Glenda León (La Havana, 1976) is a visual artist based in La Havana and Madrid. Her work expands from drawing to video art, including installation, objects, and photography. She is interested in revealing antagonisms, in interstices between visible and invisible, between sound and silence, between ephemeral and eternal. Her work encourages the viewer to approach the object from a poetical perspective. This way, she reveals the metaphoric part of everyday life objects. The constancy of the absence in all superfluous elements and the fusion of natural and artificial elements demonstrate the author’s taste for the persistence of processes. Her works transition within the intimate and public sphere, which manifests her ability of create new meanings to these objects through a process of manipulation, contextualization, and object association.

Licensed in Art History by the University of Barcelona. Art critic and independent curator. She has collaborated with several museums like Burdeos Contemporary Art Museum and MACBA in Barcelona. She directed the Centre d’Art la Panera de Lleida and has taught master degree classes of contemporary art and curatorship in the University of Barcelona, International University of Cataluña and in the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, as well as in the cultural center La Casa Encendida in Madrid. In 2014 directed the course “Coleccionismo y comisariado de exposiciones” in the UIMP of Santander.

Since 2005 is adquisition consultant for FRAC Córcega and since 2016 she is adviser of the Comunidad de Madrid’s contemporary art adquisitions.

She has curated several exhibitions like “Gina Pane” (Palau de la Virreina de Barcelona and Salas de la Diputación de Huesca), “Orientalismos” and “Nómadas y Bibliófilos” in the Koldo Mitxelena of San Sebastián and “El instante eterno” in the  EACC of Castellón, as well as “Paisajes después de la batalla”, “Mediterráneo(s)”, Cabello/Carceller, Marina Núñez, Abigail Lazkoz, Juan López, Francisco Ruiz de Infante and Francesc Torres, in the Centre d’Art la Panera, among others. Her last project “Bibliotecas insólitas” was exhibited in La Casa Encendida, Madrid, in may 2017 and also in Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, in febrary of 2018.

Last update 10th October, 2018

Alexandra Laudo [Heroínas de la Cultura] is an independent curator based in Barcelona.

She has recently curated the exhibition series The possibility of an island at Espai 13, Fundació Miró, the collective show A certain darkness at CaixaForum, with works of the collections of Fundació “la Caixa” and MACBA (on view until January 2019), and has co-curated the site-specific program Composicions for the Barcelona Gallery Weekend. In 2015-2016 she was one of the participants in the curatorial research program CuratorLab (Kontsfack, Stockholm), where she developed An intellectual history of the clock, a performative curatorial project which has been presented at Malongen – Nordiska Konstförbundet (Stockholm), Timelab (Ghant), L’Iselp (Brussels), HalfHouse (Barcelona), Ciało i Umysł (Warsaw), andriesse eyck galerie(Amsterdam), and Collective (Edinburgh). Laudo has received different curatorial awards and research grants, such as the Terrassa Comissariat Award, the BCN Producció Comissariat award, the grant for Training and Improvement in the fields of art, philosophy and new creativity, the curatorial award Comisart, by Fundació “la Caixa”, and very recently, the GAC Curatorship Award. She writes regularly about art and contemporary culture for B-guided and for the critical platform A-Desk, has been editor and author of various books, and has contributed essays and critical texts to different publications.

Last update: November 11th, 2019