Curator. General coordinator C-E-A France.

Esteban Andueza is Cultural Manager of Instituto Cervantes in China. He has curated numerous art exhibitions in several countries and has organised countless cultural activities, events and festivals linked to the cultural exchange between Spain and Asia. He collaborates with institutions like Casa Asia and works with internationally renowned artists such as Antoni Muntadas curating, producing and promoting his work and artistic projects.

Last update: November 11th, 2022

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.

Jinsuk Suh is a director of Ulsan Art Museum. He graduated School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), then became the first generation independent curator who established the Alternative Space Loop and has run for 15 years since 1999. He s been invited to International art biennales such as Tirana Biennale (2001) and Liverpool Biennial (2010) and participated in Media Archive Network Forum (2006). Suh served as the director of the Nam June Paik Art Center from 2015 to 2019, and he is an adjunct professor at the Ewha Woman’s University.

Dessislava Pirinchieva ( Sofia, Bulgaria 1985) is a Creative Project Generator who works in an international multidisciplinary and radical way. Her interests are based on connecting differences in order to achieve knowledge and develop tolerance. Dessislava received her master’s studies from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Previously she specialized in performance art in Shanghai where she lived for half a year, and she graduated from The University of Barcelona in Fine Arts.

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

Anna Maria Guasch is a Professor of Global Art History and Art Criticism at the University of Barcelona.  In the last fifteen years, Guasch has focused on the study of international art from the second half of the 20th Century and has analyzed the expositions it has generated. This line of investigation has lead to publications The Art of the 20th Century and Its Exhibitions: 1945-1995 (Serbal Editions, Barcelona, 2009) and The Manifestos of Postmodern Art: Texts of Expositions 1980-1995 (Akal/Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, 2000) with contributions by C. Joachimides, D. Kuspit, A. Bonito Oliva, K. Power, D. Crimp, H. Foster, T. Crow, H. Szeemann, C. David, J.H. Martin y T. McEvilley, among others.

Currently, Guasch focuses her investigations on three areas: Archiving – Memory and Contemporary Art, Art History and Visual Studies, and Contemporary Art and Globalization. The first of these foci was developed and exhibited in Visual Autobiographies: Between the Archive and the Index (Siruela, Madrid, 2009), and Art and Archive: Genealogies, Typologies, and Discontinuities(Madrid, Akal/Arte Contemporáneo, 2011), and in presentations at conferences of related sciences such as the 20th ANPAP Meeting (Rio de Janeiro, 2011) in which she presented Contemporary Archival Practices: Between the Domestic and the Public, Memory and History, Global and Local.

In her research on Contemporary Art and Globalization, her noteworthy contributions to international conferences and seminars include From Here: Context and Internationalization presented at the 3rd Summit of Critics and Investigators (Valparaiso, Chile, 2011) and her invitation to the international conferences Refocusing on Issuers: Ink Painting through a Perspective of Art History (Shanghai, May 2012) and Art, Criticism and the Forces of Globalization (Winchester School of Art / University of Southhampton and Tate, Liverpool, September 2012). Concerning the theme generally, her notable work includes the text The Global Effect: Art in the Era of Mobility, Translation, and Memory(in press) and her commission at the exposition The Memory of the Other in the Global Era in Bogota, Colombia (2009), Santiago, Chile (2010), and Havana, Cuba (2011).

Between 2000 and 2011, Guasch has been a Visiting Fellow in the Universities of Princeton, Yale, Columbia, San Diego, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2002, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and completed her research residency in 2008. She has taught seminars and courses at many institutions including the Pontificia Catholic University of Chile (2002), Esmeralda Institute of Fine Arts (Mexico City, 2003), and San Antonio School of Cinema of Los Baños, (Havana, Cuba, 2005), as well as the Universities of Antioquia(Medellin) and the Bogota National University (Colombia, 2004, 2006, 2007) and at the University of Nuevo León (Monterrey, Mexico, 2006).

Last update: November 11th, 2019

Rafael Montón Gómez (Castelló de la Plana, 1999) has studied Translation and Interpreting in the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Saitama University (Japan), participating in literary translation meetings. Enthusiast of cinema and especially of experimental Asian cinema, he was a young jury of the Asian Film Festival Barcelona 2018.

Yoojin Kang is a curator who is a founding curator of Ulsan Art Museum, and former senior curator of Daejeon Museum of Art based in Seoul and London.