Celeste Araújo is a doctoral researcher and a film curator. She is part of the programming team of Xcèntric, the CCCB cinema, and she is preparing a doctoral thesis on Prometeo, Tragedia dell ‘ascolto by Luigi Nono, with long periods of research at the Archivio Luigi Nono in Venice. She studied Social Communication at the University of Minho and Advanced Studies in Philosophy at the University of Barcelona. She has been a journalist at Público (Lisbon) and a member of the editorial board of Blogs & Docs, where she coordinated the section FUGAS dedicated to the experimental cinema. Her texts have been published in Musik im Metrum der Macht, Arte y políticas de identidad, Els Peus d’Ìcar, Blogs&Docs, Archivos de la Filmoteca de Valencia, Cinema Comparat/ive Cinema, Miradas de cine, Contrapicado, Transit and Público.

Last update: May 22th, 2017

Erick Beltrán studied at the National School of Plastic Arts, UNAM. Mexico. He has exhibited individually in Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mex (2014); Gallery Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo (2013), Centre d’Art Comtemporain Synagogue du Delme, Metz, France.. (2012); Troppen Museum, Amsterdam, NL.(2011); Galería Labor, Mex. (2011); Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Esp. (2011); Form&Content, London, Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona.(2010)Presentaciones en Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Wien, Aut.(2013), Galería Casas Riegner, Bogotá, Col. (2013).

He recently participated in the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA; Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin, Germany; La Capella, Barcelona, Spain; Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands; MUSAC, León, Spain; Experimental Museum El Eco, Mexico; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, USA; Valparaiso Cultural Park, Valparaiso, Chile.

Last update: May 22th, 2017

Antje Ehmann is a curator, author, and artist

Curatorial projects (selection):
Harun Farocki: Who is in Charge? (with Heloisa Espada), Instituto
Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro, IMS Sao Paulo, Brazil 2018 | Harun
Farocki. What ought to be done. Life and work, (with Eunhee Kim),
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South-Korea,
2018 | Harun Farocki Retrospective (with Marius Babias), Berlin 2017 |
By other Means (with Carles Guerra), NBK, Berlin 2017 | Harun Farocki.
Empathy (with Carles Guerra), Fundació Antoni Tapies, Barcelona 2016
| Harun Farocki. What is at Stake (with Carles Guerra), Institut Valencia
d’Art Modern | Harun Farocki. 4 films from 1967-1997, Angels Gallery
Barcelona 2014

Artistic projects (selection): How shall I name what I am missing? (with
Jan Ralske), Forum Expanded 2015 | Labour in a Single Shot. A Project
together with Harun Farocki, 2011 – 2014, with Eva Stotz, since 2017 |
War Tropes, (with Harun Farocki), Gorki Theater, Berlin 2011 | Feasting
or Flying (with Harun Farocki), Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana 2009
Publications (selection):
Harun Farocki, What Ought to be Done? Work and Life (with Eunhee
Kim), Seoul 2018 | Harun Farocki, 10, 20, 30, 40. Fragment einer
Autobiographie (with Marius Babias), Berlin 2017 | Harun Farocki,
Another Kind of Empathy (with Carles Guerra), Cologne 2016 | Serious
Games. War – Media – Art (with Ralf Beil), Ostfildern 2011

Last update: November 11th, 2019

María Virginia Jaua is writer and publisher. She has developed and collaborated on several editorial projects related to art and culture. She was also the editor of Linea de Fuga literary magazine, own to La Casa Refugio Citlaltépetl for more than 10 years, and directed Salonkritk online magazine from 2008 to 2016.

She recently has published her first novel: Idea de la ceniza (Periférica Ed., 2015) and has launched the books México: Ensayo de un mito (Iberdrola Fundation, 2016) and El cristal se venga – textos, artículos e iluminaciones – by J.L. Brea, RM, 2014. She has made the film essay 3_Eras, from The three ages of the image book (J. L. Brea, Akal, 2010); as well as she was in charge of curating the photography and video exhibition Esto –no– ha sido /Técnicas de la visualidad to the space Ca2m in Madrid.

She teaches seminars, workshops, and conferences about art, writing, criticism and image analysis. She is part of the working and research group of the Sorbonne Nouvelle: Écritures de la modernité.

Nowadays, she runs Campo de relámpagos magazine, a cultural publication of image analysis with the Artium Museum support. Currently, she is focusing her work on the reflection about artistic creations by several artists through the intersection of different disciplines.

Last update: May 17th, 2017

Imma Prieto is an art critic and independent curator. She teaches Contemporary art and New Media at the Eram School of the University of Girona, and lectures in the MA Program in Curatorial Studies at the Ramon Llull University of Barcelona. She has curated several exhibitions nationally and internationally (TempArtSpace-NewYork, Hirshhorn Museum-Washington, MucaRoma-Mexico Central American Isthmus Biennial-Guatemala, Palazzo Ca ‘Tron-Venice, Joan Miró Foundation Barcelona, Fabra i Coats-Barcelona, Bòlit-Girona, among others).

She regularly writes in newspapers and magazines (such as La Vanguardia, Bonart, A*Desk and Artichoke) and is the author of artists catalogs as well as of books on art theory and aesthetics. She has been manager of the research group ELAA (European Live Art Archive), formed by the University of Girona, the University of Oxford and the artist residence Glaugair in Berlin, and is a member of the Chair of Contemporary Art and Culture of the University of Girona, the AICA (International Art Critics Association) and the IAC (Institute of Spanish Art).

Last update:  April 4th, 2017

Freelance writer and curator. She writes regularly for A*Desk, La Maleta de Portbou, Bonart, Hänsel i Gretel, Núvol-Digital de Cultura, Politica & Prosa or Diario Levante. Recently, she has edited the book “Galeries d’art a Catalunya” and the catalogue of the exhibition “Tàpies / Alcaraz / Rubert” at the Kunst Lager Haas in Berlin. Some of her exhibitions as curator have been seen at àngels barcelona (Enésima Intempestiva), Arte Aurora (El ple and Seastanding), Àcid Sulfúric (€uropolis), Cera 13 (Moon and dust) or at FASE. Espacio de creación y pensamiento. Between 2018 and 2020, she coordinated the LOOP Discover Award, held within the framework of the LOOP Barcelona video art festival and fair. She has a Master in Art History and since 2011 she has been involved in teaching through conferences, talks and courses aimed at both children and adults. Among them, New economies for new communities. Can the rules of the game be changed? in the framework of the Mobile Week Congress; ¡Ay! Amor at the MACBA; David Hockney: a painter and a book at Galeria SENDA; A Century of Artistic Revolution, 1863-1964 and Painting in Europe, from Botticelli to Monet at Casa Elizalde (Barcelona); Two Italian Masterpieces at Can Palauet (Mataró).

Last update 22nd October 2020