Guest Curators | ON MEDIATION

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Carles Guerra is an artist, critic and lecturer in Contemporary Art at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona and freelance curator. He was appointed Director of the Primavera Fotogràfica de Catalunya. He was Director of the Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, Chief Curator at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) from 2011 to 2013, and the director of the Fundació Tàpies since 2015.

Juan Vicente Aliaga is a Spanish art critic who has written widely on contemporary conceptual art as well as on gender and queer theory. He is professor at Polytechnic University of Valencia, correspondent of Artforum, author of some books and he has also been curator at Camden Arts Centre, Museo Reina Sofia, EACC and IVAM.

Pilar Bonet works as a critic and art historian, focused in criticism, art and contemporary design. Bonet is a freelance curator of several historical exhibitions looking at Spanish avant-garde art and many dedicated to contemporary artists. She is also founding member of the Association ACM and the company Arts Coming. She has received numerous prizes and research awards.

Conrado Uribe is an art historian who worked as a curator in citySCREEN (SCREEN festival) and Pabellón Artecámara (feiaArtbo). He was the director of the internation Loop festival, the coordinator of TALKING GALLERIES and he was the curator chief in the Museum of Antioquia.

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José Roca is adjunct curator Estrellita B. Brodsky de Arte Latinoamericano (Tate Modern, London) and director of FLORA ars+natura, (Bogotá). For ten years he managed the artistic program of Banco de la República (Bogotá). He was a jury member at 52nd Venice Biennale.

Luis Guerra. Artista, teórico y escritor

María Inés Rodríguez is an independent curator and the director of CAPC Musée d´Art Contemporain (Bordeaux) since 2014. She was chief curator at Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC, Mexico D.F.) and at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC).

Maria Hlavajova is the founder and artistic director of BAK Basis Voor Aktuel Kunst (Utrecht) and artistic director of the project FORMER WEST. She was the curator of the roman pavilion for the 54^th Venice Biennale and curator of the dutch pavilion for the 52^nd Venice Biennale.

Beatrice von Bismarck is a teacher and vice-rector in HGB Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (Leipzig) where she founded and runs an art space, and she is the director of the curatorial project Cultures of the Curatorial. She was in charge of individual expositions at Städel Museum (Frankfurt) and managed XX century department at Städel Kunstinstitut.

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Oriol Fontdevila is a curator, writer, researcher, focusing on art practices and education based in Barcelona. He is the artistic co-director of Sala d’Art Jove. Currently he is researching from a performative approach on the interweave between art and mediation granted by MNCARS, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia and he is co-curating Performing the Museum, an artistic research platform.

Nuria Enguita is co-editor of Afterall magazine and member of the management team of the arteypensamiento program of the Universidad Internacional de Andalucía – UNIA, where she develops the seminar program Narrativas de Fuga, in which Alice Creischer and Eduardo Molinari (Archivo caminante) and Pedro Costa have participated. She also works as a culture consultant for the Basque government. Enguita was part of the curatorial team of the 31st São Paulo Biennial, in 2014, under the direction of the British commissioner Charles Esche. She has also been co-curator of the International Meeting of Medellín, 2011. Among her latest curatorial works is an exhibition by Leonor Antunes for Museu Serralves, Oporto, and Kunstverein Dusseldorf, as well as a retrospective of Lluís Claramunt for MACBA. In addition, in the last two years he has curated exhibitions of Eulàlia Valldosera and Ibon Aranberri for the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum, Madrid.

Raimundas Malasauskas is a writer and curator who lives and works in Paris. From 1995 to 2006 he was a curator at CAC Vilnius and CAC TV; in 2007 he co-wrote the libretto of an opera, Cellador, which was performed in Paris; in 2007–08 he was a visiting curator at California College of Arts, San Francisco, and from 2007 to 2009 he was also a curator at Artists Space, New York. His writings are concerned with contemporary phenomena, biographies and stories, addressing the parallel worlds of science, media, film, literature, and mass culture.

