CURRICULUM

CURATING & PRODUCTION (selection)
2025 Biennale Larnaca, Along Lines & Traces, Larnaca, Cyprus (Upcoming)
2025 Madeleine Spierer, Villa Dutoit, TBA Retrospective, Geneva, Switzerland (Upcoming)
2024 Madeleine Spierer, Galerie Ruine, Visions, Geneva, Switzerland
2023 onwards Palau de Casavells: solo exhibition Material de construcció (Jordi Alcaraz),  group exhibition 3 under 40, solo exhibition Bamboo Lover (Laurent Martin Lo), solo exhibition Work, Rest and Play (James Rielly), Alzueta Gallery, Casavells, Spain.
2022 Monica Bravo, UNUS MUNDUS, the spirit of the piece is the potential for dialogue, client East Boston Police A7, City of Boston, Mayor's Office of Arts + Culture, public art commission, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2022 Monica Bravo, LIMINAL, MSP International Airport, client: OGX BRT PUBLIC ART PROJECT OgdenArts @MSP, MSP Airport Foundation, St.Paul, public art commission, Minneapolis USA
2022 Monica Bravo, FOLDS + FIELDS + FABRIC, client:OGX BRT PUBLIC ART, public art commission, Ogden, Utah USA
2022, 2021 Madeleine Spierer, Cosmos & Gruta, Pela i Forgas Art Space, La Bisbal d´Empordà, Spain
2021 EINA University, Ethnographic Notes, Barra de Ferro, Barcelona, Spain
2021 Guillermo Basagoiti, Neuma Ona, Barcelona, Spain
2020 Monica Bravo, Interval of Time, client: Landmarks Public Art Program, Landmarks University of Texas at Austin, public art commission, Austin, Texas USA
2019 Guillermo Basagoiti, Museo Anton, Centro de Escultura, En Expansion, Candas, Spain
2019 Guillermo Basagoiti, Espacio Liquido, “Cuerpo IV¨, Gijon, Spain
2013–2019 Curated exhibition series at ArteSana i Tribu, La Bisbal d´Empordà, Spain by international artists in various disciplines:
Jack Fourcadier (FR) Faces, Frida van der Poel (NL) Abstraction of Shape, Dorothy Wedderburn (UK) Ragments & Wall Hangings, Tiffany Valier (FR) Intimate Introspection, Berta Xirinachs (ES) , Sarai Aleman (ES), Micham (FR), Lisette Dijksterhuis (NL), Laïa Jou (ES) Tactile Storytelling, Manel Galià (ES), Silvia Serra (ES) Refugees among others.
2015 Biennial R_CAS, Cent Mètres du Centre du Monde Art Contemporain (CMCM) Perpignan, FR
2008–2012 Monthly changing curated exhibitions at Galerie Zone, Leiden, The Netherlands. International exchanges with Galleries in Sweden and France.

