Bio

Alba Baeza (Barcelona, 1986) is a curator and writer based in Stockholm, where she obtained an MA in Curating Art at Stockholm University. Her practice focuses on the relationship between artistic production, institutional frameworks and public contexts, with an emphasis on long-term and collaborative processes.

From 2016 to 2026, she was a member of the curatorial team at Public Art Agency Sweden, now part of Moderna Museet. There, she developed site-specific public art commissions in contexts such as train stations or universities, collaborating with artists including Danh Vo, Katharina Grosse, Huang Yong Ping, Maider López, Hanna Ljungh or Allora & Calzadilla. She also contributed to knowledge development within the organisation, with a focus on expanding and critically interrogating the field of public art.

Between 2012 and 2018, she worked closely with Rosa Martínez, Artistic Director of the 51st Venice Biennale (2005), and took part in several international exhibitions. She has recently served as curatorial advisor with Martínez for the 2nd edition of the Malta Biennale 2026.

Alongside her institutional work, Alba Baeza has curated exhibitions and public programmes in Sweden and internationally, including Palestinian Cinema: Solidarity Through Film (2017) at Tensta konsthall or The Roaming Institute (2017) at Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation. She regularly lectures, leads conversations with artists, and contributes to exhibition catalogues and art publications. Her recent research paper, Re-enchanting the Public Sphere: Curating Public Art through the Lens of the Commons, was developed at Stockholm University. The paper addresses Maider López’s public artwork Moving Plants commissioned by Public Art Agency Sweden in Hammarkullen, a suburb north of Gothenburg, where the role of the local community was decisive.

 

Curriculum Vitae (selection)

2020-2026: Curator at Statens konstråd – Public Art Agency Sweden (now part of Moderna Museet)

2025-2026: Curatorial Advisor of the 2nd Malta Biennale, titled “Clean / Clear / Cut”, curated by Rosa Martínez.

2024: Curator of Ali Ardalan’s solo exhibition Transient Amnesia at Konstepidemin, Göteborg.

2023: Author of On Curating: Understanding the Role of the Curator, commissioned by the Swedish Association of Curators.

2023: Conversation partner at IASPIS with coyote, as part of IASPIS Open Studios Autumn 2023.

2023: Conversation partner at IASPIS with residents Sara Elggren + Dick Hedlund.

2023: Conversation partner at IASPIS Open Studios Spring 2023. “How My Grandfather and I Split Abu Simbel” (work in progress) – Artist Mikaela Steby Stenfalk in conversation with curator Alba Baeza, as part of the public programme for Open Studios Spring 2023 at IASPIS Konstnärsnämnden, curated by Emily Fahlén.

2021: Guest Critic at the postmaster course OPI Lab (Of Public Interest), run by Jonas Dahlberg and Jasmine Hinks at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.

2016-2020: Assistant Curator with International Focus at Statens konstråd – Public Art Agency Sweden .

2020: Guest Critic at the group critique session organised by Fathia Mohidin and Lisa Trogen Devgun at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.

2019: External examiner of Victoria Verseau’s MFA exhibition A Body of Ghosts at Galleri Mejan – Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.

2019: Curatorial advisor at the research and concept phase of the exhibition In the Name of the Father, curated by Rosa Martinez at the Picasso Museum, Barcelona.

2012-2018: Assistant Curator to Rosa Martinez.

2018: Talk with Carin Ellberg and catalogue essay for her exhibition The Others Drift In at Carl Eldh’s Studio Museum, Stockholm, Sweden.

2017: Contributing Writer for Flash Art International.

2017: Presentation of the screening program Focus: VALIE EXPORT as part of the programme of Feministaldia at Tabakalera Centre for Contemporary Culture, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.

2017: Talk with VALIE EXPORT at AVANT 2017 – Bodies and Boundaries at Kristinehamns konstmuseum, Sweden.

2017: Guest Curator at the research trip Art & Crisis to Athens, Beirut and Lesbos. Organised by the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm in collaboration with Zürich University of the Arts.

2017: Coordinator of the public programme The Roaming Institute at Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Sweden.

2017: Co-curator of the film programme Palestinian Cinema: Solidarity Through Film at Tensta konsthall, Sweden.

2017: Assistant Curator of the exhibition Intimacy is Political at Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Quito, Ecuador.

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).

2015-2016: Assistant Curator 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: Assistant Curator 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).

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.