Leire Vergara is an independent curator, researcher, andfounding member of Bulegoa z/b, an office for art and knowledge based in Bilbao,Spain. She has curated several public programs and exhibitions, such as Inqualche luogo lontano: Roma, Accademia di Spagna, Rome, 2021; The Recurring Images, MACBA - Museum ofContemporary Art of Barcelona, 2017 (with Pablo Martínez); The Papers of Exhibition (1977–2017), Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao, 2016–(with Beatriz Cavia, Isabel de Naverán, and Miren Jaio); Black or White Screen: The Power of Seeing Images Together, CA2M - Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo,Madrid, 2016; Dispositifs of Touching:Curatorial Imagination in the Time of Expanded Borders, Trankat, Tétouan, Morocco, 2015; EL CONTRATO, Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao, 2013–15 (with Beatriz Cavia, Isabel deNaverán, and Miren Jaio); Form andMeaning, MUSAC –Museode Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, France, 2012–14; and Materiality, Alternativa Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, Poland, 2012 (withInes Moreira, Arne Hendriks, and Aneta Szylak). Vergara worked as Chief Curatorat Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (2006–09) and as Co-director (with Peio Aguirre) ofD.A.E., Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain (2002–05). She has contributed as writer toart and cultural magazines, catalogues, and artists’ books. Vergara holds a PhDin (Curatorial/Knowledge) Visual Cultures, from Goldsmiths College, Universityof London. Since 2016, she has been teaching the course “Curating Positions” atthe Dutch Art Institute, ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem.

Leire Vergara is participating in the fourth edition of WHW Akademija within the public program Evenings with WHW Akademija.

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