Théo-Mario Coppola is a curator and arts writer. They are currently based in Paris, France.

Théo-Mario Coppola has contributed to catalogues, magazines and online publications. They regularly lecture on radical aesthetic practices at art schools and universities.

Last update: November 17th, 2022

Mario Gutiérrez Cru graduated in Fine Arts University UPV (Spain), artist, curator and creative. 

Last update: November 23rd, 2023

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

She’s currently the deputy director and chief curator at Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest.

Previous Positions

2013 –2016 chief curator (collections, exhibitions and scientific research) Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art

2013 head of exhibitions, Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest

2009 – 2013 head of collections, Ludwig Museum

2008 – 2009 chief curator (collections and exhibitions), Ludwig Museum

2008- Lecturer at Pázmány Péter University (contemporary art)

2006 – 2008 deputy director, Ludwig Museum

1995-2017 editor, Balkon, Contemporary Art Magazine, Budapest

1997-2006 chief curator (collections and exhibitions), Ludwig Museum

1994-1996 curator, Ludwig Museum, Budapest

1992-1993 curator, Hungarian National Gallery, Contemporary Art Collection, Budapest

Academic Studies and Professional Training:

2010 “Promoting Tolerance through the Arts”, International Visitor Leadership Program, organized by the U.S. Department of State, USA

1999 “Central and Eastern European Museum Professionals Workshop”; professional training organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1994 “Contemporary Art in the International Context of Exhibitions and Museums”; professional training organized by the Institut für Kulturwissenschaft, Wien

1985-1992 MA degree in History of Art / Hungarian Linguistics and Literature, ELTE (Eötvös Loránd University), Budapest

Professional Membership

2015- Jury member for Hungarian Pavilion / Venice Biennial

1996- Member of Hungarian Section of AICA

Awards

2012 Németh Lajos-díj (Hungarian state award for art historians, art

theorists and art critiques)

Last update: November 11th, 2019

Irit Batsry is an artist working mainly in video and installations probing perception, image-making and collective and personal
memory and identity.

Her work has been shown extensively in 35 different countries. She was awarded the prestigious Whitney Biennial Bucksbaum
Award(2002) given to ”an artist whose work demonstrates a singular combination of talent and imagination – a person who
promises to make a significant contribution to the visual arts”. She received the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1992 and
the Grand Prix Video de Création of the Société Civile des Auteurs Multimedia, Paris (1996 and 2001) as well as many festival awards.

Selected shows include the National Gallery in Washington, theNational Film Theater and the ICA (London), Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid), Museu d’Arte Moderna (Rio), Ludwig Museum (Koln), Tel Aviv Museum, Artists Space, the Whitney and the MOMA in NYC. In 2006 the Jeu de Paume in Paris organized a retrospective of her videotapes (1981- 2006).

Last update: 11th November, 2019

Antonella Medici holds a degree in Art History from the University of Barcelona and a Master’s Degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Barcelona, the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Pompeu i Fabra University. She’s a PhD researcher associated with AGI – Art, Globalization, Interculturality research group (University of Barcelona), and her work specializes in Visual Studies, Memory Studies, Human Rights, Decoloniality and representation policies in Latin America. She has published her work in academic journals such as Kamchatka (University of Valencia) or REG-AC (University of Barcelona), as well as in books such as Body between Materiality and Power (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016). She has participated in seminars and congresses in Spain and Mexico (National Autonomous University of Mexico, University of Barcelona, Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum, Arts Santa Mònica). As a curator, she has developed collective and transdisciplinary projects of contemporary art, which have won awards such as the LOOP prize (2014) and have won competitions such as the Curatorial Challenge of ADN Platform (2015-2016).

