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Marta Ramos-Yzquierdo

Art History Graduate from Complutense University, with a Master's degree in Cultural Management from the Ortega y Gasset Institute, and as curator from ICI New York. From 2003 to 2015, she lived in Chile and Brazil, where she worked in various institutions and print medias. Upon returning to Spain, she served as Director of LOOP Barcelona 2017, was a resident at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome from 2018 to 2019, and is a professor of Curatorial Practices in the Master’s program at the SUR Escuela (Carlos III University, Círculo de Bellas Artes).

She is currently working on several projects on structural violence inherited from fascism and art and image as places of resistance, notably the collective exhibition ‘Resistance. The power of the Image’ at S.M.A.K Gent (Belgium), until 9 March 2026, and "Rumor ronco [hoarse rumour] Questions for Possible Futures," which will inaugurate the new phase of Tabacalera Madrid in February 2026, as well as solo exhibitions by artists Nicolás Combarro, Museo Universidad de Navarra, and Irene de Andrés, Els Baluards (Palma de Mallorca).

At the same time, currently she is the Resident Curator at the Condeduque Contemporary Culture Center, overseeing its Visual Arts program. 2025 season Facing the image, go beyond includes the group show Nuevos imaginarios, showing the intersection between new cinema and art space, and two solo exhibition by Lola Lasurt and Mariela Scafati, ending the year with the public program The Assembly of the Image to Come lead by Andrea Muniáin, Marina Otero, Enrique Radigales, Institute for Postnatural Studies and XenoVisual Studies (XVS). The program, The Sound of Your Eye Brushing By, launched in September 2024, focuses on non-visual perceptual capabilities to explore the body as the primary technology for world experimentation and reality construction. It will feature the exhibition Este puede ser el lugar. Performar el museo, and new works by Itziar Okariz, Fuentesal and Arenillas, Andrea Canepa, and Jonathas de Andrade.
She is also responsible for the propgram This Is How Things Are at Cineteca Madrid in Matadero, that delves into the intersection between cinema and art.

Her main lines of work focus on analyzing power structures and exploring the possibilities of action through contemporary art practices. This includes studying modes of perception, temporal, sociopolitical, and economic conceptions and space; and especially the construction of historical narratives and the stories left on the margins. Her research is grounded in postcolonial theory and knowledge of alternative ontologies, with a particular focus on the geopolitical South and the local-global paradigm, alongside a reevaluation of the concept of labor as a social framework and the artist as a worker.

Since 2013, she has delved into multidisciplinary studies on artistic work and its societal perception, proposing a reevaluation of the concept of labor as a social framework. From 2018 to 2019, her project titled Trabajar - / Hacer + was selected for a residency grant at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, extended into residencies at spaces like Lugar a Dudas in Cali, Colombia, and Azkuna Zentroa in Bilbao, Spain.


She has curated projects such as Partir do Erro (2014), O sublime e a distopia (2014), Ícaro Lira’s Campo Geral (2015), Trabalhe + Faça - (2016) in São Paulo, Brazil; La Historia la escriben los vencedores (2014), Felipe Ehrenberg’s 67//15 (2015), Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen’s In a Flickering Light for LOOP Festival / MACBA, Barcelona (2018), Almudena Lobera’s Technical Images at Tabacalera, Madrid (2020); and The way you read a book is different to how I tell you a story at Jahn und Jahn, Munich, Germany (2018).

Among her last exhibitions are SUPER SUPERLIKE. Digital Impulses and Virtual Emotions co-curated with Enrique Radigales, Condeduque Contemporary Culture Center in Madrid (2021); The Medium and Time. Contemporary Artists in the Laboratory of Henriette Nigrin and Mariano Fortuny, Diputación de Granada, with Nicolás Combarro (2021); Aguasvivas, Galería Silió, Madrid, (2022), Agua que no moja a quien la toca by Amanda Moreno at the Párraga Center in Murcia (2022); Cúmulos. Injuve Grants for Young Visual Artists 2021–2022 at Sala Amadís, INJUVE, Madrid (2023); Not Only What, But Also How, a critical review of the 2030 Agenda, for the Spanish Cultural Office in the U.S. and online (2023-2024); Reflejar la casi nada, Luis Adelantado, Valencia, (2023). Since 2022, she has overseen the itinerant program of the CA2M Museum Collection, A Collaborative Practice. Assembly Kit of the CA2M Museum Collection, first installation at Cultural Center of Spain in Montevideo, Uruguay, (2023).

She has authored numerous texts for artists—Luis Gordillo, Julia Huete, Carlos Irijalba, Bruno Moreschi, Cristina Garrido, Tuxspo Poyo, or Alberto Casari. She co-authored texts for recent publications by Andrea Canepa (Oro alla Patria, 2021) and Irene de Andrés (El barco no espera, 2022).