Artists and Galleries E-Talks

Neus Miró

Independent curator, art critic and art historian, based in Barcelona.

Sabrina Amrani

She inaugurated in Madrid in 2011. Her international program focuses on Global South and artists who deal with socio-political, socioeconomical and cultural subjects. On early 2019, she opened a second space in Madrid, monumental-scale dedicated exhibition space.

Vera Cortês

Founder and director of Galeria Vera Cortês since 2006. Initially an art agency working with emerging artists and experimental projects (2003-2006), Vera expanded the program in order to establish a longstanding and continuous collaborations with each artist and increase their international outreach through a wide range of exhibitions and art fairs.

Cristina Guerra

She founded Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art in Lisbon, with a special focus on Conceptual Art. Participating in international art fairs such as Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Dusseldorf, ARCOmadrid and ARCOlisboa. Cristina was member of the selection committee for ARCOmadrid, ARCOlisboa and Art Dusseldorf and also a consultant for the Art Basel Miami Beach committee. She works regularly as an art advisor for private and institutional collections.

Bea Espejo

Writer and curator. She directs educational program Madrid45 of Community of Madrid and the art section of the cultural magazine Babelia, of El País.

Paloma Martín Llopis

Specialist in Contemporary Art, with a solid background in the international market. For the last 14 years she has been the international director of the Edward Tyler Nahem gallery. Moreover, she alternates her work for New York-based gallery with Contemporary Art curatorial projects in both national and international museums and institutions; in addition to publications and catalogues. Her view of art could, therefore, be defined as plural.

Jordi Mayoral

Director of Galeria Mayoral, focused on the Spanish post-war era. The gallery was founded 31 years ago and today has branches in Barcelona and Paris, exhibiting at fairs such as Art Basel Miami and Hong Kong, TEFAF Maastricht and TEFAF New York and ARCO.

Guillermo de Osma

Art historian and gallery owner. After training in London, Lyon and NY, he opened his gallery in Madrid in 1991. Over the last thirty years he has held over a hundred exhibitions with their corresponding catalogues. The gallery is specialised in the historic Spanish, European and Latin American vanguard and international post-war art. He has also curated exhibitions for museums and institutions and given numerous conferences both in Spain and abroad. He is a patron of various foundations in Spain and France. He has published a number of books on Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo.

Maribel López

Director, ARCO

Jimena Blázquez

Alejandro Lázaro

Javier Quilis

Sergio Rubira

Independent curator and Professor of Art History at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Nacho Ruiz

Doctor in the History of Art, he is joint director of T20 together Carolina Parra; curator and writer, Murcia.

Övül Durmusoglu

Curator and writer, Berlin.

Lily Kemp

(1997) Lives and works in London, she studied painting at the University of the Arts London. Since winning the Lim Ai Fang Art Prize at the Woon Art Prize in 2019, she has been selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2020; her practice explores how women and women's bodies are portrayed in Western art history and visual culture." 

Sandra Poulson

(1995) Lives and works between London and Luanda. She is an Angolan interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and fashion practitioner. Her practice discusses the political, cultural and socio- economic landscape of Angola as a case study to analyse the relationship between History, oral tradition, and global political structures.

Kameelah Janan Rasheed

(1985) grapples with the poetics, politics, and pleasures of the unfinished. With interests in the generative qualities of incompleteness, leakage, dispersal, and syncretism, Rasheed works across an ecosystem of iterative and provisional projects. 

Neus Miró

Independent curator, art critic and art historian, based in Barcelona.

Ursula Krinzinger

Ursula Krinzinger opened her first gallery in Bregenz in 1971, in 1972 the gallery moved to Innsbruck and since 1986 it is located in Vienna. In 2002 Ursula Krinzinger opened the Krinzinger Project House as an experimental exhibition space and as the first of four Artist in Residency locations. 

Kiki Petratou

Next to being co-founder of JOEY RAMONE gallery, Kiki Petratou is an independent curator with a background in Art, Critical Theory and Media Studies.

Jèrôme Poggi

Art critic and art historian, Jérôme Poggi opened his gallery in 2009 that is now located next to the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He is also running a not-for-profit organisation entitled SOCIETIES to intervene beyond the art market and the institution, and create wide bridges between art and society.

