Serafín Álvarez is an artist, researcher and educator. His work entails collecting images, organise them, relate them to one another, ruminate them: imagining other worlds using them as a starting point, building those worlds and contemplating them. These processes are usually motivated by a keen interest on how we relate to the unknown, how we study it and how we represent it.

Last update: November 11th, 2022

Director of Aceton, Filmmaker, Video Artist, Musician and Writer. His career has developed mainly in cinema, video installations and theatre. With his documentaries and films he has been selected for various awards and venues such as the AlJazeera International Documentary Film Festival, PriMED, LOOP-Barcelona.

At LOOP 2016 he presented his Artwork “Power no Power” (2013) which considered new forms of power and “El Olivo”(2010), a metaphor for the humanization of the savage through technified industry. He also conducted the UMVA (Unitat Mòbil De Video Arquitectura) workshop.

At Loop 2017 he will present “Orígen, cuerpo, ciudad”, the film is a joint work of the participants of the workshop led by artist Claudio Julian and Matteo Guidi at the centre Torre Barrina in L’Hospitalet. As contribution to the overall theme of this year´s Loop Festival on the beginnings of video art, the film offers a personal mediation on Nam June Paik´s oeuvre. It is also an exploration of the city of L’Hospitalet through the performance of young members of the local Associació Ítaca and the images that the urban environment may suggest.

Last update: May 15th, 2017

Artist based in Barcelona

She presently studying a PhD program in History of Art (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Art (RUDN, Moscow, Russia) and a Master’s degree in History and Dialogue of Cultures (Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France).

From 2023 she is an art-director at CIFRA – a multipurpose digital art platform that combines streaming, a marketplace, and education. She has been a member of the scientific secretariat of the Centre for Studies in Russian Art since 2020 (CSAR) and a member of the International Association of Art Critics since 2017 (AICA-Russia).

From 2012 till today, she has worked as a curator in museums and art galleries (NCCA, Gallery Park, ROSIZO, CSAR, CFZ, etc.). During her experience, she realised more than 70 exhibitions, festivals and concerts. She writes for such editions as Dialogue of Art, Musical life, Venezia Arti, and Artribune.

In 2014 as a great-grandniece of composer Igor Stravinsky, she founded and headed the Stravinsky Family Fund, where she curated and realised exhibitions, festivals and events dedicated to Stravinsky’s family.

She works and lives in Venice.

Born in Mumbai, India (1993), Priyanka holds a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication, specializing in Advertising & Journalism from the University of Mumbai. She is a cultural manager and an independent curator working with Casa Asia. Since 2019, has also been in charge of the programming, production and film traffic management at the Asian Film Festival Barcelona.

Owing to her profound interest in cinema, literature and postcolonial studies, she also acts as an advisor and as a curator at the AFFBCN and has also imparted classes on Indian Cinema and Literature in the Postcolonial Era. With a Master’s in Arts & Cultural Management from the International University of Catalunya (UIC, Barcelona) & currently a doctoral student at the same university, her research, encompasses a comparative analysis of the collections of New Media Arts over the European & Asian contexts, more specifically, Spain and the UAE. Her research interests also include cultural diplomacy, media archaeology, cultural memory, and visual studies.

Consultant, cultural manager and freelance translator in foundations and cultural entities. Degree and PhD in Philosophy, specializing in Aesthetics, University of Barcelona (www.genarasertarnus.wordpress.com). Undergraduate studies at the University of Konstanz (Germany) and at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (Germany).

She has worked as an editorial technician at Editorial Muchnik Editores and Editorial Geoplaneta of Grupo Planeta.

She has been a teacher at the Escola Lliure El Sol, and a member of the editorial staff of the magazine Espai de Llibertat of the Fundació Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, and later a collaborating professor in the Degree of Social Education at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia).

She is a member of the board of trustees of the Fundació Sert for the rehabilitation of children with disabilities.

Based in Rotterdam, Liv Vaisberg is international artistic director, curator and cultural entrepreneur. She is the initiator of the new art and design platform, the Huidenclub in Rotterdam, the co-founder of COLLECTIBLE – a fair dedicated to contemporary functional art, POPPOSITIONS, a fair dedicated to emerging art located in Brussels and A Performance Affair, the first fair dedicated to performance art and the former co-director of Independent Brussels, the Brussels’ edition of the avant-garde art fair in New York. She has curated several shows in the Netherlands at the Huidenclub at the intersection of art, design and societal issues.