Since 2024, scholarship recipients (whether CREA-La Escocesa research scholarships, internal research scholarships, or publication scholarships) have been accompanied throughout the process by a mentor who offers support in conceptualization, production, and communication.
The companions are artists, curators, thinkers, philosophers, academics, or activists whose knowledge and methods can be useful for the development (material, conceptual) of the research.
To date, the professionals who have accompanied scholarships are:
(Barakaldo, 1972) has been part of the Jeleton team with Gelen Jeleton since 1999, where she creates critical artistic interventions on European cultural repertoires and art history, and has been a working partner of the La caníbal cooperative since 2013, a bookshop and cultural production company for social transformation with a transfeminist, anti-capitalist, and decolonized outlook. She has recently participated in Fabular paisatges. Museu Habitat (Barcelona), Cosmografies, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica (Barcelona), Hangar obert, Hangar (Barcelona), Setmana LGTBIA+ Nosaltres, Centre Cívic Sagrada Família - Biblioteca Sagrada Família (Barcelona), Museus (im)possibles, Espai Avinyó - Museu Picasso (Barcelona), Urak Dakar, Bulegoa z/b (Bilbao), bbkAteak, Museu de Belles Arts (Bilbao), Paul Klee y los secretos de la naturaleza, Fundació Miró (Barcelona), Laika Lab, Unzip (El Prat), Projecte Màscares, Espai Avinyó - MUEC (Barcelona), Invocacions, MACBA (Barcelona).
Accompanied:
CREA La Escocesa 2024 research grants
La Escocesa 2024 internal research grants
(Buenos Aires) She develops her practice between curatorial and educational practices, with a special interest in how art can contribute to the development of new formats in artistic mediation and long-term community projects. She was Coordinator of the Education Department at MALBA (2015–2018) and co-curator of the XI Berlin Biennale, The crack starts within (2019–2020).
She has edited The Fellow Reader #1. On Boycott, censorship and educational Practices (De Appel, 2015); and co-edited Agítese antes de usar. Educational, social and artistic displacements in Latin America, with Miguel A. López (MALBA, TEOR/éTica, 2016); Agítese antes de usar. Proximity and reciprocity in artistic-educational practices, with M. A, López and Macarena Hernández (Temblores, 2023). As an editor and content advisor, she has collaborated with the Education Department of the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid) and edited For a per fer Escola, for Manifesta Barcelona (2024). She also develops workshops for artists, curators and cultural agents related to expanded educational and artistic practices.
She has a degree in Arts (UBA), completed the curatorial programme at De Appel (Amsterdam) and a Master's degree in Contemporary Art History (UCM, MNCARS). She is currently pursuing her PhD at the UOC, researching since 2016 on ways of documenting, preserving and activating artistic-educational practices in museums.
Accompanied:
CREA La Escocesa 2024 research grants
La Escocesa 2024 internal research grants
Ingrid Blanco, who holds a degree in art history from the University of Havana, completed the Independent Studies Program at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) in 2008-2009. Her work focuses on the historical construction and representation of racialized identities. Her research includes the counter-archive El cuerpo negro. Barcelona, el comercio colonial, la sociedad industrial y la publicidad entre 1830 y 1939 (The Black Body: Barcelona, Colonial Trade, Industrial Society, and Advertising between 1830 and 1939). Between 2018 and 2021, she was a member of the Grupo de Pensamiento, Prácticas y Activismos Afro/Negros associated with MACBA. She has worked as a curator at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam (Havana), at two editions of the Havana Biennial, at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead), and as assistant curator at the 3rd Berlin Biennial alongside Ute Meta Bauer. Locally, she has curated cycles at Sala Muncunill, Sant Andreu Contemporani, and for the 10th anniversary exhibition of Sala d'Art Jove. She is currently the academic coordinator of MACBA's Independent Studies Program.
Accompanied:
CREA La Escocesa 2025 Research Grants
Artist, researcher, and teacher in the process of becoming, Ona Bros focuses her political attention on images as catalysts for complex semiotic-technical-material networks. Her practice is situated and “embodied”; she investigates based on her experiences and relationality, in a queer way of being and with a transfeminist sensibility. Since 2001, she has been questioning modern technosciences, especially in the fields of genetics and cryogenics.
She works with photography, video, writing, and live arts. She is involved in various collective articulation devices, such as the collective project Fuga.coop, of which she is a co-founding partner. She teaches visual arts and critical theory at various universities.
Her work has been shown in contexts such as: Dutch Art Institute (Amsterdam), Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Meeting (New York and Lima), Hangar.org, Hamaca (Barcelona), MACBA (Barcelona), Nogueras Blanchard (Barcelona), La Panera (Lleida), Bòlit (Girona), and the Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid), among others.
Accompanied:
CREA La Escocesa 2025 Research Grants
Carolina Jiménez is a curator and researcher. She lives and works in Barcelona, where she combines her work as an independent curator with institutional practice. Since 2019, she has been responsible for research and support programs at Hangar-Center for Artistic Research and Production. Previously, she was responsible for teaching the Independent Studies Program (PEI) at MACBA. Her work has been presented in multiple formats at the Fundació Miró, La Casa Encendida, Fabra i Coats, the Museu de la Música de Barcelona, La Capella, the Filmoteca de Catalunya, Matadero Madrid, Centro Párraga, Vera Cortês, TBA21, among other contexts. Until 2017, she lived in Berlin, where she took on curatorial and research roles at SAVVY Contemporary, Transmediale-CTM Vorspiel, Berlin Art Week, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, and Altes Finanzamt. She writes for art publications, as well as exhibition catalogs and artist monographs.
Accompanied:
PAR 2025
(Barcelona, 1973) is an artist and professor at ISDAT in Toulouse. She divides her time between Barcelona and other foreign cities, where she develops projects based on extensive research into essential topics such as violence, pleasure, truth, love, and work in foreign territories, from a feminist perspective. She has exhibited her work internationally and, among other awards, has received the Ciutat de Barcelona d'Arts Visuals 2019 prize, the ACCA 2019, the Leonardo Grant from the BBVA Foundation 2017, and the Botin Foundation Grant 2025. Some of her works are part of the MACBA collection and the CNAP collection in France.
Accompanied:
PAR 2024
Lara Brown understands creation as generating a poetic gesture that functions as a gift, as an exchange of affection that accompanies us in being in the world in the kindest way possible.
Her work has been presented in contexts such as Dansa Metropolitana, Centro de Cultura Conde Duque, Festival Dansa València, Expo Dubai 2020, Picnic Sessions, Museo CA2M, Festival Moujuéc, Graner Centro de Danza y Artes Vivas, Fira Mediterrànea de Manresa, Teatros del Canal, Centro de Danza La Caldera, etc.
At the same time, she generates contexts for critical thinking in the field of performing arts, accompanies artistic projects, and invents tools to blur and rethink the boundaries of the performing arts.
Accompanied:
PAR 2025