Artist, photographer and prominent member of ‘la Movida’. Born in Madrid, she spent her childhood between Madrid and San Rafael, a town in Castilla la Mancha that captured her heart thanks to its wooded environment. Since then, she fell in love with the colours of nature. In 1957 she studied piano and painting, but focused especially on the world of comics. Tired of her Fine Arts degree, in 1976, she joined Photocentro, an avant-garde photography school in Madrid.
Without a doubt, Ouka Leele was one of the visible faces of the social and artistic change of the eighties in Spain. She stands out for her initial black and white photographs that she later filled with vivid colours using watercolour thanks to her creative origins in painting. At the age of 21 in Barcelona, she made her series entitled ‘Peluquería’ (1979), the most iconic of her entire career. Painting on photography is then understood as her hallmark throughout her career, creating a very characteristic, creative and personal style of her own. Her works were defined as surrealist and Warholian, in addition to emphasizing that her works transcended currents and discourses.
The Suñol Soler Collection has a single work by this artist, Portrait of Zush (1980-82). Where the artist Zush appears inside a bathtub with different objects. This photograph was exhibited in the foundation’s collective exhibition entitled: ‘Twenty faces and three crowds’ (2021-2022).
List of artworks
Retrat Zush , 1980
Retrat Zush , 1980
Twenty Faces and Three Crowds
In Three Acts
The third and final act goes into the great iconographic motive of art, the element that questions the chronologies and brings to this day the verisimilitude of the whole...
FACE(S)
A project by Susoespai
FACE(S) presents a selection of works done by the people participating in the workshops of Susoespai as part of the visits to the exhibition Twenty Faces and Three Crowds...
Rosa Romero: Mira-mira
Performance
At the end of the exhibition Twenty Faces and Three Crowds, the Fundació Suñol is organizing an artistic performance in collaboration with La Caldera les...
Per la cara!
Taller familiar
Amb motiu de l’exposició Vint rostres i tres multituds, el darrer acte del tríptic expositiu En tres actes, us proposem gaudir d’un taller per a tota la família on repensarem l’ús...
Guided tour
Walking with the River. Eva Lootz
We invite you to visit the exhibition Walking with the River by the artist Eva Lootz with the help of a member of the educational team of the Fundació...
Dialogue with Pol Guash and Valentín Romà
Online video
On the occasion of the exhibition Twenty Faces and Three Crowds, we invite the writer Pol Guasch to have a dialogue with the co-curator of the exhibition series In...
Guided tour with Valentín Roma to Twenty Faces and Three Crowds
On the occasion of the exhibition Twenty Faces and Three Crowds, the last chapter of the thryptic In Three Acts,we suggest you visit the exhibition with Valentín...
Guided tour to Twenty Faces and Three Crowds
Festa Major de Les Corts
Fundació Suñol organizes a visit to the exhibtion Twenty Faces and Three Crowds conducted by the fundation’s...
