Director of the Cáder Institute of Central American Art and the Department of Studies, Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid.
Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga is a researcher, curator, and lecturer. She lives in Madrid, where she is the Director of the Department of Studies at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Previously, she was the director of KADIST's Paris branch (2023-24) and curator of the post-academic program at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht (2021-2023). In recent years, she has been a professor at Leiden University, Netherlands, where she organized and taught the course Social and Ecological Justice Activism in the Visual Arts (2022-2024), and a professor in the Dutch Art Institute master's program (2019-2023). Her work is situated at the intersection of the questions posed by cultural studies and critical theory in relation to artistic, visual, or performative practice and educational and political intervention. Her projects are articulated through long-term curatorial research such as Canibalia, Be Careful with Each Other, So We Can Be Dangerous Together, Social Choreographies, Studies of the Night, The Hauntologists, A Convening of Civic Poets + Bastardie, among others.