We announce the members of the jury who will select the winning project!
The call, which was launched on 21 April, will be open until 1 June at 00hrs.
Today we share with you the panel of experts that will compose the jury that will select the winning project of the ‘Art for Sustainability’ Call, which will be announced in early July:
Isabelle Le Galo, Spanish director of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation. Mathematician and philosopher, in her twenty years of professional experience she has worked in corporate, social action and distributive foundations (“grant maker”). As the Spanish director of the Foundation, she focuses her work on initiatives in the areas of ‘Citizen Art’ and ‘Sustainable Food’.
German Labrador, director of public programmes at the Reina Sofia. Professor at Princeton University since 2008, he is a visiting professor at the Universität Hamburg (DAAD) and at the CUNY-The Graduate Center. His research, in the field of cultural history, specialises in the study of Iberian worlds in the contemporary period, based on the relations between aesthetics and politics, citizenship and memory.
Arantxa Mendiharat, mediator and co-founder of democracyporsorteo.org, of Deliberativa. A cultural mediator, she is interested in projects and practices that question established models and connect fields, disciplines and people. She works on projects that connect the arts with other fields of production. She is also active in the search for and dissemination of models of democracy that give a relevant role to randomly chosen citizens.
Soledad Gutiérrez, chief curator at TBA21. Curator of exhibitions, until 2014 she worked as curator of exhibitions at the Museu d'Art Conteporani de Barcelona (MACBA), participating in various projects and publications. Previously she was responsible for the exhibition programme at Hauser&Wirth Gallery, London; and curatorial assistant at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
Maria Ptqk, curator and researcher. PhD in artistic research, she has been working in the cultural sector since 2000, at the intersections between art, technoscience and feminisms. She works as a curator, project coordinator and consultant, and has worked, among others, with Medialab Prado (Madrid), Fundación Daniel y Nina Carasso and the CCCB - Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona.
Fran Quiroga, coordinator of Concomitentes and mediator of Legado Cuidado. A transdisciplinary researcher, his practice hybridises fields of action such as contemporary creation, social participation and thought. He has directed experimental research such as #salóndoMARCO, Fiestas Raras or Ruraldecolonizado, among others. He is co-editor and co-author of several publications, among them, ‘Thinking and doing in the rural environment’, or ‘The party, the weird and the public space’.
The call, which will be launched on 21 April, will be open until 1 June at 00hrs. No applications will be accepted after this deadline.
