She holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Valencia and a Master's degree in Heritage Management from the same university. She has been awarded an extraordinary degree and has enjoyed a postgraduate scholarship from the Generalitat Valenciana. She has given numerous workshops and courses on Exhibition Management, Curatorship, movable heritage management and collection management.
She has worked as a Heritage technician in different museums and institutions such as the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM), Valencia; Patio Herreriano Museum of Contemporary Art, Valladolid; Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA) and the National Museum of Art of Catalonia (MNAC), Barcelona, where she is currently Head of the Department of Registration and Collection Management.
Teaching / Research
She has been a teacher at the University of Valencia, Jaume I University, and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), where he has taught subjects in the Degree in Art History, Degree in Tourism and Degree in Design at these universities. He was part of the Teaching and Research Staff, within the DISVA working group, at the Jaume I University.
She has participated as a teacher in the Official University Master's Degree in Heritage Management at the Pompeu Fabra University and in the Official Master's Degree in Analysis and Management of Artistic Heritage at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, as well as in postgraduate courses at the School of Art and Design of Tortosa.
Her doctoral thesis focused on Abstract Painting in the Franco era and his current research focuses on Painting and Visual Arts of the 20th and 21st centuries and, in particular, Contemporary Painting and Visual Arts from the 1930s to the present, as well as Video-Art and Design arts.
She has also taught in the Postgraduate Programme in Ephemeral Architecture, Performing Arts and Scenic Concepts at the Polytechnic Foundation of Catalonia from 2003 to 2007, in the Master's Degree in the Creation of Exhibition Projects, Curatorship and Editing at EINA in 2007, in the Master's Degree in Heritage at the UdG in 2018, and in the Official Master's Degree in Analysis and Management of Artistic Heritage at the UAB at the MNAC in 2018 and 2019.
She has given lectures at different conferences, such as the International Conference Museum Storage. ICOM. Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2024.
Professional experience
She is currently head of the Department of Registration and Collection Management at the National Museum of Art of Catalonia, where she began in 2006 as a Heritage Technician assigned to the Department of Temporary Exhibitions.
Previously, she served as a Heritage Technician at the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM), Valencia; the Patio Herreriano Museum of Contemporary Art, Valladolid and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA).
In parallel, since 2022, she has been a member of the Editorial Board of the Revista de Cataluña, where she is responsible for the Arts Section and is also an independent Curator of various artistic movements and artists, with special emphasis on more recent art.
CURATED EXHIBITIONS:
Mar Vicente. Sights. Contemporary Art fair BASEL. 2016
Peiró Coronado. Símbolo y Materia.
Monica Jover. Espai Nivi. 2022.
Ite Missa Est. Espai Nivi. 2021.
Daniel Dobarco. Espai Nivi. 2021.
Peiró Coronado. MUCBE y Castillo de Alaquàs. 2019.
Jaume Rocamora. Tractats d’Artífex. Maison Catalogne, Paris y Ayuntamiento de Amposta.2018
Alción: poéticas entorno al yo. Centre la Mercè. 2018
Cristina Almodóvar. Set Espai d’Art. 2018. AWARD-WINNING EXHIBITION.
Pepe Beas. Deshielo. Llotja del Cànem. 2013
Awards
Member of ICOM, AVCA, AECA and AICA.
Book Lavernia, Cienfuegos and Associates, awarded with the Type Directors Club Prize, New York.
Extraordinary Degree Award, 1996.
Publications
TENA, Silvia. Wences Rambla, between Humanism and Art. Castelló: Diputació de Castelló –Universitat Jaume I, 2024.
TENA, Silvia, PATUEL, Pascual. Peiró Coronado: Symbol and matter. Valencia: Generalitat Valenciana, 2023.
TENA, Silvia: The expanded warp of Mónica Jover. Castellón: Espai Nivi. 2022.
TENA, Silvia: Pictorial abstraction and artistic culture in Castelló under Franco (1940-1980). Castellón: Universitat Jaume I-Diputació de Castelló. 2021.
