Manuela Villa Acosta (M.Res in Curatorial/Knowledge, 2015-2016)

Manuela Villa Acosta is a cultural producer based in Madrid and working as Head of Art Programmes in Matadero Madrid. Her practice could be defined as that of establishing curatorial frameworks in which to work collectively with other curators, educators, architects, artists, critics, thinkers or citizens in projects that challenge concepts such as exhibition, authorship, cultural production or discipline. She is a founding member of the tool for cultural agitation Ladinamo and during her time in Matadero, she has co-created projects like Archive of creators, El Ranchito, Here Together Now, Levadura. Residency programe for creators-educators or Community and Theory. Programme of Thought of Matadero Madrid, with three collective and participated research groups: Decolonizing Knowledge and Aesthetics, Ecology, New Territory and Landscapes in Contemporary Culture and Microondas. Laboratory of Disruptive Education. She has also curated the site specific programme Abierto x Obras with artists such as Los Carpinteros, Roman Signer, Cristina Lucas, Marinella Senatore, Sara Ramo or Carlos Garaicoa.

Research project: The Museum is a School. Collective exercises of political fiction for a transforming institutional critique (working title), together with other pedagogy collectives and Education departments working in the Spanish territory.