25th November 2025 - 17h30
Auditorium, Museu Tàpies, C/ Aragó, 255, 08007 - Barcelona
With:
Omar Mirza (Researcher on “Labour Conditions in the Arts” for AICA International),
Montse Badia (ACCA – Cataluña),
Florencia Battiti (AACA – Argentina),
Sacha Craddock (AICA-UK)
Chaired by Rui Cepeda, Vice President of AICA International.
There will be words of welcome from the President of AICA, the President of ACCA and the Museu Tàpies.
For those unable to join us in person, the symposium will also be live streamed.
ABOUT SPEAKERS:
Omar Mirza
Curator and art critic
Omar Mirza is a curator and art critic based in Bratislava, Slovakia. He studied art history at the University of Vienna. Since October 2023, he has been working for Trenčín, European Capital of Culture 2026. A member of AICA since 2011 and vice-president of its Slovak section since 2021, he co-founded and directed the Faica Gallery of the Slovak Section of AICA (2011–2012) and moderated the 46th AICA International Congress in Košice and Bratislava (2013). In 2017, he received the ASK? Prize for Young Critics of Contemporary Art from the Foundation – Center for Contemporary Art in Bratislava.
Mirza has created and hosted two internet art shows, and since 2014, he has been hosting talk shows on contemporary art and culture for Slovak National Radio.
Florencia Battiti
Art historian, curator, art critic and professor of contemporary art
Florencia Battiti is an art historian, curator, art critic and professor of contemporary art. Currently she is Executive Director at the Parque de la Memoria in Buenos Aires, where she served as Chief Curator from 2011 to 2023, being in charge of its Public Art Program and the curatorship of the first exhibitions of Bill Viola, Alfredo Jaar and Anish Kapoor in Argentina.
She has been in charge of the artistic production of the sculptures located in the Parque de la Memoria from 2000 to present. She was also curator of the two editions of arteBA Focus (2016, 2017), “Disruptions” at Art Basel Cities, Miami Beach (2019) and the Argentine Pavilion at Biennale Internazionale di Venezia (2019). She was awarded with the Radio France Internationale Award for the Promotion of the Arts – “Public Management / Institutions” category for the Parque de la Memoria Curatorial Program. She is currently President of the Argentine Association of Art Critics (AACA), invited Professor at the Master of Curatorship from the University of Tres de Febrero (UNTREF) and a member of the Curatorial Committee for BIENALSUR. She lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Montse Badia
Art Historian, critic and curator
Montse Badia is an art historian, critic and curator. Her professional experience focuses on art criticism, curatorial practices, cultural management and education. She has published on the distance between art and society, among other topics. Co-founder and director of A*DESK (since 2002) and co-director of the Master en Arte Contemporáneo: Contexto, Mediación y Gestión d'IL3- Universitat de Barcelona.
Sacha Craddock
Art critic, writer & curator
Sacha Craddock is an art critic, writer and curator based in London. Sacha is co-founder of ArtSchool Palestine, member of Abbey Council, co-founder of the Contemporary Art Award at the British School at Rome, Trustee of the Shelagh Cluett Trust, and President of AICA-UK, the British section of the International Association of Art Critics. She was Chair of the Board of New Contemporaries and the selection process from 1996 until December 2021.
Selected critical writing includes essays on Mark Boulos, Angus Fairhurst, Jose Dávila, Chantal Joffe, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rosa Lee, Alia Ahmad, and Adam Henein, among others. She was the co-founder of Bloomberg Space and its curator from 2002–2011. Her curatorial contribution includes Turner Prize Hull 2017, ‘Strike Site’ at Backlit Gallery, 2018, ‘Here, Now’ at Misk Art Institute 2021, ‘Glossary’ for Curated by, 2023, and ‘Thought to Image’ for Albion Jeune 2024.
Upcoming curatorial projects include PLATAFORMA International Guest Curator, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2025–2026.
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