EXHIBITIONS as artist (selection)
2025 Es muy buena persona, El Bòlit Centre for Contemporary Art, Girona, ES. Funded by the City of Girona artistic Grant (presentation)
2023 Volverás a Casa, Home away From Home, Larnaca Biennale Cyprus, (Volverás a Casa , artistic intervention about roots, narratives, and desire in the diaspora. Collaboration with Guillermo Basagoiti. www.volverasacasa.com) 
2023 Mar de fons, Museu Can Mario, Fundació Vila Casas, Palafrugell, ES (Volverás a Casa , artistic intervention about roots, narratives, and desire in the diaspora. Collaboration with Guillermo Basagoiti. www.volverasacasa.com)
2022 Unknown Territories / Volveras a Casa, Focus Foundation, Finca Bell Lloc Brugarol, Palamos, ES (Installation piece Unkown Territories, textile, paint, bamboo).
2022 Destecer ho sentido, CUBO Vigo, ES (textile and paper installation)
2021 Ellas, Fundación Iberoamericana Europa, Espacio Cultural, Madrid, ES (textile and paper installation  belonging to the project "Mountains on my path¨)
2021 Textile Sketches, Galerie Zone, Leiden, NL (An installation of textile pieces / mixed technique, belonging to the project "Mountains on my path).
2020 Textile Sketches, Galerie Sabine Jeangeorges, Peyriac, FR  (An installation of textile pieces / mixed technique, belonging to the project "Mountains on my path)
2020 60 Second International Film Festival, Islamabad, PK ("Erosión. Todo Pasa" Videoart)
2020 #CCConstest, Espacio Cómplices, Madrid ES  ("Erosión. Todo Pasa" Videoart)
2019 Plastika 19, Museo do Mar de Galicia, Vigo, ES ("Anatomies of the heart" Contemporary collage.
2019 Festival de Intervención Artística, Amalio Museum, Sevilla ES and La Plata, Buenos Aires (AR) (work: video Movement in Red)
2019 Open Art Project, London, UK (work: video Movement in Red)
2019 Solo Exhibition, Once upon a time, El Fort, Ullastret, ES (Once upon a time a series of Chinese ink drawings in small format).
2019 Solo Exhibition, KAIRO, Galería CONTEXT, Barcelona, ES (KAIRO, individual exhibition)
2018 Solo Exhibition, Linea, Espai TÒNIC, Vulpellac, ES (drawings on paper, jewellery, metal, mixed media, and a series of artist talks)   
2018 Context, Galería CONTEXT, Barcelona, ES (work: jewellery)
2018 Green, Gallery ICKX, Brussels, BE (work: jewellery)   
2017 Pulse, London, UK (KAIRO, individual exhibition, a series about freedom, migration and individual movement- jewellery, metal and textile)
2017 Solo Exhibition, Aparador de la Diversitat, Galería MEKO, Barcelona, ES (KAIRO, a series about freedom, migration and individual movement- jewellery, metal and textile)
2016 Mon Ange, Galeríe Agit’he, Le Barcares, FR (work: jewellery, dialogue with poetry and drawings by Laïa Jou)   
2015 Collectif, actuelle et singulière, Centre de Sculpture Romane, Cabestany, FR (work: jewellery) 
2015 Biennial R_CAS, Cent Mètres du Centre du Monde Art Contemporain (CMCM) Perpignan, FR (work: jewellery)
2013 Ingravid, KM0 Premio Dali, Figueres, ES (Genesis, A series of 7 sculptural silver rings, cast in organic material. Finalist for the Dalí award (jewellery) 
2013 Oriental, Gioiellodentro, Palakiss, Vicenza, IT (work: organic cast pendant (jewellery)
2010 The Red Line, Kaleido, Uppsala, SE (collaboration between artists from Leiden and Uppsala (jewellery)  
2009 Women in power, City Hall, NL, The Netherlands (collective exhibition, creating jewellery for the councillors of the city council and photographic project (jewellery) 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2022- present ALZUETA GALLERY Palau de Casavells — Gallery direction GIRONA (ES)
2022- present BELDAN SEZEN Artist Books — Studio manager NEW YORK (USA)
2022- 2024 SHAUN LEVIN Artist Books — Studio manager MADRID (ES)
2022- 2023 SULLA STUDIO Textile art — Studio support LA BISBAL D’EMPORDA (ES)
2020- 2023 MONIKA BRAVO Contemporary Artist — Studio and production manager, NEW YORK/MIAMI (USA) Selected public art projects: LIMINAL, MSP International Airport, UNUS MUNDUS, East Boston Police Headquarters, THE FIELDS, Montclair, New Jersey, Fields Folds Fabric, Ogden, Utah-Victory over the Sun, Miami, An interval of Time, University of Texas
2021- present GALERIA TRASHUMANTE Contemporary Art - Founder Curatorial Initiative. Project Cosmos & Gruta.
2021- present MADELEINE SPIERER — Artistic estate manager, GIRONA, GENEVA  (ES/CH)
2021- 2023 ANN TARANTINO Contemporary Artist — Studio support, STATE COLLEGE (USA)
2017- present GUILLERMO BASAGOITI Contemporary Artist — Studio manager, GIRONA (ES) Production: Neuma (breathing sculpture), Llibreria Ona,2021, Barcelona (ES), Desire, Larnaca Biennale 2019, Cyprus, En Expansión, Museo Anton, Candas (ES)
2019- 2024 S.TUDIO art and jewellery - Owner, LA BISBAL D’EMPORDA (ES)
2014- 2019 ARTESANA I TRIBU - Owner, LA BISBAL D’EMPORDA (ES)
2008- 2012 GALERIE ZONE - Exhibition Manager and artist member, LEIDEN (NL)  
2010- 2014 ERGO NETWORK - Project Coordinator Roma Women and Youth , BRUSSELS (BE)
2005- 2010 LEIDEN UNIVERSITY - Coordinator Secretariat Greek and Latin / Latin American Languages and Cultures LEIDEN (NL)
Prior: Museum of Ethnology, Leiden (NL), Museum of Antiquities, Leiden (NL), Museum of Natural History, Leiden (NL).


