Raquel Villa is a visual artist and designer.
Her research-driven practice investigates digitally simulated systems that play with strange physics and misbehaving materials.
With a background in architecture, she builds fantasy worlds by exploring parametric systems and natural laws, infusing her digital work with surreal logic and a touch of magical realism.
For nearly five years, she was a Senior Designer at XK studio in London, where she specialised in Houdini and contributed to projects for clients including Google DeepMind, Biotherm, Apple and Sophie.
Since 2025, she has been freelancing between Madrid, London and remote — always open to collaborations that make space for curiosity and ideas that might not fully make sense yet :)
Let’s talk: hello@baghmeh.com
Her research-driven practice investigates digitally simulated systems that play with strange physics and misbehaving materials.
With a background in architecture, she builds fantasy worlds by exploring parametric systems and natural laws, infusing her digital work with surreal logic and a touch of magical realism.
For nearly five years, she was a Senior Designer at XK studio in London, where she specialised in Houdini and contributed to projects for clients including Google DeepMind, Biotherm, Apple and Sophie.
Since 2025, she has been freelancing between Madrid, London and remote — always open to collaborations that make space for curiosity and ideas that might not fully make sense yet :)
Let’s talk: hello@baghmeh.com
Exhibitions /
Publications / Talks / Lectures
Mo:De Festival, speaker (London, 2025)
Demo Festival, group exhibition (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2025)
Sessional Lecturer at Ravensbourne University London, BA (Hons) (London, 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 it's a dream” at Softer Digital Futures, group exhibition (London, 2024)
OPN Festival, panel moderator (London, 2024)
Sessional 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)
Mo:De Festival, speaker (London, 2025)
Demo Festival, group exhibition (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2025)
Sessional Lecturer at Ravensbourne University London, BA (Hons) (London, 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 it's a dream” at Softer Digital Futures, group exhibition (London, 2024)
OPN Festival, panel moderator (London, 2024)
Sessional 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)