Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art

August 17, 2026

Exhibitions

Pavel Korbička | Dance Calligraphy

Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art

August 17, 2026

Exhibitions

Pavel Korbička | Dance Calligraphy

17.09 – 14.11.2026

Al-Tiba9+gallery+Pavel+Korbicka_Pavel-Dance_caligraphy+Neon+Art+installation+light.webp — **Pavel Korbička**, Dance Calligraphy, Glass Neon Installation, 1996-2017

Al-Tiba9 Gallery is pleased to present Dance Calligraphy, a solo exhibition by Czech artist Pavel Korbička, whose immersive practice explores the relationship between light, movement, and architectural space through neon installations, drawing, and performance.

Pavel Korbička | Dance Calligraphy

PREVIEW | 17.09.2026 | 12:00 – 17:30 | By invitation only
OPENING | 17.09.2026 | 18:00 – 20:00 | Open to the public
NIGHT PREVIEW | 17.09.2026 | 21:00 – 23:00 | By invitation only
EXHIBITION | 17.09.2026 – 14.11.2026

BARCELONA GALLERY WEEKEND | Official Programme
CURATOR | Mohamed Benhadj
ADDRESS | Al-Tiba9 Gallery, Calle Comerç 11, 08003 Barcelona.

Pavel Korbička, Dance Calligraphy (E1b), 2017

«Dance Calligraphy» by Pavel Korbičkais the second solo show at Al-Tiba9 Gallery, presenting an installation of monumental light sculptures resulting from a project that continues the line of his artistic practice, focused on various ways of recording the ephemeral movement of dance. The exhibition is complemented by site-specific light installations that engage the physical experience of space through the perception of light.

The relationship between space and time, considered one of the key themes of visual art since at least the avant-garde movements, has long been at the core of Pavel Korbička’s interests. The traditional starting point for presenting the temporal dimension in an artwork is real human movement. Korbička’s tripartite light sculpture is based on three chronologically (and therefore physically) distinct recordings of the same dance sequence, captured through reflective markers placed on the dancer’s body.

The exhibition, curated by Mohamed Benhadj, includes neon installations, photography, works on paper, and video documentation of performances. This show «Dance Calligraphy» is presented as part of the official programme of Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2026.

16-2017-Korbicka-Dance_Calligraphy(E2).webp — Pavel Korbička, Dance Calligraphy (E2), 2017

Pavel Korbička, Dance Calligraphy (E2), 2017

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Al-Tiba9 Artists interviews

August 8, 2022

INTERVIEW | Pavel Korbička

August 8, 2022

Pavel Korbička is a Czech artist, currently living and working in Brno. Korbička exploits each creative impulse down to the minutest detail and is able to bring his message across with the use of the most economical devices, his idiom conveying an experience of great intensity. He works with space, light, and color, employing various combinations of new and classical technologies.

August 8, 2022

June 1, 2020

INTERVIEW | Pavel Korbička

June 1, 2020

Pavel Korbička works with space, light, and color, employing various combinations of new and classical technologies. He manages to conjure up a state of suspense between objects and installations. While his sculptures may superficially appear static, they attest to a great deal of importance assigned by the artist to the element of motion.

June 1, 2020

Al-Tiba9 Gallery

Al-Tiba9 was founded in 2013 by curator Mohamed Benhadj to address contemporary art, performance, and fashion design, and it announced the opening of its art gallery in the historic center of Barcelona on the occasion of its 10th anniversary. The Born neighborhood hosts Al-Tiba9's main headquarters, including a print art magazine focusing on contemporary international artists who engender new visions about possible futures. Mohamed Benhadj's gallery, which operates under Al-Tiba9 Contemporary, is the first international art gallery founded by an Algerian curator in Barcelona.

The space was built by José Fontseré Mestre, a figure of the Catalan modernism, and has 300 m2. Likewise, it is located five minutes from the Picasso Museum, Moco Museum, MEAM European Museum of Modern Art, and El Born CCM. The gallery seeks to be a bridge between the MENA region and Europe, a solid link between the East and the West by offering the world a unique experience of creativity, possibility, and growth like no other around the globe.

