Carles Guerra

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Carles Guerra is a teacher, researcher, and independent curator. His research interests include modern and contemporary art, critical pedagogies, and museum studies. He has directed La Virreina Centre de la Imatge and the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, served as chief curator at MACBA, and as inaugural professor in Catalan Studies at New York University – Institut Ramon Llull. He has curated landmark exhibitions dedicated to artists such as Perejaume, Art & Language, Allan Sekula, Susan Meiselas, Harun Farocki, and Oriol Vilanova, as well as the projects 1979: A Monument to Radical Moments and Antoni Tàpies: A Political Biography. His latest project, on the psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles, has been presented at the Musée les Abattoirs, CCCB, Museo Reina Sofía, and the American Folk Art Museum. In 2026 he will curate the Spanish pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale with a project by Oriol Vilanova