Alfredo Llopico (Onda, Castellón, 1969) holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Valencia. He has been in charge of cultural activities at the Fundación Caja Castellón since 2002. He is also a member of the scientific councils of the Consorcio de Museos de la Comunitat Valenciana and collaborates in contemporary art committees of the Ayuntamiento de Castelló, the Diputación de Castellón, the Universitat Jaume I de Castellón and the GlogauAIR Art Residency Berlin.

He has developed research stays, in addition to developing modern and contemporary art projects, in Germany (Berlin), France (Paris, Bayonne), United States (New York), Italy (Palermo, Rome, Venice and Urbino) and Bulgaria (Sofia), within the framework of the artistic internationalization line developed by the Fundación Caja Castellón since 2020.

As for the artistic action in the city of Castellón, it is centered in the Sala Sant Miquel of the Fundació Caixa Castelló, a multidisciplinary cultural space dedicated to exploring the major themes of contemporary creation, linked to the territory, through different languages and formats, with a program that includes thematic exhibitions, lecture series, performance, dance or theater, as well as literary meetings or audiovisual projections.

Arash Fayez is an artist based between Madrid and Barcelona. He has a bachelor in architecture from the university of Soureh (Tehran, Iran) and a Masters in Fine Arts from California College the Arts (San Francisco, United States). Fayez’s practice investigates the condition of displacement in relation to desire where he researches notions such as statelessness, limbo, and in-betweenness. Spanning writing, performance, and video, his projects explore the condition of a mind in limbo as a result of the body in between; or, in other words, the mental and physical states of being in limbo as a result of being between two locations, two cultures, or two identities. His practice looks at the segment that separates these two phenomena and aim its audience to neither one place nor another but to what can be found in between.

His work is primarily based on autobiographical experiences interlaced with fictional and nonfictional content. By employing storytelling strategies, he combines fiction and documentary to construct an emotional landscape that resonates with the in-between. Fayez has presented his projects at venues such as Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York); Musée du quai Branly (Paris); the British Museum (London); the Wattis Institute (San Francisco); Asian Art Museum (San Francisco); Württembergischer Kunstverein (Stuttgart); Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA); Cineteca Matadero (Madrid); and La Virreina Centro de la Imagen (Barcelona). He is currently a fellow artist at the Académie de France (Casa de Velázquez) to develop his new film “A Game of Chess” and a publication “Apolis”.

Last update 9th November 2022

Producer and business development specialist with a background in arts and culture. Part of the company Art Fairs Service and art platform follow.art, researching and developing solutions specific to art fair businesses globally & currently working with around 50 art fairs annually. Interested in bridging the gap between digital innovations and art practices in meaningful ways. Studied film and theatre production in Riga, Latvia and has years-long experience working in cinema and contemporary theatre, as well as running the international arts festival “Komēta” (held in Riga, Latvia) and cultural venue Kaņepes Kultūras centrs.

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

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

Last update: November 23rd, 2023