Manifesta purposely strives to keep its distance from what are often seen as the dominant centres of artistic production, instead seeking fresh and fertile terrain for the mapping of a new cultural topography.
Manifesta 15 Barcelona took place in Barcelona and 11 surrounding cities ot its metropolitan region.
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Germán Labrador, ES
Escola de Passats, Installation view 2024 © Germán Labrador Méndez. Photo © Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana / Ivan Erofeev.
Germán Labrador Méndez has been a Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University since 2008. He has served as the Director of Public Activities at the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid) (2021-2023), where he coordinated Connective Tissues, an independent academic programme on artistic research, cultural studies and critical museography (2022-2024). His research focuses on contemporary Spanish cultural history and explores topics such as memory, poetry, social movements, democracy, resistance, ecology and critical aesthetics. Among his publications, he has authored Guilty of Literature. Political Imagination and Counter-Culture in the Spanish Transition to Democracy (1968-1984). Labrador has curated several exhibitions, including at the Museo Reina Sofía, and continues to contribute extensively to Spanish literary and cultural studies.