Meet the beauty of materials and Craftsmanship in Barcelona!
From October 2–4, Barcelona’s CONTEMPORANIA 2025 at the Palau de Pedralbes will gather a carefully curated selection of artists, designers, and Crafts makers who are redefining craft for contemporary interiors. The fair brings together many voices, but here we spotlight ten of the first artists announced. Their works blur the lines between art, design, and function; from linen screens to hand-blown glass, these pieces don’t just decorate, they transform the way we inhabit space.
Stay tuned: more artists and works will be revealed in the coming weeks.
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The First 10 Featured Artists
ILOEMA Editions
Founded to preserve and elevate embroidery traditions, ILOEMA Editions works with rural artisans to reinterpret needlework in a contemporary language. At CONTEMPORANIA 2025, they present a folding screen made of three linen panels embroidred with silver and coloured threads, where embroidery becomes architecture. More than a divider, it filters light and shadow, creating an atmospheric presence that transforms interiors.
I L O E M A (@iloema_editions) • Fotos y videos de Instagram
Idoia Cuesta
Known for expanding basketry into new and unexpected contexts, Spanish maker Idoia Cuesta has long blurred the boundary between craft and design. Her contribution is a series of nets crafted to look incomplete and extendable. Delicate yet structurally complex, they shine like jewellery in space.
https://www.instagram.com/idoia_cuesta
Noroeste Obradoiro
A studio dedicated to contemporary silversmithing, Noroeste Obradoiro explores metalwork on a sculptural scale. For this edition, they showcase a sterling silver object that transcends jewellery to become a decorative form for the home. Reflective and tactile, it plays with light while elevating the surface it inhabits.
https://www.instagram.com/noroesteobradoiro
Objet Particulier
Based in Paris, Objet Particulier is known for reviving forgotten materials and techniques with a minimalist sensibility. At CONTEMPORANIA 2025, they present a parchment surface woven with straw marquetry. The result is a luminous, patterned panel, perfect as a wall feature or screen element, that brings quiet elegance to contemporary interiors.
https://www.instagram.com/objetparticulier
Siete Formas
The Madrid-based design collective Siete Formas focuses on pared-down forms that foreground materiality. Their featured piece is a sculptural wooden object: simple, tactile, and versatile. Whether envisioned as a lamp base, tray, or freestanding element, it introduces warmth and organic presence into the home.
https://www.instagram.com/sieteformas
ÁBBATTE (Camilla Lanzas)
Housed in a former abbey in Segovia, ÁBBATTE combines centuries-old textile tradition with contemporary design. Under the direction of Camilla Lanzas, their workshop produces refined pieces in natural fibres. Their presentation in Barcelona is a linen and wool textile, a work of depth, movement, and texture that can hang on a wall or drape fluidly within a space.
https://www.instagram.com/abbatte_
Alex Añó (Alexfrosum)
Glass artist Alex Añó, known professionally as Alexfrosum, works with borosilicate glass to create forms that catch and refract light. His contribution is a bubble-looking hand-blown glass object that feels at once delicate and strong. Positioned in a room, it becomes a stage for reflection and transparency, reshaping the atmosphere around it.
https://www.instagram.com/alexfrosum
Anna Champeney Textile Studio
Nestled in rural Galicia, the Anna Champeney Textile Studio is dedicated to handweaving contemporary textiles in natural fibres. At CONTEMPORANIA 2025, they present a linen textile piece that can be draped, hung, or framed. Subtle yet intricate, it turns simple fibre into a sophisticated play of weave, pattern, and shadow.
https://www.instagram.com/annachampeney
Plaart Cerámica
Plaart Cerámica, a Barcelona-based studio, rethinks porcelain as both a functional and artistic material. Their featured work strips porcelain back to its essence: refined, minimalist, and tactile, with protective bubble details created with the mould. No longer just tableware, the pieces are conceived as sculptural forms, inviting close engagement with their smooth, pale surfaces.
https://www.instagram.com/plaart_ceramica
Saskia Bostelmann
Mexican artist Saskia Bostelmann creates poetic assemblages where salvaged wood meets precious metals. For CONTEMPORANIA 2025, she presents landscapes made of wood splinters and pleated silver. Jewellery in scale yet architectural in spirit, these works speak of memory, sustainability, and transformation.
https://www.instagram.com/saskiabostelmannn
Themes & Crafts You’ll See in Barcelona
Several threads connect these diverse practices. Screens and panels, such as those by ILOEMA Editions and Objet Particulier, propose new ways of shaping interiors through vertical surfaces. Material honesty is another strong theme: linen, wool, porcelain, wood, glass, and silver, each worked by hand to reveal texture, grain, and process. Light, too, plays a starring role. From glass to marquetry, from reflective silver to open weaves, these works turn light into a collaborator, filtering, refracting, and casting shadow.
Another defining aspect is the merging of function and sculpture. Whether a folding screen, vessel, or wall panel, many works hold practical value yet carry the weight of an artwork. And finally, heritage and collaboration underpin much of what is on show. From ILOEMA’s network of rural embroiderers to ÁBBATTE’s abbey-based weaving tradition, these objects are bearers of cultural continuity.
Why It’s Worth Seeing
These ten works are more than beautiful objects: they activate interiors. A screen alters how you move through a room. A silver object catches sunlight and makes the space shimmer. A hand-blown glass vessel transforms a simple table into a stage.
And remember: this is just the beginning. CONTEMPORANIA 2025 brings together many more artists and makers, each with their own approach to craft and design. These ten are the first to be revealed, and there’s more to come!
Stay tuned as we continue to share the next wave of creators shaping the fair. And if you’re curious about the artworks, visit CONTEMPORANIA or wait for our next Blogs for more discoveries!
