Gastón Lisak

Professor of the Degree Design and the Degree in Industrial Design Engineering

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Collaborator of ELISAVA RESEARCH with innovating projects and leader of co-creation and Art-thinking workshops
Founder of the artistic collective Random Happiness.
BA Hons Graphic arts; Winchester School of Arts, University of Southampton.
Degree in Design, ELISAVA.

Gastón Lisak is a conceptual artist based in Barcelona. Lisak is one of the founders of Random Happiness, a movement that believes in happiness as a revolutionary tool. Upon graduation, he was awarded a grant at F A B R I C A, the research center of Benetton, where we spent 2 years and developed his work on visual storytelling and pop-up exhibitions.

Lisak leads workshops in the field of Art Thinking, collective creation, and co-creation for institutions together its team of Research. Lately, he has been invited to be part of the FORUM el Tercer Paraiso in Cuba curated by Michelangelo Pistoletto where he also collaborated with Galeria Continua.

His work has been exhibited at Gallery Bensimon Paris, Beijing Design Week, Times Square New York, Salone del Mobile, The Aram Gallery, CCCB, ILIVETOMORROW Gallery Hong Kong and MNAC, Museu Nacional D’Art de Catalunya among others. He has been invited to talk in places such as La Salle University (Jakarta), Tilburg University(Holland), Design Museum of Barcelona or Web Visions at Istituto Europeo di Design. He is tutor of the project FUTUR VISIONS 2030 (SEAT and Rucker).