Bio
Alba Baeza (Barcelona, 1986) es curadora y escritora actualmente establecida en Estocolmo, donde ha desarrollado diversos proyectos: comisarió la exposición Through the Looking Glass (2016) en hangmenProjects y ha organizado varios programas públicos, entre ellos Palestinian Cinema: Solidarity Through Film (2017) en Tensta konsthall, o The Roaming Institute (2017) en Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation. Recientemente ha mantenido un coloquio con la artista VALIE EXPORT en Kristinehamn konstmuseum, en Suecia, durante la apertura de Experimental Film Festival AVANT 2017.
Además de sus proyectos independientes, Alba Baeza ejerce como curadora asistente en Statens konstråd – Public Art Agency Sweden, centrándose principalmente en proyectos artísticos permanentes en la esfera pública; entre ellos, la serie de comisiones Chronotopia en Gotemburgo (iniciada en 2016), comisariada por Lotta Mossum. También ejerce como curadora asistente para Rosa Martínez, con quien ha trabajado, entre otras, en las exposiciones La intimidad es política (2017) en el Centro Cultural Metropolitano en Quito, Ecuador, y Nada temas, dice ella (2015-2016), en el Museo Nacional de Escultura en Valladolid, España; así como la serie de exposiciones Qué pensar. Qué desear. Qué hacer (2012-2013) en Caixaforum Barcelona.
Curriculum Vitae
2016–: Assistant Curator (part-time) at Statens konstråd – Public Art Agency Sweden.
2017: Talk with VALIE EXPORT at AVANT 2017 – Bodies and Boundaries at Kristinehamns konstmuseum, Sweden.
2017: Coordinator of The Roaming Institute at Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Sweden.
2017: Co-organiser of the event Palestinian Cinema: Solidarity Through Film at Tensta konsthall, Sweden.
2017: Co-curator of the exhibition Code /kəʊd/ at Platform Stockholm, Sweden.
2017: Co-organiser of the symposium Modernist Legacies and Constructions of Whiteness at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden, together with the participants of the MLCW course.
2016: Curator of the exhibition Through the Looking Glass at hangmenProjects, Stockholm, Sweden.
Finissage event: “The intimate is political. Shared strategies of representation”
A conversation with Eleonora Fors Szuba (The Unstraight Museum, chairperson of the board), Victoria Verseau (artist) and Alba Baeza (curator).
2016: Assistant at the outdoor display of Tony Oursler’s The Influence Machine, organised by Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art in collaboration with Accelerator at Stockholm University, Sweden.
2015-2016: Curatorial assistant and contributor to the catalogue at the exhibition Fear Nothing, She Says. When Art Reveals Mystic Truths, curated by Rosa Martinez and organised by Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) at Museo Nacional de Escultura. Valladolid (Spain).
2012-2013: Curatorial assistant at the exhibition series What To Think, What To Desire, What To Do, curated by Rosa Martínez and organised by “la Caixa” Foundation at Caixaforum Barcelona (Spain).
2012-2013: Guest blogger at the first edition of ARCObloggers, coordinated by Roberta Bosco and Stefano Caldana for ARCO, International Contemporary Art Fair of Madrid (Spain).
2012–: Curatorial assistant to Rosa Martinez.
2011–: Regular contributor to the culture section of the magazine Barcelonés, publishing articles on contemporary art. Currently handling the section Art in the Public Space.
Education
2016-2017: Modernist Legacies and Constructions of Whiteness. Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
2015-2017: International Master Programme in Curating Art, including Management and Law, Stockholm University.
2010-2012: Master’s Degree in Contemporary Film and Audiovisual Studies. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
2004-2009: Degree in Audiovisual Communication. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
