Lorena Angenault
Today we’d like to introduce you to Lorena Angenault.
Lorena, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I am an art director, curator, and artist. I was born in Barcelona and began my career in arts and design at EINA University of Art in Barcelona. I later completed a Master’s degree in Art Direction in Paris. After several years living in Berlin and becoming immersed in its vibrant art scene, I began to crave a slower lifestyle and moved to Mallorca, where I spent the last five years. Today, I am based in Marseille, while my project remains nomadic.
In 2016, I founded Villa Capri as an online art gallery. It gradually evolved into a creative laboratory hosting residencies and workshops rooted in exchange, presence, and the freedom to experiment.
The first residencies took place in a farmhouse in the countryside of Mallorca, where artists, thinkers, and makers came together to create in close connection with nature, with one another, with local communities, and with themselves. The creative act was inseparable from living. Over time, the focus shifted away from a fixed place. What mattered were the conditions we created, and this understanding led Villa Capri to become nomadic.
Today, Villa Capri takes shape through temporary, site-responsive residencies. From the Catalan coast to the Austrian Alps, through the fields of Provence, each edition is unrepeatable, shaped by its landscape and the people present. It is a space for exchanging ideas and an invitation to create together while inhabiting time and place with presence and curiosity.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
In the beginning, it felt smooth because the energy behind the project outweighed the small obstacles. But living in the countryside and managing a venue full time was exhausting. That’s why Villa Capri evolved into shorter, intentional pop-up residencies, allowing us to focus on presence, experimentation, and meaningful exchanges without the logistical demands of maintaining a permanent space.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I work across visual and performing arts, designing installations around experimental gastronomy and performance. I use food and materials to rethink shared rituals and explore how we relate to spaces, objects, and each other. I often draw on the immediate landscape to reinterpret it and create alternative narratives, with a sensitivity to materials, context, form, and color.
What sets my work apart is my focus on improvisation—the magic that happens when everything flows into place. I learned this through my contact improvisation practice. There’s something incredible about seeing dancers move spontaneously, yet everything feels perfectly choreographed. I try to bring that same approach into my projects and my life outside the dancefloor
Are there any books, apps, podcasts or blogs that help you do your best?
T.A.Z. by Hakim Bey, Here and Now by Ram Dass, and any talk by Terence McKenna
Pricing:
- starting 450€ for participating in our next short residency in the Austrian Alps in June
- starting 550€ for participating in our next retreat in Provence, Southern France in September
Contact Info:
- Website: https://villacapriart.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/villa.capri/
- Other: https://villacapriart.com/pages/bad-gastein
Image Credits
Lara Muslera, Elena Baliarda, What is Love performance, Marta Romo
