Bienal de Pontevedra

Curators

• Antón Castro Instagram

  Curator

  

  Antón Castro is professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Vigo (UVigo) and member of AICA-France, the International Association of Art Critics in Paris.

  He has been a professor of contemporary art and visiting lecturer, and has taught different master's degrees and courses in several faculties, such as those of Fine Arts and Social Sciences at the UVigo, the Higher Institute of Art in La Habana, the Queensborough Community College (the City University of New York), the Faculty of Fine Arts in Salamanca, the University of Milan and, previously, in Paris, where he lived in the 1980s. He was director of various courses at the Menéndez Pelayo International University, the last two (2013 and 2014) on the 'Primer Picasso' (Early Picasso). He was director of the Cervantes Institute in Milan (2004-2008) and of the Spanish Cultural Heritage Institute of the Ministry of Culture (2008-2010).

  He was a member of the boards of trustees of the Alhambra in Granada, the Archive of the Indies, the Lázaro Galdiano Foundation and Obras Pías, among others, and is also part of the Advisory Committee of the Galician Centre of Contemporary Art.

  He regularly collaborates with cultural supplements and art, thought and literature magazines such as Lápiz (Madrid), Beaux-arts magazine (Paris), Flash Art (Milan), Contemporánea (New York), Coloquio Artes (Lisbon), Goya (Madrid), Il confronto letterario (University of Pavia), Tintas (University of Milan), Arts (MPDI AD, Basel), Arte, Individuo y Sociedad (Complutense University of Madrid), Ars Longa (University of Valencia) and Quintana (University of Santiago de Compostela), among others.  He has curated more than two hundred exhibitions in Spain, France, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Croatia, Bulgaria, several Latin American countries and the United States. The last of these, Picasso blanco en el recuerdo azul (White Picasso in the memory of blue), on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the painter's death (1973-2023).

• Agar Ledo Instagram

  Deputy curator

  

  Agar Ledo Arias is an art historian graduated from the University of Santiago de Compostela and a research process technician at the Museum of Pontevedra. From 2019 to 2022, she worked as a curator and art adviser in the Collections Department of the Reina Sofía Museum, where she was part of the curatorial team of the exhibition Vasos comunicantes. Colección 1881-2021 (Communicating vessels. Collection 1881-2021). Previously, between 2006 and 2018, she managed and coordinated exhibitions by different artists (Tino Sehgal, Thomas Hirschhorn, Martin Creed, Tania Bruguera, Teresa Margolles...) at the Contemporary Art Museum of Vigo. She curated exhibitions by artists like Ánxel Huete, Grace Schwindt, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Patricia Esquivias, Pedro Barateiro, Carlos Bunga or Diego Santomé, as well as proposals focused on the analysis of Galician cultural production and the social and political implications related to art. With a Master's Degree in Museology (University of Alcalá) and other in Art and Politics (Goldsmiths, University of London), she completed training placements at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art (Norman, Oklahoma, the United States), Le Consortium (Dijon, France), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Lyon (France) and the Independent Curators International, ICI (New York). Throughout her career, she has participated in events such as the 1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Seville (2004), the Luis Seoane Foundation (A Coruña, 2005) or the Galician Centre of Contemporary Art (Santiago de Compostela, 1998-2004), of which she is a member of its Advisory Board. She is also part of the Editorial Board of Grial magazine (Galaxia, Vigo) and of the Advisory Committee of the Museums of the Cultural Department of the City Council of Málaga.

• Iñaki Martínez Antelo Instagram

  Live art curator

  

  Iñaki Martínez Antelo (1969, Santiago de Compostela, Spain) holds a Bachelor's Degree in Contemporary Art from the University of Santiago de Compostela and a Master's Degree in Aesthetics from the Autonomous University of Madrid. After working at the Galician Centre of Contemporary Art (CGAC, by its Galician acronym), the Auditorium of Galicia and Casa Asia, he was the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vigo from 2005 to 2017. He was president of the Association of Contemporary Art Directors of Spain and a member of the committee of the DKV collection. He was a part of the jury at many awards, such as the National Award for Plastic Arts and the Velázquez Prize, among many others, and since 2016 he has been part of the jury of the Cervezas Alhambra Prize. He has also recently joined the Art Advisers Committee of Es Baluard, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Palma de Mallorca.

  His most recent curatorial projects include that of Angela de la Cruz at Casal Solleric in Palma de Mallorca (2025) or that of the series Infiltracións at the Museum of Pontevedra (2024-2025), as well as Lazos mecánicos (Mechanical bonds) at Artium Museum in Vitoria (2024-2025); the exhibition by Vasco Araújo at the DIDAC Foundation (2024); Océano mar (Sea ocean) at the Conde Duque Centre for Contemporary Culture in Madrid (2023); El bosque del Prado (The Prado forest, 2022), by Maider López, at the Royal Botanical Garden in Madrid; Sons improbábeis (Improbable sounds, 2022) and Mirar o son (Looking at the sound, 2020), both at the Auditorium of Galicia; and La Ribot. Manual de uso (La Ribot. Guidebook, 2020), at the CGAC. In 2020, he founded Cooperativa Performa, a cooperative carrying out projects such as Plataforma, the festival of performing arts, in Santiago de Compostela (2020-2025) and Santander (2024-2025), as well as curatorial projects such as O museo como escenario (The museum as stage, 2022) and Accións peregrinas (Pilgrim actions, 2021), by Pilar Albarracín, at the CGAC, among other projects.