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A*DESK es una plataforma crítica centrada en la edición, la formación, la experimentación, la comunicación y la difusión de la cultura y el arte contemporáneos. La misión de A*DESK es reivindicar activamente el papel de la cultura como generadora de valores que dan lugar a sociedades más justas, igualitarias, empáticas y solidarias.

ㅤㅤ☆ "Miguel Benolonch, we still need you" by Alejandro Alcolea Marín ( )☆ Exhibition "Miguel Benllonch: Todavía" at The ...
08/10/2026

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☆ "Miguel Benolonch, we still need you" by Alejandro Alcolea Marín ( )

☆ Exhibition "Miguel Benllonch: Todavía" at The Ryder Projects

A new week of a curated list of events happening at the different venues proposed for our agenda, check it out to see wh...
07/10/2026

A new week of a curated list of events happening at the different venues proposed for our agenda, check it out to see what’s on our website:

08.10.26-11.10.26
SWAB Barcelona (Swab Barcelona Art Fair)
📍 Palau Victòria Eugènia

07.10.26 | 19:00h
"La revuelta de los pillos" by Aldo Urbano (Aldo Urbano Perez)
📍 La Capella

07.10.26 | 20:00h
"Emancipacions. Col·lecció Foto Colectania"
📍Fundació Foto Colectania

❤ Pic: Après moi, le déluge by (LA)HORDE ((LA)HORDE) at Mercat de les Flors

Link in bio-section agenda

To stay up-to-date with all the latest events, make sure to check our website every week and our partner GRAF

Resident editor: Veronica Valentini (Veronica Valentini)."Relationships as infrastructure: markets, grandmothers and oth...
06/10/2026

Resident editor: Veronica Valentini (Veronica Valentini).

"Relationships as infrastructure: markets, grandmothers and other curatorial practices in Kuskatan and Guatemala" by Armando Perla (Mando Perla)

First text under this month's topic: Infrastructures of relation.Resident editor: Veronica Valentini (Veronica Valentini...
06/10/2026

First text under this month's topic: Infrastructures of relation.

Resident editor: Veronica Valentini (Veronica Valentini).

"Relationships as infrastructure: markets, grandmothers and other curatorial practices in Kuskatan and Guatemala" by Armando Perla (Mando Perla).

As the first contributor for October's issue for A*DESK, Armando Perla proposes thinking of curatorial practices as something that begins long before museums—rooted instead in kindship networks, daily market interactions, ancestral corridors, and reciprocity.

Exploring how indigenous ornamentation and market exchanges function as living archives, this text reflects on how knowledge, memory, and communal trust form the true infrastructures that make artistic life possible in Kuskatan and Guatemala.

"Recognizing this infrastructure implies expanding our understanding of curatorial practice and artistic production. It means recognizing that a conversation in a market, a recommendation between friends, a shared trip through the territory, or a necklace made between several communities constitute the work itself."

Looking closely at the practices of Mayan Quiché artists José Luis Fernando Morales (Luisfer) and Silvia Canil Xirúm, Armando Perla illustrates how jewelry design and market networks transform curating into a relational exercise of shared responsibility and living memory.

Featured image: Chichicastenango: Armando Perla in conversation with the master weaver Kaqchikel Oralia Chopén at the market, Chichicastenango, Guatemala, 2024. Photo: Diego Ventura Puac-Coyoy.

🔗 Read the full article on our website > A*Desk Critical Thinking > Magazine section > Link in bio.

05/10/2026

[EN] 𝗔*𝗗𝗘𝗦𝗞 𝗶𝗻 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 | This month, 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗶 () joins us as resident editor to explore 𝑰𝒏𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏.

A curator, educator, and researcher—as well as director of international residency and research programmes at Hangar ()—Valentini’s practice spans visual arts, critical education, and social contexts.

Featuring contributions from:
𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗮 𝗝𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗮𝗻 ()
𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮 ()
𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮 𝗔𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶 (, .initiative)
𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗼 (anna_santomauro, , )

[CAST] 𝗔*𝗗𝗘𝗦𝗞 𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗯𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 | Este mes, 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗶 () se une como editora residente para explorar las 𝑰𝒏𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒔 𝒅𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒐́𝒏.

Curadora, educadora, investigadora y directora de programas internacionales de residencia en Hangar (), Valentini cruza artes visuales, educación crítica y contexto social para pensar el comisariado como un ejercicio relacional.

Con contribuciones de:
𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗮 𝗝𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗮𝗻 ()
𝗔𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮 ()
𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮 𝗔𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶 (, .initiative)
𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗼 (anna_santomauro, , )

[CAT] 𝗔*𝗗𝗘𝗦𝗞 𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗯𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 | Aquest mes, 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗶 () s'uneix com a editora resident per explorar les 𝑰𝒏𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒅𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒄

NEW SPOTLIGHT "Who decides what deserves to be seen?" by María Muñoz-Martínez (Maria Muñoz-Martínez 🍉) The 18th Lyon ...
01/10/2026

NEW SPOTLIGHT

"Who decides what deserves to be seen?" by María Muñoz-Martínez (Maria Muñoz-Martínez 🍉)

The 18th Lyon Biennale (Biennale de Lyon — Art), Passer d’un rêve à l’autre, takes Robert Filliou’s idea of a “poetic economy” as a starting point to rethink value, exchange and the structures that sustain life. But as Catherine Nichols () brings together 120 artists across radically different histories and geographies, another question emerges: who establishes these connections, and under what conditions do things become visible?
From electronic waste and colonial trade routes to contested histories, ancestral memory and symbolic capital, María Muñoz-Martínez (Maria Muñoz-Martínez 🍉) looks at a biennial where poetic economy ultimately turns back on the institution itself.

