Marta Blàvia ‍‍ ‍

Bilbao

Dr. Marta Blàvia is Associate Curator at the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, an institution with which she has been associated intermittently since 2006. Her curatorial practice is primarily structured around two complementary areas: the programming of international temporary exhibitions and the research, interpretation, and critical activation of the Museum’s Collection. Within the exhibition context, she curates and coordinates international touring projects; among her most recent initiatives are exhibitions dedicated to Giovanni Anselmo, Paul Pfeiffer, and Jasper Johns. In parallel, she is actively involved in the study, expansion, and critical reinterpretation of the Collection, with particular attention to the construction of narratives that allow the Museum’s holdings to be revisited from more contemporary perspectives. Her most recent exhibition project related to the Collection proposes a renewed reading of the institution’s holdings, emphasizing contemporary issues and establishing a dialogue between different temporalities, geographies, and critical sensibilities. 

Her research and curatorial interests are particularly focused on the intersections between contemporary art, feminism, activist practices, and critical discourses related to representation, body politics, power structures, and the construction of subjectivities. Her work seeks to foster spaces for reflection grounded in inclusive and critical perspectives, addressing the capacity of contemporary art to activate urgent social and political debates around gender inequalities and other forms of exclusion. Furthermore, her curatorial practice pays particular attention to interdisciplinary formats that connect visual arts, architecture, performance, music, and design, with a specific interest in questions of identity, memory, cultural representation, and social transformation.