La Escocesa has created the studio visits programme to promote and make visible the work of La Escocesa's resident artists and to activate a space for professional exchange based on hospitality and dialogue between artists and curators. As a way of taking advantage of the flows and resources that are constantly moving in the so-called art world, each month we will invite various agents working in the local context or passing through Barcelona.
These visits are also a pretext to talk about working conditions in the art sector and to think about issues related to professionalisation, sustainability and the generation of related networks.
Until now, the profesionals invited have been:
Manuela Pedrón Nicolau is dedicated to curating and education in contemporary art. She works especially on issues related to artistic research and forms of narration that explore the social and political from this field.
He has curated projects for CaixaForum Barcelona, the Museo de la BNE, La Fragua de Tabacalera or Conde Duque, among others. He has held research grants at DAAD (Berlin), the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, Hangar Barcelona, Centro Huarte (Pamplona) and MNCARS (Madrid). He has co-directed Tabacalera//Educa, educational program of Tabacalera Promoción del Arte, the CRÁTER program of the Sala de Arte Joven de Madrid and the Universidad Popular 2023 of the CA2M. He currently runs the VENECIA reading club at La Casa Encendida and the MARUJA project clinic at the Sala de Arte Joven.
Independent cultural manager based in Bilbao. Founder of the ANTespacio collective through which she generates experimental initiatives within cultural production. Her goal is to bring contemporary art to different groups, people and spaces of everyday life, considering art and mediation essential elements for social transformation. She has curated proposals such as HALO, within Eremuak's Harriak program, Progress in work between Limoges and Bilbao or Out of the Loop and Inmersiones 2022 with the HARIA collective. He received the Culturex grant to work at the Pompidou Center (Paris, 2021) and has coordinated for the City of Irun, Kontenporanea and Feria Ribera (2022-2023). She carries out the Vis a Vis project together with Amaia Molinet and currently directs the Iturfest Festival (Bilbao), promotes the Artoteka initiative and coordinates the BBK Artegileak residencies.
Curator, professor and feminist writer. She has made numerous curatorial narratives, in spaces and museums in Latin America. She managed and curated the two editions of the collective, transfeminist and federal exhibition #paratodestode. She realized the exhibition Sala Propia (2018), at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Neuquén, where she concretized a comprehensive reading of all the works by women artists and dissidences present in the patrimony of a museum. She has devised and curated the seven editions of the Campamento Artístico Curatorial.
She has published Artistas Latinoamericanas, un recorrido de diálogos conceptuales (Wifredo Lam, Cuba), Historias de Cabeza Partida (Ediciones del Bien), Curaduría Afectiva (Cariño Ediciones), Curadurías del Fin del Mundo (Redtesoras), Epistemología Mechera (Cariño Ediciones) and Testigos son los cuervos, a la salud de los archivos (Elmismomar), and has participated in several compilations of national and international texts.
Independent curator and writer currently based in Frankfurt (DE). Her practice addresses issues around the politics and forms of infrastructures, their underlying power structures and explores the aesthetic strategies and methods of art and sound through which artists engage with the public and public space.
After completing her studies in art history, contemporary art history and American studies in Freiburg (DE), Bochum (DE) and London (UK), she gained professional experiences in museums, biennials and art institutions, including Drawing Room (UK), Fridericianum (Kassel, DE), Venice Biennale (IT), Dortmunder Kunstverein (DE), among others. From 2018-2021 she worked at Städelschule as a research associate, where she was responsible for the public program as well as the publications.
As Artistic Director, she conceived the Biennale für Freiburg 2 (2022-2023), which included a 6-months public program and an international exhibition throughout various institutions including Freiburger Kunstverein, Museum für Neue Kunst and CRAC-Alsace.
Curator, writer and researcher based in Berlin and Athens. In her current work, she addresses the promises of degrowth for art and culture, and the role of technology in times of climate crisis.
