LUIS GUERRA

Luis Guerra Miranda is a visual artist and philosopher. He holds the Ramón y Cajal Senior Researcher position at the Institute of Philosophy - Spanish Council of Scientific Research CSIC . He was Senior Researcher at MIAS Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies, Casa de Velázquez and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and Senior Researcher at the Research Institute at The University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland. He co-organized the GOAP (Open Group of Political Art) at the Arts Santa Mónica Center in Barcelona (Feb - Dec 2024). He was also Fellow Artist-Researcher at the Art & Theory program, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria 2022-2023, and fellow researcher at the Postfoundational Thinking Research Group, University of Barcelona (2022-2023).

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The main objective of his current research is to generate a new theoretical and practical framework from a reparatory perspective in the field of art and design practices, which involves strengthening our contemporary conceptions of creation and sustainable culture in the public sphere that assumes and includes the need to respond to different global and local challenges through artistic and design methodologies reflecting the diversity and complexity of our societies, recognizing the historical and culturally diverse roots, languages and ways of life, as well as the urgency of current ecological changes. This project began in 2022 when he was the PI of the artistic research project Reparatory Arts and Design, Sustainable Ecologies of Embodied Practices, Vulnerable Knowledge, and Resilient Methodologies in Barcelona. 7495 D/480000103/4411/0000, funded by the OSIC Generalitat de Catalunya. 

The reparatory approach considers contemporary art and design practices from an inclusive and regenerative perspective as critical-cognitive, reflexive, and experimental forms. A reparatory approach will focus on the networks and relationships built between social communities, reparatory art and design practices, and their pedagogical potential in an informal and extended social and political context. This research recognizes that art is a fundamental agent in transforming, sustaining, and holding social and knowledge production contexts. My research focuses on artistic initiatives already adopting a reparatory perspective, responding to material and immaterial social needs, and extending reparations towards the boundaries of social relations, emotional fields, communicative performativities, poetics of attention, and ecologies of collective affect.

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Guerra’s work as an artist has been exhibited at the Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck, Austria; Fabra I Coats Centre d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona; Museo de Reus, Reus, Spain; Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany; Fundació Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, Spain; Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago de Chile; Goethe-Institut de Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Arte Lo Pati, Amposta, Spain; La Capella, Barcelona, Spain; Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen, Norway; Aratoi Museum of Art and History, Masterton, New Zealand; Fonderie Darling, Montréal, Canada; Charlotte Fogh Contemporary, Aarhus, Denmark; Alice Day gallery, Brussels, Belgic; Galería Casa Sin Fin, Madrid, Spain; Root Division, San Francisco, USA; Litteraturhuset (VOLT), Bergen, Norway; Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago de Chile; Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, among others. Also, he has participated at the LISTE Art Fair, Basel; ARTEBA, Buenos Aires; CIGE, Beijing; Chaco, Santiago de Chile; Brussels Art Fair, Brussels; ARTBO, Bogotá.