15/06/2025 – 21/09/2025,

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

, Kunsthalle Münster

We Are Full of Winds and Sea and Solar Threads is the first solo exhibition by Catalan artist Rosa Tharrats in a German institution. Kunsthalle Münster provides the setting for her immersive installation Vestir el viento (2025), which means “clothing the wind”. It is a play with the elements that has turned the exhibition space—with all its own specific qualities—into a site of experience, inviting us to rethink our relationship with the world and to recognize the inherent value of each element as a constant reminder of the cycles of life. In the works of Tharrats, not only the sensorial and spiritual interplay of materials and forms can be experienced, but also the pulse of life. By incorporating the wind, water, sun and earth into her thinking, she works with the tensions created by opposing forces and, from there, creates a network of relationships between all human and non-human contributors.

Recurring themes in her work are notions of transformation, symbiosis, process, composition, the connection between microscopic and macroscopic life or the visible and the invisible. Another emphasis lies in the juxtapositioning of that which is vaporous, that which is wild and that which remains unaltered. Tharrats draws attention to the force, but also the vulnerability of nature. She creates an overall setting that prompts us to question our position in the world and thus also our attitude towards it. Her work is informed by reflections on community networks, cohesion and sustainability. The underlying aim is to rethink the prevailing western perception based on a binary way of thinking in terms of subject and object, nature and culture—and, as a result, find new ways of being together. Everything that is seen as a thing, as an object, has another side, has an inward aspect in which it is a form of experience. Tharrats is interested in the communication between different types of materials and bodies, whether natural or artificial. She has often found herself involved in the interaction between the mineral, the vegetal and the industrial realms.

As a space of spiritual sociality unveiling our fundamental interconnectedness, Tharrats’ art is like a proposal for the creative imagination of an encounter between the subtle and the sensuous. Residing at the confluence of these seemingly separate realms, this imaginative awareness of our together-ness enables us to free ourselves from false dualisms such as world/self or nature/culture, which view the world as existing in separate and independent parts, detached from the whole. From here evolves a space for listening, watching, sensing, reflecting and relaxing. The artist thus addresses our sense of being situated in the world. Her works can serve as an instrument of self-assurance, allowing us to experience how we relate to something that takes hold of us, that surrounds us, that is partly ourselves and partly something else. By encouraging a relational poetics between inner transformation and societal change, the works strengthen our ability to perceive the external reality that surrounds us differently. We Are Full of Winds and Sea and Solar Threads attempts to create an equally practical and poetic set of tools for the dynamic reconciliation of action and imagination in order to address the urgent social and environmental challenges of the present.

Rosa Tharrats (born 1983 in Barcelona) studied graphic design at Elisava, Barcelona (2002–2004) and graduated in fashion design at the Instituto Europeo di Design in 2007. Inspired by her passion for textiles, she is interested in the sensory and spiritual communication between different ‘species’ of living materials and bodies. Taking the natural scenery as a starting point, Tharrats combines textiles, clothing, upholstery, painting and performance in her artistic practice. She continues to use elements of past works as an organic expression of symbiosis and growth for newer works. Her works have been shown in solo exhibitions at Fundació Miró Mallorca, Palma (2025); DHub as part of Llum BCN, Barcelona (2025); Bombon Projects, Fonteta (2024, 2020); TBA21, Córdoba (2023); Centre d'Art Maristany, Sant Cugat del Vallés (2023); Galería Ehrhardt Flórez, Madrid (2022); Museu de L'Empordà, Figueres (2020) or Galería Cadaqués (2015) and have been part of group exhibitions such as Els miracles del mestre Cabestany, ARBAR, La Vall de Santa Creu (2023); Apunts per a un incendi dels ulls, Panorama 21, MACBA, Barcelona (2021–22); Just because. In the blink of an eye, Bombon projects (2021); En otro tiempo ibas muy elegante, Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt (2021); A Joseph Beuys, Galería Cadaqués (2016) or Y escucho tus pasos venir, Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid (2018). She won the Gaudí Award in 2014 and 2020. Together with Gabriel Ventura, she has exhibited at Manifesta 15 in Barcelona in 2024. In 2025, Tharrats collaborated with Ventura and Marina Herlop on the short opera Aura shown at MACBA, Barcelona.

Curator: Merle Radtke