Orlando Britto holds a degree in Philosophy and Literature, specialized in History of Art, from the University of Granada. Cultural manager, art critic and independent curator of contemporary art projects. He worked from 1989 to 1998 at the Atlantic Center of Modern Art in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (CAAM), of which he was curator, chief curator and later assistant director. From 2001 to 2008 she directed the Espacio C project, a small and dynamic interdisciplinary and international contemporary art project located in the Cantabrian municipality of Camargo. He has directed and curated various international contemporary art encounters and events in Spain such as the Osorio International Encounters in Gran Canaria, the Diaspora project in the city of Oviedo, or the Nature and Coexistence meeting in the town of Esles de Cayón in the region of Cantabria. In addition, he was the General Curator of the V Bienal de Uppsala in Sweden, in the year 2000, and of the 5th Biennial of Honduras, organized by Mujeres en las Artes Leticia de Oyuela MUA, which took place during the months of May and June 2014 and which was hosted by the Museum for National Identity (MIN), located in the capital of the country, Tegucigalpa.

Anton Vidokle‘s work has been exhibited in shows such as the Venice Biennale, Lyon Biennial, Dakar Biennale, Lodz Biennale, and at Tate Modern, London; Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana; Musée d’art Modern de la Ville de Paris; Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; UCLA Hammer, LA; ICA, Boston; Haus Der Kunst, Munich; P.S.1, New York; among others. With Julieta Aranda, he organized e-flux video rental, which traveled to numerous institutions including Portikus, Frankfurt; KunstWerk, Berlin; Extra City, Antwerp; Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and others. As founding director of e-flux, he has produced projects such as Next Documenta Should Be Curated By An Artist, Do it, Utopia Station poster project, and organized An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life and Martha Rosler Library. Vidokle initiated research into education as site for artistic practice as co-curator for Manifesta 6, which was canceled. In response to the cancellation, Vidokle set up an independent project in Berlin called Unitednationsplaza—a twelve-month project involving more than a hundred artists, writers, philosophers, and diverse audiences. Located behind a supermarket in East Berlin, UNP’s program featured numerous seminars, lectures, screenings, book presentations and various projects.

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Le peuple qui manque is an art curatorial platform based in Paris, France. It was created by Kantuta Quiros and Aliocha Imhoff in 2005, and operates at the intersection of contemporary art and research. Le peuple qui manque is also producing and distributing artists’ films. Some of their recent curatorial projects (2015-2017) are The Trial of Fiction (Nuit Blanche, 2017); A Migrant Constituent Assembly (Centre Pompidou, 2017, symposium-performance); A Government of Times (Leipizg Halle 14, symposium-performance, 2016); A Government of Times (Rebuild Foundation, Chicago, exposition, 2016), La frontera nos cruzó (Museo de la Inmigración Buenos Aires, 2015, exposition); Live Writing, Prague (2015); Post-exotism (New Haven Fort, UK, 2015, exposition), among others.

Valentín Roma is an art historian, writer and exhibition curator. PhD in History of Art and Philosophy from Southampton University (Winchester School of Art). He has been a professor of Contemporary Art Theories at the UAB and full professor at the ELISAVA School in Barcelona. In 2011 he published the book Caras (Peripheral). He was elected director of La Virreina Center de la Imatge, in Barcelona, in April 2016. Prior to this position, in 2014 he became part of the external curatorial team of MACBA, Barcelona, and from the beginning of 2015 until the month of March of that year, he was chief curator of this institution.

Charles Esche is director of Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; professor of contemporary art and curating at Central Saint Martins, UAL, London and co-director of Afterall Journal and Books. He teaches on the Exhibition Studies MRes course at CSM, and at Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht. Outwith the museum, he co-curated Power and Other Things, Europalia, BOZAR, Brussels, 2017; Art Turns, Word Turns, Museum MACAN, Jakarta, 2017; Le Musée Égaré, Kunsthall Oslo, 2017; Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse 2016; Jakarta Biennale, 2015; 31^st São Paulo Bienal, 2014, U3 Triennale, Ljubljana, 2011; RIWAQ Biennale, Palestine, 2007 and 2009; Istanbul Biennale, 2005; Gwangju Biennale, 2002; amongst other international exhibitions. He is chair of CASCO, Utrecht. He received the 2012 Princess Margriet Award and the 2014 CCS Bard College Prize for Curatorial Excellence.

