Àngels Ribé

The recorded working language is Spanish and Catalan. Work by Àngels Ribé is recorded in the collections of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and MACBA Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art. Distinctions recorded are Saint George's Cross and National Award for Plastic Arts.

• Name — Àngels Ribé • Birth Name — Àngels Ribé i Pijuan • Born — 1943 • Birthplace — Barcelona, Spain • Known for — Conceptual art, performance art, installation art • Awards — National Plastic Arts Prize (2019) Creu de Sant Jordi (2021)

Ribé moved from Barcelona to Paris in 1966, and in 1969 began creating sculpture and installations, later actions and performances, working primarily with space and the body. During her years in Paris she studied sociology and ceramics and worked as an assistant to the sculptor Piotr Kowalski. In 1972 Ribé moved to the United States, where she lived and worked for several months in Chicago before settling in New York City. She returned to Barcelona in 1980.

Ribe's work, contextualized in the conceptual art of the late 60s and 70s, utilized nontraditional material, which she gradually discarded to concentrate on the ephemeral—light and shadow—and the location of the body in space. In Catalonia, her work is in the collections of the Vila Casas Foundation and the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art MACBA. Her work from 1969 to 1984 was the subject of a retrospective at MACBA in 2011. For a period she signed her work as "A. Ribé" to avoid prejudgement based on her gender.

• Laberint (1969) • Acció al parc (1969) • Escuma (1969) • 3 punts (1970–1973) • Transport d'un raig de llum (1972) • Invisible Geometry 3 (1973) • Light Interaction and Wind Interaction (1973) • N.A.M.E. (1974) Performance • Véhicule (1974) Performance at la Galérie de Mont-real. • Two Main Subjective Points on an Objective Trajectory (1975) • Can't Go Home (1977) • Amagueu les nines, que passen els lladres • Triangle (1978) • Ornamentació (1979) • Paisatge (1983)

• Year — Title — Place — City • 1969 — Laberint — Centre Artístique de Verderonne — París • 1975 — Two Main subjective Pints on an Objective Trajectory — 3 Mercer St. Gallery — New York • 1977 — Can't Go Home — C Space Gallery — New York • 1977 — Amagueu les nines que passen els lladres — Galeria G — Barcelona • 1977 — El viatge: primera part: No es pot tornar — Espai Tres. Acadèmia de Belles Arts de Sabadell — Sabadell • 1978 — I demà encara plourà, encara que els elelfants tinguin por (perquè tenen els ulls petits) — Fundació Joan Miró — Barcelona • 1979 — E la forma — Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona — Bellaterra • 1979 — Ornamentació — Escola Universitària de Professorat — Sant Cugat del Vallès • 1979 — Ornamentation: the unrelated Object — C Space Gallery — New York • 1980 — Bajo el... — Sala de Cultura de la Caja de Ahorros de Pamplona — Pamplona • 1983 — Escultures — Espai 10, Fundació Miró — Barcelona • 1998 — Angels Ribé 1997 — Centre d'Art Santa Mònica. Espai Vau — Barcelona • 1998 — El terrat — Galeria Senda — Barcelona • 2003 — Àngels Ribé — Fundació Vila Casas, Espai VolART — Barcelona • 2011 — En el laberint. Àngels Ribé 1969-1984 — MACBA — Barcelona