Barcelona Academy of Art

Christian Duran is currently the Director of the Drawing program at the Barcelona Academy of Art.

Iago Remacha has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. In 2014 he decided to enter the Barcelona Academy of Art to begin his studies in drawing and painting. His curiosity about the digital sector led him to work on subjects of this speciality, achieving a very high level of expertise in this area, applying his knowledge of traditional techniques to digital software in 2D and 3D.

In 2015, Iago wins the second prize in drawing at the Canson Art School Awards, and the third prize in the 15th edition of the ARC Scholarship Awards.

Currently, he is a teacher in the Digital Art & Design program at the Barcelona Academy of Art.

Daryana Stekolschikova was born in Russia. She graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans (USA) with a degree in Finance and Art in 2011. She decided to pursue her passion for art in the Art Student League of New York and, in 2014, joined the Barcelona Academy of Art to pursue programmes in drawing, painting, and sculpture.

 She has exhibited her works at the BAA, MEAM, Plataforma Gallery (Barcelona), and in the United States.

Currently, she is the Coordinator of the Drawing Programme at the Barcelona Academy of Art.

Xavier Denia Valls has extensive training in academic and realistic art in different Spanish cities such as Barcelona or Seville and spent several years in prestigious schools in Italy where he studied drawing, painting, and sculpture. She has carried out numerous workshops with artists such as Jason Seiler, Max Ginsburg, Sean Cheetham or Robert Liberace and has participated in different group exhibitions in England and Italy.

Arthur Gain is a figurative artist from Russia, currently living in Spain, near Barcelona. Although largely self-taught, he has participated in workshops and taken private classes with renowned painters and teachers such as Steve Huston, Nick Alm and Felicia Forte, among others.

His path to becoming an artist was not a straightforward one. A passionate illustrator since his childhood, in his youth he specialised as a commercial illustrator and graphic designer, and at the age of twenty he became a creative director in an international advertising company.

He moved from Moscow to Asia and began a journey of self-discovery through the practice of authentic traditional yoga and Buddhist meditation, which eventually led him to realise that representative art is his true vocation.

Today he continues to develop his artistic career and shares his knowledge and approach with his students at the Barcelona Academy of Art, as well as giving workshops and private lessons and making instructional videos online.

In the fast-paced modern world, it is human spirit and nature that reunites us with the core of our existence. Constantly evolving and at the same time archaic, being both mundane and divine, human consciousness is the greatest mystery and an infinite source of inspiration. For this reason, Arthur’s main interest is to portray each individual’s unique character in his art.

Agustín was born in Rosario, Argentina in 1973. From a very early age, Agustín studied the great artists of painting and sculpture, taking his first steps in private ateliers in his hometown. In 2004, Agustín moved to Barcelona, where he continued his studies in the Escola Massana and Arts i Oficis. He also became a member of the Cercle Artistic de Sant Lluc. For some time he lived in Florence, Italy and studied fresco painting. Agustín later specialised in Drawing and Painting at the Barcelona Academy of Art.

In 2016, he became a teacher and then the Coordinator of the BAA Drawing and Painting Programme.

Agustín has also been one of the professors of the Digital Animation Program at the Ramon Llull University in Barcelona and is the co-founder of Atelier Figuratif, a platform offering art workshops in Switzerland and Spain.

In 2018, Agustín moved to Germany for a year, where he taught and developed the academic programmes and curriculums for the German Academy of Fine Arts in Bad Homburg, Hesse.

Since 1997, he has exhibited his work in Spain, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Argentina. Since April 2019, Agustín has been in Barcelona, where he currently teaches at the BAA.

Adrià Llarch Juanet has a degree in Fine Art from the University of Barcelona (2006).

In 2014 he began his studies at the Barcelona Academy of Art, where he currently works as a teacher in the Drawing | Painting course. In 2015-16 he was the main teacher for the course “L’Ofici de Pintor”, organized by the MEAM [European Museum of Modern Art].

I’ve been drawing and painting for as long as I can remember. I graduated in Fine Art at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, specializing in drawing and painting. Since then, I have combined my dedication to painting with teaching in different schools such as the Barcelona Academy of Art and learning from courses with great artists such as Antonio López, Isabel Quintanilla, Jeremy Mann, Hollis Dunlap, and Sean Cheetham, among others.

