Juan Insua
Head of projects at the CCCB Lab until 2021, exhibition curator and promoter of research and innovation in the field of culture.
Juan Insua is the former Director of the CCCB Lab, where he led different projects, and has been involved with the CCCB since 1993. He conceived and curated the exhibitions “Cities and Writers”: “James Joyce’s Dublin” (1995, FAD Prize in the “Ephemeral Spaces” category), “The Lisbons of Pessoa” (1997, Laus’ 98 Prize for the best three-dimensional communication), “The City of K. Franz Kafka and Prague” (1999) and “Borges and Buenos Aires” (2002, City of Barcelona Prize, 2003). He also created and directed the season of installations “Leading Lights of the 20th century”. Since 2002 he has been the Director of the Kosmopolis international literature fest. In 2005 he was appointed Head of the CCCB’s Cultural Activities Department, a period in which he created projects for reflection and debate on current issues that experimented with different formats: BCNmp7, NOW. Encounters in the Present Continuous, I+C+i. Research and innovation in the cultural sphere, and NANO. the CCCB’s programme for families. In 2008 he received the FAD Medal, awarded each year by Foment de les Arts i del Disseny (FAD) to people or institutions that have made contributions to the social and cultural life of the country. His most recent exhibition was “Mars. The Red Mirror” (2021), which will soon be opened at the Singapore Museum of Art and Science. He is currently working on a project about the power of wonder.
Update: 8 May 2023
Contents
The Home of All of US
Juan Insua
Science and Spirit in the Attention Economy
Juan Insua
Juan Insua: "The exhibition is a cultural history of Mars".
Interview to the curator of "Mars. The red mirror"
Inside the red mirror
Juan Insua
Internet and Culture
Talk with the jury of the 3rd Cultural Innovation International Prize
The Creature with no Name
Soy cámara online
Lluís Nacenta and José Luis de Vicente
What is an exhibition for?
Michel Serres: To think is to invent
Juan Insua
The evolution of lab culture
Juan Insua
Cultural Innovation Prize. Citizen innovation and cultural mediation
Dialogue with Marcos García
Cultural Innovation Prize. Award Ceremony
Announcement of the jury's decision and the presentation of the 2014-2015 Prize to the winning project
Web 2.0 Ten Years On
Juan Insua
Internet Universe. Internet: a history under construction
Lecture by Juan Insua
Interview with Juan Insua
Director of the «Global Screen» virtual platform
NOW #2 Encuentros en el presente contínuo
Soy Cámara, CCCB’s Programme
NOW #1 Meetings in the present continuous
Soy Cámara, CCCB’s Programme
Gao Xingjian's world
Soy Cámara online
Networks, processes and platforms
Juan Insua
Soy Cámara #5. I+C+i
The CCCB’s Programme
Interview with Juan Insua
Director of Kosmopolis
CCCB LAB
Presentation
Interview with Juan Insua
I+C+i 2009
Publications
Cosmópolis
Borges y Buenos Aires
