Clara Silvina

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Education

2024–2026
2024–2025
2020–2022
2019
2011–2018

Master in Fine Arts *Graduated with distinction / Highest Honours. Institute Art Gender Nature, FHNW, Basel, CH
Organismo TBA21 Academy, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Madrid, ES
Large Ceramic Sculpture, Escuela de Cerámica de Madrid, ES
Master of Architecture, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES
BA of Science in Architecture, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES), Seoul National University (KR)

Teaching / Research

2024–2025
2024–2025
2021–2022
2018–2019

Sculpture Tutor. Institute Art Gender Nature, FHNW Basel, CH
Tutor & Design Professor. Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) Madrid
Research Assistant. Cultural Landscape Research Group (GIPC), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ETSAM) Madrid, ES
Teaching Assistant. Department of Architectural Design, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ETSAM) Madrid, ES

Awards / Scholarships

2025
2024–2026
2025
2020
2019
2017

FAB Excellence Scholarship, awarded for outstanding academic and artistic achievement, Basel, CH
Alexander Sarasin Foundation Scholarship, supporting MFA studies, Basel, CH
Circuitos de Artes Plásticas Award for Young Artists, Comunidad de Madrid, ES
COAM Emergent Architecture Award, Madrid, ES
First Prize, Insòlit Festival, Palma de Mallorca, ES
First Prize (International Competition), Concéntrico Festival 03, La Rioja, ES

Selected
Exhibitions

2026
2026
2026
2026
2025
2025
2025
2025
2024
2023
2023
2022
2019
2018
2017

(upcoming) Slow Burn, Arsen33, Zurich, CH
Another Birth, Kunsthaus Baselland, curated by Anette Amberg & Chus Martínez. Basel, CH
I Bind With Forget-Me-Nots, Der TANK, HGK, curated by Clara Silvina & Miriam Borella. Basel, CH
A pigeon is a horse in a thistle forest, Paratopia Curates, ZHdK. Zurich, CH
Le souffle de la subsistance’, Regionale 2026, Kunsthalle Mulhouse, FR
Una flor es una flecha es un flexo un flan es una flor, curator Manuela Pedrón Nicolau, Sala de Arte Joven, Madrid, ES
TRADE, Freiform Kollektiv, Basel, CH
A Friend of A Friend of A Friend, Der TANK (IAGN), Basel, CH
From Reality to Dreams, Mayrit Bienal of Architecture and Design, Madrid, ES
¡Viva la Montaña!, Spanish Pavilion curated by Maral Kekejian, Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Prague, CZ
Waldglas, GlogauAIR, Berlin, DE
Art and Nature, Escuela de Cerámica de la Moncloa, Madrid, ES
The Catenary and the Arc, Insòlit Festival, Palma de Mallorca, ES
Becoming, Spanish Pavilion, 16th Architectural Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT
Origami, Concéntrico 03 Architecture Festival, Logroño, ES

Residencies

2023
2022

Artistic Residency Program GlogauAIR, Berlin, DE
12 Miradas with Ignasi Aballí: How much space do we need?, Galicia, ES

Publications

2025
2025
2019

‘Defence and Desire’, I Never Read Art Book Fair, Basel, CH
Organismo Year One, TBA21, Madrid, ES
‘Islands of Modernity in the City of Madrid (1860–1936)’, BA Thesis *With Honors, Madrid, ES

Exhibition Design & Scenography

2025

2025

2025

2024

2024

Clear, Lucid, and Awake, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, KR
Curated by Chus Martínez; co-produced by TBA21 Thyssen Borzhemisa Contemporary Art Center Madrid and Art Sonje Center Seoul
Becoming Ocean, Villa Arson, Nice, FR
Curated by TBA21 and Villa Arson
Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa: Guerra, Comercio y Filantropía, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, ES
Scenography and furniture design. Curated by Chus Martínez
Ana Mendieta: Search for Origin, MUSAC, León, ES
Exhibition design, in collaboration with Carbajo Hermanos.
They saw something in the sky: Javier Bravo de Rueda, Itinerarios XXX Centro Botín, Santander, ES
Exhibition design / spatial design

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