Five experts will form the committee to select the winning project of the Concomitentes call for proposals.

Alfredo Puente, curator of the Cerezales Antonino y Cinia Foundation; Conchi Piñeiro, founding partner of Altekio; Idoia Zabaleta Morán, choreographer and director of Azala; Rosa Llobregat, Senior Associate at the European Climate Foundation and Isabel Ojeda, director of culture at the UNIA.

We share with you the profile and trajectory of the panel of experts that will select the winning project of Micelio IV Concomitentes' Participatory Art Competition.

Alfredo Puente is curator of the Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia [FCAYC]. He develops projects in this institution that incorporate long time frames, among them: Territorio Archivo (2013); Región (los relatos). Landscape change and water politics (2018); A punto de ser nada (2021); and La balsa. Tres actos para una intemperie (2024). His work investigates the relationships, on different time scales, between matter, images and processes where concepts such as territory operate. 

Conchi Piñeiro holds a degree in Environmental Sciences and a PhD in Environmental Education. Trainer and researcher, teacher in several masters and postgraduate studies, with more than 30 publications. Expert facilitator, Diploma in Process Work and Deep Democracy. Delegate of the Board of Trustees of FUHEM, since 2022. Founding partner and employee of Altekio S.Coop.Mad. She has been involved in different social and community movements for more than 25 years. Passionate about innovation for eco-social transformation.

Idoia Zabaleta Morán is a choreographer. At the Faculty of Biology she specialised in ecosystems and population dynamics. She studied new dance and improvisation in the nineties. Since 2000 she has been creating her own work and since 2008 she has been building and co-directing the artistic residency space Azala, located in the village where she lives in the south of Álava, Lasierra. Since 2019 he has been part of the editorial team of Borradores del futuro, a collection of fables that imagine the future based on concrete experiences. In 2023, the artists' cooperative Tractora published Foku 2, a look at his artistic career.

Rosa Llobregat is Senior Associate at the European Climate Foundation. A specialist in strategic communication and advocacy, she has worked in the field of human rights in international organisations, NGOs and academia, and has been an advisor to the European Parliament. She currently focuses her work in the areas of citizen participation and cultural change in the framework of ecosocial transition.  

Isabel Ojeda Cruz is the director of the culture area of the UNIA. She holds a degree in Communication - Journalism from the University of Seville, a Master in Business Communication and a Master in Cultural Management from the University of Barcelona, and studied Art History at the Sorbonne University (Paris) and Cultural Finance and Economics at the Dauphine University (Paris). She has worked at the Andalusian Centre of Contemporary Art, at Seville City Council as Director General of Culture and head of cultural policies, and at UNIA. She is a member of the scientific board of the cultural journal Periférica of the University of Cádiz and of the Observatorio Atalaya.