation to construct its own system of signs, where color, matter, and fragment enter into dialogue with time and place.

He is currently represented by Galería Alzueta.de la descripción va aquí

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026 - “Behind the wall, there is a landscape”, JW Projects, Singapore (Singapore)

2025 - “Gotera”, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid (Spain)

2024 - “Blaus del blau”, We Collect Gallery, Barcelona (Spain)

2024 - “Intèrvals”, Alzueta Gallery, Casavells (Spain) - Catalogue

2024 - “Entrar per la finestra”, Galeria Lumbreras, Bilbao (Spain) - Catalogue

2023 - “Pintura Interior” Solo Exhibition, VI Biennal Contemporary Art TAVCC, Manresa (Spain)

2020 - “Batalla” (Battle) Solo exhibition Contemporanis at TAV-CC, Manresa. (Spain)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 - Gest, Konvent (Spain)

2026 - Mompou, Alzueta Gallery Paris (France)

2026 - Shift Towards Coincidence, Alzueta Gallery Casavells (Spain)

2026 - XI Exhibition Pintura Torres García - Ciutat de Mataró (Spain)

2025 - Somewhere, Galerie Grécourt (France)

2024 - N2, Centre d’Art Contemporani Piramidón (Spain)

2024 - X Exhibition Pintura Torres García - Ciutat de Mataró (Spain)

2023 - Presente continuo, La Térmica (Spain) - Catalogue

2023 - Museu del Ciment, Konvent (Spain)

2022 - Aventis, Lexus Art Gallery (Spain)

2022 - ¡Fresco, Fresco!, Adda Gallery (Spain)

2022 - XXXVIII Young Art Exhibition La Rioja (Spain)

2022 - IX Exhibition Pintura Torres García - Ciutat de Mataró (Spain)

2022 - XXXVIII Young Art Exhibition La Rioja (Spain)

2021 - Mémorie, La Providence, Ille-sur-Têt (France)

2021 - Ciència Fricció, Itineraris Simbiòtics, CCCB (Spain)

2020 - Jardins de Llum, Manresa (Spain)

2019 - Jardins de Llum, Manresa (Spain)

2019 - Pencilvania Magazine at Espai Brut, Barcelona (Spain)

2018 - Tret de Sortida, Konvent, Cal Rosal (Spain)

2018 - XVIII Young Art Exhibition La Rioja (Spain)

2018 - Creença, Void Projects, Konvent, Cal Rosal (Spain)

2018 - Gran Exposició de Joves del Territori al Kursaal, Casserres (Spain)

2018 - Hiper, Torre de l’Amo, Viladomiu Nou (Spain)

2017 - October Press, Alacant (Spain)

2016 - Biblos, Betanzos (Spain)

2016 - Encuentro Alfara, Salamanca (Spain)

2015 - Emergents.0, Konvent, Cal Rosal (Spain)

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2023 - Honourable mention IX Festival of design and arquitecture Concentrico, Logroño (Spain)

2022 - Marconi International Urban Art Competition Award, Madrid (Spain)

2021 - First Prize Climent Muncunill Roca Painting Award 2021, Manresa (Spain)

2020 - Contemporanis Grant 2020, TAV-CC, Manresa (Spain)

2018 - Tendències Award 2018, Regió 7, Manresa (Spain)

2016 - Production Grant, Alfara, Salamanca (Spain)

2016 - Selected, Open Porfolio FIG Bilbao, Basque Region (Spain)

2015 - Engraving Masters Degree CIEC foundation Grant, Xunta de Galícia (Spain)

2014 - Engraving Seminar, by Montse Gomis, Castell de Cardosa (Spain)

2013 - Grant, Experimental Engraving Seminar, Xavier Nogués Foundation, Barcelona (Spain)

MURALISM FESTIVALS

2024 - SAFMO, Mostar (Bosnia & Herzegovina)

2024 - Muro Crítico, Extremadura (Spain)

2023 - Murs que parlen, Granollers (Spain)

2023 - ArtBaniana, Baena (Spain)

2022 - Marconi International Urban Art Competition, Madrid (Spain)

2022 - Festival Cultura en la Calle, Rivas-Vaciamadrid (Spain)

2022 - Camprovinarte, La Rioja (Spain)

2022 - Calle Libre, Vienna (Austria)

2022 - IBUG Festival, Floha (Germany)

2022 - Polinizados, Valencia (Spain)

2021 - Festival Asalto, Zaragoza (Spain)

2021 - Festival Ruïnes, Konvent, Cal Rosal (Spain)

2020 - Festival MUR, Manresa (Spain)

2020 - Festival La Tapia, Sant Joan d’Alacant (Spain)

2020 - Festival GarGar, Penelles (Spain)

2019 - Festival Vilart, Castellbell i el Vilar (Spain)

2019 - Festival Arte en la Calle, La Robla (Spain)

2019 - Festival Florits, Valls (Spain)

2019 - Festival MUR, Manresa (Spain)

RESIDENCIES SELECTED

2024 - Residencia Nautilus Lanzarote (Spain)

2024 - Piramidón, Barcelona (Spain)

2022 - Creadores 2022, La Térmica de Málaga (Spain)

2022 - Microresidències B-Murals (Spain)

2022 - La Providence, Ille-sur-Têt (France)

EL TEMPS DE LES ARTS - Refugi d'artistes visuals i artesans - Rita Roig - 09/23

THE NEW BARCELONA POST - Berni Puig: El color como protagonista - Albert Valle - 01/23

EL TEMPS - Pintura que arrela. La història de la nova església de Penelles - Marcel Pujols - 09/2020

NÚVOL - Pintors sota l’ombra: Berni Puig - Clàudia Rius i Llorens - 08/2020

SURT DE CASA - Anna Zaera - 08/2020