Claudia Pagès Rabal is a visual artist, performer, and writer. With the means of language, movement and music, their own body and other choreographed bodies, the artist explores topics such as social hierarchies, a sense of belonging, queer body economies, and desire.
At mumok, Claudia Pagès Rabal will present a new commissioned work in collaboration with Chisenhale Gallery in London and developed in collaboration with Tractora Koop in Bilbao. Continuing their research into the Iberian Peninsula during the al-Andalus era—the Arabic name for lands under Muslim rule between 711 and 1492—Pagès focuses on fortifications of inner Catalonia. Five defense towers erected at the heart of the political-military buffer zone in the so-called Hispanic March are the starting point for a video of choreographed dance, light, and sound sequences in which the artist conjures questions about national identity, the construction of political systems, and the legends attached to them.
Produced within the Call of “la Caixa” Foundation Support for Creation’24. Production.
Curated by Franz Thalmair
Opening: December 3, 2025, 7 pm
mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
mumok is one of the largest museums in Central Europe for art since modernism.
Claudia Pagès Rabal
4 Dec 2025 - 31 May 2026
mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien, Österreich
Claudia Pagès Rabal, production image, 2024. Commissioned and produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London. Courtesy of the artist
