Jesús Alcaide is a researcher, art critic, and independent curator based in Córdoba. His practice focuses on critical narratives rooted in the Andalusian context, where he has spent a large part of his career. He has curated exhibitions at institutions such as the Centro de Arte Andaluz Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla; Centro Párraga, Murcia; Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía (C3A), Córdoba; Fundación Botín, Santander; I+CAS, Sevilla; El Palomar, Barcelona; Casal Solleric, Palma; and Es Baluard, Palma, among others.

A particularly significant line of work has been his sustained research on the figure of Pepe Espaliú, to whom he has dedicated various exhibitions in Córdoba, Barcelona, Murcia, and Madrid. He was also the director of the program Pepe Espaliú. Aquí y ahora (Córdoba, 2018), organised across different venues in the city on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the artist’s death, and the editor of the first critical compilation of his writings, Pepe Espaliú. La imposible verdad. Textos 1987–1993. 

Throughout his career, he has developed curatorial projects that engage with contemporary Andalusian creation, paying particular attention to issues of identity, memory, performativity, and institutional critique, while accompanying artists who work from or about Andalusia.

Cristina Anglada is an independent art curator and cultural manager based in Palma de Mallorca. Her research explores various narrative strategies that sketch out ways of thinking where desire, imagination, speculative pleasure, and magical thinking challenge official histories, as well as practices centred on community and mutual care.

She holds a degree in Art History from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) and a Master’s in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture from UCM and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. She co-curated Opening for ARCOmadrid in 2024 and 2025, together with Yina Jiménez Suriel and Anissa Touati, and is an advisor to the recently inaugurated Fundación Calparsoro.

Her most recent exhibitions include Una fascinación (solo show by Diego Delas), Procesionaria (solo show by Gabriel Pericás), Tales of Disorder (Mercedes Azpilicueta, Sarah Bechter, and Inês Zenha), Broken Open (Kirstin Wenzel, Álvaro Urbano, Leticia Ybarra, Alex Reynolds, among others), and Getting Lost into the Woods (Pedro Torres, Mónica Mays, Elena Bajo).

In 2016, together with Gema Melgar, she founded the nonprofit cultural organisation This is Jackalope, dedicated to the dissemination, production, and creation of contemporary artistic practices with an international scope, from which she curates the annual cycle Un Rastro Involuntario at La Casa Encendida. She has worked as an advisor for various private collections and for the AC/E PICE Program, and currently develops curatorial projects for Casal Solleric, Mallorca; Es Baluard, Mallorca; and Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), Madrid.

Gilberto González is a curator from La Laguna, Tenerife, Canarias. He is the deputy director of the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC) in Sevilla, and the Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía (C3A), Sevilla. He is an associate professor in the Department of Aesthetics at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of La Laguna, and a member of the advisory committee of MUSAC, León, and of the selection committee for the MACBA Foundation Prize, Barcelona. He also serves on the Board of ADACE, the Association of Directors of Contemporary Art in Spain

He graduated in Art History from the University of La Laguna in 1999 and received the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), Washington D. C., Advanced Museum Studies Fellowship in 2002–2003. He was a curator at the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, editor of Atlántica magazine, and Artistic Director of TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes between 2018 and 2023. He has drafted museographic plans, curated exhibitions, edited publications, and collaborated with media outlets such as Babelia (El País)

He has delivered seminars and lectures, including La Escuelita. Programa de Comisariado (Buenos Aires, 2025), Aneducation (Documenta XIV, Athens, 2017), the international research residency The Harbour (Beta-Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2015), the lecture The Landscape as a Cultural Construction (Università degli Studi di Torino, Annual Uniscape Meeting, 2014), and New Paradigms: Art & Landscape (Parasite Art Space, Hong Kong, 2008). He has taught museology courses in various master’s programs, focusing on collecting policies.

Carolina Jiménez is a curator and researcher. Based in Barcelona, she combines her independent work with institutional practice. Since 2019, she has been responsible for the research programs at HANGAR. Previously, she was head of teaching for the Independent Studies Program (PEI) at MACBA, Barcelona.

Her work has been presented in multiple formats at the Fundació Miró, Barcelona; Beirut Art Center; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Museu de la Música, Barcelona; Filmoteca de Catalunya, Barcelona; Fabra i Coats, Barcelona; La Capella, Barcelona; Centro Párraga, Murcia; Vera Cortês, Lisbon; Matadero Madrid, among others.

Until 2017, she lived in Berlin, where she developed curatorial and research work at SAVVY Contemporary, Transmediale–CTM Vorspiel, Berlin Art Week, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, and Altes Finanzamt. She writes for art publications, as well as exhibition catalogues and monographs.

