Charla "Entre las imágenes y el imaginario colectivo" / Talk "Between images and collective imaginary" - Arts Santa Mònica 20th June 2013





  Grabación Jose A Santos

With the intention of inspiring further critical interpretations, a meeting of discussions among experts from the world of art and history and the public, has been proposed. The three guests: historian Anna Pelka, manager of Kowasa gallery Natasha Christià, artist Joachim Schmid and the moderator of the tallk the artist Antonio Ortega.

Antonio Ortega, Sant Celoni 1968.
PhD in Fine Arts by the Universitat de Barcelona.
He completed his training in ENSBA in Paris, 1991, with the London Biennale 2000 and he was granted by the program Atelierstipendium Moenchendladbach Stadt in 2002
He has produced individual projects in Museu de l’Empordà, Fundació Joan Miró -espai 13 -, Abteiberg Museum in Moenchengladbach, SMoCA in Phoenix AZ, The Showroom in London or OK Centrum in Linz. He has been responsible for activities and education in the CASM and and currently teaches at the Escuela Massana. Author of the essay “Demagoguery and Propaganda in Art” edited by Cru. He is represented by the gallery Klaus and Elisabeth Thoman based in Innsbruck and Vienna.
http://www.antoniaortega.com/

Anna Pelka was born in Chorzow (Poland) in 1975. She studied Art History at the University of Warsaw and has a doctorate from the Ruhr University Bochum (Germany). At present she is a researcher at the Chair of European History of the 19th and 20th centuries of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Her fields of expertise are art, design and architecture and their socio-political implications in the former Eastern Bloc and in Franco’s Spain. Among others, she is the author of Jugendmode und Politik in der DDR und in Polen and Teksas-Land. Moda młodzieżowa w PRL.
http://www.ngzg.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/personen/ls_baumeister/pelka_anna/index.html

Joachim Schmid is an artist based in Berlin, Germany. He has exhibited extensively and his work is held in the collections of many major international institutions. 

http://schmid.wordpress.com/cv/

Natasha Christià - Art director at KOWASA gallery and development and project coordinator at KOWASA bookstore. She is member of the research group Arqueologia del Punt de Vista, for which she elaborates a series of curatorial, educational and audiovisual projects that deal with an analysis of the perception of actuality through the study and the recovery of testimonies, documents and representation technologies of anterior times. She complements her professional activity as a teacher at the GrisArt photography school and as a freelance editor and writer for publications and international photography magazines. 
www.natashachristia.com