Her exhibitions have been hosted at Onassis Stegi, LAboral, EMST, Akademie Schloss Solitude and other institutions. Articles of hers have been published in various books by the likes of Springer, Sternberg Press, and Leonardo Electronic Almanac. Dragona has worked as curator for the transmediale festival between 2015-2019 and for the EMAF between 2020 and 2023. She is affiliated to Onassis Stegi as a curatorial advisor. She is teaching Theory and Practice of Curating and History of Digital Art at the Department of Audiovisual Arts of the Ionian University. She holds a PhD from the Faculty of Communication & Media Studies of the University of Athens. https://daphnedragona.net/
Since 2020, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo promotes the Young Curators Residency Programme Madrid. The project aims to support emerging curatorial practice while spreading knowledge of the Spanish art scene on an international level. The YCRP Madrid stems from the experience of the Young Curators Residency Programme Torino, that takes place every year in Italy since 2007.2024 selected curators are Nikki Nita Ramírez, Phokeng Setai and Kaushal Sapre.
Curator, researcher and editor. She is currently a doctoral candidate and ÖAW Fellow at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Her thesis investigates a series of historical feminist collectives in Spain and the link among their infrastructures, affections, curatorial and editorial production and the processes of healing and political emancipation in democratic Spain, as well as their relationship with the art institution in the present.
She is currently co-curator of the project Vulnerable Cosmologies, on the intersection of art and disability in collaboration with British artists Project Art Works, Hablarenarte, BALTIC and the education department of the Museo Reina Sofía. Between 2020 and 2022 she was a curator on the artistic team of the migrant justice centre Trampoline House and a participant in Documenta Fifteen (Kassel, 2022). She is co-editor of the volume Propositions on Translocal Solidarity (Berlin: Archive Books) and has recently published with Routledge, Palgrave and Sternberg Press, among others.
Works and researches among the curatorial practice, publishing and art criticism. Her interests revolve around the critical revision of imaginaries, the resistance for the homogenisation of aesthetics, experiences and temporalities and their link with matter and the construction of forms of belonging.
She is currently the editorial coordinator of MACBA and writes for various magazines specialising in contemporary culture. She is also co-founder of the project Higo Mental. With her projects she has been present in institutions and spaces such as Museo Patio Herreriano, Fabra y Coats: Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, CA2M, MNAC, Conde Duque, Homesession, Dilalica, Akademin Valand, Can Felipa and Arts Santa Mònica, among others.
Curator, writer and researcher based in London. She is currently engaged in long-term research around the Mediterranean as invented/inventive geography, focusing on the ramifications of practical Mediterraneanism(s) in Euro-Mediterranean contexts.
She is co-founder and director of the research-based curatorial platform EX NUNC, and previously held curatorial positions at SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin) and Manifesta Biennial (Palermo). She curated exhibitions, discursive and performative programmes at The Showroom London, Goldsmiths College, Goethe-Institut Bulgaria, MACRO, University of Paris – Diderot, Venice International Performance Art Week, ICA Sofia, TBA21, among others.
She is Visiting Curator 2022/24 at UNIDEE / Fondazione-Pistoletto, where she curates the biennial programme Neither on Land nor at Sea
Independent curator, founder and director of MAHAL. Her practice reflects on the development of artistic spaces, institutionalization procedures, mediation protocols and their environment.
Some projects she has curated are the workshops of the Méta Skholé Libre (with Jean-Paul Thibeau) and the collective exhibitions Iconographies de la rue (with Think Tanger) and Tangier: Facets of a Mediterranean Intersection (with Robin Vermeulen).
She has also been an active member of MADRASSA, a group of curators and researchers, who reivindicate the difficulties of artistic creation in the regions of Lebanon, Palestine, Cameroon, Egypt and Morocco.
Curator, editor and founder of The Green Parrot. In parallel, some of her outstanding curatorial work includes YWY, Visiones (2021) by artist Pedro Neves Marques (1646, The Hague; CA2M, Madrid and CaixaForum, Barcelona); An Oasis at Sunset (MAAT, Lisbon, 2021) and Ara Mateix (Arts Santa Mónica, Barcelona, 2020). For her, writing and publishing are also places from which to think about curatorship and the relationship with artists.
Managing Director of Bergen Kjøtt (Bergen, Norway), a former factory now production house and cultural venue with 100 studio tenants working in music and sound. In 2021, Eva co-founded GRIP – a pioneering sound engineering training programme to empower and employ more women, non-binary and transgender people behind the scenes in culture.
