Marc Samper is a visual artist, experimental filmmaker, and photographer from Barcelona, currently based in Paris. Having earned a degree in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona and a master's in Cinema from Pompeu Fabra University, his primary focus of interest revolves around the ontology and phenomenology of images within the context of Global Mass Media, the emerging currents of speculative metaphysics, and an experimental study on mysticism and Technique. In recent years, he has received, through Space of Tapes, a grant from the Ministry of Culture of Cyprus for a project and residency in Nicosia, has been awarded and showcased at various experimental film festivals, and has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Urban Nation Berlin Museum.
MARC SAMPER
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
– A Dreamscape Cartography, selected by Transient Info (virtual exhibition, 2025) to participate in The Wrong Biennale 2025.
– 3D Scanner and Desktop art piece “A Dreamscape Cartography”, selected to be part of the FILE Festival (Electronic Language International Festival), São Paulo, July–September 2025.
– 3D Scanner and Desktop art piece “A Dreamscape Cartography”, selected for the exhibition “Experimental Film & Video 2025”, CICA Museum, Korea, May 21–June 15, 2025.
– 3D Scanner and Desktop art piece “A Dreamscape Cartography”, selected for the 11th edition of Cairo Video Festival, December 2024.
-3D Scanner and Desktop art piece “A Dreamscape Cartography”, selected for the Athens International Digital Film Festival AIDFF 2025.
– Both Breath and Clay. Fragments of a Ritual Prayer, selected and screened at Anafi International Film Festival 2024 (Anafiff 2024).
– Screening of Both Breath and Clay. Fragments of a Ritual Prayer at EIGHT / ΤΟ ΟΧΤΩ, critical institute for arts and politics, Athens, 2024.
– Screening of Sequence Shot #1. The Hanging Gardens at Gisela – Freier Kunstraum Lichtenberg Gallery, Berlin, 2024.
– Both Breath and Clay. Fragments of a Ritual Prayer – Award Winner, Best Performance category, International Avant-Garde Film Festival 2023 (screening at Quad Cinema, New York).
– Both Breath and Clay. Fragments of a Ritual Prayer – Best Experimental Film, Berlin Kiez Film Festival, 2023.
– Selection and screening of Both Breath and Clay. Fragments of a Ritual Prayer at Festival Cinemística Granada, 2023.
– Selection and screening of Both Breath and Clay. Fragments of a Ritual Prayer at Festival Fotogenia, Mexico, 2023.
– Selection and screening of Both Breath and Clay. Fragments of a Ritual Prayer at Experimental Film Fest, 2023.
– If the Eye Were an Animal, Its Soul Would Be the Sight – selection and screening at Pebbles Underground Film and Video Art Festival, 2023.
– If the Eye Were an Animal, Its Soul Would Be the Sight – selection and screening at Fisura Festival of Experimental Cinema of Mexico, 2023.
– If the Eye Were an Animal, Its Soul Would Be the Sight – selection and screening at III Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, 2021.
– Lost in Representation – Honorable Mention at Pebbles Underground Film and Video Art Festival, 2023.
– Lost in Representation. Screening at Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona (Experimental Film Lab with Andrés Duque).
– Screening of Marathonas organized by CULTURA FILM REVISTA, 2020.
– "Evidències", audiovisual piece present at Joan Fontcuberta's exhibition "Evidències", organized by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Fundació Vila Casas. 2021-22.
– Stories of Berlin, exhibition at URBAN NATION Museum, Berlin, August–September 2023.
– Group exhibition of photography at Kühlhaus Berlin, organized by gallery BBA Berlin, as part of the BBA Photography Prize exhibitions, 2021.
– Interstices et zones intermédiaires, photography exhibition at Les Furies Bergères, Bordeaux, August–September 2025.
– Mäusebunker and The Mind as Interruption and Possibility of the Landscape, AVIV 030, Berlin, 2022–23.
RESIDENCIES & GRANTS
– Grant by the Cyprus Ministry of Culture for The Cartographer and Her Chorus (2023).
– FRESH A.I.R. six-month residency and grant, URBAN NATION Museum, Berlin, 2020–21.
– One-month residency in Nicosia for The Cartographer and Her Chorus: A Dreamscape Monodrama (presentation at ΓΚΑΡΑΖ-Garage Gallery), December 17–18, 2023.
