COVADONGA CASTRO
I am a visual artist born in Madrid in 1993 and based in Normandy, France. After studying scenography, I obtained a master’s degree in contemporary painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Poland.
Painting lies at the centre of my work, alongside photography, collage, textile and ceramics. My work develops through close observation of landscape, colour and matter. I am interested in how forms emerge, repeat and transform, and in how an image can gradually detach itself from its original context to become an independent space.
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Artistic Research
My work explores the relationships between point, circle, surface and space. Through repetition, texture and material experimentation, I investigate how elementary forms can structure a composition and alter our perception of what lies within and beyond them.
In DOTS (2023–2024), thousands of interwoven points create dynamic fields in which colour, rhythm and texture transform the surface. In ELLIPSE, I explore the physical presence of painting through relief, texture and the emergence of form from the surface. My ongoing research, CERCLE, POINT, focuses on the relationships between figure and ground, presence and absence, interior and exterior.
Artistic Process
My process begins with observation. I travel with a camera, collecting images and details from the landscapes around me. Back in the studio, these observations become material to transform through painting and other media.
Colour and material are essential to this process. I often work with a restricted palette, using a maximum of three tones in a painting. Ultramarine blue, green and red recur in my work, interacting through contrast, rhythm and texture.
I am interested in abstraction as an open space for perception and interpretation. Rather than describing a place or fixing an image, I seek to transform what I observe into forms that can exist beyond their original reference, allowing each viewer to establish their own relationship with the work.
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Recent and Upcoming Exhibitions
SOLO Exhibitions
Art Full House, C/Martín Machio 4, Madrid
Oct-Nov 2025
B12 Gallery, Strictly Abstract
Carrer d' Antoni Planelles Ferrer, Ibiza
February-May 2021
Antonio Machón Gallery, Inventing Painting
Conde de Xiquena, 8, Madrid
April-June 2018
Group Exhibitions
Diálogos Visuales
Galería Miguel Marcos, Barcelona
September 16, 2025
Art Full House
Madrid
May 5, 2025
Beyond Physical Eyes
Soleille Gallery, Ibiza
April 4, 2025
Art Auction
Roca House, Ibiza
October 6, 2024
Holy Art Gallery, Whispers of Wonders
Paris
November 6, 2024
LACAJA,OtherWays
Fernando VI, 27, Madrid
November 2022
ACDO Studio, History of the PET Lamp
Fernández Díaz de Mendoza, 9, Madrid
February 2020
YNOT Studio
Alfonso XII, 35, Madrid
November 2019
Art Auction
AGRA ART Gallery
Wilcza, 70, Warsaw
December 2019
Publications in Magazines
New Art Project, 3th issue
Publication Date: May 2024
Holy Art Magazine, 6th issue
Publication Date: To be confirmed
No Name Collective Art VWorld, Volume 13 READ
Art Full House, C/Martín Machio 4, Madrid
Oct-Nov 2025
B12 Gallery, Strictly Abstract
Carrer d' Antoni Planelles Ferrer, Ibiza
February-May 2021
Antonio Machón Gallery, Inventing Painting
Conde de Xiquena, 8, Madrid
April-June 2018
Group Exhibitions
Diálogos Visuales
Galería Miguel Marcos, Barcelona
September 16, 2025
Art Full House
Madrid
May 5, 2025
Beyond Physical Eyes
Soleille Gallery, Ibiza
April 4, 2025
Art Auction
Roca House, Ibiza
October 6, 2024
Holy Art Gallery, Whispers of Wonders
Paris
November 6, 2024
LACAJA,OtherWays
Fernando VI, 27, Madrid
November 2022
ACDO Studio, History of the PET Lamp
Fernández Díaz de Mendoza, 9, Madrid
February 2020
YNOT Studio
Alfonso XII, 35, Madrid
November 2019
Art Auction
AGRA ART Gallery
Wilcza, 70, Warsaw
December 2019
Publications in Magazines
New Art Project, 3th issue
Publication Date: May 2024
Holy Art Magazine, 6th issue
Publication Date: To be confirmed
No Name Collective Art VWorld, Volume 13 READ
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