Eva´s approach is rooted in hosting, maintenance and collaboration – focusing on how different types of work, decisions and knowledge are valued, and with what consequences. This research is at the core of projects including 38b, an exhibition space co-run from her living room (London 2010-18), "Who's doing the washing up?" a curatorial programme about institutional re-imagining (Bergen Kunsthall and Lighthouse Brighton, 2018-19) and "¿Cómo imaginar una musea?", to conjure up a feminist institution (BAR Project, Barcelona, 2017). Eva leads the module "Collaborative Practices" on the Fine Arts Masters programme, University of Bergen.
Her work has been deployed in exhibitions, art criticism, coordination and management, educational projects and teaching. She has curated, among others, projects at Espai 13 of the Fundació Miró, Caixaforum, Arts Santa Mònica, Terrassa Arts Visuals, Paraninfo de la Universidad de Zaragoza or Can Felipa, as well as for festivals such as Panoràmic, Off Loop, FIAV or Periferias. Co-founder of interdisciplinary projects such as Liminal GR or Degénero (artist's editions in textile format). She was one of those selected for the first edition of Komisario Berriak. She has worked as a cultural manager for Art Barcelona - Association of Galleries, MACBA, Museu Serralves, or Porto2001, European Capital of Culture, among others. She has written critical texts for various catalogues, artists and galleries. She is currently part of the curatorial team of La Capella Centre d'Art, advisor for the Temporals project at ICUB and member of Club9 for the ARTefACTe performance festival, among other projects.
Curator, researcher and responsible for the idealization and direction of the Lastro - Free Exchanges in Art platform. From counter-hegemonic perspectives, she works in the conduction and articulation of networked and transdisciplinary processes of creation and learning. She has a degree in Art History from UERJ and a Master's in Social History of Culture from PUC RJ.
Lemos has been curating since 2003 and comprises a vast curriculum of exhibitions, residencies, network management, educational practices, coordination of residency programs, conferences and research processes, as well as organization, cataloging and mediation of collections.
Most recent featured work: between 2015/2016 she was Visiting Curator at Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (RJ), developing the creation of the current bases of the Library|Documentation and Research Center of EAV. In 2015, she held the residency Lastro Centroamérica, with Brazilian artists and curators, between Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Mexico, resulting in the exhibition Lastro em campo: percursos ancestrais e cotidianos, at Sesc Consolação (SP) in 2016.
She was part of the curatorial commission of the 20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil (2017) and the Pampulha Grant (2018/2019), and coordinated the artist residency Travessias Ocultas - Lastro Bolívia, which unfolded into an exhibition at Sesc Bom Retiro (SP, 2016/2017). Between the years 2019/2021 she integrated the curatorial team of the 3rd Triennial of Arts - Frestas (Sorocaba, SP). She is currently Adjunct Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (MAM).
(1988, Florida) Curator, artist and writer. He is the founding director of Cordova, a curatorial project initiated in 2016 in Vienna, currently located in Barcelona. From 2015-2019 he worked at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. He received his MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths in 2015, and BFA in Photography and Art History from SCAD in 2010. His writing has appeared in publications including Rhizome, Mousse, Spike and Texte Zur Kunst. He has edited / co-edited three publications: Tyler Coburn: Richard Roe, Allan Sekula: OKEANOS and Mario García Torres: An Arrival Tale, all published by TBA21 and Sternberg Press. Recent curatorial residencies include HIAP in Helsinki in 2018 and SOMA in Mexico City in 2019. Some recent projects include Sung Tieu: Clock Against Idealism, at Cordova and Treunos y Luz, a public program about god and belief at La Casa Encendida.
(Barcelona, 1974) Artistic director of La Capella and independent curator. His projects have been shown in contemporary art spaces such as Caixaforum Barcelona (2008), Matadero Madrid (2010), the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona (2012-2013), Fabra i Coats Centre d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2014), the EAC - Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo de Montevideo, Uruguay (2015), Bòlit Centre d'Art Contemporani de Girona (2016), Tabacalera Madrid (2020) or the Centre d'Art La Panera de Lleida (2022). Between 2017 and 2019 he was curating a traveling project on the MACBA collection through different spaces dependent on the Diputació de Barcelona, and was co-curator of the Uruguay Pavilion at the 58th edition of the Venice Biennale in 2019. He has just published the book Art emergent: la collita i el viatge, an essay on emerging artistic practices in Catalonia.
