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20 November 2024
Casa Batlló announces Quayola as the next artist for its 2025 façade mapping in Barcelona
Casa Batlló Quayola façade mapping Barcelona – images L-R: Portrait of Quayola; Rendering of ‘Arborescent’. Images courtesy Quayola Studio; Refik Anadol, ‘Living Architecture’ 2023, Casa Batlló:
image : Claudia Maurino
In February 2025, Italian artist Quayola will present a monumental projection mapping – illuminating the façade of Casa Batlló where nature, just as in Gaudí’s legendary building, will reveal itself as a source of inspiration.
Casa Batlló’s façade mapping has become a major, free public event in the city of Barcelona – making global headlines each year. This 4th edition will take place on February 1 and 2 every 30 minutes from 7:30 p.m until 10:30 p.m.
Barcelona, November 19, 2024. On February 1 and 2, 2025, Casa Batlló’s façade will once again draw audiences with its annual mapping event, which, after four years, has established itself as one of the top audiovisual spectacles in the world. Its last edition attracted over 95,000 visitors.
Following mappings by Refik Anadol in 2022 and 2023, and Sofía Crespo in 2024, Casa Batlló has once again invited a renowned artist to use Gaudí’s iconic façade as a canvas to develop an exclusive work inspired by the architect’s creative universe. This initiative is part of The Heritage of Tomorrow artistic program, which aims to bring Gaudí’s legacy into the future with artist commissions and interventions. For the 2025 edition, Casa Batlló has selected multimedia artist Quayola, whose work often explores the natural world through advanced computational processes.
Quayola states, “As I constantly research new relationships with the heritage of our visual culture, working with such an iconic symbol as Casa Batlló is something very special. Immersing myself in Gaudí’s work has reiterated to me the boundless power of nature as an endless source of artistic inspiration.”
Casa Batlló Barcelona building facade:
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A fusion of art and technology on an iconic façade
The mapping, titled “Arborescent”, is a digital tribute to nature, where various species of trees will illustrate their growth systems and respond to the environment on a unique canvas: Casa Batlló’s façade. Known for reimagining historical heritage, Quayola synthesizes Gaudí’s architectural inspirations and combines minimalist algorithm-driven visualizations with a colorful, pictorial aesthetic. The mapping will be accompanied by an original soundtrack composed by the artist himself, serving as a guide to immerse us in the blossoming of life within architecture.
Gary Gautier, CEO of Casa Batlló, states, “Quayola is a perfect fit for our principles: he merges the classical with the modern and decodes nature with a personal perspective and unique aesthetic. Moreover, his work has a sculptural component that is ideal for enhancing a façade like Casa Batlló, full of reliefs and symbolism.”
Quayola
Quayola employs technology as a lens to explore the tensions and equilibriums between seemingly opposing forces: the real and artificial, figurative and abstract, old and new. Constructing immersive installations, he engages with and re-imagines canonical imagery through contemporary technology. Landscape painting, classical sculpture and iconography are some of the historical aesthetics that serve as a point of departure for Quayola’s hybrid compositions.
His work has been performed and exhibited in many prestigious institutions worldwide including V&A Museum, London; Park Avenue Armory, New York; National Art Center, Tokyo; UCCA, Beijing; How Art Museum, Shanghai; SeMA, Seoul; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Ars Electronica, Linz; Sonar Festival, Barcelona and Sundance Film Festival. In 2013, Quayola was awarded the Golden Nica at Ars Electronica.
Casa Batlló
Casa Batlló is one of Antoni Gaudí’s masterpieces, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2005, a pinnacle of Modernism, and an icon of Barcelona. With over 1.5 million visitors per year, Casa Batlló offers innovative cultural experiences with one goal: to make people happy through art. Its new immersive cultural visit, launched in 2021 and awarded 37 international prizes, represents a pioneering museographic proposal with numerous technological innovations that amplify Gaudí’s magic, including immersive rooms, augmented reality content, and audiovisual installations. Additionally, the monument has intensified its restoration efforts since 2018, rehabilitating iconic spaces such as the main façade, lobbies, rooftop, and courtyards, with more than 20 million euros invested in these interventions.
Casa Batlló is committed to sustainable development, and since 2019 it has held the Biosphere certification, an internationally recognized sustainability seal that endorses best practices aligned with the 2030 Agenda and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this field, Casa Batlló stands out for its social commitment to the employment inclusion of neurodivergent individuals (autism, dyspraxia, ADHD…), being the first World Heritage Site with a team of 100 neurodivergent people to welcome and assist visitors.
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The Heritage of Tomorrow
The Heritage of Tomorrow is an artistic program by Casa Batlló that invites innovative, interdisciplinary artists to explore their limits by creating new works inspired by Gaudí’s legacy. The program’s principles are based on creative freedom, experimentation, and immersion, reflecting Barcelona’s cutting-edge artistic ecosystem.
Since 2021, the monument has collaborated with internationally renowned artists like Refik Anadol and Sofía Crespo, who have created mappings on Casa Batlló’s façade and exhibited works within the monument. Casa Batlló works closely with artists, offering the monument’s various spaces as a canvas, as well as access to its private archives and institutional resources.
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post updated June 26, 2021
photograph © Adrian Welch
Casa Batllo Barcelona
Photos from Summer 2011:
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Casa Batlló
Location: Passeig de Gracia, Eixample, Barcelona, north east Spain
Dates built: 1904-06
Design: Antoni Gaudí Architect
Casa Batllo in Eixample is the smaller and earlier of the Antoni Gaudi buildings on Passeig de Gracia: the facade is flatter but its roof more pronounced as organic architecture. You can enter Casa Batllo and visit the roof, like Casa Mila (also by Antoni Gaudi) expect queues at busier times of the year.
This famous Catalan building is a remodelling of an older house. It is located on the west side of the street, just south of the larger Gaudi building diagonally opposite. The building is known colloquially as Casa dels ossos – House of Bones in English.
Older photos of this Antoni Gaudi building:
photos © Adrian Welch
More Casa Batlo images available upon request
Architect Antoni Gaudí, was assisted on this house remodelling project by Domènec Sugrañes i Gras, Josep Canaleta and Joan Rubió.
Address: Passeig de Gràcia, 43, 08007 Barcelona, Spain
Phone: +34 932 16 03 06
Location: Passeig de Gracia, Barcelona, Catalunya, Northeast Spain, southwestern Europe
Casa Batlló Context
A ‘sister building’ to Casa Battlo is just to the north:
Casa Mila – The Quarry / Casa Milà – La Pedrera, Passeig de Gracia, Eixample
Date: 1910
Design: Antoni Gaudí Architect
photo © Adrian Welch
Casa Mila Barcelona
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Casa Calvet, Eixample
Design: Antoni Gaudí Architect
photo © Adrian Welch
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