Barcelona, Spain, 1943.

Ribé began her career at the end of the sixties. Time of great changes, both political and social, which directly influence her work.

In 1967, feeling overwhelmed by the oppressive politics in Barcelona, she moved to Paris to study sociology where she participated in movements such as May 1968. In Paris she began working in the studio of the sculptor Piotr Kowalski and discovered her artistic vocation. From the seventies she settled in the United States. There she began to move through the alternative artistic spaces of Chicago and New York where the emerging artistic activity of the moment was consolidated and Ribé had her first exhibitions. During this time, she made works of an ephemeral nature that she documents through photography.

In the eighties she returned to Spain and began to work with iron and her works ceased to be ephemeral and materialized in sculptural form. Starting in 2000, she began to work with neons, connecting her work with light and space. She also does graphic work and on paper.

Among others, the following collective exhibitions stand out: Chicago N.A.M.E Gallery (1973), Museu de Arte contemporánea da Universidades da Sao Paulo (Brazil 1977); The Alburquerque Museum (New Mexico), Salvador Dalí Museum (Saint Petersburg, Florida, 2005), Caixaforum Madrid 2011, MACBA (Barcelona 2012), etc.

Some of his most outstanding individual exhibitions: in 1969 he made his first installation “Laberint” at the Center Artistique de Verderomnne (Paris), a work that was reconstructed in the exhibition “En el laberint, Angels Ribé 1969-1984) organized by MACBA in 2011, the exhibitions held at the New York gallery 3 Mercer St. Gallery (1975); C Space Gallery (1977 and 1979) and in Barcelona at the G Gallery (1977) and the Miró Foundation (1978 and 1983) or those carried out at the Center d'Art Santa Mónica (1998), Senda Gallery (1998) or the Vila Casas Foundation (2003). More recent are: “Ribé” MaxPhotos, Barcelona (2011); ST Galera Canals, Sant Cugat del Valles (2012), Barcelona; “Backlit”, Palmadotze Gallery, Villafranca del Penedés, Barcelona (2014); “Mon Corps, mons esprit” Ana Mas Project Gallery, L´Hospitalet, Barcelona (2018).