Born in Barcelona and based in London, Robert Cervera graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2014 with an MA in Sculpture.
He won the 2014 Kenneth Armitage Young Sculptor Prize for his degree show.
I work from the material, whether concrete or air, paying attention to its leaky ways.
My sculptures riff on containment and flow, structure and formlessness, armature and flesh.
I’m interested in the infrastructure that quietly surrounds us - and in finding ways to make it visible.
I keep an open research on the ways we contain and herd shapeless assets such as water and data,
and how similar materials and constructs are deployed in those efforts.
Music and live performance have found their way in as additional tools that help me prod the digital side of our world.
I explore the physicality of the digital through some of the materials (liquid cooling pipes, code, concrete)
that make its existence possible.
He won the 2014 Kenneth Armitage Young Sculptor Prize for his degree show.
I work from the material, whether concrete or air, paying attention to its leaky ways.
My sculptures riff on containment and flow, structure and formlessness, armature and flesh.
I’m interested in the infrastructure that quietly surrounds us - and in finding ways to make it visible.
I keep an open research on the ways we contain and herd shapeless assets such as water and data,
and how similar materials and constructs are deployed in those efforts.
Music and live performance have found their way in as additional tools that help me prod the digital side of our world.
I explore the physicality of the digital through some of the materials (liquid cooling pipes, code, concrete)
that make its existence possible.
PRESS LINKS:
Studio visit by DATEAGLE ART. Interview by Laura Gosney. Photography by Martin Mayorga.
https://dateagle.art/robert-cervera-interview/
ON VIEW by Flash Art
https://flash---art.com/2020/09/robert-cervera-tangent-projects-barcelona/
Studio visit by DATEAGLE ART. Interview by Laura Gosney. Photography by Martin Mayorga.
https://dateagle.art/robert-cervera-interview/
ON VIEW by Flash Art
https://flash---art.com/2020/09/robert-cervera-tangent-projects-barcelona/
Education
2012/14 MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London.
2010/11 Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art (Distinction). Byam Shaw/ Central St. Martins, University of the Arts, London.
2009/10 Foundation Fine Art (Distinction). Central St. Martins, University of the Arts, London.
1988/99 Music studies (theory, trumpet, brass quartet, orchestra). Conservatori de Música de Badalona.
Awards and bursaries
2015 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, shortlisted.
2015 Mark Tanner Sculpture Award, shortlisted.
2014 Visual Arts Fund, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon.
2014 Exeter Contemporary Open, additional award.
2014 Kenneth Armitage Young Sculptor Prize, winner.
2013 Coutts Cowley Manor Arts Award (outdoor sculpture commission).
2013 Windle Trust Grant.
2012 Royal College of Art, student bursary (2012-2014).
Residencies
2019 Tangent Projects, Barcelona
2017 La Escocesa, Barcelona.
2014 Atelier Concorde, Lisbon.
2012 Kathmandu Contemporary Arts Centre, Nepal.
2012/14 MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London.
2010/11 Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art (Distinction). Byam Shaw/ Central St. Martins, University of the Arts, London.
2009/10 Foundation Fine Art (Distinction). Central St. Martins, University of the Arts, London.
1988/99 Music studies (theory, trumpet, brass quartet, orchestra). Conservatori de Música de Badalona.
Awards and bursaries
2015 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, shortlisted.
