Teresa Grandas
(Barcelona, 1963) is an Art Historian, and also stud- ied Philosophy. She is Exhibitions Curator at MACBA. Among others, she has curated the following projects: “Domènec. Ni aquí ni enlloc ” (MACBA 2018; Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila, 2019); “Poe- sia Brossa”, co-curated with Pedro G. Romero (MACBA, 2017-2018; ARTIUM, Vitoria, 2018; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, 2019); “Gelatina dura. Historias escamoteadas de los ochenta” (MACBA 2016-2017; Sala de Armas, Ayuntamiento de Pamplona, Pamplo- na, 2018); “Video-nou” (Van Abbe, Eindhoven, 2016); “La pasión según Carol Rama”, co-curat- ed with Paul B. Preciado (MACBA, 2014-2015; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2015; EMMA, Espoo, 2015-2016; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2016; GAM-Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, 2016- 2017); “Eulàlia Grau. Mai no he pintat àngels daurats” (MACBA 2013); “La utopia és possible. ICSID. Eivissa, 1971”, co-curated with Dan- iel Giralt-Miracle (MACBA 2012 ; Museu d’Art Contemporani d’Eivissa 2013); “The Museum of the Affects” (Moderna Galerija Ljubljana 2011- 2012, with L’Internationale); “Àngels Ribé. En el laberint, 1969-1984” (MACBA 2011); “Paral·lel Benet Rossell” (MACBA, 2010-2011); “Palazue- lo. Procès de treball”, co-curated with Manuel Borja-Villel (MACBA 2006, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao 2007, MAMBO Bogotá 2008, Pinacoteca Sao Paulo 2008). Member of the team managing content for “Desacuerdos. Sobre arte, política y esfera pública in el estado español”, a research, activity and exhibition project (MACBA and Centro José Guerrero Granada) and three pub- lications co-produced by MACBA, UNIA Arte and Pensamiento-Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, Arteleku-Diputación Foralde Gipuz- koa, in cooperation with Centro José Guerrero Granada (2003-2005); and co-curator of the exhibition “Desacuerdos” (MACBA, 2005) with Manuel Borja-Villel, Bartomeu Marí and Jorge Ribalta.
She has researched into such fields as: under- ground culture, alternative publications, col- laborative and participatory practices in Spain; radical architectures linked to the emancipatory social movements in the nineteen-sixties and seventies; the writing of Georges Bataille; and socio-political transformations in the twenty-first century and their effect on reconsideration of the recent cultural past.