Xavi Romero — Visual Artist and Researcher

Xavi Romero

XAVI ROMERO (b. 1998, Barcelona) is a visual artist, researcher and creative working on internet culture, technopolitics, and collapse aesthetics. He develops experimental projects in publishing, audiovisual installations, critical AI, creative coding and networked media. Using art as a critical lens to examine technology in the networked societies. His work has been exhibited both individually and as a collective in Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Milan and Vienna.

He also:

is a member of COLLAPSE/CORE
is the co-founder of COLLAPSEMART
is a creative director and co-funder of wavistudio

Reach out anytime for questions, collabs, work, more info, or even just to go have a coffee:

x@xaviromero.com
@x4virom

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EDUCATION

2023—2024

Máster en Producción e Investigación Artística. UB (Barcelona).

2018—2022

Graduado en Bellas Artes, Artes visuales y Diseño. UB (Barcelona).

EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS

2026

-> Wild Shit on superinternet.world. SUPERINTERNET FOUNDATION. Section80 (Milan).

-> Fantasia Final SS 2008. Mirada Pilot. CC Barceloneta (Barcelona).

-> COLLAPSE VERSE. Tap Tap a la pantalleta!!! 3a ed. Residencias en TikTok. Mèdol Centre d’Arts Contemporànies de Tarragona (Tarragona).

2025

-> Festival u22. Visió Tàctil: Noves narratives digitals. Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona).

-> Stripart 2025. Centre Cívic Guinardó (Barcelona)

-> International Mail Art Book & Zine Exhibition. Fanzineist (Vienna).

2024

-> Y SI… Centro de Arte La Capella (Barcelona).

2023

-> Territorios de cambio. Fundación Barceló (Palma de Mallorca).

-> PATRIM’22: Futurs Incerts. Museu Can Framis (Barcelona).

2022

-> SENSE TÍTOL ’22. Facultat de Belles Arts UB (Barcelona).

2021

-> VEURE’T MARXAR. Facultat de Belles Arts UB (Barcelona).

-> TELE/VISIONS. Proyección en The Square Room (Barcelona).

2020

-> El Temps. Centre Cultural La Poetika (Online Exhibition).

-> In A Dream. Límit Barcelona Collective Secret Location (Barcelona).

2019

-> El Cuerpo: El delito del cuerpo. La Nau Bostik Sala Núria Hosta (Barcelona).

FAIRS AND FEATURES

2025 -> GUTTERFEST Exhibitor as SALE & wavistudio. MUHBA Oliva Artés (Barcelona).

2024 -> ArtsLibris Exhibitor as MALAS IMPRESIONES / MJPXA. MACBA (Barcelona).

TALKS

2024 → Malas Impresiones & MJPXA . ArtsLibris SPEAKERS’ CORNER. MACBA (Barcelona).

PUBLICATIONS

2025 → MUTE Catalog SPECIAL EDITION. wavistudio. (Barcelona).

2025 → MUTE Catalog. wavistudio. (Barcelona).

2024 → WATER PROMPT. Self-publication (Barcelona).

2024 → Parques y parques. Malas Impresiones (Barcelona).

2024 → Failed ChatGPT ASCII. Self-publication (Barcelona).

2020 → Encuentros/retornos (I). Self-publication (Barcelona).

SELECTIONS AND AWARDS

2023 -> Luz Blanca. _Ex Aterriza. Proyecto finalista. Aterriza Residencias Creativas, Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras (Alicante).

2021 -> TELE/VISIONS. Official Selection. Dark Story Festival (Bilbao).

2021 -> TELE/VISIONS. Honorable Mention. Monza Film Fest (Monza).