Rosa Tharrats: We Are Full of Winds and Sea and Solar Threads

Rosa Tharrats’ solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Münster is the first presentation of the Catalan artist’s work in Germany. Her practice explores community networks, cohesion, and sustainability through sculpture, installation, performance, and video.

In recent years, the need for social and ecological transformation has underscored the importance of imagination. Tharrats engages with this through work that invites reflection on our relationship with the world, highlighting the intrinsic value of each element in the ongoing cycles of life. Her sculptures present a sensual and spiritual interplay of material and form, expressing a life force that promotes growth and vitality.

Key themes in her work include transformation, symbiosis, process, and composition, along with the connection between microscopic and macroscopic life, the visible and invisible, and contrasts between the ephemeral, the wild, and the enduring. She draws attention to the fragility of nature—particularly waters and oceans—and to communities that depend on them, while proposing material cultures and technologies rooted in coexistence and care.

The exhibition aims to offer poetic and practical tools for reconciling action and imagination in response to today’s environmental and social challenges. Tharrats invites the audience to activate the work through breathing, laughter, and collective singing, encouraging playful, shared experiences as a means of transformation.

Rosa Tharrats (born 1983, Barcelona) studies graphic design at Elisava, Barcelona (2002–2004) and graduates in fashion design from the Instituto Europeo di Design in 2007. Her work, grounded in a passion for textiles, explores sensory and spiritual communication between living materials and bodies. Using natural scenery as a starting point, she combines textiles, clothing, upholstery, painting, and performance. Elements from earlier works are reused as organic expressions of symbiosis and growth.