Visual interviews: Clàudia Valsells
We are launching a new interview format. You won’t have to read questions or answers, just watch and discover what the artists show us about their daily life: they themselves portray from their breakfast, their latest acquisition, the space where they work or the favorite corner of their home. We hope you like and enjoy […]
The Plom Piggy Bank Show
Plom Gallery and the communication agency Soon in Tokyo present the Plom Piggy Bank, a piggy bank that will allow children to learn how to save and invest in Art. Our desire is to introduce children to collecting Contemporary Art in a simple way. […]
PLOM family: at Alma’s home
We are in Barcelona. We have an appointment with a PLOM family. Today we visit the home of Alma (6 years old), a very special girl who believes in the Superpowers of Art. Like her mother, Núria, who is an interior designer. And like her father, Nicolás, who is an architect. PLOM: Why do you […]
PLOM family: at Manuela and Ritta’s home
We visited a PLOM family from Madrid. María Blanco Brotons and Aníbal Hernández are one of those charming couples, capable of creating a world of their own. In fact, they have formed a colorful and cheerful family thanks to Manuela (8 years old) and Ritta (6 years old). She is a journalist and photographer, and […]
Premiere of the film: “This is how PLOM ice cream was made”.
We release the video “This is how PLOM ice cream was made”. We recorded it on the occasion of the creation of PLOM ice cream, the first ice cream in the world designed by children who love contemporary art. Why an ice cream? July arrived and we realized that summer was already in full swing, […]
Plom Family: At Gala and Gil’s home
We visited a PLOM family living in Vilassar de Mar, in the region of El Maresme, 24 kilometers from Barcelona. We entered a beautiful, bright, cozy little house. Here, you can breathe Art in every corner. We hear laughter and hurried footsteps. Gala is a 4 year old girl: awake, observant, intuitive. Her little brother, […]
PLOM family: at Mateu and Luca’s home
We are in Barcelona. Today we visit the home of Mateu (9 years old) and Luca (6 years old), two children who live and grow up in an environment that undoubtedly stimulates creativity and imagination. Their mother, Sylvia, is an art and costume director. Their father, Àngel, works in marketing and production. Does this family […]
What would Plom ice cream taste like to you?
Very soon you will be able to try Plom ice cream. But first, we invite the little ones to imagine what their ideal ice cream would be like. To inspire them, we have illustrated this post with a work of art by the artist Mirthe Blussé. Want to know how we came up with Plom […]
The art of letters and numbers
In this exclusive text for PLOM Gallery, writer and journalist Pedro Calleja reflects on the fascination of letters and numbers in children who are beginning to artistically decipher the world. My son Pedro is 2 years and 8 months old (well, he is now 4 years and 4 months, but when I wrote this text, […]
Artistic experiment: your child’s room needs…
This is the amazing result of our latest artistic experiment with children. We called 3 girls and 2 boys, ages 6 to 11, and showed them the following original work by Jordi Pintó: Physics, Metaphysics and Paraphysics of Nature, by Jordi Pintó. Do you like it? Visit our SHOP. While the children were looking at […]
Art and Science: the world of Geometric Abstraction
Next Saturday May 5, on the occasion of TheCreativeFest, PLOM Gallery organizes contemporary art workshops for children at l’Antiga Fàbrica Damm. The workshops will revolve around the concept of Geometric Abstraction. In this text written exclusively for the blog, journalist and writer Pedro Calleja reflects on Geometric Abstraction in Art and Science. What does a […]
Plom Family: At Martina and Juliet’s home
Beatriz and Jose’s house is gigantic. Not in square meters, but in culture and color. To enter their home is to breathe joy, love and art. And Julieta, who is four and a half years old, is sick today! Fortunately, her sister Martina, who is seven, is the hostess, explaining what her family and her […]
FLIC FESTIVAL and PLOM GALLERY
FLIC is a festival of experiences and literary creation that invites the public to enjoy literature and the arts. The objective is to promote the relationship between the different arts based on innovative and experimental formats, thus encouraging interdisciplinary creation and the promotion of literary taste, with the participation of all the agents involved. It […]
Happy New Year: for a 2019 with a lot of Art
We greet the new year with a great desire to continue together. Thanks for being there. Plom Gallery has lots of projects. We love contemporary art and children. But what we love the most is what happens when contemporary art and children meet. For a year 2019 with a lot of Creativity Here you have […]
Plom Family: At Gerard and Júlia’s home
We visited a PLOM family from Barcelona. They are 4 little people sharing house and life, sensations and passions, laughter and… More laughter! Alina Topala and Marc Canillo are the mommy and daddy, respectively, of Júlia (5 years old) and Gerard (4 years old). Alina and Marc are professionally dedicated to gastronomy. Marc’s activity is […]
How to recognize child artists
In 1946, on the verge of his 65th birthday, Pablo Picasso visited an exhibition of drawings made by children. As he left, the journalists asked for his opinion. The Malaga-born artist left them in awe with a phrase that has gone down in history: “At the age of these children, I painted like Rafael, but […]
Art for creative and artistically gifted children
They like to draw, paint, model, cut out, glue. They stain their clothes, stain the walls, stain the floor. After a while, they show us their masterpieces with an irresistible smile. Creative children… Do you recognize them? Yes, they do. They are our sons and daughters. Our nephews and nieces. Our grandchildren. The children of […]
Art Cartoons
Cartoons and comics have been inspiring contemporary artists for more than half a century. The first acclaimed artist to transform the aesthetics of comic strips into Pop art was the American Roy Lichtenstein, enlarging cartoons with dotted plots and sandwiches with dialogues directly taken from romantic comics (close-ups of girls in love) and war comics […]
A colorful mine!
