Interview to Roser Figueras founder together with her husband Josep Inglada of Cal Cego. Colección de Arte Contemporáneo, based in Barcelona. Monste Badia, art critic and curator, has been the artistic director of Cal Cego since 2006. They were interwied by Carles Guerra for the exhibition Vídeo-Régimen. Coleccionistas en la era audiovisual. presented at LOOP 2015
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
Montse Badia is an Art Historian, Art Critic and Curator. She is the Co-Director of A*DESK, Independent Institute of Criticism and Contemporary Art, Artistic Director of the contemporary art collection Cal Cego and a member of the advisory committee of Fundación Yaxs.