Julia Morandeira

Researcher and curator in the fields of culture, art and education. She sits on the programming board of the A.M.E.E. and acts as mediator in the Concomitentes project. Furthermore she is tutor at the Dutch Art Institute and at the Collective Practices Research course at the Royal Institute of Art of Stockholm. Together with Ovul O. Durmusuglu, she is the curator of the Opening section at ARCOMadrid 2021.

Alfredo Dufour

(1989) San Juan, Argentina. Visual artist located in Buenos Aires. He studied Visual Arts at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo and has taken part in the Artists’ Programme of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. He has exhibited at MALBA, Museo Franklin Rawson and Museo Rosa Galisteo, among others. He is represented by Constitución galería.

Esther Gatón

Valladolid, 1988. She has studied at Universidad Complutense de Madrid,

Saint-Luc Liège, Universidad de Barcelona, and Goldsmiths London. Her work oscillates between an observation of what forms make us do and what, with our materials and methods, we do to each given space.

Natalia Iguiñiz

(Lima, 1973) Visual artist and university professor.

Alicia Ventura

CEO of Gestión Arte Ventura. Cultural manager, curator and art adviser. Specialised in the Art and Company and Art and Health sectors. Director of the following companies’ art projects: DKV Seguros, Hospital de Denia and Premio Cervezas Alhambra Arte Emergente, among others.

Guillermo Mora

(Madrid, 1980), artist represented by the galleries Moisés Pérez de Albéniz (Madrid), Casa Triângulo (São Paulo) and Iréne Laub (Bruxelles).

Leonor Serrano Rivas

As an artist, architect and researcher her practice comprises installation and film and inquire into the nature and matter of the unconscious.

Teresa Solar

(1985) Studied Fine Arts at Universidad Complutense in Madrid. Recent solo shows include Forms of Fleeing at Travesía Cuatro, Pumping Station at Travesía Cuatro; Ride, Ride, Ride at Matadero and Index Foundation, Stockholm and Flotation Line at Der TANK, Institut Kunst in Basel.

Bea Espejo

Writer and curator. She directs educational program Madrid45 of Community of Madrid and the art section of the cultural magazine Babelia, of El País.

Pati Lara

Director and owner of The RYDER, London & Madrid. She studied Humanities at Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), Compartive Literature at Sorbonne IV (Paris) and obtained her MA on Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths (London). She opened The RYDER on Herald Street, East London, in 2015.

Jaqueline Martins

Gallery Director Jaqueline Martins.

Francisco Salas

Director/curator PM8, Vigo.

Neus Miró

Independent curator, art critic and art historian, based in Barcelona.

Paola Capata

(Rome, 1974) director and owner of Monitor Rome, Lisbon, Pereto.

Peter Kilchmann

Swiss born, Zürich based art dealer, owner of Galerie Peter Kilchmann in Zürich. In 1996, co-founded LISTE art fair. His gallery participated over the years at world-renowned art fairs like Art Basel, Frieze, FIAC, ARCO and many others, and presents artists including Francis Alÿs, Hernan Bas, Monica Bonvicini, Teresa Margolles and Paul Mpagi Sepuya among others.

Christian Mooney

London, UK, 1973) established Arcade in 2008 with exhibition spaces in both London (2008) & Brussels (2019).

Bea Espejo

Writer and curator. She directs educational program Madrid45 of Community of Madrid and the art section of the cultural magazine Babelia, of El País.

Pedro Maisterra

Gallerist and teacher. In 2007 he cofounded Maisterravalbuena with Belén Valbuena in Madrid. Maisterra is member of ARCO’s Organising Committee. 

Joana Roda

She studied Art History at the Universitat Autònoma in Barcelona, the Sorbonne IV in Paris and the Complutense University in Madrid. After working in galleries in Montreal and Barcelona, she opened Bombon projects in 2017 with the artist Bernat Daviu.

Rafael Ortiz

(Seville, 1954). Since 1977 he has been an Art Gallery director and curator. His trajectory is marked by a wide participation in international fairs, among which stands out his uninterrupted participation in ARCOmadrid from 1986 to the present day.