Bella Báguena



She/Her

Trans feminine artist Bella Báguena (Valencia, 1994) has worked across different disciplines throughout her career, such as performance art and sculptural jewelry, now focusing on her musical project.

Navigating between many different resources, Bella weaves together a rich composition of ideas, drawing from pop imagery and internet culture, in contrast with nature, organic textures, and bodily experience. Organic materials, lights, sonic reverberations, the sea and water, hormones, tears, stories of lesbian love and heartbreak, the pleasure of food, or the trauma carried by transfemenine bodies are elements present in her work. Her aim is to create a close connection between her emotional experience and the audience; a channel of honesty through which to communicate—whether using words, forms, body expression, or the energy of the voice—in order to raise awareness of her story and lived experience.

Bella was selected as a SHAPE artist in 2023. Among other projects, in 2022 she presented her performances at several institutions such as La Casa Encendida (Madrid) for La Terraza Magnética, at the CCCB (Barcelona) within Festival Salmón, and at Palais de Tokyo (Paris ) alongside dancer and multidisciplinary artist Sorour Darabi in their project From the throat to the dawn. She has also presented her performance in New York in collaboration with Sergio Eusebi and his brand Kuboraum. She took part in a stage and music piece directed by Lina Lapelytė, artist awarded at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. She was selected to carry out a sound residency in the project A Comparative Dialogue Act, directed by Andrea Mancini, for the 60th International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia 2024, Luxembour