Raquel Villa is a Spanish visual artist and designer currently based in London.
Her research-driven personal practice investigates digitally simulated systems that speculate with strange physics.
With a background in architecture, she is interested in cultivating fantasy worlds by exploring parametric systems and natural laws. She focuses on the surreal aspect of her digital practice, in infusing magic realism into digital physical behaviours to speculate with them.
Over the past four years, she has been working as a senior designer at XK studio, using Houdini as her main software to conceptualise ideas to the digital medium with brands such as Google Deepmind, Biotherm, Apple, etc.
Let’s talk :)
hello@baghmeh.com
Her research-driven personal practice investigates digitally simulated systems that speculate with strange physics.
With a background in architecture, she is interested in cultivating fantasy worlds by exploring parametric systems and natural laws. She focuses on the surreal aspect of her digital practice, in infusing magic realism into digital physical behaviours to speculate with them.
Over the past four years, she has been working as a senior designer at XK studio, using Houdini as her main software to conceptualise ideas to the digital medium with brands such as Google Deepmind, Biotherm, Apple, etc.
Let’s talk :)
hello@baghmeh.com
Exhibitions / Publications / Lectures
Demo Festival, group exhibition (The Netherlands, 2025)
“New Renaissance” Art Basel Miami x RED-EYE, group exhibition (Miami, 2025)
“huathún”, group exhibition (Berlin, 2024)
MUTEK AR 6th Edition at Artlab Digital Art Gallery, group exhibition (Buenos Aires, 2024)
“SentimentSuperSet” at Untitled Gallery, duo exhibition (Berlin, 2024)
“Up in the Clouds” at Metamorphika Gallery, group exhibition (London, 2024)
“But its a dream” at Softer Digital Futures, group exhibition (London, 2024)
OPN Festival, panel moderator (London, 2024)
Seasonal Lecturer at Ravensbourne University London, BA (Hons) (London, 2024)
“Layers of the Same World” feature at Taupe Magazine, Issue 2 (Berlin, 2022)
“Strange Other World” at MMMAD Art, Madrid Urban Digital Art Festival, group exhibition (Madrid, 2020)
MMMAD Art, face filter digital residency (Madrid, 2020)
Href Zine, feature for Technoid Natures (Berlin, 2020)
“OVNI #1, DPA-ETSAM” ISBN: 978-84-942428-7-8 (Madrid, 2015)
Demo Festival, group exhibition (The Netherlands, 2025)
“New Renaissance” Art Basel Miami x RED-EYE, group exhibition (Miami, 2025)
“huathún”, group exhibition (Berlin, 2024)
MUTEK AR 6th Edition at Artlab Digital Art Gallery, group exhibition (Buenos Aires, 2024)
“SentimentSuperSet” at Untitled Gallery, duo exhibition (Berlin, 2024)
“Up in the Clouds” at Metamorphika Gallery, group exhibition (London, 2024)
“But its a dream” at Softer Digital Futures, group exhibition (London, 2024)
OPN Festival, panel moderator (London, 2024)
Seasonal Lecturer at Ravensbourne University London, BA (Hons) (London, 2024)
“Layers of the Same World” feature at Taupe Magazine, Issue 2 (Berlin, 2022)
“Strange Other World” at MMMAD Art, Madrid Urban Digital Art Festival, group exhibition (Madrid, 2020)
MMMAD Art, face filter digital residency (Madrid, 2020)
Href Zine, feature for Technoid Natures (Berlin, 2020)
“OVNI #1, DPA-ETSAM” ISBN: 978-84-942428-7-8 (Madrid, 2015)