– Artist in Residence at Y Residence Athens with the project Marathonas, 2016.
PERFORMANCE & COLLABORATIVE WORKS
– Existo, video projection participation in the audiovisual performance with Maria Constanti, Cordillera Berlin, May 2025.
– Holy Transmemberings. Video art at the Performance by Maria Constanti, Lettrétage Berlin, April 2026.
– The Thirst of the Whale is a Land of Dreams, created in collaboration with performance artist Maria Constanti; featured at PerPoSF – International Performance Poetry Biennial Symposium-Festival, Thessaloniki, under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Municipality of Thessaloniki.
– Participation with The Thirst of the Whale is a Land of Dreams (with Maria Constanti) at Sardam Performance Festival, Cyprus, 2024.
– The Cartographer and Her Chorus: A Dreamscape Monodrama, audiovisual performance installation; one-month residency in Nicosia and presentation at ΓΚΑΡΑΖ-Garage Gallery, Nicosia, December 17–18, 2023.
– Grant by the Cyprus Ministry of Culture for The Cartographer and Her Chorus: A Dreamscape Monodrama; produced by Space of Tapes (Marc Samper, Maria Tsitroudi, Maria Constanti, Dimitris Sandalis).
-DOP, Camera, and Editing of the Art Film Viento, by Nathalie Karagiannis.
-Production and Director of Photography of the video "Evidències", for Joan Fontcuberta's exhibition "Evidències", organized by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Fundació Vila Casas. 2021-22.
LECTURES & RESEARCH
– Hyperimages: A Study on the Nomadic Image, lecture at Nomadic Images 2022 conference, University of Central Asia.
– Co-editor of videos and audiovisual material for Universitat Pompeu Fabra research projects MOVEP and TESEO (financed by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and the European Union).
FILMS
– Both Breath and Clay. Fragments of a Ritual Prayer. 2023.
– Lost in Representation. 2022.
– If the Eye Were an Animal, Its Soul Would Be the Sight. 2021.
– Marathonas. 2016.
PUBLICATIONS
– Mäusebunker photograph series published in TUSITALA Magazine, N10 ESPACIO. Barcelona, 2022.
– Mäusebunker photograph series published in TRANSFORMATION (Berlin Explorer), 2022.
– Movimientos, cosmos, y música a través de las armonías de Werckmeister published in TUSITALA Magazine, N01 MOVIMIENTO. Barcelona, 2022.
– Publication: Holy Motors: Histories, Play, and Gesture. Cinergia No. 2, Spring 2013.
https://www.cinergiarevista.com/cinergia-02
INSTALLATIONS
– The Cartographer and Her Chorus. ΓΚΑΡΑΖ-Garage Gallery, Nicosia, 2023.
– The Hanging Gardens or the Virtuality of the Events. Haiku on Screen, URBAN NATION Berlin, 2021.
– Two Hands Clap and There Is a Sound. What Is the Sound of One Hand? – 5-channel installation recorded with Dorit Chrysler, URBAN NATION Berlin, 2021.
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
– Best Performance, International Avant-Garde Film Festival 2023 (Both Breath and Clay. Fragments of a Ritual Prayer).
– Best Experimental Film, Berlin Kiez Film Festival 2023 (Both Breath and Clay. Fragments of a Ritual Prayer).
– Nomination – ONE SHOT AWARD, BBA Gallery (BBA Photography Prize), 2021.
EDUCATION
– Master's degree in Cinema Studies and Contemporary Audiovisual Culture, Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), 2011–2013.
– Bachelor's degree in Philosophy, University of Barcelona, 2008–2011.
– Postgraduate course in Public Heritage, Open University of Catalonia – University of the Balearic Islands (UOC – UIB), 2014.
– Master's degree in Humanistic Psychotherapy, Rogers Institute of Barcelona, 2014–2015.
– Specialization course in Psychopathology and Psychopharmacology: A view from Humanism and Existentialism, Rogers Institute of Barcelona, 2015.
– Specialization course in Color Correction with DaVinci Resolve, Barcelona Film School (ECIB), 2018.
– Course of Editing Techniques with Adobe Premiere, CIFO l'Hospitalet, 2018.
– Course of Lighting Techniques for Cinema, Video and TV, CIFO l'Hospitalet, 2018.
– Studies of Musical Language and Jazz, Taller de Músics de Barcelona, 2001–2005.
Photo by Ona Mariné