Curatorial visits in Barcelona during March 2026 - Four curators selected

Congratulations to the four curators selected to participate in a program of studio visits in Barcelona and Catalonia are Herkules Jansson, Silvia Thomackenstein and the curatorial duo Vestige Projects (Carina Sabrina Hundsdahl and Michaela Yarmol-Matusiak).

The curators were selected following an open call for curators based in Sweden interested in learning more about the artistic context in Barcelona and Catalonia. The program of studio visits with artists and platforms will be organized according to the curatorial practices of the selected participants.

Herkules Jansson is an artist, curator, and producer working across moving image, performance, and contemporary visual culture. His practice moves between film, installation, performance, and public programming formats that treat exhibition-making, screening, and conversation as research situations. Recurring themes in his work include how power is made to appear legitimate, how publics are organised and directed, and how misunderstanding and ideology take shape in shared situations.

Silvia Thomackenstein is a German curator and editor based in Stockholm. Her work engages editing, citation, and the material life of texts across writing, bookmaking, and exhibition making, grounded in feminist approaches to knowledge production, pedagogy, and institutional infrastructures.

Vestige Projects (Carina Sabrina Hundsdahl and Michaela Yarmol-Matusiak) are a curatorial duo exploring the residual, the fragmentary, and the unfinished. Carina Sabrina Hundsdahl and Michaela Yarmol-Matusiak ground their shared practice in the conviction that traces, material, historical, or emotional, hold the potential to generate new forms of meaning. Through collaborative writing and research, they approach curating as a process of uncovering and reactivating what lingers beneath the surface: forgotten narratives, overlooked gestures, and the quiet afterlives of objects and spaces.

This exchange project is organized by Index together with ACCA (Art Critics Association of Catalonia) and the Xarxa de Centres Territorials d’Arts Visuals de Catalunya, with the support of ICEC, the Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Institut Ramon Llull, Kulturrådet and IASPIS. In fall 2025, as a first chapter of exchange, a group of Catalan curators visited artists and institutions in Stockholm and Gothenburg to learn more about the artistic context in Sweden.

Thanks to all who applied for their interest!