Noshibari Art
A Barcelona collective led by Alberto NoShibari that treats shibari as a contemporary artistic practice, combining rope technique with dance, photography and sensory work. It runs course cycles, micro-workshops and private sessions, plus a research-oriented lab with in-studio and online sessions.
Noshibari Art calls itself a collective project of experimentation and teaching around contemporary shibari in Barcelona; its website footer dates the project from 2008. It builds its own approach from what it learned from Japanese teachers, adapted to a contemporary Western context, and organizes its work in three areas: creation, teaching, and mixing rope with other artistic, sensory and therapeutic disciplines such as sexology, music, photography and contemporary dance.
Teacher. The project’s lead teacher is Alberto NoShibari, who according to his biography has worked within Noshibari Art since 2017. His page lists occasional study with Yukimura Haruki, Naka Akira, Hajime Kinoko, Kazami Ranki, Osada Steve, Otonawa, Esinem, Nicolás Yoroi and Matthias Grimme. The same page records a long public career: organizing rope meetings in Madrid in 2008, an invitation to London’s Festival of the Art of Japanese Bondage in 2009, autumn editions of the EURIX festival in Berlin in 2014 and 2015, a 2014 Madrid evening with Naka Akira, a weekly Art & Shibari series in 2018–2019, and an invitation to Moscow Knot in 2019. Since 2021 he has also worked as shibari and performance art director for a theater company’s project “Lucía”, and the site promotes his appearance at EURIX in autumn 2026.
Teaching. The school’s method rests on “learning by sharing” and on three pillars: sensation, technique and an outside eye. It offers private classes and micro-workshops in Barcelona, an ongoing course built around an “Esencial” module and cycle, a five-workshop training cycle called Suite Colombia, and the Amantis-Noshibari cycle on rope in erotic play, plus custom courses in Barcelona or elsewhere. New dates are announced mainly on Instagram, and the site warns that places tend to sell out.
Lab. Noshibari Lab is a research group for practitioners on both sides of the rope, visual artists, dancers and performers, and body professionals such as somatic therapists and sexologists. Small in-studio meetings analyze creative processes, footage and case studies, while online sessions are open to anyone curious about the practice. Recurring themes are presence and listening between partners, consent as an ongoing process, handling intensity, and stage dramaturgy and visual composition.