Bio
Born 1992 in Barcelona. Candy Bassas lives and works in Berlin since 2016. She graduated in Illustration and Costume Design in 2016 in Barcelona, and is currently a student of fine arts in the class of David Schutter at the Berlin University of the Arts. Her main disciplines are painting, printmaking, writing and music perfor- mance.
Her book Landscape of my Youth was published by Spunpress in 2021, London. She was granted the Dorothea Konwiarz scholarship 2023/24. Bassas has presented her work in solo exhibitions internationally, including in Berlin, Barcelona, Rome, and Madrid. She was subsequently awarded the Musicboard 2024 Grant and exhibi- ted in May 2025 in Madrid under the wing of Oscar Manrique.
At the moment, she is developing new work in the studio for upcoming shows in 2026, and performing across Europe with her musical project Pretty Average.
Exhibitions and grants
SOLO & DUO SHOWS
2026 Solo Show, Gallerie Mellies, Detmold
2026 Duo Show, Gallery Lichtblau, Berlin
2026 Backshop Culterim „Stars in my eyes, stars in my faces“
2025 Duo Show “El Jardín”, Un Lugar by Oscar Manrique & Arteria Gallery, Madrid
2024 Solo Show “The Remains of Uncertainty”, Lite-haus Gallery, Berlin
2024 Solo Show “Les Llums que ens esperen”, Arteria Gallery, Barcelona
2024 Dual Exhibition, Dorothea Konwiarz Gallery, Berlin
GROUP EXHIBITIONS & ART FAIRS
2026 Cank Culterim Nr. 5
2026 Rundgang UdK
2025 EYTE online exhibition, artist profile
2025 Stockholm Affordable Art Fair, represented by EYTE
2025 Artist Program, Galerie Rennert, Leipzig
2025 Group Show “Addendum”, Wasserspeicher Prenzlauerberg, Berlin
2025 Rundgang 2025, Universität der Künste Berlin
2025 Hybrid Art Fair, Madrid
2024 Group Exhibition “Trayectorias”, Galería Nueva, Madrid
2024 “Uncertain Sense of Liberty” series exhibition, Kunstraum Reuter, Berlin
2023 Group Exhibition, Litehaus Gallery, Berlin
2023 Group Exhibition, Arteria Gallery, Barcelona
2023 Group Exhibition, Dorothea Konwiarz Gallery, Berlin
2023 Kunstkaufen Exhibition & Catalogue, Berlin
2023 Rundgang 2023, Universität der Künste Berlin
2022 Kunstkaufen Katalog, Berlin
2022 Rundgang 2022, Universität der Künste Berlin
2021 Kunstkaufen Katalog, Berlin
2021 Rundgang 2021, Universität der Künste Berlin
2021 Kulturraum, group exhibition, Mehringdamm 61, Berlin
2021 Group Exhibition, Lokal, Berlin
2021 Pop-up group exhibition, The Ballery, Berlin
2021 The Design Room group exhibition, Artizan Gallery, Epping, UK
2020 Group Exhibition “Dia 110 – La Trastienda del Polvorín”, Barcelona 2020 Group Online Exhibition, Quarantine Art Festival
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2025 Prisma Art Prize Group Show, 4th Edition, Rome
2023/24 Dorothea Konwiarz Stipendium 2023/24
RESIDENCIES
2026 Residency, “Un Lugar” by Oscar Manrique, Madrid
2024 Residency, Arteria Gallery, Barcelona (May–July)
2023 Residency, Green Gallery, Berlin
2021 Residency, Glückstadt, Hamburg
MUSIC — PRETTY AVERAGE
2026 Promotional Tour with Fuzz Me Tender Bookings (Sept-Nov)
2026 Release of debut album „The hights and lows of being Pretty Average“
2026 EU promotional tour with Pretty Average (April–May)
2025 EU promotional tour with Pretty Average (Sept–Nov)
2025 Design & organisation of album release, with Ghost Palace Records
2024 The Musicboard Berlin Scholarship
2024 Full-length album, recorded with Ghost Palace Records (Nov–Jan ’25)
2024 European tour with Pretty Average (Sept–Oct)
2024 Design, distribution & organisation of EP release, Urban Spree, Berlin 2024 Musicboard Berlin
2024 EP “All I Wanted” with producers Fran Parisi and Mark Kramer
2023 Studio recording, Famous Gold Watch Studios, producer Craig Dyer
PUBLICATIONS & WORKSHOPS
2021 Book published by Spunpress: “The Landscape of my Youth” — woodcuts and poems collection, London
2021 Development & leading of workshop “The Landscape of my Youth”, organised by Spunpress, London
2019 Development & screening of video art “The Landscape of my Youth”, Kunstschule Rostock
PRESS
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