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.
