PhD in Fine Arts from the Universitat de Barcelona (2006).
Teaching / Research
His research has focused on dialogical practices in the field of art. Guerra is a researcher, independent curator and associate professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, a member of the Collège de photographie et images animées Cnap Centre national des arts plastiques (France) and a member of the Lieven Gevaert Center LGC for photography (Belgium).
During 2023 he has been appointed Inaugural Visiting Professor in Catalan Studies by New York University and the Institut Ramon Llull. He has previously been a visiting professor at the Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College, Goldsmiths University of London, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, NTU Center for Contemporary Art Singapore and KU Leuven Center for Photography, among other centres and universities around the world.
Professional experience
He has been director of the Primavera Fotogràfica de Catalunya (2004), director of the Virreina Centre de la Imatge (2009-2011), chief curator of the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona MACBA (2011-2023), executive director of the Fundació Antoni Tàpies (2015-2020) and artistic director of the Museu de l'Art Prohibit (from 2023).
His latest research project and exhibition has dealt with the figure of the Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles. This project and exhibition has been presented at Musée Les Abattoirs, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona CCCB and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, under the title Tosquelles. Com una màquina de cosir en un camp de blat.
He has also curated major exhibitions such as Perejaume. Deixar de fer una exposició, Art & Language in Practice, Ursula Biemann i Angela Melitopoulos: B Zone, Tangerine Tales, Alexander Soukorov. Sèries militars, Art & Language Incomplet. Col·lecció Philippe Méaille, Documents d'acció. Col·leccions Anthony Denney i Daniel Cordier, Antoni Tàpies. Biografia política i Patricia Dauder. Sòl i subsol.
In the field of photography and documentary practices, he has curated monographic exhibitions devoted to Joaquín Jordán, Bruno Serralongue, Xavier Ribas, Ahlam Shibli, Allan Sekula, Susan Meiselas, Harun Farocki, Oriol Vilanova and Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. Other projects in the same field include Després de la notícia. Documentals Postmèdia, Antifotoperiodisme, 1979. A Monument to Radical Moments and 1989. Després de les converses d'Alger. Deliri i treva and El curs dels esdeveniments. Un atles de la Col·lecció Foto Colectania.
Publications
One of the most recent publications is Restituciones. la fotografía en deuda con su pasado, published by KBr Fundació MAPFRE, a collective volume that brings together contributions from academics, photographers and activists that examine the unintended effects of photography over time.
He has also published a volume in the Tamarit collection dedicated to the artist Josep Royo, a key figure in the renewal of textile art. Josep Royo. Una forma oberta que cau a pes consists of a restitution exercise that generated the Josep Royo Documentary Fund and which can now be consulted at the Museu d'Art Modern de la Diputació de Tarragona. In 2023 the MAMT presented an exhibition with the results of this research.