Sara Huete Exhibition at Tasneem Gallery

Press Release

October 2025

Sara Huete (Santander 1958), one of Cantabria’s best artists, returns to Barcelona with her new exhibition, “Las Mujeres Cuentan” (Women Count), at the Tasneem Gallery on November 6th. The exhibition will be open to the press from 12:30 p.m. on that day until December 5th.

Sara Huete nurtures a powerful image of women, while working extensively with collage, playfully juxtaposing image/ text, social message/ irony, vintage/ current events, prints/ objects.

In the exhibit, she presents 20 collages from several of her artistic series. at the gallery. One series is dedicated to female Surrealist artists, some quite familiar, such as Dora Maar and Remedios Varo, and others “yet to be discovered”, such as Toyen and Kati Horna. This tribute to female Surrealists coincides with other recent exhibitions in Barcelona, such as the one about filmmaker Germaine Dulac, currently at the Museu Tàpies, and last month´s exhibit at the Ethnological Museum on Maya Deren.

Other works deal with our multiple daily adventures, such as “Por el monte las sardinas” (On the Mountain the Sardines), “Salirse del cuadro” (Getting Out of the Frame), “La diaria sorpresa de un nuevo sabor” (The Daily Surprise of a New Flavor), y “En casa del psicoanalista” (At the Psychoanalyst’s Home). Powerful female figures are represented in “La mujer calculadora” (The Calculating Woman), “Dafne”, or “Mujer de Letras” (Woman of Letters).

Tasneem has produced a video for the exhibition, which is an interview with Sara Huete. We see her in Santander, working at her studio, with some of her pieces, and with testimonials from one of her collectors. This video showcases the ingenious ways in which she finds the ideas and materials that she uses to create her pieces, and the combination of spontaneity and deep reflection that she applies throughout her work.

Gabriel Rodriguez, a writer and art critic from Cantabria, tells us in this text that he wrote for the exhibition, titled “The Sweet Charm of Irony”:

“These are works filled with surrealist humor, the kind that raises its head to laugh at conventions, to assault the established conceptual order, to explode into subtleties that become fundamental. Humor as a surprise, as a leap laden with suggestions that provokes new connections, that opens marginal territories, takes shape in a timeless image.”

“These are perennial works that, from the rigorous timelessness of dreams, offer a rigorous relevance of emotions.”

“In her work, Sara Huete similarly establishes connections between three seemingly separate lines of thought: the territory of the real object, the imaginary space of photography or engraving, and the symbolic mastery of language.”

“Before the unsuspecting passerby, a crater rises in the imperfect garden of demons playing to reveal the fragility of our way of knowing, of our relationship with everyday life.”

Sara has had numerous exhibitions throughout Spain, and her works are in important collections. She has exhibited many times successfully in Barcelona, at the Berini and Alonso Vidal galleries.

Selection of solo show:

1997     Biblioteca de sentimientos
Galería Siboney, Santander
Collages
Galería Saro León, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Collages
Galería Didáctica, San Vicente de la Barquera

1998     Pasar sin hacer ruido
Galería Berini, Barcelona
Pelillos a la mar
Galería Fúcares, Almagro
Collages
Galería Trayecto, Vitoria

1999     El mundo por montera
Galería Rafael Ortiz, Sevilla 

2001     ¡Qué bonito es el amor!
Galería Berini, Barcelona 

2002     Femenino plural
Sala Luz Norte, Santander
El festín de las letras
Galería Rafael Ortiz, Sevilla

2003    Vueltas y revueltas
Galería Estampa, Madrid
Hup-la, hup-la – Pessoa Visual
Galería Artfit, Lisboa

2004    Un árbol que se alejó del bosque
Galería Alonso Vidal, Barcelona

2005     Pasan las nubes y los sueños
Galería Siboney, Santander

2006     Tocado para la poesía
Galería Alonso Vidal, Barcelona

2008     Hay un placer en los bosques sin sendero
Galería Alonso Vidal, Barcelona

2009     ObservArte
Colección de Arte Contemporáneo, Arnuero
Cada loco con su tema
Galería Estampa, Madrid

2010     Jugant a Brossa
Galería Alonso Vidal, Barcelona

2011      Biblioteca Central de Cantabria, Santander

2013     A punto de caramelo
Galería Estampa, Madrid

2014     La poesía del papel
Galería A del Arte, Zaragoza

2023  Biblioteca de sentimientos. Antologu. La Casona. Reinosa

Group exhibitions (most recent)

201X’s Play Time. Museo Nacional de Arqueología Subacuática. Lo que pintan las mujeres Fundación Antonio Pérez. Ego yo yo mío mío. Galería Marlborough. Barcelona

202X’s ¡Vísteme con arte! Fundación Banco Santander. Algunas rosas y sus fantasmas. Biblioteca Central. Santander. Colectiva. Colegio de Arquitectos de Santander. Colectiva Cadáver exquisito. Fundación Bruno Alonso. Santander Colección de Arte Contemporáneo. Colegio de Arquitectos. Santander

Works in museums and collections

Col·lecció Testimoni de “La Caixa”, Barcelona.
Fundación Coca-Cola España, Madrid.
Museo de Bellas Artes, Santander.
Colección Norte (Gobierno de Cantabria), Santander.

Colección Los Bragales, Santander

Colección Marisa & Carlos Costa. Barcelona
Museo Postal y Telegráfico, Madrid.
Fundación Antonio Pérez, Cuenca.

Fundación Ernesto Ventós. Barcelona.
Dirección General del Deporte, Madrid.
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Caja Burgos (CAB), Burgos
Centro de Arte Cabo Mayor (Colección Sanz-Villar), Santander
Museo Redondo (Bodega del Riojano), Santander

Tasneem Gallery

The gallery was founded 20 years ago in the leafy, residential area of Les Tres Torres, Barcelona, as an inclusive artistic space of dialogue and encounter. It represents artists from a wide variety of countries, including Ernesto Leal (Havana, Cuba), Htein Lin (Ingapu, Myanmar), and Ixone Sádaba (Bilbao, Spain).

Practical information:

https://www.sarahuete.com/
https://tasneemgallery.com/es/

Tasneem Gallery
C/Castellnou, 51, Les Tres Torres
08017 Barcelona

Opening hours:
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
By appointment outside of these hours.

For more press information:

Tasneem Salam M +34 647 862 697 – [email protected]
Beth Costa: T. 609 325 795 – [email protected]