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 2024 edition:
· Usue Arrieta and Ainara Elgoibar, Cooperativa Tractora, Bizkaia
· Bea Espejo, art critic and curator, Barcelona
· Latitudes (Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna), curatorial office, Barcelona
· Sofia Lemos, curator and writer
· Tania Pardo, curator and director of CA2M, Madrid
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
All living things, with Esther Kläs's works entre (2022) and dehors (2022). Curated by Marc Navarro. Image: Juande Jarillo
Dispositivos del tocar: Imaginación Curatorial en los tiempos de las fronteras expandidas (2015). Curated by Leire Vergara.
Cōvco: FLY HIGH, Cordova (2022). Curated by Cory Scozzari. Image: Roberto Ruiz
Sesión de escucha con Christian Nyampeta, The Green Parrot, 2016.