TENA, Silvia: Gestures and liturgy in the work of Pepe Beas. In VVAA: four visions and thoughts around an artistic creation: Ite missa est. Castellón: Ed. Espai Nivi. 2021.
TENA, Silvia. “Ester Pegueroles. Km 0”. In VVAA Contemporary Art of the Generalitat Valenciana, IV. Valencia: Generalitat Valenciana, Consorci de Museus. 2021.
TENA, Silvia. Daniel Dobarco. Bellum, belli, beautiful. Castellón: Espai Nivi. 2021
TENA, Silvia. Natalia Ocerín, in search of the inner monster. VI Editions of Women looking at women.
TENA, Silvia. “Pau Pascual Galbis. A now devoid of here. AUH2631Z as a metaphor for the panic city.” In VVAA Contemporary Art of the Generalitat Valenciana, II. Valencia: Generalitat Valenciana, Consorci de Museus. 2019.
TENA, Silvia. Matter, cos and Art Brut in the work of Peiró Coronado 1950-1980. Benicarló: Ajuntament de Benicarló-MUCBE, 2019.
TENA, Silvia. Wahrer Raum: spatial poetics in the work of Cristina Almodóvar. Valencia: Set Espai d’Art, 2018.
TENA, Silvia. Orthogonality and geometry: the artists' books of Jaume Rocamora. Amposta: Ajuntament d'Amposta. 2018.
TENA, Silvia. Alción: poetics around the self. Borriana: Center Cultural La Mercè, 2018.
TENA, Silvia. Mar Vicente: the death of the gesture. Basel: The solo project, 2016.
TENA, Silvia. Thaw and Mandorla, Castellón: Collblanc, 2013
TENA, Silvia. Rossana Zaera. Emotion represented. Castellón: Universitat Jaume I - Ajuntament de Castelló. 2012.
TENA, Silvia. “Fragmentation, order and chaos”, in José Córdoba, heartbeats in space. Valencia: Generalitat Valenciana, Castellón: Proyecto Cultural Castelló SA. 2007.
TENA, Silvia and RAMBLA, Wences. Lavernia, Cienfuegos and Associates. Castellón: Universitat Jaume I – Ajuntament de Castelló. 2006. WORK AWARDED THE TYPE DIRECTORS CLUB PRIZE.
TENA, Silvia and RAMBLA, Wences. Form and construction in the plastic arts of Jaume Rocamora. Tarragona: Contratalla. 2006.
PRESENTATIONS:
TENA, Silvia. “Fighting against dissociation in stored artworks. The experience of the Registrar's Department in Sculpture and the inorganic materials storage of the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya". ICOM, Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2024.
TENA, Silvia. “The lost steps: on the representation of violence in contemporary art” ”, Communication to the XVI National Congress of Art History of the CEHA, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. 2006.
TENA, Silvia. “The Curatorship of Exhibitions: The Example of Picasso Romanesque” within the course “Romanesque and Avant-garde” (28 (from September to December 14, 2016). Gaudir UB. University of Barcelona.
TENA, Silvia. “Preventive Conservation in Museums: The Case of the Patio Herreriano Museum”, General Directorate of Heritage and Cultural Promotion. Ministry of Education and Culture . Regional Government of Castile and Leon. 2002.
ARTICLES:
TENA, Silvia. “Lost Steps: On the Representation of Violence in Contemporary Art”, Proceedings of the XVI National Congress of Art History of the CEHA, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2006. pp. 945-952.
TENA, Silvia. “Corpus Delicti: Artistic Discourses on the Body, Sexuality, Violence, Illness and Death”, CBN, Journal of Aesthetics and Contemporary Art, No. 1, September 2009, pp. 78-89.
TENA, Silvia. “Revisiting the Classics: The Remake as a Subversion of the Discourse of Authority and Other Simulations of Reality”, Millars, No. XXXI, year 2008, pp. 211-220.
Cultural commentator columnist (contributor as a guest writer) in El Mundo (2019-2021)