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Survival Signs - mounir fatmi

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I put my hand on the bible. He asked me to raise the other hand and say: I swear. I swore. I just didn't want him to send me off to Guantanamo under any pretense. That instant was for me a moment of extreme lucidity. No more illusions. I live in a world I am not able to understand.Of course the customs agent was only doing his job, and his job required him to be afraid of me. His fear wounded me, and I carry it like a scar to this day. I wanted to help him, but I couldn't. The more 1 tried to reassure him, the more suspicious I grew to him.I know that I am just a speck of dust in this machine. A black leg grafted on the body.of another man. What I'm relating in this letter is nothing compared to what thousands of refugees endure, dodging death as they hope for a better world for them and their children.I've always believed that America could be a part of that world. That heart capable of welcoming us all and warming us. My illusions were shattered the night the result of the latest election was announced.My disappointment was huge. I realized that we may never see again this free world we dreamed of so much...

The Missing Show - mounir fatmi

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In September 2017, mounir fatmi opened an exhibition in New York at the Jane Lombard Gallery. Through the reading of two texts, a personal letter addressed to his gallerist, and a set of poems, the artist explained his decision not to travel to the United States, instead, learning about how his exhibition was seen and received through social media and the perspective of strangers.These comments left at the gallery as well as online, were transposed into poems via the cut-up process, by the artist and a machine, producing a form of digital poetry.The Missing Show envisions language in the post-internet age in its transitive potential of individualism and individuation. Experiencing reality in all its discontinuity, mounir fatmi raises language to the level of a form of resistance.

The Age of Consequences - mounir fatmi

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The exploration of the linguistic codes that determine the relationships between individuals, the balance of social interactions, and the importance of dialogue as a collective experience are the elements of a stylistic grammar that sees in the power of language one of the most important codes of cultural contemporaneity.But it is by focusing above all on its contradictions that mounir fatmi- the central figure of this project - explores the methods of communicative correspondence, investigating them with awareness of the extent to which they reflect the evolution of society. It is precisely humanity's continual attempts at expression that dictate the alphabet on which the entire cultural structure is based; and their value can be read in the exaltation of their ambiguities and interpretative variables.Because it is alive, mutable and dynamic, language actually changes, transforms, but also involves itself, as does its decoding within the relevant social system.

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180º Behind Me - mounir fatmi

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“The first major solo presentation by mounir fatmi in Scandinavia comes at a very particular time. In the spring of 2018, Freemuse – an independent organization working with defending the rights and freedom of artistic expression - published its first global report assessing the global state of artistic freedom. It is an important and chilling document about censorship and violations of artistic expression experienced across the globe, including the traditionally democratic western countries. Having himself experienced the consequences of a culture of silencing, mounir fatmi is an artist dedicated to exposing and deconstructing oppressive ideological and religious dogmas in works that shed light some of our most pressing political questions today. Seeking to illuminate the role of artists in a time of crisis, the exhibition at Göteborgs Konsthall particularly addresses the urgency of free speech and seeks to open up the political potential of language as resistance. Engaging in notions of language, and the written word – its beauty, violence and fragility – fatmi’s works expose the layers of interpretation and reinterpretation that comprise our history, but also speaks directly to a culture of censorship and silencing.” Stina Edblom, Artistic Director, Göteborgs Konsthall

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Al-Tiba9 ISSUE07 Print Magazine

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Collectors' Art Book Interviews with Artists Vol.03

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Collector Art Book "Interviews With Artists" Vol.03 is a luxury limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies featuring the best international artists, and it is designed with the most advanced curatorial and editorial skills. The book will launch at ARCO Madrid art fair on 06-10 March 2024.

This collectible contemporary art book aims to create a visual language between artists and international art collectors, offering them the possibility of artistic, visual, and emotional exchange.

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The Day Of The Awakening - mounir fatmi

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The exhibition brings together a series of works by the Morrocan artist mounir fatmi which explore the foundations of history and social nature, expressed through the written word and by different kinds of language: religious, political, ideological and artistic. On display are a total of 20 projects undertaken from 2002 to today composed of hundreds of pieces from a variety of disciplines such as drawing, photograph, sculpture and video. The discourse of The Day of the Awakening focuses however on two main projects: The Index and the machine and Out of History.

The Day of the Awakening is inspired by the title of an in-stallation by mounir fatmi, who participated first hand in the creation of this exhibition. Its epigraph, simple and enigmatic, acts as a metaphor for an artistic work that con-structs visual spaces and linguistic games. In this way, his work offers a view of the world from a different perspective, avoiding the blindness provided by conventions.

Juan Guardiola, Director at CDAN (Centro de Arte y Naturaleza), Huesca, Spain, December 2019