Mabel Palacín graduated in History of Art and Cinema, photography and video from the University of Barcelona. She currently works between Barcelona and Milan. The subject of her work is photography considered in all its mutations, including cinema, video and its digital variants. She considers images as theoretical agents capable of developing models from which to understand and expand the contemporary visual landscape. The notion of project  is essential in her method of work, in which images generate instructions for use and engender narratives that arise only because  of the images themselves. In her work the content of the images is always the spectator, and the spatial dimension as well as the multiple projection of some of these works strongly request the viewer, establishing links between image and architecture.

In 2019, her project “Thieves”, was the winner of the 6th edition of the Videocreation Prize, promoted by the Xarxa de Centres d’Arts Visuals de Catalunya, the Department of Culture and LOOP Barcelona. During LOOP Festival, in November 2020. The same year she realized El Trayecto a video made with the camera system of an autonomous car. In 2011 she represented Catalonia and the Balearic Islands in the 54th Venice Biennale with the work 180 degrees. Her work has been seen in individual and collective exhibitions at the Ángels Barcelona Gallery, Frankfurter Kunstverein and LA Galerie (Frankfurt), Centre d’Art Santa Mònica(Barcelona), The Agency (London), Norwich Gallery (Norwich), Transmission Gallery (Glasgow), Kwangju Biennale (South Korea), Artothek (Cologne), Taipei Fine Arts Museum (Taiwan), Kunstbunker Tumulka (Münich), Bolsky Gallery (Los Angeles), Galerie Anne de Villepoix  (Paris),  Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), MUA  (Alicante), Colecçao Berardo Museum (Lisbon), Salvador Dalí Museum St. Petersburg (Florida), Frac Languedoc-Roussillon (Montpellier), MACBA (Barcelona), OK Center (Linz.), Casino Luxembourg (Luxembourg), Artium (Vitoria), Reykjavik Art Museum (Reykjavik) among others. She currently resides and develops her work between Barcelona and Milan.

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Dr. Architect by ETSAB-UPC. Professor at the Architectural Design Department-UPC. Researcher at Tokyo Institute of Technology with a Monbushō grant from the Japanese Government, worked in the office of Kazuo Shinohara. Visiting professor at different universities, he has given lectures and participated in seminars in several cities around the world. His theoretical work has been widely published in journals and books. Among others: Experimental Dwellings, 1971-1994 (Barcelona: Edicions UPC, 1996), Architecture on the Horizon (London: RIBA, 1996), Concealed Complexities (Tokyo: Toto, 1999), Diagonal ZeroZero (Barcelona: Lunwerg, 2011) and Kazuo Shinohara-Casas/Houses (Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 2011). He was co-founder and member of the Editorial Board of WAM, the first online magazine devoted to architecture.

In 1990 he founded EMBA_ESTUDI MASSIP-BOSCH ARCHITECTS with which he has won multiple awards and competitions, working on different project scales and in different urban and social contexts. His works include the Cluj-Napoca Children Hospital, Romania (awarded Bucharest Architecture Biennale 2021 Human-conscious Prize); Torre Telefónica Diagonal ZeroZero, Barcelona (awarded LEAF Awards Best Office Building 2011); Saló Sagrada Família urban project, Barcelona; the Remodeling of Place République, Leucate (France, awarded Mediterranean Public Space Prize 2009); or the TJ Headquarters and Logistics Center, Moscow (Russia). EMBA’s work has been exhibited at different international venues, including Venice Biennale, Museo d’Arte Moderna Vittoria Colonna-Pescara, COAC Barcelona, Santiago de Chile Biennale, and Bucharest Biennale. A monograph of selected EMBA’s works EMBA ARCHITECTURE 2005-2015 has been published in the prestigious collection TC Cuadernos.

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Nancy Garín is an independent journalist, art researcher and curator working in projects related to critical thinking, new pedagogies, archives, memory and decolonialism.

Being part of the Etcétera group (Argentina) and the Internacioanl Erroristas, she participated in numerous exhibitions and artistic actions since 2000. Since 2011, she is co-founder of Equipo re, a research platform on intersections between body policies and archives, carrying out different projects of mediation, production and curation. From that proyect Anarchivo sida was born, holding exhibitions (Tabakalera / 2016, Conde Duque / 2017 and CED / MACBA / 2018-2019), publications, debates and pedagogical activities. Between 2012 and 2017, she participated in the Peninsula group, Colonial processes and artistic and curatorial practices. In 2017 she started the project Espectros de lo Urbano analyzing the urban phenomenon as a privileged ally of predatory processes of capitalism and the neo-liberalism agenda linked to the persistencies of the colonial machinery.

Last update: 16th November, 2020

Cecilia Bengolea (Buenos Aires, 1979), works on a range of media including performance, video and sculpture. Using dance as a tool and a medium for radical empathy and emotional exchange. Infused with the symbolic energies found within nature and relationships, her compositions are formed around ideas of the body – both individually and collectively – as a medium. Bengolea develops a broad artistry where she sees movement, dance and performance as animated sculpture.

Bengolea has collaborated with dancehall artists such as Craig Black Eagle, Bombom DHQ, Damion BG, and with artists Dominique Gonzalez Forster and Jeremy Deller. Her collaborative work with French choreographer François Chaignaud, Pâquerette (2005-2008) and Sylphides (2009), have earned several awards such as the Award de la Critique de Paris in 2010 and the Young Artist Prize at the Gwangju Biennial in 2014. They have also co-created dance pieces for their dance company as well as for the Ballet de Lyon (2013), the Ballet de Lorraine (2014) and Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal.

Cecilia Bengolea’s work is a part of numerous public and private collections including TBA21 Accademy, Mire Fond Cantonal de La Ville de Geneve, The Vinyl Factory, Le CNAP, Le Consortium, Peter Handschin and Martin Hatebur, Fiorucci Arts and Trusts, Tank Shanghai, Fundacion Arco, Jimena Blazquez Bonte,  Fernando Arriola.