Núria Gómez Gabriel is an artist, curator and researcher specialising in visual culture. Her work investigates the effects of globalization in the contemporary visual culture. Graduated in Art and Design from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), she holds a Master’s Degree in Critical Studies in Audiovisual  Art and Contemporary Cinema from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). She is currently teaching artistic investigation and visual narrative at the Arts & Design degree of Escola Massana (UAB), and collaborating as a researcher in the CINEMA Aesthetic Research Group of Audiovisual Media at the UPF, where she’s also carrying out her doctoral thesis in communication. She co-authored the essay Love me, Tinder (Editorial Planeta, 2019) and she has written for platforms like the CCCBLAB Investigación e Innovación en Cultura of the Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB). Between 2018-2019 she has been researcher in residence at the MACBA Study Centre. Her projects have been shown in places like the festival LOOP Barcelona (Barcelona, 2018), Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Navarra Punto de Vista (Baluarte –Navarra, 2018) and the Festival Kosmopolis (CCCB, Barcelona, 2018). She has collaborated in many exhibitions like Legible-Visible, Entre el fotograma y la página curated by Mela Dávila and Maite Muñoz (Arts Santa Mònica –Barcelona, 2017), Políticas DIY en el ensayo audiovisual curated by Antonio Ortega (Fundació Joan Miró –Barcelona, 2017), Harun Farocki. Empathy curated by Antje Ehmann and Carles Guerra (Fundació Antoni Tàpies, –Barcelona, 2016) and the series of conferences The Museum is Closed, put together by Myriam Rubio (MACBA, Barcelona, 2017), among others. She has won the ACCA Award for artistic production with her project La Repetició (Arts Santa Mònica, 2018).

Last update 10th September 2019

Carolina Ciuti is a contemporary art curator and researcher in the fields of visual and performing arts. She holds a BA in History and Preservation of the Artistic Heritage from the University of Florence (2009-2012) and an MA in Contemporary Art from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London (2013-2015). During her university training, she collaborated with the Collezione Gori: Fattoria di Celle (Pistoia) and the artists residency Villa Lena (Pisa), being respectively in charge of the educational proposals, the guided tours and the assistance to the director. She currently serves as artistic director of the LOOP video art festival in Barcelona, ​​where she started working in 2015 as a curator. At LOOP, she has produced exhibitions, film programmes and performances by internationally recognised artists such as: Regina de Miguel, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Aleksandra Mir, Muntadas, Steina and Woody Vasulka and Anton Vidokle. She curated the group exhibitions And If Seeing Was Fire (Filmoteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2020), One Day I Stumbled Upon A Meteorite (Fabra i Coats – Contemporary Art Centre of Barcelona, 2019), PRODUCE, PRODUCE, PRODUCED (Real Cercle Artístic, Barcelona, 2018), the projects Francesca Banchelli: Before The Name (MACBA, Barcelona, 2016) and TRANSEUROPE EXPRESS (OfficeCafè, Pistoia, 2015), as well as the video programmes presented by LOOP at Cinéphèmère-FIAC Paris (editions 2017, 2018, 2019). She edited the publications One Day I Stumbled Upon a Meteorite (exhibition catalogue, stuffinabook, 2020), I Have A Friend Who Knows Someone Who Bought a Video, Once (LOOP Barcelona, ​​Mousse Publishing, 2016) and Before The Name: a book on an itinerant performance project. (RAM Editions, 2018). Ciuti is a permanent collaborator of the magazine of contemporary culture La Maleta de Portbou and she frequently contributes to the art catalogues of the publishing house Istituto Italiano Edizioni ATLAS. In 2017, she co-founded the art collective CRiB to create hybrid projects straddling the visual arts, theatre and performance. Whether through writing, curating, or research, all of Carolina’s projects denote a deep interest in the notion of ‘time’ in all its facets, its representation in the philosophical and cultural sphere, and its influence on the construction of identities.

Last update 3rd October 2020