Carolina Grau /Curator
ABOUT ME:
IThis site belongs to Carolina Grau. I work as an independent curator specialising in contemporary art and these post features a selection of my projects, past and present. I have recently relocated to Barcelona after living in London for 15 years.
I organised international exhibitions, projects and events. I have worked and collaborated with a wide range of institutions in the public and private sector in United Kingdom, USA, France, Portugal, Brazil, Italy and Spain. In the past two decades, I have curated and worked with alternative spaces (Cubitt Gallery, London and Passatge Barcelona), commercial galleries (such as Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisboa and Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo), private foundations (Parasol-Unit Foundation, London), public institutions (MARCO, Vigo; Tabakalera San Sebastian; Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid; Serpentine Gallery, London; Tate Modern, London and La Galerie Centre d’art contemporain, Paris).
I have worked closely on projects with a number of artists, including Ignasi Aballí (Spain), Tonico Lemos Auad (Brazil / UK), Adriana Barreto (Brazil), Anna Barribal (UK), Caterina Branco (Portugal), Pedro Cabrita Reis (Portugal), Mauro Cerqueira (Portugal), Phil Collins (UK), Toni Crabb (Zimbawe / Spain), Martin Creed (UK), Angela de la Cruz (Spain/UK), Patricia Dauder (Spain), Marcelline Delbecq (France), Carla Filipe (Portugal), Ceal Floyer (UK/Germany), Siobhan Hapaska (UK), Marine Hugonnier (France), Ali Kazma (Turkey), Tamara Kuselman (Argentina / The Netherlands), Gabriel Kuri (Mexico / Belgium), Marepe (Brazil), Muntadas (Spain), Juan Muñoz (Spain), Rosalind Nashashibi (UK), Peter Piller (Germany), Wilfredo Prieto (Cuba/Spain), Anri Sala (Albania), Juliao Sarmento (Portugal), Amie Siegel (USA), Lisa Tan (USA), Rui Toscano (Portugal), Costa Vece (Swizterland), Lawrence Weiner (USA) and Rachel Whiteread (UK).
ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT:
My environmental impact is small, yet I acknowledge that my largest impact comes from flights and the mobility practices of the sector I work in. I believe that art and culture have a role to play in bringing about ambitious change, applying best practices and setting a positive example to position the climate crisis at the centre of the political and social debate.
Since 2022 I’m individual Active Members of the Gallery Climate Coalition, an international group of over 1100 artists, galleries, museums and professionals from more than 40 countries that provides sustainability guidelines for the visual arts sector.
As Active Members I am committed to measuring and sharing my carbon footprint on a yearly basis to comply with the GCC target of reducing carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 (when compared to a 2019 baseline). Following GCC guidelines, rather than purchasing carbon offsets I set aside a yearly fund to be spent on low-carbon purchasing options that would otherwise be unaffordable. My intention is to eliminate unwarranted air travel when there is an alternative rail or sea route that takes less 7 hours – a policy adopted by the Barcelona City Council in 2020.
This website runs on sustainable energy. According to websitecarbon.com.
My carbon emissions were 7.2tCo2e in 2018 (baseline year), 2.6tCo2e in 2023 and 2.8tCo2e in 2024.
(Last update: 1 April 2025).
NEWS
I'm working in the solo exhibition of Muntadas. Otro lugar / Everywhere from 29th May 2025 at Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon.
This site is a work in progress done by me.
The featured projects were staged with the help of many people, only some of them are listed here: Shortly...
Please note that all images are copyright the original artists and photographers. For Look Again: Jesús Mª Pemán and Tabakalera, San Sebastian; For Martin Creed: Things, Kinestesia and Sala Alcalá 31, Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid. For Tempo Liquido, Mauro Cerqueira and Patricia Dauder at Arquipélago centro de artes contemporaneas Azores are: Alvaro Miranda and Miguel Machado.