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

Last update: November 23rd, 2023

Lúa Coderch combines narrative and objectual practices in videos, performances, and installations which she configures as research devices. Her work focuses on the superficial, aesthetic and phenomenological dimension of our shared life and its latent philosophical and political implications. Among her exhibitions it is worth noting Vida de O (CentroCentro, Madrid); [Shelter], Fundación BBVA (Madrid), 2018; The Girl With No Door On Her Mouth, Àngels Barcelona, 2018; [Shelter] As long as summer lasts, The Ryder (London), 2018; Souvenir (Onyx), Art institute Vienna, 2017; The Rainbow Statement, BGW (Barcelona), 2016; Night in a Remote Cabin Lit by a Kerosene Lamp, Àngels Barcelona, 2015; Oro, Fundació Suñol (Barcelona), 2014; La parte que falta, Bacelos (Madrid), 2014 and La montaña mágica, Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona), 2013.

Last update: November 11th, 2019

Milan/Berlin/Baku-based curator and museum specialist experienced working with leading cultural institutions in Europe and USA on cultural diplomacy, education and exhibition projects (V&A Museum, UK; GWU Textile Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA; Islamic Art Museum of Berlin, Germany; Pinacoteca di Brera, Italy; National Academy of Sciences, Italy; UNESCO, Goethe Institut, etc.). Founder of Ta(r)dino 6 Art Platform that promotes contemporary art from Azerbaijan and beyond. With a gallery in the historic old city of Icheri Sheher, and a vintage flat near the urban core of Baku’s downtown, the platform fills in the niche in providing art professionals the opportunity to explore their ideas in depth. Programs to date include commissioned site-specific artworks, artist talks, professional coaching and workshops by local and international artists and curators to help grow Baku’s emerging art community and to support the discourse on Azerbaijani contemporary art.

Last update: November 11th, 2019

Carles Guerra is an artist, art critic and independent curator. He holds a PhD from Universitat de Barcelona. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Universitat de Barcelona and the Media Studies Department, The New School for Social Research. His most recent profile has been associated with outstanding positions in the field of cultural management, cultural policies and curatorial activities. He has been Director of Primavera Fotogràfica de Catalunya, Director of the Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Chief curator at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona MACBA and, from 2015 through 2020, Executive director at Fundació Antoni Tàpies.

On top of a vast number of monographic exhibitions devoted to individual artists such as Ahlam Shibli, Art & Language, Allan Sekula, Susan Meiselas, Harun Farocki, Oriol Vilanova and Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, he has curated projects like 1979. A Monument to Radical Instants and Antoni Tàpies. Political Biography.

Last update: 16th November, 2020

Lives and works in Madrid. As a multidisciplinary artist, his work approaches the artistic processes from a critical point of view; the artist as a promoter of ideas, the political role of creators, the meaning of art pieces, the strategies that allow to bring them to life, their mechanisms of production, promotion and consumption, the efficiency of spaces assigned to art, as well as the analysis and experience of those who watch and interprets them.

His work has been internationally exhibited in places as ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman, Jordan; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico DF, Centro de las Artes de Monterrey and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Mexico; Boston Center for the Arts, Boston (MA), USA; Ayala Museum, Manila, Philippines; The Whitechapel Gallery in London; Abierto X Obras, Matadero Madrid, Spain; MAC Gas Natural Fenosa, La Coruña, Spain; and in Biennials such as Singapore and Havana’s The End of the World Biennial. And it is also held in collections of museums as MNCARS, MUSAC, ARTIUM, IVAM, and La Caixa, among others.

He is currently presenting “The Reason is a Plant”, a solo show at Max Estrella Gallery in Madrid, which shows the results of the Concert for the Biocene, held on June 22nd at the Liceu Theater in Barcelona.

Last updated: 18th November, 2020