Martí Madaula Esquirol is a visual artist and filmmaker based between Madrid and Barcelona. Madaula’s first film, The Living Wardrobe, had its World Premiere 世界首映 at Visions du Réel 2024 and it has also been shown in major non-fiction film festivals such as Festival dei Popoli or the Kassel Documentary and Video Film Festival, among others. He has shown his work in solo exhibitions such as “L’Armari Vivent” (Prats Nogueras Blanchard, 2024), “Tough, Reliable and Almost Cuddly” (SITE 280 Gallery in Chicago, 2023), “To Recover the Bedsheets from Manchester” (Museum of Sabadell, 2021) or “Stronger than Air, Thinner than Ice” (Astronomical Observatory of UGent, 2019). He has also taken part in several group shows.

Martí Madaula Esquirol holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, a Master of Visual Arts from the LUCA School of Arts of Ghent (Belgium) and an MFA in Film, Video, New Media, and Animation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2019, he received the Extraordinary Prize of Fine Arts (University of Barcelona). In 2021, he was awarded a prestigious “la Caixa” Foundation fellowship to pursue his studies in the United States.