With a degree in Art History, he later completed a master's degree in curatorial studies at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, where he worked as a curatorial assistant in the public programs department.
Teaching
Among his teaching experience, it is worth highlighting his work as content director of PRAXIS, an independent studies programme on the creation of other possible forms – social, aesthetic, linguistic, political and performative. This educational device addresses the material and immaterial conditions that determine these forms, and delves into the role of the arts and humanities as spaces from which to articulate socially transformative perspectives that repair the collective from a type of reduced listening, restructuring aesthetics, ways of doing and listening. Díaz has also been a guest lecturer and has given workshops at universities and educational centres such as the UPV, Goldsmiths University of London, the Menéndez Pelayo International University and the Complutense University of Madrid.
Professional experience
Alejandro is a curator, writer and director of fluent, a non-profit arts organization with a program of exhibition modules, public-educational programs and text commissions. Through ongoing mentoring of artists and the practice of somatic writing, his work explores the immateriality of ecology, where attention to intimate, infrastructural and poetic forms of knowledge seeks to trigger collective triggers. He has curated programs and developed research for institutions such as the Fundaçao Gulbenkian in Lisbon; KADIST Foundation, Paris; MNCARS Reina Sofía, Madrid, or documenta 15 in Kassel.
Publications
As an editor, he has been responsible for several publications such as the anthology Microbiopolitics of Milk (Sternberg Press, 2023); the book We are still alive, like oxygen and oxygen (inspired by the political imagination of/and developed in complicity with Christina Sharpe, Comunidad de Madrid, 2019); Microhabitable (Koenig Books, Matadero and Serpentine Galleries, 2022), and Landscape Plus, the first monographic publication on the work of experimental filmmaker, Laida Lertxundi.
His texts have been published internationally in specialized media and magazines and platforms such as e–flux, Frieze, Mousse Magazine, Terremoto, Concreta and many others. He has also contributed essays to various exhibition catalogues and artist books.