Archives: Team members

Art historian, curator, and lecturer Jana J. Haeckel examines image and body politics in contemporary art, specifically in the new ethics of photography in the digital age. Art practices that subvert historical and colonial narratives through archival research are also part of her work. She holds a PhD in art history and currently serves as … Read more

Wolfgang Ullrich is a cultural scientist and author; he was professor of art history and media theory at the University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe. He currently lives in Leipzig. His research, published in numerous books and essays, is devoted to the history and critique of the concept of art, sociological issues of images, … Read more

Rosa Olivares (1955) is a writer, editor, art critic, and exhibition curator. Founder of the magazine Lápiz (1982), and later of EXIT Imagen y Cultura (1999), Exit Book (2002), Exit-Express (2004) and Fluor (2012) and of UTOPIA, a cultural critic magazine in 2019 in Mexico. She has curated, among other exhibitions: “Einsamkeit. Un sentimiento alemán”, … Read more

Sema D’Acosta (Seville, 1975) is an art critic, independent curator, teacher and researcher. Interested in the syntax and ontology of any current expressive language, especially photography. He has been curator of the TALENT LATENT in SCAN, Tarragona International Photography Festival (2018) and of the IX edition of the Pilar Citoler Photography Award (2017-18), as well … Read more

Carles Guerra (1965) is an art critic, teacher, and researcher. He has been director of Fundació Antoni Tàpies (2015-2020), chief curator of the Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona MACBA (2011-2013), director of La Virreina Centre de la Imatge (2009-2011) and director of the Primavera Fotogràfica de Catalunya (2004). Among the exhibitions he has curated, stands … Read more

Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Comparative Literature, film essayist and curator of archives and exhibitions. Her books include: Potential History – Unlearning Imperialism (Verso, 2019), Civil Imagination: The Political Ontology of Photography (Verso, 2012), The Civil Contract of Photography (Zone Books, 2008) and From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and … Read more

Borja Casani has worked since the early 1980s on cultural projects in various disciplines. As a cultural journalist he founded and / or continued the magazines La Luna de Madrid, Sur Exprés, Arena Internacional del Arte, El Europeo, and in recent years the multi-platform publishing project El Estado Mental. He is co-founder in 1981 of … Read more

(Barcelona, 1979) Bachelor of Political Science (UPF), writer, journalist and ex-bookseller. She is co-author of a play (Astronaut, Theater O) and has been collaborating for years with curators and artists such as Jordi Colomer, Dora García, Xavier Ribas or David Bestué, with whom she published La línea sin fin. His articles and interviews have appeared … Read more

Remedios Zafra (Zuheros, 1973) Writer and theorist specialized in the critical study of contemporary culture, visual studies and the politics on identity in networks. Professor of art, gender studies and digital culture at the University of Seville and professor of anthropology at Uned. Her extensive essay work has won numerous awards such as the Anagrama … Read more

María Ruido is a filmmaker, visual artist, researcher and teacher. She lives in Madrid and Barcelona, ​​where she works as a professor in the Department of Visual Arts and Design of the University of Barcelona and is a member of several research groups around representation and their contextual relationships. Since 1998, María Ruido has been … Read more

David Campany is a writer, curator and artist. His many books include Jeff Wall: Picture for Women 2011, Photography and Cinema 2008 and Art and Photography 2003. He has written over two hundred essays for museums and monographic books, and contributes to Frieze, Aperture, Source and Tate magazine. Recent curatorial projects include The Still Point of the Turning World: Between Film and Photography, FoMu Antwerp, 2017; The Open Road: photography and the American road trip various … Read more

Anastasia Samoylova is an artist and writer based in Miami, United States. Samoylova has exhibited internationally, including Aperture Foundation in New York, Griffin Museum of Photography in Boston, State University of New York Geneseo, Vanderbilt University, Purdue University and in festivals in Netherlands, Belgium, Brazil, South Korea and China. Her work is in the collections … Read more

Valentín Roma is a PhD in philosophy and art from Southampton University and professor of art history at the UAB. He was chief curator of MACBA and is currently director of La Virreina Centro de la Imagen (Barcelona). He has curated exhibitions by Alexander Kluge, Paula Rego, Osvaldo Lamborghini, Antoni Tàpies, Muntadas, Manolo Laguillo, etc. … Read more

Mercedes Cebrián. Her latest book of essays and fictions is Burp: Gastronomical Writings (Chatos inhumanos, 2017). She is also the author of the essay Verano azul: unas vacaciones en el corazón de la transición (Alpha Decay, 2016), the poetry collection Malgastar(La Bella Varsovia, 2016) and the novel El genuino sabor (Literatura Random House, 2014). Her … Read more

Marta Gili is a curator and art critic. Since 2006 she is the Director of the National Gallery of the Jeu de Paume in Paris. From 1991 to 2006 she directed the Department of Photography and Visual Arts at the “La Caixa” Foundation in Barcelona. Marta Gili has curated numerous monographic and thematic exhibitions, both … Read more

Philosopher and art historian, he teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). He has published about fifty books on the history and theory of images, the most recent developing a series of six books under the title « The Eye of History ». Curator of exhibitions in Paris (Centre Pompidou, Palais … Read more

Nathan Jurgenson is social media theorist. Nathan is co-founder and co-chair of the annual Theorizing the Web conference, founder and editor in chief of Real Life magazine, and also works as a sociologist at Snap, Inc. Much of his work centers on a critique of “digital dualism”, a phrase he coined to describe the false … Read more

Fred Ritchin is Dean of the International Center of Photography (ICP) School. Immediately prior to joining ICP, Fred Ritchin was professor of Photography and Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts from 1991–2014, where he co-directed the NYU/Magnum Foundation Photography and Human Rights educational program. Ritchin has been picture editor of the … Read more

Abigail Solomon-Godeau is Professor Emerita, Department of Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara and now lives and works in Paris. She is the author of Photography at the Dock: Essays on Photographic Histories, Institutions and Practices (1992); Male Trouble: A Crisis in Representation (1997) monographs on the Australian artist Rosemary Laing (2011) and the … Read more

Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir is Associate Professor at the University of Iceland. She is curator of numerous exhibitions of contemporary art and photography. She is the author of photographic texts such as: Photographes français en Islande 1845-1900 (2000); “French Photography in Nineteenth-century Iceland.” History of Photography (1999); “Sigríður Zoëga: Icelandic Studio Photographer.” History of Photography, (1999). She … Read more