https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b6a864_6ff44b686fde4924bf22395aea1a9088~mv2.jpg carles castel 1965 born in manresa (catalonia/spain) 1986-1991 studies in fine arts at the central university of barcelona among others, his teachers were prof. joan hernández pijuan and prof. xavier grau 1991-1996 conservation and restoration of art 1992-1994 doctorate studies in fine arts and art history at the central university of barcelona 1992-1995 scholarship in research and fieldwork at the catalan centre of conservation and restoration 2001 ph.d. in fine arts at the central university of barcelona. during his studies and his work in restoration of art, carles castel has developed his painting career in parallel from 1998-2002 carles castel lived and painted in london from 2002-2004 the artist painted and studied in osaka, japan since 2005 carles castel has been living and painting between barcelona and berlin his paintings are in private collections in europe, usa, mexico, brazil and the far east https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b6a864_3c4f5539818a453aae00bdb7bd7d3386~mv2.jpg carles castel explains his art to two young children in his studio 2019

1999-2013 blunden oriental, london (yearly exhibitions) 2000- 2013 affordable art fair, london (yearly exhibitions) 2004 metropolitan museum of art, tokyo (group exhibition) 2010 fett 6, space for art, hamburg 2010 merck finck & co. private bankers, hamburg 2010 pigs, berlin 2011 merck finck & Co, private bankers, hamburg 2012 ballhaus pankow, berlin (group exhibition) 2013 german association of the automotive industry (VDA), berlin 2013 kunstverein kunsthaus potsdam (group exhibition) 2014 german association of the automotive industry (VDA), berlin 2015 spanisch embassy / hotel BARCELO, hamburg 2015 spanish embassy / BAGL-art fair, berlin https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b6a864_45f45c56a2a94c9eb7073815ebe0acca~mv2.jpg spanish embassador pablo garcia-berdoy visiting the exhibition in berlin 2016 bernheimer contemporary, berlin (group exhibition) 2016 fashion week, bernheimer contemporary, berlin 2016 checkpoint # 12 Ilgen, berlin (group exhibition) 2017 installation, xantener str. 6, berlin 2017 bernheimer contemporary, material boys & girls, part I, munich (group exhibition) 2017 bernheimer contemporary, material boys & girls, part ll, berlin (group exhibition) 2018 edmond gallery, berlin (together with Yoyo) https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b6a864_d46739dc1e884c0db503031fdd2710dc~mv2.jpg ai wei wei visiting carles at his exhibition in berlin 2018 2019 several private exhibitions in spain, u.k. and germany 2020-2021 exhibitions paused during covid-19 pandemics additionally, his works have been exhibited privately in france, germany, hongkong, japan, mexico, spain, u.k. and USA.