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Veronica Valentini – Autor/a en A*Desk

Veronica Valentini is a curator, educator, and researcher. She understands curatorial practice as a relational exercise that listens to contexts, choreographs affects, forms of knowledge, and diverse bodies, and cultivates connections toward new ways of being and acting together.

She is the founder and director of EMMA, and co-founder and co-director of BAR Project—a platform that currently develops the exhibition, public, and educational programming at HAUS–Espai d’art i pràctiques contemporànies. Since 2022, she has overseen international residency programs and research networks at Hangar, in Barcelona. As a founding member and mediator for Concomitentes in Spain since 2018, she has spearheaded initiatives such as Diversorium: Live Arts and Spaces for Coexistence—a project presented at music festivals and nightclubs in Barcelona, ​​as well as in Paris, Stuttgart, and Stockholm, and within the framework of Manifesta. She is currently developing Parliament of the Sea, a project that bridges science and citizenship to prototype new forms of ecological governance within the marine and social territory of La Barceloneta.

In 2014, she served as one of the curators for the second CAFAM Biennial in Beijing, titled On Ambiguity and Other Forms to Play With. She has curated exhibitions and developed public, educational, and residency programs; she has also served on juries and led workshops and lectures at numerous art schools and institutions, both in Spain and internationally. Her publications include Dancing Diversity: Gestures and Affects for Encounters Between Diverse Bodies, Bartlebooth, 2024) and Reciprocity: Institutional and Artistic Practices as Metaphors for Mycelium, Ajuntament de Terrassa, 2026).

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