Francesca Llopis creative universe developed from the early 1980s through different techniques and formats, from painting and design to installation, photography and video art.
Born in Barcelona where she lives. She enrolled at Escola Eina to study painting and the poetics of space.
1981: 1st artist residency i Palatz Culturi in Warsaw where the foreseeable coup d’etat transforms her pictorial world. This was the turning point where the “journey” became a central element in her artistic process.
1988: residency in the Académia di Roma and l’Écolle des Beaux Arts de Nimes. Arnau Puig defines her painting as «semanticized constructivism”
1989: 6.8.89 TIANANMENT was 1rst intervention in the public space of Hospitalet in Barcelona, where she dug a ditch as a tribute to the Chinese students, with the collaboration of sound artist Barbara Held.
1999: MAL.LALTES D’AMOR in Lübeck (Germany)
2002: 2 HABITACIONS AMB VISTES, a social portrait of Barcelona.
2004: ETC, a reflection on the absence of women artists in the history of art.
2015: NOSEDEN Biennale, Japan, , with the video installation MEMÒRIA PER UN ICEBERG as an archaeologist of the future and the installation LLIBRE DE LLÀGRIMES ( book of tears).
2016: SakaiArtePorto, Japan, performance TRACTION ACTION . LLUM! In the Montjïc Castel in Barcelona, Spain.
2018 INSEKTAMENT ERRANTS , gallery J. Naranjo. «AJARDINA’T», Picasso Museum BIGDRAW and » MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN «(video monograph) at the Lumen gallery in Kyoto.
2019: LLUMbarcelona festival, video installation «AND YOU, WHAT WOULD YOU PUT UNDER THE FOCUS?.
2020 INFILTRACIÓ at the Calders Bookshop, Barcelona and installs all his workbooks.
2021: DINS PER DINS, MNAC (National Museum Catalan Art)
she was part of ARTICS magazine and between 1996-2020 she publishes the artist books EMBOLIC MAGNÍFIC, DUC UNA CIUTAT AL CAP, DUC UN CUC AL CAP, GOTESCAUEN, SECRETS, INFILTRADA, etc