Carles Guerra Rojas

Carles Guerra (Amposta, 1965) holds a PhD from Universitat de Barcelona. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Universitat de Barcelona and the Media Studies Department, The New School for Social Research. He has pursued a career in art criticism, teaching and research. His most recent profile has been associated with outstanding positions in the field of cultural management, cultural policies and curatorial activities. He has been director of Primavera Fotogràfica de Catalunya, director of the Virreina Centre de la Imatge, chief curator at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona MACBA and, from 2015 through 2020, executive director at Fundació Antoni Tàpies.

His main line of research has often delved into dialogical practices, in the field of both art and visual culture. Critical pedagogies, documentary practices and the working conditions of cultural production under Post-Fordism have been a predominant subject in his many publications. He has been associate professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and faculty member at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. He has frequently taught as visiting professor at many other institutions and universities, i. e. Goldsmiths University of London, Universidade Catolica de Portugal, Kontsfack University College of Art Craft and Design Stockholm and Programa d’Estudis Independents PEI Centre d’Estudis i Documentació MACBA Barcelona, among many others.

On top of a vast number of monographic exhibitions devoted to individual artists such as Perejaume, Joaquim Jordà, Xavier Ribas, Ahlam Shibli, Art & Language, Allan Sekula, Susan Meiselas, Harun Farocki, Oriol Vilanova and Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, he has curated projects like 1979. A Monument to Radical Instants and Antoni Tàpies. Political Biography. These last two projects responded to an ongoing commitment to rethink the legacy of modernism from a perspective that urges to articulate a potential history of our past.