Agar Ledo Arias is an art historian and research specialist at the Museo de Pontevedra in Galicia. With an interest in the social and political implications of artistic practice, she is the deputy curator of the 32nd Pontevedra Biennial. Between 2019 and 2022, she was curator and acquisitions advisor at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, where she was part of the team for the exhibition Vasos comunicantes. Colección 1881–2021.

From 2006 to 2018, she directed the Exhibitions Department at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, where she coordinated productions by Tino Sehgal, Thomas Hirschhorn, Martin Creed, Tania Bruguera, and Teresa Margolles, and curated exhibitions by Grace Schwindt, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Patricia Esquivias, Pedro Barateiro, and Carlos Bunga, as well as projects on cultural production in Galicia.

She holds a master’s degree in Museology from the University of Alcalá and another in Art and Politics from Goldsmiths, University of London. She has completed training residencies at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Oklahoma, USA; Le Consortium, Dijon; the Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon and Independent Curators International (ICI), New York.

She began her career at the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, between 1998 and 2004, and worked at the 1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (2004) and the Fundación Luis Seoane (2005), A Coruña. She is a board member of the Advisory Council of CGAC.

Laura López Paniagua is an art history professor, writer, and independent curator based in Madrid. She has curated exhibitions at La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin; and Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, and has taught courses, lectures, and master classes at institutions such as the Royal Academy of Arts, London; Bard College, New York; and Barnard College, Columbia University, New York.

In 2015, she earned her PhD in Art History III from the UCM – Freie Universität, and published the monograph Mike Kelley: Materialist Aesthetics and Memory Illusions (Mousse Publishing, 2015), which has just released its second edition. She has worked as a researcher and writer for La Biennale di Venezia and Tate Modern, London, and has published articles in Mousse Magazine and DARDO.

Based in Valencia, Carles Àngel Saurí’s curatorial work focuses on methodologies of accompaniment, localisation, and empathy in relation to artistic production and socio-cultural contexts. From 2022 to 2024, he directed the Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló (EACC), Castellón, where he developed a deep interest in the encryption of languages and their translation into gestures of representation linked to contemporary socio-political issues.

He has researched the tension between representation and abstraction, as well as the heteronomous condition of artistic practice, both at EACC and as part of the curatorial team of Pols, Valencia, and the mediation team at Bombas Gens Centre d’Art, Valencia. His work proposes an active critique of the thesis of art’s autonomy and argues for understanding it as a space of symbolic resistance and critical reflection.

Leire Vergara is a curator, writer, and educator based in Bilbao, where she is a member of Bulegoa z/b. She has curated numerous cycles and exhibitions, including: María Cueto. Tejer lo efímero: repetición, geometría, circularidad (Sala Kubo Kutxa Fundazioa, Donostia–San Sebastián, 2025); Artelekun Zehar 1987–2002. Una exposición sobre Arteleku a través del archivo (Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 2025, with Sergio Rubiera and Mikel Onandia); Edonor Denok Inor Ez. Processes of institutionalisation of art education in the Basque Country, 1978–1991 (Artium, 2024, with Sergio Rubira and Mikel Onandia); In qualche luogo lontano: Roma (Academia de España en Roma, 2021); Las imágenes recurrentes. Sobre las condiciones materiales de su retorno (MACBA, Barcelona, 2017, with Pablo Martínez); La pantalla negra o blanca: el poder de ver imágenes juntos (XXIII Image Conference, CA2M, Madrid, 2016); Dispositivos del tocar: Imaginación curatorial en los tiempos de las fronteras expandidas (Trankat, Tetouan, 2015).

She has published with Mousse Publishing, Bloomsbury, MIT Press/Sternberg Press, Cultural Dynamics (Duke University), and Letra Caniche. She received the MAEC-AECID grant at the Academia de España en Roma (2020–2021). Since 2016, she has taught the course Curating Positions, currently together with Marwa Arsanios and Leon Filter, in the Art Master’s program at the Dutch Art Institute, ArtEZ University of the Arts Arnhem.

Independent curator and writer based in Madrid. Using fiction, essay, and innovative exhibition and discursive formats, his practice examines new possibilities for constructing alternative imaginaries through art. He has worked as Associate Editor for Concreta, as well as for the editorial platform Afterall in London. His texts and interviews have been published in ADesk*, Concreta, this is tomorrow, and Frieze.

Among his recent curatorial projects are Miguel Benlloch. Bajar la voz at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC) in Seville; Simone Fattal, Suspension of Disbelief at Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia; Fantástico interior, a cycle of four exhibitions held at La Casa Encendida, Madrid, in 2022; and Absolute Beginners, a cycle of exhibitions presented at CentroCentro, Madrid, between 2019 and 2020.

In 2018, he earned a Master’s degree in Curating from the Royal College of Art in London, supported by a Botín Foundation scholarship. He is currently pursuing doctoral studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.