Arnau Horta holds a PhD in Philosophy and develops his activity in the field of curatorship, teaching, cultural criticism and artistic research. He has collaborated with the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA), the National Museum of Contemporary Art Reina Sofía (MNCARS), the Picasso Museum of Barcelona, the Joan Miró Foundation, La Virreina. Centre de la Imatge, the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB), the Max Planck Institute (Berlin) among other projects and cultural initiatives. In 2020 he was awarded the GAC prize for best curatorship of the year for the exhibition Sound Art?, organized by the Joan Miró Foundation and sponsored by the BBVA Foundation. He is part of the curatorial team of the Eufònic sonic and visual arts festival, where he is responsible for curating exhibitions and conceptualizing and coordinating workshops and other public activities. He is a member of the Independent Curators International (ICI) network, the Spanish Society of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts (SEyTA) and is part of the team of the Radio del Museo Reina Sofía (RRS), where he directs and produces the program Sonic Genealogies. He currently teaches Aesthetics and Art Theory at Bau. College of Arts and Design in Barcelona and has collaborated with universities and other educational projects such as Virginia Tech, the Humanities Institute of Barcelona, Elisava (University School of Design and Engineering of Barcelona), ESDi (School of Design) or the IED (Istituto Europeo di Design). He has been commissioned to write texts for various exhibition catalogues, both national and international, and is a contributor to the supplement Cultura/s (La Vanguardia), the digital magazine Núvol and the blog CCCB Lab.
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