Five experts form part of the committee to select the winning project of Mycelium <35
We share with you the profile and trajectory of the panel of experts that will select the winning project of Micelio <35 - V Concomitentes Participatory Art Competition.
Manuela Pedrón Nicolau is a curator and mediator in contemporary art. She works especially on issues related to artistic research and forms of narration that explore the social and the political. She has curated exhibitions for different centres and has held research grants at DAAD (Berlin), the Spanish Academy in Rome and Hangar Barcelona, among others. He has directed educational programmes at Tabacalera Promoción del Arte, the CA2M and the Sala de Arte Joven in Madrid. She currently runs the PETRA writing programme at Matadero Madrid and the VENECIA reading club at La Casa Encendida.
Daniel Valtueña holds a PhD in cultural studies from The Graduate Center | City University of New York, is a cultural projects consultant and lecturer. Between 2020 and 2022 he managed the Artist Commissioning Program of the Queens Council on the Arts in New York, where he edited the book How You Can Commission Art. Between 2023 and 2025 he supervised the application of this methodology in Hungary, Latvia and Poland through the project Democratising Art Commissioning by Involving Local Communities. He is currently Academic Director of the Cultural Management Leadership Programme at IE University where he also directs the Arts & Culture Lab. He is the author of the book Rare Spain(Rag Tongue & CBA, 2025).
Oriol Erausquin, known on social media as Ideological Infusion. On Instagram, Bluesky and Mastodon, he traffics in anti-capitalist memes and propagates decrecentist ideas denouncing our precariousness and the luxuries of the elites. He runs the podcast Tajos Verdes with Saúl Flores and posts video essays on YT. Member of Pantube, the collective of anti-fascist content creators, she has participated in the Acampadas por Palestina. A graduate in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, he is currently an FPU contract holder at the Institute of Philosophy of the CSIC and the UCM, with a thesis in sociology on disinformation and far-right conspiracy theories, specifically on the «Great Replacement» and Aliança Catalana. Finally, he has just written «La Rabia es Nuestra», a book that will be published by Siglo XXI this October 20th. He will also perform a recurring show with the same title at the Teatro del Barrio in Madrid, which opens on the weekends of 18 and 25 October.
Saul Flores is a graduate in Political Science and Philosophy (UCM), specialising in Ecocriticism and Political Ecology. He combines his work as a poet and playwright with his work as a teacher of creative writing, narratives with an ecosocial perspective and cultural mediation. He has been the founder and coordinator for three editions of Ruta al Exilio. He teaches a course at the MHESTE-DESEEA (UAM-UPV) and is a lecturer on the Another Way Film Festival's course for scriptwriters. He has also been the artistic-pedagogical coordinator of the climate adaptation project for school environments of the San Cristóbal Life-Pact (UPM). He has received the CULT scholarships at the CCE in Costa Rica and at the Fundación Biodiversidad for the Environmental Education and Ecosocial Projects programme. Co-author of articles on social movements and climate activism, he maintains a strong environmental commitment. He also co-directs the podcast Tajos Verdes with Oriol Erausquin.
Claudia Pagès Rabal is a visual artist, performer and writer. In her practice, Pagès Rabal interweaves words, bodies, music and movement, producing visual and linguistic devices such as video installations, works on paper, books and other materialities that she uses to conceptualise her projects. Claudia's artistic research is based on linguistics, psychoanalysis and decolonial studies. Her work has been exhibited in institutions such as Chisenhale, London (2025); Manifesta 15, Barcelona (2024); IVAM, Valencia (2024); Sculpture Center, New York (2024); CA2M, Madrid (2023); Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2023); Tabakalera, Donostia (2022); Vleeshal, Middelburg (2022); MACBA, Barcelona, (2022); CAPC, Bordeaux (2022); Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig (2021); Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates (2018); and has a forthcoming solo exhibition at mumok, Vienna and Index, Stockholm. He has published her hair (2020) with Onomatopee; rats and cuckoos (2020) with Jupiter Woods, Yaby, AC/E. His first novel, More than two waters, was published in Catalan by Empúries Narrativa in 2024, and will launch a new book with Wendy's Subway in 2025. Pagès received the Critical Eye Award in the visual arts in 2022, and has been artist-in-residence at several residencies including EMPAC, Troy (2025); Gasworks, London (2017) and Triangle France, Marseille (2017).