2015 Mark Tanner Sculpture Award, shortlisted.
2014 Visual Arts Fund, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon.
2014 Exeter Contemporary Open, additional award.
2014 Kenneth Armitage Young Sculptor Prize, winner.
2013 Coutts Cowley Manor Arts Award (outdoor sculpture commission).
2013 Windle Trust Grant.
2012 Royal College of Art, student bursary (2012-2014).
Residencies
2019 Tangent Projects, Barcelona
2017 La Escocesa, Barcelona.
2014 Atelier Concorde, Lisbon.
2012 Kathmandu Contemporary Arts Centre, Nepal.
Solo and two-person shows
2020 Ye_soft_pipes/play_on, Tangent Projects, Barcelona.
2019 YES AND, MOCA London (with Peter Lamb)
2018 YES AND, Kelder Projects, London (with Peter Lamb).
2017 Tomorrow Starts Here, La Escocesa, Barcelona.
2015 Re:Pro, OK Corral, Copenhagen (with Robin Seir).
2014 Prova, Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art (with Youngju Oh).
2013 Access, solo installation at St Mary Aldermary, London.
2012 A Few Words In Material Nepali (solo), Patan Museum, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Recent group shows
2020 You're in a computer game, Max!, skelf.org.uk
2019 Panorama #03, Galeria Fran Reus, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
2019 Happy Hour. Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London.
2019 Matter. County Hall Gallery, London.
2017 Identify your limitations, acknowledge your periphery. VITRINE, Basel.
2017 Glut Data. ASC Gallery, London.
2017 Concrete + Clay, Roaming Room, London.
2017 New Material. APT Gallery, London.
2017 Salón ACME, Zona MACO week, Mexico City.
2016 CUE COLLISION with Vivien Zhang. House of Egorn (London Lounge).
2016 OUTPOST OPEN FILM 2016. Selected by Ed Atkins. Outpost, Norwich.
2016 ICHOR. Robert Cervera, Katarina Hruskova, Alix Marie. Danielle Arnaud, London.
2016 Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition. Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen.
2016 Rare Collisions of Purpose. Boetzelaer | Nispen, Amsterdam.
2015 The things we make, make us. Sarah Bayliss, Robert Cervera & Simon Linington, Space in Between off-site at Eton College, Windsor (UK).
2015 Stuart Barnes, Robert Cervera, Tom Owen, Studio 1.1, London.
2015 Tara has no rooms inside, Unit 1, London. (View images here)
2015 Salón ACME, Zona MACO week, Mexico City.
2014 Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter (UK).
2014 For(matter), Atelier Concorde, Lisbon.
2014 Encuentros Arte Contemporáneo 2014, Museo de la Universidad de Alicante.
2014 Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London.
2014 Open 2014, Oriel Davies, Newtown (Wales).
2020 Ye_soft_pipes/play_on, Tangent Projects, Barcelona.
2019 YES AND, MOCA London (with Peter Lamb)
2018 YES AND, Kelder Projects, London (with Peter Lamb).
2017 Tomorrow Starts Here, La Escocesa, Barcelona.
2015 Re:Pro, OK Corral, Copenhagen (with Robin Seir).
2014 Prova, Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art (with Youngju Oh).
2013 Access, solo installation at St Mary Aldermary, London.
2012 A Few Words In Material Nepali (solo), Patan Museum, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Recent group shows
2020 You're in a computer game, Max!, skelf.org.uk
2019 Panorama #03, Galeria Fran Reus, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
2019 Happy Hour. Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London.
2019 Matter. County Hall Gallery, London.
2017 Identify your limitations, acknowledge your periphery. VITRINE, Basel.
2017 Glut Data. ASC Gallery, London.
2017 Concrete + Clay, Roaming Room, London.
2017 New Material. APT Gallery, London.
2017 Salón ACME, Zona MACO week, Mexico City.
2016 CUE COLLISION with Vivien Zhang. House of Egorn (London Lounge).
2016 OUTPOST OPEN FILM 2016. Selected by Ed Atkins. Outpost, Norwich.
2016 ICHOR. Robert Cervera, Katarina Hruskova, Alix Marie. Danielle Arnaud, London.
2016 Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition. Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen.
2016 Rare Collisions of Purpose. Boetzelaer | Nispen, Amsterdam.
2015 The things we make, make us. Sarah Bayliss, Robert Cervera & Simon Linington, Space in Between off-site at Eton College, Windsor (UK).
2015 Stuart Barnes, Robert Cervera, Tom Owen, Studio 1.1, London.
2015 Tara has no rooms inside, Unit 1, London. (View images here)
2015 Salón ACME, Zona MACO week, Mexico City.
2014 Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter (UK).
2014 For(matter), Atelier Concorde, Lisbon.
2014 Encuentros Arte Contemporáneo 2014, Museo de la Universidad de Alicante.
2014 Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London.
2014 Open 2014, Oriel Davies, Newtown (Wales).