Director, Galería ADN

Curator

Curator

Chief Curator, MUDAM

Graduated in Fine Arts, her professional career in the creation of the company YProducciones on the elaboration of tascas of production, management, research and training in culture. It has been an initiative of the initiators of the Hamaca distribution, and has been the director since 2009. During these years it promotes projects like the Cicle de Video a la Gran Pantalla, where introduced the video in the sales of cinema, or the first anthology of video in the Spanish context (Apology /Anthology). She has been invited as speaker to seminars on video distribution at institutions such as MNCARS, MACBA, the Sorbonne in Paris and the Berlin Arsenal.

Last update: May 23th, 2017

Researcher/Artist

Anna Maria Guasch is a Professor of Global Art History and Art Criticism at the University of Barcelona.  In the last fifteen years, Guasch has focused on the study of international art from the second half of the 20th Century and has analyzed the expositions it has generated. This line of investigation has lead to publications The Art of the 20th Century and Its Exhibitions: 1945-1995 (Serbal Editions, Barcelona, 2009) and The Manifestos of Postmodern Art: Texts of Expositions 1980-1995 (Akal/Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, 2000) with contributions by C. Joachimides, D. Kuspit, A. Bonito Oliva, K. Power, D. Crimp, H. Foster, T. Crow, H. Szeemann, C. David, J.H. Martin y T. McEvilley, among others.

Currently, Guasch focuses her investigations on three areas: Archiving – Memory and Contemporary Art, Art History and Visual Studies, and Contemporary Art and Globalization. The first of these foci was developed and exhibited in Visual Autobiographies: Between the Archive and the Index (Siruela, Madrid, 2009), and Art and Archive: Genealogies, Typologies, and Discontinuities(Madrid, Akal/Arte Contemporáneo, 2011), and in presentations at conferences of related sciences such as the 20th ANPAP Meeting (Rio de Janeiro, 2011) in which she presented Contemporary Archival Practices: Between the Domestic and the Public, Memory and History, Global and Local.

In her research on Contemporary Art and Globalization, her noteworthy contributions to international conferences and seminars include From Here: Context and Internationalization presented at the 3rd Summit of Critics and Investigators (Valparaiso, Chile, 2011) and her invitation to the international conferences Refocusing on Issuers: Ink Painting through a Perspective of Art History (Shanghai, May 2012) and Art, Criticism and the Forces of Globalization (Winchester School of Art / University of Southhampton and Tate, Liverpool, September 2012). Concerning the theme generally, her notable work includes the text The Global Effect: Art in the Era of Mobility, Translation, and Memory(in press) and her commission at the exposition The Memory of the Other in the Global Era in Bogota, Colombia (2009), Santiago, Chile (2010), and Havana, Cuba (2011).

Between 2000 and 2011, Guasch has been a Visiting Fellow in the Universities of Princeton, Yale, Columbia, San Diego, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2002, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and completed her research residency in 2008. She has taught seminars and courses at many institutions including the Pontificia Catholic University of Chile (2002), Esmeralda Institute of Fine Arts (Mexico City, 2003), and San Antonio School of Cinema of Los Baños, (Havana, Cuba, 2005), as well as the Universities of Antioquia(Medellin) and the Bogota National University (Colombia, 2004, 2006, 2007) and at the University of Nuevo León (Monterrey, Mexico, 2006).

Last update: November 11th, 2019

Director, Hangar

Artist

Menene Gras és la directora de Cultura i exposicions a Casa Àsia (Barcelona i Madrid) des de 2003. Amb un doctorat de la Universitat de Barcelona, Menene Gras és crítica d’art, conservadora i ex-professora. Abans d’això, va ser directora de Cultura i exposicions a l’Instituto de Medicaments Iberoamericans (actual Casa Amèrica de Catalunya) i també directora actual del festival de cinema asiàtic. Autora d’assajos, catàlegs, antologies i quatre llibres de poesia, ha estat corresponsal d’art d’Art Forum durant més de dotze anys i ha escrit pels diaris espanyols més importants.

Els recents aspectes destacats de la seva carrera professional inclouen exposicions i publicacions, com Is that Beauty? (2016-2017), The House and the Labyrinth (2015), El Jardín japonés: Topografías del vacío (2014), Chiharu Shiota. Les línies de mà (2014) i Pequín (2011).

L’any 2015 va ser guardonada per l’ACCA pel Projecte de Video Art Languages and Aesthetics of Spanish Video Art com la millor exposició espanyola feta a l’estranger. Actualment viu i treballa a Barcelona.

Darrera actualització: 10 de maig, 2017

Dora García was born in Spain and studied in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. As a young artist she moved to Brussels where she lived for 16 years; and she moved to Barcelona five years ago. She has always been interested in anti-heroic and marginal personas as a prototype to study the social status of the artist, and in narratives of resistance and counterculture. In this regard, Dora García has developed films on the DDR political police, the Stasi (“Rooms, Conversations”, film, 24 ‘, 2006), on the charismatic figure of US stand up comedian Lenny Bruce (“Just because everything is different it does not mean that anything has changed, Lenny Bruce in Sydney”, one-time performance and 60 min. film, Sydney Biennale, 2008) or on the origins of antipsychiatry (“The Deviant Majority”, film, 34′, 2010). Lately she has frequented Finnegans Wake reading groups (“The Joycean Society”, film, 53’, 2013). She is currently preparing a feature length film on Argentinian author Oscar Masotta.

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