Anna Manubens is the director of Hangar, a center for artistic research and production in Barcelona and a professor at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in San Sebastian.
Previously she was an independent curator and producer with a preference for hybrid roles at the intersection between writing, research, programming, project accompaniment, institutional analysis and exhibitions. Until 2017 she was Head of Public Programs at the CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux and previously combined her freelance activity with teaching at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a regular job at the artist-run Auguste Orts (Brussels) dedicated to the production of, and thinking around, artists’ films. With them she directed the European project On & For production designed to facilitate the realization of audiovisual works through the implementation of new frameworks and professional exchange.
Her recent exhibitions include Luz Broto, Ponerse en el lugar del otro (Museu de Granollers, 2021-22), A L I E N T O (NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona, 2020-2021); Wendelien van Oldenborgh. Tono lengua boca (Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, 2019 and Centre d’Art Contemporani Fabra i Coats, 2020); Alex Reynolds: Safe, Safe, safe, the pulse of the house beat softly (La panera, Lleida, 2020); entre, hacia, hasta, para, por, por, según, sin (EACC, Castellón, 2019); Visceral Blue (La Capella, Barcelona, 2016); Hacer cuerpo con la máquina: Joachim Koester (Blue Project Foundation, Barcelona, 2016) and Contours of the Audiovisual with Soledad Gutiérrez (Tabakalera, San Sebastián, 2015).
She was artistic director of the LOOP festival in the 2011 and 2012 editions and with Hamaca developed Apología/Antología, an online editorial project that analyzes and gives access to 60 years of art in film and video in the Spanish state.
He has written in several catalogs and magazines about production or about the work of artists such as Luz Broto, Lucía C. Pino, Laida Lertxundi, Pauline Julier, Alex Reynolds, Adrian Schindler or Wendelien van Oldenborgh.
Last update: 11th November, 2022