Josep Piñol (Tivenys, 1994) is an artist working across performance, installation, and conceptual research. His work explores the intersection of ritual, institutional critique, and political ecology, focusing on how authority, legality, and value are enacted and contested in public space. Through situational devices, mimicry, and displacement, he brings systems of power, mediation, and legitimation into friction, exposing the gap between symbolic structures and their material consequences. Operating from within the regimes of legitimation that sustain these systems, he appropriates and reconfigures their languages to reveal their internal tensions. Far from offering consolation, his works are grounded in discomfort as a site of truth.
Residency Dates
1. 10. – 1. 12. 2026
Residency Project: The Fan
During the residency, Josep will develop The Fan, a research-based project that examines the frictions between thermal comfort, urban infrastructure, and the politics of climate adaptation. Beginning from the observation that a fan produces relief without changing the underlying condition, the project uses thermal experience as an entry point to think about how heat is lived, distributed, and negotiated in public space. Through research situated in Prague and the prototyping of a functional device, The Fan will take shape as a shareable public situation in which thermal experience becomes a way to reflect on infrastructure, everyday politics, and the social conditions of climate adaptation.
Selected Exhibitions, Residencies, Talks and Public Programmes
2026 The Value of Renunciation, conversation with theorist and curator Václav Jánoščík at Instituto Cervantes, Prague; public talk at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (AVU). (CZ)
2026 Artist residency at MeetFactory, Prague, Czech Republic, through Homesession in collaboration with Institut Ramon Llull. Research and development of The Fan. (CZ)
2026 Artist residency at CAPACETE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Development and presentation of Mesas de la Concordia I. (BR)
2026 Public talk, EVITADA: From Conceptual Art to Carbon Credits, with art critic Fernando Castro Flórez and curator Roberta Bosco, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain. (ES)
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2026 S/C, group exhibition at Centre d’Art Lo Pati, Amposta, Spain. (ES)
2026 Public talks on EVITADA at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, and Kathmandu University, Kathmandu. (IN/NP)
2025 Public talk on artistic practice and dissidence at MNAC – Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. (ES)
2025 Presentation of EVITADA, curated by Roberta Bosco, at Museu Tàpies, Barcelona, as part of «Contrariar abismos. Poéticas de escala», a cycle within Museu Habitat, directed by Manuel J. Borja-Villel. (ES)
2024 Presentation of Fusilamiento del 12 de octubre at Saó – CAN de Farrera, Farrera, Spain. (ES)
2024 Presentation of Santa Baldana at the VII Foro Cultura y Ruralidades, organised by Spain’s Ministry of Culture, Tortosa, Spain. (ES)
Information for Visitors
MeetFactory, o. p. s. Ke Sklárně 3213/15 150 00 Praha 5
GPS: 50.053653 14.408441
Opening hours: 13:00 to 20:00 + based on evening program
Support
MeetFactory is supported in 2026 by a grant from the City of Prague amounting to 12.000.000 CZK. Web MeetFactory podléhá licenci Creative Commons.
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Theme
The residency project 'The Fan' will examine the frictions between thermal comfort, urban infrastructure, and the politics of climate adaptation, using thermal experience to reflect on infrastructure, everyday politics, and the social conditions of climate adaptation.