Anna Manubens is the director of Hangar, a center for artistic research and production in Barcelona and a professor at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in San Sebastian.
Previously she was an independent curator and producer with a preference for hybrid roles at the intersection between writing, research, programming, project accompaniment, institutional analysis and exhibitions. Until 2017 she was Head of Public Programs at the CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux and previously combined her freelance activity with teaching at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a regular job at the artist-run Auguste Orts (Brussels) dedicated to the production of, and thinking around, artists’ films. With them she directed the European project On & For production designed to facilitate the realization of audiovisual works through the implementation of new frameworks and professional exchange.
Her recent exhibitions include Luz Broto, Ponerse en el lugar del otro (Museu de Granollers, 2021-22), A L I E N T O (NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona, 2020-2021); Wendelien van Oldenborgh. Tono lengua boca (Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, 2019 and Centre d’Art Contemporani Fabra i Coats, 2020); Alex Reynolds: Safe, Safe, safe, the pulse of the house beat softly (La panera, Lleida, 2020); entre, hacia, hasta, para, por, por, según, sin (EACC, Castellón, 2019); Visceral Blue (La Capella, Barcelona, 2016); Hacer cuerpo con la máquina: Joachim Koester (Blue Project Foundation, Barcelona, 2016) and Contours of the Audiovisual with Soledad Gutiérrez (Tabakalera, San Sebastián, 2015).
She was artistic director of the LOOP festival in the 2011 and 2012 editions and with Hamaca developed Apología/Antología, an online editorial project that analyzes and gives access to 60 years of art in film and video in the Spanish state.
He has written in several catalogs and magazines about production or about the work of artists such as Luz Broto, Lucía C. Pino, Laida Lertxundi, Pauline Julier, Alex Reynolds, Adrian Schindler or Wendelien van Oldenborgh.

Last update: 11th November, 2022

Chiara Cartuccia is an independent curator and researcher based in London. Her work focuses mainly on practice and theory of performativity in contemporary arts, and the potentialities of performance as a generative epistemological tool.

Between 2012 and 2015, Chiara has been Curator of Performance Art at SAVVY Contemporary Berlin, and in 2017 she was appointed Curatorial Coordinator at Manifesta 12 Palermo. For Manifesta, Chiara co-curated the Planetary Garden Public Programme. She is co-founder and director of the curatorial and editorial platform EX NUNC.

Chiara holds an MA in Visual Cultures-Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths College, and she is a Ph.D. candidate at Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, UvA.

Last update: November 11th, 2019

Vanina Saracino (she/they) is an independent curator, film programmer, writer, and lecturer.

Her work focuses on theories and art practices that explicitly question anthropocentric and binary worldviews from an intersectional perspective, with an emphasis on lens-based and time-based art. Her latest project, Other Minds, is the fourth edition of the Screen City Biennial (curated with Daniela Arriado), which took place at the astronomical observatory Archenhold Sternwarte and other venues in Berlin in 2022.

Since 2021, Saracino has been teaching at the Institute of Time-based Art – IZM, Universität der Künste (UdK) in Berlin, with Prof. Nina Fischer. She has collaborated with Kumu Art Museum and EKKM (Tallinn), Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi (Venice), TBA21 – Academy, Cinemateca Brasileira (São Paulo), Cinemateca do MAM (Rio de Janeiro), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Salzburger Kunstverein (Salzburg), The EYE Film Institute (Amsterdam), and Centro Párraga (Murcia), among others. Saracino has realized residencies at ISCP (New York, 2023), Q21 – MuseumsQuartier (Vienna, 2021), Fire Station Artists’ Studios (Dublin, 2019), CPR – Curatorial Program for Research (Reykjavik, Tórshavn, Tromsø, Boden, Luleå, Hyrynsalmi, Helsinki, 2018), and GENERATOR – 40mcube/EESAB (Rennes, 2018). Graduated in Communication Sciences, Saracino holds an MA in Arts Management (GIOCA, Università di Bologna) and in Philosophy and Art Theory (UAB, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona). She has been a member of IKT since 2015.

Last update: 17th November , 2023