Tanit Plana is a Barcelona-based artist, photographer and educator whose practice examines bodies, institutions, systems of power and social relations through photography, expanded portraiture, installation and artificial-image technologies.
Her work is held in major public collections including MACBA, MNAC and CA2M. She received the First Prize Fundación ENAIRE 2025 for Stress Position, the PostBrossa 2025 Award, a Leonardo Grant from Fundación BBVA (2016), Barcelona Crea (2020), a VEGAP grant (2021) and Art for Change – Fundación “la Caixa” grants (2012, 2022).
Recent exhibitions include Disfuncionàries at Fundació Joan Brossa and Disfuncionarias at Museo Cerralbo / PHotoESPAÑA (2026). Her work has also been presented at Canal de Isabel II and L’Auditori de Barcelona.
Her current research investigates institutional violence and bureaucratic exhaustion affecting unaccompanied migrant minors, alongside an expanding inquiry into photography, artificial intelligence and contemporary forms of intimacy.
Plana combines her artistic practice with an extensive career in education, including projects developed in youth penitentiary centres and with young migrants. From 2026, she is Director of the Master in Photographic Creation and New Audiovisual Formats at ESCAC.
She studied Audiovisual Communication at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Her work understands photography as a means of articulating body, image and politics, and of examining how institutional structures shape vulnerability, autonomy and freedom.
grants&
awards
PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD, 1rt prize
Fundación Enaire, 2025
POSTBROSSA, winner
Fundació Brossa, 2025
ART FOR CHANGE
Fundació “la Caixa”, 2012 & 2022
PROPUESTAS
Vegap, 2021
BCN CREA
Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2020
BECA LEONARDO
Fundación BBVA, 2015
PREMIO DESCUBRIMIENTOS
Photoespaña, 2002
BECA FOTOPRES
Obra Social “la Caixa”, 2001
teaching
IDEP since 2012
ESCAC since 2023
Master Photography and New Formats
Director course 2025-26
ITAEB since 2024
UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA VALÈNCIA
since 2024
AI workshops
Synthetic methods and artificial intelligence:
(1) The queer machine & (2) Reality without discrimination
LABASAD since 2024
AI workshop
Implementing AI to Ideation Processes
Master New Documentary Photography
ELISAVA since 2024
AI workshop
Master in Photography & Design
Basic Photography
Bachelor in Design & Innovation.
selected exhibitions
DISFUNCIONARIAS
Photoespaña, Museo Cerralbo, Madrid
(06.2026)
DISFUNCIONÀRIES
Fundació Joan Brossa, Barcelona
(03.2026)
A=A, B=B
Hi havia una vegada una equació
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
(12.2023)
PART
L’Auditori de Barcelona &Grec Festival
(07.2021)
PUBER
Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona
(10.2020)
ES LO QUE ES
Sala Canal de Isabel II, Madrid
(03.2019)
SETZE BARRIS, MIL CIUTATS
Teoria de Nusos
Edifici del Borsí, Barcelona
(02.2019)
FOTOGRAFIES COM A ESPAI PÚBLIC
Exercicis de memòria aplicada
Col·lecció Nacional de Fotografia. Generalitat de Catalunya
Bòlit, Centre d’Art Contemporani, Girona
(02.2018)
Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona
(11.2017)
PER SEMPRE
Caixaforum, Palma de Mallorca
(09.2011)
selected collections
MACBA,
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona.
MNAC,
Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya.
CA2M,
Alcobendas, Madrid.
FNAC,
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain
Ministeri de Cultura, França.
Col·lecció de Fotografia Contemporània
Centre de Recerca i Difusió de la Imatge
Ajuntament de Girona.
Arxiu Fotogràfic de Barcelona, Ajuntament de Barcelona.