Victoria Sacco has been working with LOOP Barcelona since 2014, where she is currently the artistic director.
She is a professor at the Escola Superior de Disseny (ESDi) and the Universitat Carlemany (UCMA). She also writes for La Maleta de Portbou and is the editor of Muntadas. Con/Textos III. Una antología críticapublished by La Virreina Centre de la Imatge in 2020. Recently, she curated the exhibition “Once upon a time” by Leeds Animation Workshop at the Virreina Centre de La Imatge.
She previously worked as a project co-ordinator and later became the co-director of the Quo Artis foundation. In Barcelona, she has also carried out research and exhibition production for institutions such as the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, the Antoni Tàpies foundation, and the Joan Miró foundation.
She graduated in Art History from the University of Buenos Aires and subsequently completed the Independent Studies Program at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and the Master’s in Curatorship of Art and New Media at the Escola Superior de Disseny (ESDi).
Ulya Soley works at Pera Museum in Istanbul. She completed her MA in Culture, Criticism and Curation at Central Saint Martins, and her BA in Art History and Psychology at McGill University. Her recent curatorial projects include “A Question of Taste” at Pera Museum, “Hosting Bodies” at Sanatorium and “How shall we dress for the occasion” at 601 Artspace in New York. Her writing appeared in publications such as Art agenda, Manifold, callingmag, Argonotlar, The Believer Logger, Art unlimited, K24 and borderless.
Last updated: 11th November, 2022
Luisa Bravo is a global academic scholar and educator, cultural entrepreneur and public space activist. She has more than 15-years experience in the professional field as urban planner and designer with a specific focus on public space. Her expertise is grounded in extensive academic postdoctoral research and teaching in Italy and Europe, the United States, Middle East, Asia and Australia. Throughout her academic career she has been the recipient of prestigious grants and awards and she held different academic positions, in Italy and abroad.
Luisa collaborates with the UN-Habitat’s Global Public Space Programme and she is an international renowned speaker at major UN-Habitat global summits.
Luisa is the Founder of City Space Architecture, a non-profit cultural association based in Bologna and she is the Founder and Editor in Chief of The Journal of Public Space, the first, international, interdisciplinary, academic, open access journal entirely dedicated to public space, that she established through City Space Architecture in partnership with UN-Habitat.
Luisa is the Founder and Curator of the Public Space Museum, the first Italian research centre entirely dedicated to collaborative and transdisciplinary approach to public space practice, merging art, architecture and technology into a complex new discipline.
Neus Miró is a curator and art critic. She studied Art History (Universitat de Barcelona) and obtained the M.A. in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art (London). She now works as a Curator in the Wolverhampton Art Gallery (UK) and is pursuing doctorate studies at Central Saint Martins College (University of the Arts, London).
Her area of research has focused on artistic practices in film and video. Her most recent curatorial projects include participation on the curatorial team of Apología/Antología. Journeys through video in the Spanish context (Hamaca, 2016), Insomnia (Fundació Joan Miró, 2013), Sharon Lockhart: Doble Tide (Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló, 2012) and Urban Fictions (Koldo Mitxelena, 2011).
She is the author and editor of various publications including “Insomnia” (Fundació Joan Miró, 2012), “Perejaume. Imágenes proyectadas” (CAB, 2010) and “Impasse 8: La exposición como dispositivo. Teorías y prácticas en torno a la exposición” (La Panera, 2008).
She has served as a visiting professor at several universities: Escuela Superior de Diseño-ESDI (Universitat Ramon Llull), MECAD, International University of Catalonia and Universidad de Zaragoza. She currently lives and works in Wolverhampton (UK).
20 April 2017
Mario Gutiérrez Cru graduated in Fine Arts University UPV (Spain), artist, curator and creative.
Last update: November 23rd, 2023
Louise Martin Papasian is a filmmaker and programmer, with a background in philosophy (La Sorbonne, Paris and UCES, Buenos Aires). Her first film Appelé–զորակոչիկ has been selected in several festivals in France and abroad, including Visions du Réel, Golden Apricot Festival and programmed at the Armenian Center for Contemporary Art in Yerevan. She has been part of the selection committee of FIDMarseille since 2021 and is currently doing the Filmmaking Studies postgraduate at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in San Sebastián.
Last updated, 16th November, 2022