Un mural que llena de vida The neighborhood of La Mina in Barcelona has had a very special mural since January, not only because it is the first large-format mural to be incorporated into its landscape, but also because of the artists who designed, painted and drew it in a big way. […]
“EARTH” by Olivia Mandle
Creatividad y naturaleza, una lucha por nuestro planeta Olivia Mandle was one of our first students in 2018 when we started with the art extracurricular and she continues to join our online classes along with her brother Max whenever her studies and commitments allow her to do so. It is a pleasure to […]
Plom Family: At Leonardo and Orlando’s home
Laura Caldarola and José R. Pastrana are very lucky to have a talented son like Leonardo. But Leonardo is even luckier to have parents who are so devoted to their children’s creativity and love. When we visited the family, the youngest, Orlando (less than a year old) is recovering from pneumonia that has kept him […]
Goodbye Plom Gallery! Hello Art Superpowers!
No es una despedida, nos veremos pronto In October 2013 we inaugurated Plom Gallery. It was a day in which many friends and artists supported us and helped us to start this project but also, many unknown people attended and later became friends: Plom Gallery has grown thanks to all those people […]
Family Saturdays with The Superpowers of Art.
Extracurricular Art for Kids, Art for Kids
Ariadna Rousaud: Elástica Magazine
Lovers of design, architecture and children’s decoration are in luck. Elástica Magazine, a new digital magazine dedicated to contemporary design for children, has just been born. The content of Elástica Magazine ranges from toys, furniture and illustrated books to installations, exhibitions or wonderful buildings. We interviewed Ariadna Rousaud, its founder and […]
Interview with Núria Farré
For all of you who missed the interviews to our favorite artists, here comes the one we have made to Núria Farré, a painter with an impressive resume that grows even more with her humility, a very young woman who overflows with talent. Let’s go there! Did you draw as a child? When […]
Laura Niubó’s “Espressionismo Floreale”.
Today we are going to talk about the art and design collection“Espressionismo Floreale” by the Mallorcan artist Laura Niubó. But first we will discover, for those who don’t know her yet, who she is, so catch your breath because this girl has done it all. Ready, set, go! We said Mallorcan, yes, Laura […]
Interview with Vittoria Drago
Vittoria Drago is Italian, born in Bergamo. She currently lives in Barcelona. Here she carries out her artistic work in a cozy workshop in the Gracia neighborhood. And this is also where she has discovered her great connection with children through art. For more than a year she has been teaching extracurricular contemporary […]
Family with Superpowers: At Pere and Valentina’s house.
It’s been a long time since we’ve visited any PLOM family, right? Well, let’s not talk anymore because here is a new family interview, this time Pere (3 years old) and Valentina (4 years old) open the doors of their home, with the permission of their daddies Cristina and David, of course! Valentina and Pere […]
Extracurriculars online!
Contemporary art extracurriculars.
The Superpowers of Art, Art for kids.
The Art Superpowers Book: “A Messy History”.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] We are proud to announce the new edition that Mosquito Books has just released of our book Los Superpoderes del Arte: Una historia desordenada. Just as magical as the first one, but with an enlargement full of unpublished illustrations by Brianda Fitz-James Stuart, the artist who puts the images and color to the story […]
The SWAB is back!!!!
Once again arrives to our city the SWABthe contemporary art fair in Barcelona, and once again we are proud to be part of it with a special collaboration for SWAB KIDS, the space dedicated to the little ones . The fair will again be located in the pavilion of Italy, from 7 to 10 October […]
The Super Powers Material Box
We present “La Caja de los Superpoderes del Arte”, a box with a selection of basic and very good quality material to unleash our creativity. We have lovingly prepared it in collaboration with ARTCANTS, a charming store of fine arts materials located in the Mercat dels Encants in Barcelona. A place that we love […]
FAUNA, by Olivia Mandle
At last we have received the new work of Olivia Mandle, the young artist, student, and defender of the planet, who wants to help you with the sales of her delicate and graphic works. First it was EARTH, then it was SEA, and now it’s FAUNA’s turn. And where are the benefits of this new […]