Àngels Miralda is an independent curator and writer whose main research focuses on the connection between landscape and identity. How is culture formed from the outlines of mountains, the consistency of soil, and the availability of fresh water? Human identity is a negotiation with our material surroundings. Imperialism imposes forms that are out-of-sync with local environments, imposed by the servile institutions. Our human ability to adapt and change in the face of migration, shifting climate, and necessity is at the forefront of this critical approach to locality-based contemporary culture.
Miralda is internationally recognised for her theoretical and critical texts such as “Who Killed the Independent Curator?” published in Frieze Magazine as well as her four-year tenure as editor-in-chief of Collecteurs Magazine that persistently called on institutional accountability in the face of ongoing genocide in Palestine. She has organised over 60 exhibitions in the last 10 years including the large-scale international biennials Contemporary Biennial TEA in Tenerife (2024), and two editions of Off-Biennial Cairo (2023 & 2025).
She has organised institutional shows at MAAC (Guayaquil, Ecuador), Radius CCA (Delft), Tallinn Art Hall (Estonia), MGLC – International Centre for Graphic Arts (Ljubljana, Slovenia), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chile (Santiago), Museu de Angra do Heroísmo (Terceira – Azores), and the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (Riga). What she loves most is working with and supporting independent spaces including recent exhibitions at P////AKT (Amsterdam), Garage Art Space (Nicosia, Cyprus), Indebt (Amsterdam), and Taca (Mallorca).
As a writer, Miralda has published texts in publications and artist monographs with publishers such as Phaidon Press, Cukrarna (Ljubljana), TBA 21, IVAM (Valencian Institute of Modern Art) and GRIMM Gallery among many others.
Àngels Miralda. Photo credit: Alexandros Tiliopoulous