Maria Bella

María Bella (Madrid, España, 1974). I am currently researching at the Curatorial Knowledge program at Goldsmiths University in London www.ck.kein.org. Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, finished my career at Chelsea College of Art in 1998. I studied a Masters in Art Administration and Creative Curating at Goldsmiths University between 1999 and 2000. My interest lies in exploring the boundaries that trigger and shape the public sphere and the potential of the collective in this regard. My practice is curatorial, understood as a creative and organizational activity. As curator I have always engaged with experimental methodologies that explore the limits of the public. For the last ten years I have worked mainly for the cultural department of Madrid City Council from within but also as independent curator. In 2005, on the initiative of Juan Carrete together with Frank Buschmann and myself we founded Intermediae {Creación Contemporanea} in Matadero-Madrid www.intermediae.es in response to the invitation made by Dirección General de Proyectos Culturales del Área de Las Artes del Ayuntamiento de Madrid. I was responsible of Intermediae and its curatorial approach until 2012. In 2003 I curated in collaboration with Miguel Álvarez the project Itinerarios del sonido www.itinerariosdelsonido.es a transdisciplinary project developed on the format of sound site specific pieces for which we commissioned artist from different disciplines such as Vito Acconci, Adrian Piper, Bill Fontana or Luc Ferrari, Daniel Samoilovich or Jorge E. Eielson, etc.