The international curators in residence are guided by a reference Spanish curator, who acts as a tutor, mediator and coordinator of the residency programme during the period of residence and the development of the exhibition.

• Ana Ara
  Ana Ara is an art historian and curator based in Madrid. She has completed studies in various international institutions including the École du Louvre (Paris), the Università della Sapienza (Rome) and the Städelschule and the Goethe Universität (Frankfurt am Main). Her professional trajectory includes positions at Portikus in Frankfurt, the Curatorial Department of dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel and the Exhibitions Department of the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía in Madrid and her position as Head of Programmes at Matadero Madrid. Her curatorial work includes exhibitions such as Vergüenza (La Casa Encendida, 2013), Los cuerpos dóciles (La Conservera, 2015), Pessoa. Todo arte es una forma de literatura (MNCARS, 2017), Miriam Cahn. todo es igualmente importante (MNCARS, 2019), Eco-visionarios. Arte para un planeta en emergencia (Matadero Madrid, 2019) and “Profundidad de campo” (Matadero Madrid, 2019-2021), a programme that focused on the production, screening and study of contemporary audiovisual practices.

  Edition 2022
• Alejandro Alonso Díaz
  Alejandro Alonso Díaz is a curator, writer and researcher whose work explores the metabolic encounters between natural, social and poetic structures of knowledge.

  He is the director of fluent, a para-institution dedicated to artistic research which lent its research approach to exhibitions with Mariana Silva, Laida Lertxundi, Timothy Ivison & Julia Tcharfas, Claire Pentecost Paul Maheke, Louisa Martin and Tamara Henderson and many others. Alejandro’s writing on art, moving image and nature has been published in major cultural publications including Frieze, Mousse, Terremoto and The Stedelijk Museum Journal, as well as in many exhibition catalogues.

  Edition 2021 Edition 2020
• hablarenarte
  Written in lower case and in constant mutation, hablarenarte is a non-profit organization based in Madrid that has been working since 2002 in the field of cultural mediation, artistic education, expanded curating and contemporary creation.

  Emma Brasó is a curator at the contemporary creation team of hablarenarte and Visiting Lecturer at the Fine Arts Department of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She holds a PhD from Royal College of Art (London) based on her research on the intersection of fiction and authorship since the 1980s. Before that, she obtained a master’s degree in Curatorial Studies at Columbia University (New York) with a grant from ‘la Caixa’ Foundation. 

  Edition 2024 Edition 2023