Featured image: Kaylene Wh***ey, Ngura Pukulpa – Happy Place, 2022, film still. Courtesy the artisy, Iwantja Arts and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney ©️ Adagp, Paris, 2026

📓A new week of a curated list of events happening at the different venues proposed for our agenda, check it out to see w...
30/09/2026

📓A new week of a curated list of events happening at the different venues proposed for our agenda, check it out to see what’s on our website:

02.10 → “Tallers Oberts” at E:\ART 17:30h

05-06.10 → “Barcelona Symposium 2026” by Talking Galleries, bringing together professionals and voices from the contemporary art world at MACBA Barcelona

02-03.10MACBA Barcelonatival" (LATENT fest ), a two-day fLATENTl exploring the creative processes and trajectories of emerging figures in design and creativity, in Terrassa.

💌Pic: Opening of the exhibition “Dirt Lab 26” by DIRT Lab at Mèdol Tarragona 01.10, 19:00h

🔗 Link in bio-section agenda

🤝🏻To stay up-to-date with all the latest events, make sure to check our website every week and our partner GRAFGRAF

Last text, editorial text under this month's topic: Mouth-Scene: Set Design, Performance & Memory.Resident editor: Margo...
29/09/2026

Last text, editorial text under this month's topic: Mouth-Scene: Set Design, Performance & Memory.

Resident editor: Margot Cuevas ().

"Staging" by Margot Cuevas ()

As September's guest editor for A*DESK, Margot Cuevas proposes thinking of the stage as a space where something can be rehearsed and begin to exist, acting as a tool for imagining other ways of inhabiting, building community, and remembering.

Gathering four distinct texts, this issue explores how scenography, architecture, curatorial practices, and dance methodologies serve as spaces of possibility, existence, resistance, and memory.

"Perhaps the theatre, as well as its methodologies and disciplines, isn’t so much about representing a world as it is about generating and imagining the conditions for others to emerge."

From Roger Badia's (Roger Badia) analysis of Aldo Rossi’s architecture and Júlia Coelho's (Julia Coelho) performative curating to Jordi Mani Huesca's (MVNI TVPES) genealogy of ritualized dance and Tendai John Mutambu's (Tendai J Mutambu ) look at the DIY world-building of Flaming Ears, these texts view the stage as a place of transformation and an infrastructure of care.

Featured image: Susana Solano, La linterna I, 2002-2003. Parque del Prado Collection. Vitoria-Gasteiz TownHall

🔗 Read the full article on our website > A*Desk Critical Thinking > Magazine section > Link in bio.

NEW SPOTLIGHT"HERITAGE AND LIGHT" by Roberto Uribe-Castro ()Does private ownership give anyone the right to erase archit...
24/09/2026

NEW SPOTLIGHT

"HERITAGE AND LIGHT" by Roberto Uribe-Castro ()

Does private ownership give anyone the right to erase architectural memory for the sake of real estate trends?

Starting from a viral social media video showing the demolition of an original staircase in a residential building by master Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona, Roberto Uribe-Castro explores the thin line between respectful architectural intervention and institutionalized vandalism.

"When we purchase a piece of historical value, we become its custodians, not its destroyers."

Tracing parallels with Haussmann’s Paris and Le Corbusier’s controversial murals over Eileen Gray’s E.1027 house, this text critiques a market driven by empty slogans of "light" and "openness," arguing for the preservation of architectural nuance, shadow, and shared cultural heritage.

Featured image: Before and after of the staircase designed by Rogelio Salmona (Photo: Screenshot from deconama.estudio video)

🔗 Read the full article on our website > A*Desk Critical Thinking > Spotlight section > Link in bio.

📓A new week of a curated list of events happening at the different venues proposed for our agenda, check it out to see w...
23/09/2026

📓A new week of a curated list of events happening at the different venues proposed for our agenda, check it out to see what’s on our website:

23.09 → “Acts of gathering” public sharing event by Hannah Taylor (Hannah)
at La Escocesa 18:30h

25.09 → Inauguration of “Ecosistema bosc” by Marta Duran (Marta Duran Quintana) at Col·legi de l'Arquitectura Tècnica de Barcelona (Pl. de Can Xammar, 2), Cultura Mataró 19:00h

25-27.09 → Festival “Responsive dreams” (RESPONSIVE DREAMS) organised by The Generative Art Museum (TGAM) at Roca Umbert F. A.

💌Pic: Exhibition “1959. Joan Claret. Pintures” at Galeria Marc Domènech, opening at 19:00h

🔗 Link in bio-section agenda

🤝🏻To stay up-to-date with all the latest events, make sure to check our website every week and our partner GRAF

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