Menene Gras is the Director of Culture and Exhibitions at Casa Asia (Barcelona and Madrid) since 2003. With a PhD from the University of Barcelona, Menene Gras is an art critic, curator and former professor. Before that, she was Director of Culture and Exhibitions at the Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana (now Casa America de Catalunya) and she is also the current Director of the Asian Film festival. Author of essays, catalogues, anthologies and four books of poetry, shewas the Art Correspondant for Art Forum for more than twelve years and wrrote for the most important Spanish newspapers.

Recent highlights of her professional career include exhibitions and publication, such as Is that Beauty? (2016-2017), The House and the Labyrinth (2015), El Jardín japonés: Topografías del vacío (2014), Chiharu Shiota. The hand lines (2014) and Beijing times(2011).

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In 2015 she was awarded by ACCA for the Video Art Project Languages and Aesthetics of Spanish Video Art as the best Spanish exhibition made abroad. She currently lives and works in Barcelona.

Last update: May 10th, 2017

Véronique Godé/Orevo is a French art critic (AICA and SCAM member) involved into the networks of digital culture since the early nineties. She also spent four years as producer in the video game industry which she left in 1997 to become freelance reporter between Paris and the US. Back to Europe, she became deputy editor in chief for graphic design magazine Etapes, and then joined Getty Images Research’s lab in London, as trendsetter for an international Photography magazine in 2001. Between 2003 and 2010 she mainly worked as correspondent for French-German channel Arte, covering electronic cultures and design art for the web and television. She also curated video art exhibitions in Paris, Yokohama and Tokyo, while animating a weekly radio show on experimental cinema for ten years. She is now working as independent film producer, and collaborates since 2014, as associated member at ArtsHebdoMedias.com, a pure-player dedicated to contemporary arts.

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Last updated: November 11th, 2022

Dr. Sabine Maria Schmidt studied art history, musicology and German language and literature in Germany and Spain; 1997 doctorate on “Eduardo Chillida. The Public Monuments”. Continuous publication activity on 20th and 21st century art, especially on video and media art, photography and art in public space and related image discourses and socio-political debates. She edited several group and monographic catalogues about artists like Cristina Lucas (Spain), Aernout Mik (Holland), Korps / Löffler (Germany), Christoph Faulhaber (Germany) and Runa Islam (Great Britain) and contributes continuously to art magazines and newspapers.

Since 1997 she was/is working as a freelance and museum curator: since July 2019 as curator for painting and sculpture at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (East Germany).

Last updated: November 12th, 2022

Gian Cruz is an emerging multidisciplinary Filipino artist (of Spanish and Chinese origins) whose artistic practice is strongly rooted in photography integrated with his institutional work and his training in art theory and criticism. For the 2019-2020 cycle, he became the first Southeast Asian participant to complete MACBA’s Independent Studies Programme. He is also the first student of Asian heritage in its 16-year history. His practice extends to performance, translation, history, architecture, ecology, film, HIV/AIDS activism and various other fields and contexts that relate to her current concerns as an artist.

Over the years she has collaborated closely with the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Korea, the Jeu de Paume in Paris, the Picto Foundation (Paris), the Palais Galliera, Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris, the Museum of Photography in Seoul, the Biennale di Venezia the Japan Foundation, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Curitiba Biennial, Blackwood Gallery (University of Toronto Mississauga), Pride Photo Award (Amsterdam), Visual AIDS (New York), 4A Centre for Contemporary Art, Sydney, PHotoESPAÑA, Fundación SGAE and Casa Asia, Madrid.

Last updated: November 11th, 2022

He lives since 2014 between Barcelona and Indonesia, where he develops film projects with a rural community in East Java. She has a master’s degree in Creative Documentary by UPF and collaborates regularly with the art fair Swab Barcelona in video and photography programs. In 2016 he presented the video Crossboundaries at Arts Santa Mònica and in 2021 the film Mbah Jhiwo (Old Soul) in the Forum section of the Berlin Film Festival. According to Variety he was one of the 10 most outstanding emerging Spanish filmmakers of 2021 and according to IMDb he was an actor in 7 Calles and Bandera Negra two and seven years before he was born.

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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

Autor del libro No trespassing. De los cuerpos del cine a la conspiración contemporánea.

Last updated, November 13th, 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.

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

Last update: November 23rd, 2023

Victoria Ioudina is a film graduate of the university ESCAC (University of Cinema and Audiovisuals of Catalonia). In 2022 she made her debut as a director with Hitomi, a project consisting of a hybrid between a short film and a video art piece integrated into an art installation. In 2021, Victoria was part of the short film The Silent Cry of the Trees as production director. This film is her Final Degree Project and is notable for being filmed in a vertical format. The short film is currently in distribution.
Victoria’s goal as an audiovisual creator is to find new ways of viewing and making films, as well as, to share her aesthetic sensitivity through interactive art.

Last updated: November 11th, 2022

Kairo Urban is a film student at ESCAC (University of Cinema and Audiovisuals of Catalonia). After producing several fiction short
films throughout his college career, Kai has participated in Hitomi as production director, and during the process of post-production, he has opened a new line
of exploration regarding the distribution of the piece by taking as reference video art and artistic installations alike.
For Kai, Hitomi is a piece that represents the past, present, but above all, the future of cinema.

Last updated: November 11th, 2022

Camille Llobet is a French video artist born in 1982, she lives and works in Sallanches (FR), a small mountain town between Geneva and Chamonix. She graduated from the École supérieure d’art d’Annecy (FR) in 2007, and participated in the Salon de Montrouge in 2016 (Paris) and in several group exhibitions in France and Europe such as recently “L’Art d’apprendre. Une école des créateurs” (Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2022), “Oral Texte” (Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard, 2022). She has had several solo exhibitions such as “Majelich” (Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, 2018) and “Risvolto” (Recontemporary, Turin, Italy, 2019). In 2023, she will present a major solo exhibition at the Institut d’art contemporain de Villeurbanne (FR). She is the winner of the Movimenta prize for young creation (Nice, 2017) and of the 2nd prize of the Around video Art fair jury (Lille, 2021). Her works are part of several French public collections.

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