Sergi Álvarez

Activity and/or professional career

• Curator at Dilalica (Barcelona).
• Independent curator.
• Art critic (A*Desk, Exit-express, Found Footage Magazine, El Ciervo, Materia...).
• Research and curatorial assistant at institutions such as CCCB (Barcelona), Yace de Paume (Paris), Centre Pompidou (Paris), among others.

Publications

• Texts for the catalogue Jean Painlevé. Les pieds dans l'eau, éditions du Jeau de Paume, Lienart Éditions, Paris, 2022. ISBN: 9782359063806. 
• ‘Experts in Home-Cosmography. Thoreau from the Experience of Jonas Mekas and the Cinematographic Avant-garde’, Live Deep and Suck All the Marrow of Life. H.D. Thoreau's Literary Legacy, Vernon Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781622734641.
• ‘Un amor salvaje que arruina nuestra paz’, Inéditos 2019, exhibition catalogue at La Casa Encendida, Madrid, 2019. ISBN: 9788409114603.
• ‘No aceptaremos las ataduras. Jonas Mekas y la tradición norteamericana de Thoreau y Whitman’, Editorial Brumaria, Madrid, 2017. ISBN 9788494710513.
• ‘Harun Farocki and the Archive. What Images Show, What Images Conceal’, Found Footage Magazine, no 3, March 2017.

Work

• ‘A Corner in Wheat’, duet between Beatriz Olabarrieta and Mario Santamaría, Dilalica (Barcelona), 2024.
• ‘GRIS PLOM. Arts visuals a Sabadell, 1960-2024’, Museum of Art of Sabadell, Academy of Fine Arts of Sabadell, Nauestruch (Sabadell), 2024. Research and co-curator with Maya Creus as chief curator.
• ‘Una casa sense foc és com un cos sense sang’, Can Felipa (Barcelona), 2023. 
• ‘Des soleils encore verts’, Mains d'Œuvres, CAC Brétigny, Bétonsalon, DOC! (Paris), 2021. Co-curator as a member of the Champs Magnétiques collective.
• ‘A wild love that ruins our peace’, winning project of the Inéditos 2019 call at La Casa Encendida (Madrid), 2019.

Awards / Merits

• Grant for research and innovation in the fields of visual arts, architecture, design, performing arts, music and thought. Grant awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Oficina de Suport a l'Iniciativa Cultural. 2024.
• Encura VII Grant. Curatorial research residency between Barcelona and Madrid organised by Hangar, CA2M, Casa de Velázquez, hablarenarte and with the support of AC/E for curators and researchers. Barcelona, Madrid. 2024. 
• Lauréat Prix Dauphine pour l'art contemporain 2022 in partnership with the artist Valentin Ranger. Paris. June 2022.
• La Caixa’ scholarship for postgraduate studies at universities or research centres in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), North America or Asia-Pacific. September 2020 to December 2021.
• Winner of the Inéditos 2019 call by La Casa Encendida. Madrid.