Curator, editor and researcher. A graduated from the PEI - Independent Studies Program at MACBA, Barcelona, he holds a PhD from the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, London. Since 2010 he has organized exhibitions and public programs, his own and commissioned, at MACBA, Barcelona; The Showroom, London; X Bienal Centroamericana, Costa Rica; Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao; Tabakalera, San Sebastián; CA2M, Madrid; among others. He is currently a Research Associate (2020-2023) at AZ Alhóndiga Bilbao.
From September 19 to October 2 he is in Barcelona for a stay at El Niu, the new curatorial residency at The Green Parrot.
(Cali, 1983) She has written essays and articles for various catalogs and media, including the Guggenheim USB Map Global Art Initiative, for Terremoto Arte Contemporáneo en las Américas, for A * desk Critical Thinking, and in the catalog Cale, Cale, Cale edited by Juan Canela and Tabakalera San Sebastián. She has curated exhibitions in Colombia, including the 14th Salón Regional de Artistas zona pacífico, together with Juan Sebastián Ramírez, and the Referentes section of ARTBO 2016 with Pablo León de la Barra. She has edited publications for curatorial projects, and has produced experiments in art criticism and fiction such as El blanco Móvil, published by the Colombian Ministry of Culture in 2013. Part of her work focuses on the creation of mobile curatorships through what has been called "danceable lectures", working from the body-space-movement-rhythm relationship. Hegelian Dancers is a book that compiles some ideas in relation to this practice. She co-founded in Cali La Nocturna, a platform to experiment with discursive and pedagogical formats, and La casa en el aire, a space to think about educational programs through art for children and families.
Curator and writer whose practice explores the metabolic encounters between natural, social and poetic structures of knowledge. His work attends to intimate epistemologies traversed by notions of ecology, love and resilience, often based on an inquiry into other possible forms of existence and radical otherness. As a curator he has participated in exhibitions and projects at FUTURA, Prague; Serpentine Galleries, London; Fundación Botín, Santander, CAAC, Vilnius, or documenta fifteen, among others. His texts have appeared in publications such as Mousse, Frieze or Terremoto, as well as in various catalogs and publications. He is currently co-editing (with INLAND Campo Adentro) the book Microbiopolitics of Milk (Sternberg Press, 2022).
Díaz is director of fluent, an organization dedicated to contemporary art that produces and shows cycles of exhibitions, texts and public programs.
Interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, curator and academic. He is a professor at the University of Cape Town, where he directs the Institute of Creative Arts (ICA). He is the designer and curator of the ICA Live Art Festival in Cape Town (initiated in 2012) and Infecting the City, a public art festival (launched in 2007). Both events feature artists from across the African continent. Jay Pather is a performative arts consultant for the Africa 2020 season, as well as for numerous art projects in Venice, Munich and Madrid. He publishes widely and has notably directed with Catherine Boulle the important book Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa (2019). Among his most recent productions: The Firebird (2016-2018). Jay Pather was awarded the Order of Arts and Letters in 2017.
He is currently in Barcelona doing a curatorial residency at The Green Parrot.
about The Green Parrot:
Small-scale organisation dedicated to producing and exhibiting contemporary art practices alongside artists. Since its opening in 2014, it has established itself as a reference for non-profits with a series of exhibitions, publications, and activities with local and international practitioners. The project has also been in residency at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies from 2017-2019 producing a series of programmes and events in collaboration with other institutions and the City Council. Their aim is to create a space for dialogue and exhibitions in the city of Barcelona by working closely to artists and thinkers.
Art Nou is the emerging art festival of Barcelona and L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, with which we present an extensive program of exhibitions and activities of young creators in galleries and independent spaces. Among their activities, they organize a series of visits for professionals to different production and research centers.
Curator, cultural producer, and writer with a specific interest in intellectual, political and artistic aspects of decoloniality within the arts, and culture. Her curatorial practice is nurtured by the urgency to broaden and disseminate epistemologies and cultural production from systemically racialized and marginalized perspectives, and from the Global South.
