CURATORS
SWAB 2025
Bunga SIagian
Curator of Polar and Tropic Public program
Bunga Siagian is an Indonesian artist and curator whose practice focuses on collectivity, understood as an encounter and an act of sharing across time and space. Through collective making and thinking, she proposes new forms of subjectivity and narratives for a shared imagination.
Her research on leftist filmmakers during decolonization addresses collective agency and intergenerational theoretical innovation. With the community of Kampung Wates (West Java), she develops BKP (Land Affair Study Agency), a project that activates rituals, collective actions, and fictions as modes of work.
Tenthaus
Curators of Polar and Tropic Public program
Tenthaus is an artistic collective that has been working since 2009 in various collaborative constellations, (Oslo), defined by an open, process-oriented, and situated form of participation. Their practice is rooted in local contexts, from which they explore notions of collectivity and inclusion through multiple forms of engagement.
The collective operates as an expanded ecosystem that includes a project room and exhibition space, a mobile studio, and a wide range of curatorial initiatives. Tenthaus constantly reinvents itself, questioning what it means to be artists working with the public and what forms socially engaged practice takes today. Their work encompasses discursive events, radio, research, exchanges, workshops, and exhibitions with an international perspective.
JaF
Curators of Polar and Tropic Public program
Founded in 2005, Jatiwangi art Factory (JaF) is a collective platform located in a rural area of Indonesia that intertwines contemporary artistic practices with the imaginaries and rhythms of local life. Through terracotta—a material emblematic of the territory—and formats such as festivals, residencies, and community rituals, JaF articulates processes of cultural construction and critical reflection on development. In the face of advancing industrialization, their practice proposes a rereading of the landscape as a common, multisensory, and more-than-human space. JaF understands art as a tool to imagine commoning strategies that restore agency to territories and their inhabitants.
Lena Solà Nogué
Curator of Vórtex program
Lena Solà Nogué (Barcelona) is an independent curator specializing in contemporary art. Her practice focuses on research and the development of curatorial devices as forms of staging, with an emphasis on performative practices and language. She has collaborated with institutions such as Museo Tamayo (Mexico City), exploring intersections between art, territory, and institutional frameworks. Lena has also directed spaces like Taller Chullima (Havana), working with artists and curators on exhibition and editorial projects. Her approach integrates artistic production, mediation, and cultural management from a processual and collaborative perspective, both in local and international contexts.
Santiago Gasquet
Comisario del programa Vórtex
Curator of Vórtex program
Santiago Gasquet is a curator, cultural manager, and artist based in Buenos Aires. Co-director of Galería PIEDRAS, he has developed a curatorial practice that connects networks between local and international scenes, with a particular emphasis on the links between Latin America and Europe. He has led programs such as Emerging LATAM at Swab Barcelona and has collaborated with various galleries and institutions on curatorial projects that cross disciplines and formats. His approach is grounded in a critical and situated reading of contemporary art, promoting practices that challenge established narratives and expand modes of production and circulation of art.
Carla Jaria
Talks and tours. Public program
Carla Jaria (Barcelona) is a curator and researcher. Her practice explores the impact of semiocapitalism on bodies—how they are constituted, affected, related, and behave within this context. After studying a degree in Communication and Cultural Industries at the University of Barcelona, she completed a postgraduate program in Contemporary Art Analysis at the same university. In 2018, she graduated with a master’s degree in Curating & Collections from the University of the Arts London (UAL). She’s currently curating the Bienal Climática and recently she has curated projects in South London Gallery, London; The Koppel Project, London; Flat Time House, London; CC Can Felipa, Barcelona; àngels barcelona, Barcelona; Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona; CC La Farinera del Clot, Barcelona.