Imma Prieto is an art critic, independent curator and professor of contemporary art and new media at the Eram University School of the University of Girona (UdG). Currently, he is part of the Chair of Contemporary Art and Culture of the UdG, and is a member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics) and the IAC (Institute of Contemporary Art). In parallel, Prieto has developed a significant activity in the curatorial field and has curated projects in various exhibition spaces in the national and international field: Temp Art Space in New York, Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, MUCA ROMA Museum in Mexico City, Pumapungo National Museum from Ecuador, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Fabra i Coats, Bòlit Center d’Art Contemporani, TEA-Tenerife Space for the Arts, ARTIUM and Werkstatt der Kulturen in Berlin, among others.

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What, How & for Whom/WHW is a curatorial collective formed in 1999 and based in Zagreb and Berlin. Its members are curators Ivet Ćurlin, Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović, and designer and publicist Dejan Kršić. WHW organizes a range of production, exhibitions and publishing projects and directs Gallery Nova in Zagreb. Since its first exhibition titled What, How & for Whom, on the occasion of 152nd anniversary of the Communist Manifesto, that took place in Zagreb in 2000, WHW curated numerous international projects, among which are Collective Creativity, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, 2005; 11th Istanbul Biennial What Keeps Mankind Alive?, Istanbul, 2009; One Needs to Live Self-Confidently…Watching, Croatian pavilion at 54th Venice Biennial, 2011. Recent projects by WHW include the festival Meeting Points 7 that took place in Zagreb, Antwerp, Cairo, Hong-Kong, Beirut, Vienna and Moscow under title Ten thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks in 2013 and 2014, exhibition Really Useful Knowledge, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2014, among others.

José Miguel G. Cortés is PhD in Philosohy and has been professor of Art Theories at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Valencia. He has also been director of the Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló (EACC) from 1998 to 2003. Within his work as curator, he has curated different exhibitions: Micropolíticas. Arte y Cotidianidad 2001-1968; Contra la Arquitectura: La necesidad de (re)construir la ciudad; Lugares de la Memoria; Ciudades Invisibles; Héroes Caídos: Masculinidad y Representación, among others; and also solo exhibitions for artists such as Jeff Wall, Pepe Espaliú, Gilbert & George or Christian Boltanski, among others. He leads the IVAM, Valencia, since 2014.

Manuel Segade has a degree in Art History from the University of Santiago de Compostela. Since 1998 he has been working on fragments of a cultural history of aesthetic practices of the late nineteenth century, around the production of a somatic and sexualized subjectivity, about what he wrote the essay “Narciso fin de siglo” (Melusina, 2008). During 2005 and 2006, he was the content coordinator of Metrònom Fundació Rafael Tous d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Between 2007 and 2009 he was a curator at the Galician Center for Contemporary Art in Santiago de Compostela. As of 2009, he resumed his work as an independent curator, carrying out projects for La Casa Encendida, ARCO, MUSAC, Center d’Art La Panera or the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo. Since December 2015 he leads the latter center, in Móstoles.

Lars Bang Larsen is a writer, curator and art historian. He is a visiting professor at the High School of Art and Design in Geneva and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen (Department of Arts and Cultural Studies), where he received his doctorate for his study on psychedelic concepts of the art of the neo-avant-garde. He has organized exhibitions such as A History of Irritated Material (Raven Row, London, 2010), Reflections from Damaged Life (Raven Row, London, 2013) and The Society Without Qualities (Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, 2013). Among the exhibitions of which he was co-curator, stand out The invisible insurrection of a million minds (Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, 2005), Populism (Stedelijk Museum, Frankfurter Kunstverein and other institutions, 2005), Believe Not Every Spirit, But Try the Spirits (MUMA, Melbourne, 2015) and Georgiana Houghton: Spirit Drawings (Courtauld Gallery, London, 2016). He was a co-curator of Incerteza viva, the 32nd São Paulo Biennial, 2016, and curator of the Danish participation in the 26th edition, 2004. He is a regular contributor to magazines such as Afterall, Artforum and Frieze.