Recent exhibition projects include our spatial stories live in performative futures (2022) curated at HANGAR, Lisbon, this is a love poem, (2021) curated at EXILE Gallery, Vienna for the international contemporary arts festival Curated by (Austria) and Breaking Translation(s) (2021) an online exhibition for HANGAR, Lisbon (Portugal). Upcoming exhibition projects will be the curation of Black Tales, a multimedia sound installation by artists Mónica De Miranda and Xullaji for Refuge, the 4th edition of the Lagos Biennale 2023 (Nigeria).
She articulates and brings curatorial and theoretical reflections through writings including art reviews and interviews for Ocula, Terremoto, The Sole Adventurer, The Kitchen, NYC, and Nka: The Contemporary African Art Journal, and publication commissions.
She currently works as a Curator and Special Projects Producer at the New Art Exchange in Nottingham (UK).
Social scientist and curator based in Berlin and Barcelona. Her curatorial practice is focused on experimental, transdisciplinary and collaborative strategies and on urban and public spaces. Marenka is the curatorial director of feldfünf e.V. (since 2018), a transdisciplinary cultural platform for collaborative projects. She is the curator of the art competition “Kunst im Untergrund (Art in the Underground)", she took part in BarTool#4 a project by Bar Project Barcelona and was a finalist of the SAC – International Curatorial Residency Program by Sant Andreu Contemporani (2022). Marenka is the founder of the online residency x-temporary.org (2016-2018) and was the artistic director of the art festival "Whenever the Heart Skips a Beat" (2017). Until 2018 she was working as a curator for Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and as the coordinator of "The Silent University Hamburg“.
She studied Curatorial Studies at Städelschule Frankfurt am Main and at the Royal College of Art in London, and took part in the “Commissioning and Curating Contemporary Public Art” program at Valand Academy-University of Gothenburg.
Art curator and independent researcher based in London. Her practice engages with aspects of visual culture and the production of curatorial knowledge, while reflecting on the capacity of processes of research, creation and collective thinking. For the past two years Darbo has coordinated the Curatorial group of the research project Absence Audience - a collective project initiated from the Practice Lab at Goldsmiths University of London that presents a diffractive case study of the 1997 Johannesburg Biennale; conceptualized and edited the photobook Route 234 together with artist Ruben Ortiz and curated Voice is Open Source, a performance by artist Ariadna Guiteras that explores the limits of the body and the voice, presented on the occasion of the Tate Exchange at Tate Modern. Other exhibition projects include: Tocar el Pueblo, a curatorial experiment with artists Lena Heubusch and Ariadna Guiteras exhibited at Sala Cuarto Espacio in Zaragoza and Making Love With The Things I Hate, the first solo exhibition of Spanish artist Maria de la O Garrido in London, Deptford X Gallery. Darbo is a beneficiary of the curatorial residency call Matadero Centro de Residencias, Loop, Fabra i Coats and Centre d'Arts Arts Santa Mònica. The residency will be divided in two periods: during the month of May at Fabra i Coats in Barcelona and June at Matadero in Madrid, where she will carry out a research that will culminate in a group exhibition that will take place at the Centre d'Arts Arts Santa Mònica during the month of September.
Independent curator and winner of the SAC International Curatorial Residency Program 2022. Her practice addresses socio-political issues with a focus on critical and counter-hegemonic perspectives of protest. One of her latest projects, My Friend is Here (curated with Carlota Mir), explores and problematises the legacy of long-standing feminist collective practices such as self-awareness groups. Alba has worked with international institutions such as Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Konstfrämjandet in Sweden, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Madrid and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Recent curatorial projects include collaborations with Konsthall C in Stockholm, Meetfactory in Prague, CentroCentro in Madrid, Gasworks in London, Uppsala Konstmuseum, hablarenarte in Madrid, JA.CA in Belo Horizonte and Meno Parkas in Kaunas. She holds an MA in curating from the Royal College of Arts in London, a BA in Fine Arts from UCM (Madrid) and has participated in the curatorial research programme CuratorLab at Konstfack University in Stockholm. Between 2016 and 2017 she received a grant from the Botín Foundation for curatorial studies and is currently a member of the board of Visual and Performance Arts in Uppsala (Sweden).