The Curatorial Imagination

How can we narrate the production of ideas, mental images, concepts, and dreams in the curatorial realm? What kind of production are we talking about when we speak about the Imagination in such a specific field as the sphere of exhibition making, where multiple forms of creativity overlap and where hospitality, negotiation, mediation, and budget are generally the defining factors? How can we imagine new collective gestures, ephemeral communities of things, and previously unseen uses of institutional spaces? How can feminist, post-colonial, and critical impulses reshape the way we produce mental matter? Several curators respond to these questions, or variations thereof, and speak about their practice in this program.

Guest speakers of the 2023 edition:

· Cory Scozzari, curator, founder and director, Cordova, Barcelona
· Leire Vergara, independent curator, Bilbao
· Marc Navarro, curator and writer, Deltebre
· María Inés Rodríguez, curator, Museo de Arte de Sao Paulo
· Rosa Lleó, curator, co-founder and director, The Green Parrot, Barcelona

Guest speakers of the 2022 edition:

· Gloria Moure, independent curator and editor, Barcelona
· David Bestué, artist, writer and curator, Barcelona
· Marta Ponsa, head of artistic projects and cultural activities , Jeu de Paume, Paris
· Carolina Grau, independent curator, Barcelona
· Anna Manubens, producer and curator, director of Hangar, Barcelona

Guest speakers of the 2021 edition:

· Yasmil Raymond, rector Städelschule and director, Portikus, Frankfurt-am-Main
· Andrea Rodríguez Novoa, curator and co-founder BAR Project, Barcelona
· María Bolaños, director Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid
· Aimé Iglesias Lukin, director and curator, Americas Society, New York
· Dorothée Dupuis, founder and director, Terremoto, Mexico City
· Inés López-Quesada and Silvia Ortiz, co-founders and directors, Travesía Cuatro, Madrid & Mexico City