Rosa Lleó is the founder and director, since April 2014, of the small-scale organization The Green Parrot in Barcelona, Spain. Since its opening, it has established itself as a reference space in the city with a collection of exhibitions, publications, and activities with local and international artists such as Oriol Vilanova, Shana Moulton, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Basim Magdy, Lúa Coderch, Teresa Solar, among others. She is currently a resident curator at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies where she prepares an individual exhibition of the Brazilian artist Ana Vaz. He has also collaborated with institutions such as MACBA and during 2013 he was part of the Curatorlab research program (Konstfack University, Stockholm). He has also curated exhibitions and projects at ARCO Madrid (2018), Fundaçao Iberé Camargo, Porto Alegre (2018), Art-o-Rama Marseille (2016), Can Felipa – Museu de l’Empordà (2014) Sant Andreu Contemporani (2011). Formerly appointed as an editor at Actar and as an editorial assistant at Afterall magazine (London). He writes occasionally for newspaper supplements and other magazines, in addition to teaching at the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.

Last update: November 11th, 2019

Denise Araouzou is an interdependent curator, researcher and writer. Currently, she is a junior curator of Mediterranea 19: School of Waters (BJCEM) while at Ki-Culture she is coordinating an upcoming exhibition on the climate crisis. Her research-based practice interweaves architectural theory, urban studies, social sciences, contemporary art practices and environmental studies. She is learning to cultivate and promote ecological sustainability in curatorial and art practices. She has an MA in History of Art from the University of Glasgow.

Last update: April 22nd, 2021

Francesco Urbano Ragazzi is a curatorial duo trained in ontology, gender and media studies whose main interest resides in investigating the narratives that inform the age of connectivity. After having organized two editions of the Internet Pavilion in the years 2011 and 2013, the team curated The Internet Saga, a solo show by avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas presented on the occasion of the Venice Biennale of Visual Arts (2015). The exhibition then evolved in a research platform that over the years has developed commissions for public and private institutions such as Villa Croce Contemporary Art Museum (Genova), Maraya Art Centre (Sharjah), CERN – European Organization for Nuclear Research (Genève) and Bucharest Biennale.

Francesco Urbano Ragazzi also curated exhibitions and research programs for, among others, MMCA- Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Korea (Seoul), Missoni (New York), CRRI- Castello di Rivoli (Turin), Ikon Gallery (Birmingham), Institut Français, Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), Ruya Foundation (Baghdad), Emirates Foundation (Abu Dhabi), Futura – Centre for contemporary art (Prague), Sinopale – International Sinop Biennial (TK), Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation (Venice), Italian Ministry of Culture, Italian Ministry of Equal Opportunities (Rome), Swiss Institute (Milan), Boston University (US).

Francesco Urbano Ragazzi lectured in academic spaces and museums.
Among them: MAXXI, Auditorium Parco della Musica (Rome), François Pinault Foundation’s Teatrino (Venice), Lovers Film Festival (Turin), Macro (Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome), IUAV and Ca’ Foscari University (Venice), Zurcher Hochschule der Künste (Zurich).

The duo has collaborated with the following magazines: Mousse, Purple Fashion, Nero, Not, L’Uomo Vogue, Peeping Tom Digest, AQNB, Flashart, South as a State of Mind.

Last update: November 11th, 2019

Researcher, writer, and curator. He holds a French-Italian Ph.D. in Aesthetics and Theory of Art. From 2013 to 2017 he has been the artistic director of Viafarini – Nonprofit Organization for Contemporary Artistic Research (Milan, IT). He currently co-directs Live Works – Performance Act Award at Centrale Fies (Trento, IT) and  A Natural Oasis? Transnational Research Programme organized by Little Constellation – Network of Contemporary Art focused on Geo-cultural Micro-areas and Small States of Europe. He’s Professor of Theory of Contemporary Art at Fine Arts and Design Academy in Grenoble (FR) – where he founded the workshop and residency-based research program Pratique d’Hospitalité . In 2016 he was one of the ten curators of the 16th edition of Quadriennale of Rome and in 2018 he was a guest curator at Museion (Bozen) where he presented the program Somatechnics. Transparent travelers and obscure nobodies. In 2020 he will be co-directing the 19th edition of the Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, dedicated to artists, practitioners and researchers coming from or based in Euro-Mediterranean Countries, Balkans, Arab Countries, and the Middle East.

Last update: November 11th,  2019

Ludovica Carbotta lives and works in Barcelona (ES). Her practice focuses on the physical exploration of the urban space and how individuals establish connections with the environment they inhabit. In recent works, by combining installations, texts, and performances, she is researching on fictional site-specificity, a form of site-oriented practice that considers imaginary places or embodies real places with fictional contexts, recovering the role of imagination as a value to construct our knowledge. Carbotta has completed an MFA at Goldsmiths University in London (2015).

Her work was presented at the 58th International Art Exhibition, May You Live in Interesting Times, Venice Biennale (2019), curated by Ralph Rugoff.

Recent solo exhibitions: Monowe, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (2019); smART, Roma (2019); Artissima Present Future, Torino (2018); Marselleria, New York (2018); Marta Cervera Gallery, Madrid (2017); ON Public – Monowe, Bologna (2016); A motorway is a very strong wind, Care Of, Milan (2014); Vitrine 270° – Without Walls, Galleria Arte Moderna, Turin (2013); Greater Torino, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Turin (2011).

Among her recent group shows: Drawing Center (New York, US), EACC (Castelló de la Plana, E), La Casa Encendida (Madrid, E), Mambo (Bologna, IT), Palazzo Fortuny (Venice, IT) Kunstlerhaus Museum (Graz, AU), MAXXI Museum (Rome, IT), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin, IT), Hangar Bicocca (Milan, IT), Dublin Contemporary (Dublin, IRL), Matadero (Madrid, E), Swiss Institute (Rome, IT), Les Instants Chavirés (Paris, FR).

She is the co-founder of Progetto Diogene, an International Residency Program in the public space (Turin) and The Institute of Things to Come, a research centre on futurological scenarios . She was awarded the Ariane de Rothschild Prize, Milan (2011), the Premio Gallarate (2016), International Fellowship Gasworks, London (2016), and the Special Mention at Premio ITALIA, MAXXI Museum, Rome (2016). In 2017 she is a fellow researcher at Jan Van Eyck Academie, in Maastricht, in 2018 recipient of New York

Prize, ISCP/Columbia University.

Last update: November 11th, 2019