PUBLICATIONS AS AUTHOR
2024 Madeleine Spierer, Galerie Ruine Geneve, Curatorial Text
2024 MMMM X Edition, Mujeres Mirando Mujeres, Beldan Sezen - The Book as Space
2024 L'art perdut de guardar un secret - Cesc Abad, LaFACT | Factoria Cultural de Terrassa, Curatorial Text
2022 NIU, no 3, Volverás a casa y la belleza - Horizontes de Sentido
2022 MMMM VIII Edition, Mujeres Mirando Mujeres, Madeleine Spierer - The Wild Woman
2022 TANTAS IMAXES, Cuaderno de Estudios Visuales no9, Las montañas en mi camino
2020/2021 UTA University of Texas, Monika Bravo: An Interval of Time, (with Alexandra Mendez)
2020 TANTAS IMAXES, Cuaderno de Estudios Visuales no3, Guillermo Basagoiti: entre pulsión y materia
2020 TANTAS IMAXES, Cuaderno de Estudios Visuales no 4, El vacío no es la falta de las cosas, sino la matriz de todas las cosas
2019 EN EXPANSION (Catalogue), Guillermo Basagoiti Brown, Museo Anton, Candas

GRANTS
2024-2025 GIRONA CREA, City of Girona, (ES) financial support for ES MUY BUENA PERSONA An investigation into lines, identity and belonging.
2020 AGITA GRANT FOR ARTISTIC PRODUCTION, City of Figueres, (ES) financial support for Volverás a Casa , artistic intervention about roots, narratives, and desire in the diaspora. Collaboration with Guillermo Basagoiti.
2005 MARJAN RENS FUND (NL) financial support for extended fieldwork in Ecuador with the Puruwa ethnicity in Chimborazo province.
2004 FUNDATIE VRIJVROUWE VAN RENSWOUDE (NL) financial support for extended fieldwork in Ecuador with the Puruwa ethnicity in Chimborazo province.

EDUCATION
2024/25 NODE CENTER BERLIN Institute for curatorial studies INTERNATIONAL CURATORIAL PROGRAM
2023 NODE CENTER BERLIN Institute for curatorial studies DEVELOPING CURATORIAL CONCEPTS: RESEARCH & CREATIVE IDEATION
2021 EINA BARCELONA  EXHIBITIONS, CURATORSHIP, CREATIVE PRACTICES AND TEMPORARY SPACES, Barcelona, (ES) - Postgraduate Project: ¨ Ethnographic Notes¨, translation of the set of artistic acts of a fellow contemporary artist into an in situ intervention and exhibition.
2003-2006 BEN VAN HELDEN ACADEMY FOR JEWELLERY MAKING AND ART, Zeist — Jewellery Making, ZEIST (NL)  Project: Contemporary reinterpretation of the Mayor's Chain for Henri Lenferink, Mayor of Leiden.
2000 - 2006 LEIDEN UNIVERSITY CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY/ NON-WESTERN SOCIOLOGY, Leiden (NL)  MA Thesis: “Change and Continuity: the warp and weft of indigenous dress in Highland Ecuador” Minor in Archaeology of Indian America, ethno-musicology.