Margarita de Aizpuru

Exhibition curator, art critic, researcher and professor. She was formerly an associate professor at Carlos III University in Madrid and currently holds this position at the University of Salamanca.

She has served as the visual arts programme developer and curator at Casa de América (Madrid) and of the “Zona Emergente” area of Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville. She has worked in the temporary exhibitions department of Centre Georges Pompidou, at Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain in Paris, and also in the exhibitions department of contemporary art museum CAPC in Bordeaux, France.

Since the early 90s, she has curated numerous exhibitions and art activities in Spain, Morocco, France and a number of countries in Latin America. She has led performance or action art festivals such as the I Bienal de Arte de Acción in Granada, numerous video art and film cycles and shows, and 11 annual editions of the Encuentros Internacionales de Mujeres, Arte y Género in Andalusia.

In 2018 she received the MAV award (Women in Visual Arts) for the best art critic and scholar of the year, and in 2011, the Seville City Council’s Department of Women’s Affairs prize.