Last update: November 11th, 2019

Kathrin Golda-Pongratz is an architect, urbanist and urban researcher with a Ph.D. from Karlsruhe University. She is a professor at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya and lectures and publishes internationally. Her research focuses on urban memory, urban culture(s) and public space, Hispano-American urbanism, postcolonial urbanization, non-formal urbanism, and place-making strategies. The recent book (with J.L. Oyón and V. Zimmermann) “John F C Turner. Autoconstrucción. Por una autonomía del habitar” (Pepitas de Calabaza, 2018) was distinguished with the FAD Award (Thought and Criticism) in 2019. Her documentary film “Ciudad Infinita –Voces de El Ermitaño”, portraying a self-built neighbourhood in Lima/ Peru, was launched in October 2018. Her experience expands into curating and cultural transmission. She currently curates the programme “Paradigma Mur. Berlín–Barcelona // 1989-2019 // 1961-2021 //“ at the Born Centre de Cultura i Memòria. Member of the Institut dels Passats Presents at Barcelona’s city council (IPP), of Deutscher Werkbund (dwb), the German Academy of Urban and Regional Planning (DASL) and Academia Europaea (AE).

Last update: November 11th, 2019

She lives in Barcelona. In 1976 she enrolled at Escola Eina to study painting and the poetics of space. In 1981she is granted the scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and travels to Warsaw where the foreseeable coup d’etat transforms her pictorial world. This was the turning point where the “journey” became a central element in her artistic process. The exhibitions HISTORIA D’UNA TEMPTACIÓ at Meda MOTHI in Montpellier (France), BARCELONA TRASBALSADA, ELS DIDS GÈLITS in Barcelona and TRÁFICO DE EFECTOS in Madrid situated her within the Neo-expressionist Movement of the 1980’s. In 1988 she receives a grant from the Académia di Roma and l’Écolle des Beaux Arts de Nimes(France). Arnau Puig defines her painting as “semanticized constructivism” mainly due to the recurrence of cavities in her art. 6.8.89 TIANANMENT was an intervention in the public space of Hospitalet in Barcelona, where she dug a ditch as a tribute to the Chinese students, with the collaboration of sound artist Barbara Held.
In 1996 her daughter Djuna was born and in 1999 she created the installation MAL.LALTES D’AMOR in Lübeck (Germany) evoking organic holes in space.
In 2001 she took her dream trip to Island where she embarked in the space of silence working mainly with photography and video.
In 2002 she presented her first video installation 2 HABITACIONS AMB VISTES, a social portrait of Barcelona. In 2004 she makes the video installation ETC, a reflection on the absence of women artists in the history of art. From 2007 to the present day she has participated in multiple national and international exhibitions: New York, Korea, Spain, China, Berlin, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Italy. In 2011 she paints 7 MURALES at the Boqueria Market in Barcelona in collaboration with the architect Carme Pinós.
In 2015 she participates in the NOSEDEN Biennale, Japan, with DEALERS OF MEMORY, which consists of two interventions: the video installation MEMÒRIA PER UN ICEBERG as an archaeologist of the future and the installation LLIBRE DE LLÀGRIMES (the book of tears)
In 2016 at the show SakaiArtePorto, Japan, she made her performance TRACTION ACTION triggered by the need to bring the human kind and the Universe together. Her action consisted of the evocation of an infinite space constructed with the footprints in pink pigment of the city walker-byes.
Her last project is the installation LLUM! In the Montjïc Castel in Barcelona, Spain.

Gabriella Torres-Ferrer lives and works in Barcelona and San Juan.

A multimedia artist and researcher. She has an architecture BA from the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. Her work has been selected and featured nationally and internationally including the Occupy Museum’s 2017 participation at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), El Museo del Barrio and online at The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale. In 2019 she participated in the Scaleability Project at A.I.R. cooperative feminist art collective (New York), This Synthetic Moment (The Replicant) at Phillip Martin gallery (Los Angeles), XYXX010101000 at Curro gallery (Mexico) and Stage of Maneuvers at Gianni Manhattan (Vienna). In 2012 she was a fellow in Beta Local (San Juan) and for 2020 she’s got the CERN’s (Genève) guest artists prize and also won the Akademie Schloss Solitude international Artist-in-Residence fellowship around the topic “Mutations” (Stuttgart).

Last update: November 11th, 2019