My work forms part of private collections and public institutions in Spain and the rest of Europe.

Born in 1987 in Korinthos, Greece, Konstantinos Protopapas graduated from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In 2015, he decided to focus on his artistic career and began his studies at the Barcelona Academy of Art.

 He has exhibited his works both in Barcelona and Greece. He is currently a teacher for the Drawing and Painting Programme of the BAA.

Born in Malaga, Andalusia, Mario Castillo studied Fine Art in Granada and later finished his studies at the Barcelona Academy of Art, where he specialised in figurative sculpture.

 Currently, he lives and works in Barcelona and produces his work along with four other artists in Studio Verdi, an activity that complements his work as a teacher in the Sculpture Programme of the BAA.

Born in Granollers in 1986, Jordi Diaz Alamà studied Fine Arts at the Universidad de Barcelona, where he has also worked as a teacher in the Drawing Department. He had the chance to work with painter Guillermo Muñoz Vera in Madrid thanks to a scholarship from Fundación Arauco and with the Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum. He studied drawing at The Florence Academy of Art (Florence, Italy), where he also graduated in Painting, being this training the backbone of his education.

He was the winner of the Figurativas ’11 Contest organized by Fundación para las Artes y los Artistas in collaboration with MEAM, with the aim of supporting and promoting Figurative Arts and its artists. In 2014 Díaz Alamà won the LI Premi Internacional de Dibuix Ynglada-Guillot of the Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi (Barcelona) and the Medal of Honor in the 29th BMW Painting contest.

In November 2016, he completes his most ambitious work to date, the painting “La Cruz del Jubileo”, a comission by the Diocesis of Vic (Spain) for the Church of Dolors. In 2017, the Fundació Vila Casas exhibits his new series “#ClásicosDesollados”. He is currently represented by Miquel Alzueta Gallery.

Gerard Castellví was born in 1986 in Montblanc, Tarragona. In 2008, he studied Graphic Design at EADT Escola d’Art de Tarragona. Later on, he graduated in Fine Arts at Universidad de Barcelona in 2012 and is admitted at the Florence Academy of Art. While studying there, he also participates in artists' workshops such as Antonio Lopez, Golucho, Sangram Majumdar, Max Ginsburg or Stuart Shils. His paintings are exhibited in the MEAM collection (Barcelona) after being a finalist in the Prize Figurativas’15 y Figurativas’17. He has exhibited at the Gallery Represent (London), Wiespach Shloss Gallery (Salzburg, Austria), The Makers (Madrid), La Plataforma and el Claustre (Barcelona).

Currently. he is the Director of the Painting program at the Barcelona Academy of Art.

Silvia Juez Linares was born in Barcelona and has always had a big interest in art and specially painting. She graduated from the Fine Arts faculty in Barcelona where she discovered sculpture. She was admitted to the Florence Academy of Art where she discovered the power of the human figure as a means of expression. She received a studio assistant scholarship at the Florence Academy and won an ARC scolarship. She also participated as a teacher in the Italian Chinese Art & Culture Exchange Association. 

During the past few years, she has been a finalist in the prize Figurativas'15 (MEAM), in the 13th International ARC Salón Competition and the 53th Reina Sofia Painting and Sculpture prize. She has also won an Honorable Mention in the 12th International ARC Salon Competition. Her work can be found in various public and private collections in Spain and Italy. 

She is currently the director of the Sculpture program at the Barcelona Academy of Art. 

Christian Bull is a concept artist and creature supervisor with more than 10 years of experience working in the cinema and video games industries. He has worked as a creature supervisor and a CG supervisor in Hollywood productions and independent movies. 

He graduated in Animation at Bournemouth University before studying drawing and painting at the Florence Academy of Art. Since then, he has dedicated his time to apply the traditional methods to the digital sector as a teachers but also as a professional artist. He has been an Anatomy techer for 6 years in renown studios and the online CG Master Academy. His contribution to the cinema industry includes movies such as Iron Man, Hercules, John Carter and Captain Phillips. 

Currently, he teaches in the Sculpture and Digital Art & Design program at the Barcelona Academy of Art.