Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area
I work as an independent curator specializing in contemporary art organising international exhibitions, projects and events. I have worked and collaborated with a wide range of institutions in the public and private sector in United Kingdom, USA, France, Portugal, Brazil, Italy and Spain. In the past two decades, I have curated and worked with alternative spaces (UX Art Space by Lexus, Lisboa; Cubitt Gallery, London), commercial galleries (like Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisboa and Galería Luisa Strina, São Paulo), private foundations (Parasol-Unit Foundation, London), public institutions (MARCO, Vigo; Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid; Serpentine Gallery, London; Tate Modern, London; La Galerie Centre d’art contemporain, Paris). I have worked closely on projects with a number of emerging to established artists involving the production and commissioning of new works in different contexts. Like Ignasi Aballí (Spain), Tonico Lemos Auad (Brazil / UK), Martin Creed (UK), Angela de la Cruz (Spain/UK), Marcelline Delbecq (France), Carla Felipe (Portugal), Ceal Floyer (UK/Germany), Siobhan Hapaska (UK), Gabriel Kuri (Mexico / Belgium), Marepe (Brazil), Muntadas (Spain), Juan Muñoz (Spain), Peter Piller (Germany), Wilfredo Prieto (Cuba), Divine Southgate-Smith (UK), Amie Siegel (USA), Lisa Tan (USA), Costa Vece (Swizterland), Lawrence Weiner (USA), Rachel Whiteread (UK) and Ines Zenha (Portugal). I have served in international contemporary art juries like the Botín Foundation, Santander (2016) for commissioning artists. I am currently on the Board and collaborating with Dardo Magazine: Architecture, Contemporary Art and Design. I am currently working on a new network for presenting young artists globally.
To seek out and investigate acquisition proposals to expand the museum Collection. The museum also receives purchase, donation and deposit proposals studied by the Collection department and the curatorial team. All of the proposals selected are assessed by the advisory committee. This committee is an annual meeting of international experts in contemporary art that analyses and evaluates the acquisition proposals presented by the museum.
Member of the founding committee of the Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC) Spain. Working to establish a framework for galleries, non profit institutions, artists and curators, in order to reduce emissions across all operations. Part of: GCC Spain Shipping group with María Gracia del Pedro. Working towards improvement in packing and transportation of art goods.
Natura Viva: muse & mimesis presented works of new artistic creation by 10 artists in 10 cities who have explored their local geography to "reveal" how to feel and learn from our nature. The project aims to raise awareness and reflect on the evolution of our imprint and its impact on the biosphere, as we have to be part of the solution and not the problem.
Angela de la Cruz (Corunna, 1965) has been experimenting with the language of painting for over two decades. The artist has tried to redefine the terms and boundaries of the medium since she began, focusing on painting as an object and in terms of what it can represent. De la Cruz has developed a specific language that enables her to endow her paintings with sculptural qualities, erasing the boundaries between painting and sculpture, and using each of them without distinction depending on what she wants to express and the need of each work. As the artist has said, ‘It’s a sculpture using the language of painting and vice versa. In other words, it’s a painting and a sculpture.' Household furniture—chairs, tables and cupboards—have been present in her work, though in recent years she has broadened her pictorial vocabulary with the use of aluminium and its elasticity. Her artistic language uses humour in her titles in order to present us striking artworks which combine a stilted pressure with a deeper emotional presence. This exhibition presents a journey through the work made from 1996 to 2018, creating different associations with works from different periods. It takes its title from one of her first works breaking the stretcher, Homeless (1996). As its title indicates, it represents the homeless, who carry with them their belongings and memories. People we encounter cyclically in our society as victims of the global transit we are experiencing during these decades due to political, economic, social, cultural and bellicose conflict matters. This exhibition is a co-production of CGAC and Azkuna Zentroa at Bilbao.