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1936: Magda Bolumar Chertó was born in Caldes d’Estrac (Barcelona), on 1 October.
1939: Her family moved to Mataró, where she first went to school.
1948: She joined the studio of the painter Rafael Estrany, director of Mataró Municipal Museum.
1952: She studied at the School of Arts and Crafts of Mataró and continued working at Rafael Estrany’s studio.
1954: She made contact with the Dau al Set group and the theorist of the Arte Actual group, Moisès Villèlia.
1954: She took part in the group exhibition 1st Spanish Carnation Week at Mataró Municipal Museum, from 20 February to 20 March, showing figurative works.
1956: Solo exhibition at Mataró Municipal Museum (portraits and still lifes), from 4 to 16 November.
1956: Solo exhibition at Granollers Museum (figurative works), from 10 to 22 December.
1958: She married the sculptor Moisès Villèlia and they set up a studio to study primary materials. They lived in Mataró.
1959: Group exhibition El Maresme and its Artists, at the Palau Güell Salon in Barcelona, from 10 to 24 May..
1960: Solo exhibition of figurative works at Mataró Municipal Museum, from 28 February to 11 March.
1960: First experiments with burlap. The title that Vidal de Llobatera gave them was “xarpelleres de Magda” in Catalan, or “Magda’s burlaps”.
1960: Presentation of sackcloths by Club 49 at the Sala Gaspar gallery in Barcelona, with commentaries by Alexandre Cirici Pellicer.

1960: Group exhibition 2nd Granollers Award for Painting at the San Francisco Cultural Centre of the Pere Maspons i Camarasa Foundation in Granollers (Barcelona), from 25 August to 11 September.l’11 de setembre.
1960: O Figura-Homenaje informal a Velázquez, a non-figurative art exhibition held at the Sala Gaspar gallery in Barcelona.
1961: Group exhibition 3rd Granollers Award for Painting. She received an Honourable Mention. San Francisco Cultural Centre of the P. Maspons i Camarasa Foundation in Granollers (Barcelona).
1962: Group Exhibition 5th May Salon at the Municipal Exhibition Gallery in Barcelona.
1962: Solo exhibition of sackcloths at the Galería Kira in Palma de Mallorca. Catalogue presentation by Alexandre Cirici Pellicer.
1963: Group exhibition Art and Peace, Friends of UNESCO Club in Barcelona.
1963: 7th May Salon, organised by the Asociación of Artistas Actuales, Municipal Exhibition Gallery, Barcelona.
1963: 2nd Women’s Arte Actual Salon, Municipal Exhibition Gallery, Barcelona.
1963: She created the front cover of the Chamber Concert programme that took place at the Gomis House in El Prat de Llobregat, Barcelona.
1964: She took part in the 3rd Women’s Arte Actual Salon, Municipal Exhibition Gallery, Barcelona.
1964-65: She and Moisès Villèlia together set up a print workshop at the Lionesa to study the mechanisation of that craft, creating the Sur-Bo signature. Their interest in the industrialisation of crafts led them, again together, to carry out several industrial design projects that became consolidated through the creation of the Burenc signature.
1966: She took part in the 5th Women’s Arte Actual Salon.
1967-68: She lived in Paris, where she made a series of oil portraits and several burlap-type canvases, for which she used raffia instead of sackcloth.
1969: She made several posters for the Concert by soprano Ana Ricci at the Saló del Tinell in Barcelona, sponsored by the German Institute and Musical Youths.
1969: Group exhibition City of Terrassa Award in Terrassa (Barcelona).
1970: Solo exhibition at the Sala Gaspar gallery in Barcelona, from 6 to 25 March. The art critic Alexandre Cirici Pellicer presented the catalogue.
1972: Exhibition in Quito (Ecuador) at the Galería Wilson Hallo.
1981-82: Exhibition at Caixa Laietana in Mataró, from 23 December to 12 January.
1985: Group exhibition, alongside Moisès Villèlia and Nahum Sanmartín, at Granollers Museum.
1987: Joint exhibition with the ceramicist Dolors Mir at La Caixa de Barcelona in Ripoll, from 1 to 17 May.
1988: Exhibition of drawings and enamels at La Amistad Recreational Society of Cadaqués (Girona), from 9 to 22 July.
1988: Group exhibition at the Galeria AB in Granollers (Barcelona), Proa Collection, showing a burlap and a drawing for the illustration of the book Baltasar and Blimunda by José Saramago.
1994: Solo exhibition of drawings, burlaps and hot enamels at Can Ginebreda in Banyoles (Girona).
1998: Solo exhibitions at the Espai Miquel Gaspar gallery in Barcelona, June and July.
2013-2014: Modernity in Difficult Times. Ca l’Arenas, Mataró (Barcelona), from 26 October
2019: Those Small Things. Group exhibition at the Marc Domènech gallery in Barcelona.
2019: Magda Bolumar: Papers from the ’60s and ’70s. Solo exhibition at the Marc Domènech gallery in Barcelona.
2020: Group exhibition "Art París". Marc Domènech Gallery stand. From 10 to 13 September.
Group exhibition "Àngel Ferrant i Xavier Vidal de Llobatera. L'Amistat infinita". Vila Casas Foundation, Barcelona. From 17 September to 20 December.
Group exhibition. Galería Marc Domènech, Barcelona. From 17 September to 30 October.
2021: Group exhibition "Aquellas pequeñas cosas...(III)". Marc Domènech Gallery, Barcelona. From 8 February to 31 March.
2021: Artist Project "Magda Bolumar. Drawings and Paintings. 1960 - 1970" solo exhibition. Marc Doménech Gallery at ARCO Madrid. From 7 to 11 July.
Art FAD Recognition award.
2021: Art París. Galería Marc Domènech. From 9 to 12 September.
2021-2022: Magda Bolumar. Arpilleras 1960-1980. Solo exhibition at the Marc Domènech gallery in Barcelona. From November 25th 2021 to January 28th 2022.
2022 Geometries. Group exhibition at Marc Domènech Gallery, Barcelona. From 7 July tol 9 September.
2022-2023: Desde un insecto al mundo estelar. Group exhibition at Arte92 gallery in Madrid. From 23 November 2022 to 10 February 2023.
Group exhibition "Aquelles petites coses...IV" Marc Domènech Gallery, Barcelona. From 5 December 2022 to 5 January 2023.
2023: Arco Madrid from 22 to 26 February, stand of Marc Domènech Gallery.
Art París from 29 March to 2 April, stand of Marc Domènech Gallery.
"Artròpodes, centpeus, espiadimonis i llagostes de mar." From 18 May to 9 July, Granollers Museum.