Olga Sureda

Cultural manager, art educator and independent curator based in Tarragona. Graduated in Fine Arts at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB), she finished her studies at the University of West England, Faculty of Arts, Media and Design in Bristol, England. In 2010 she obtained her Master degree in Management and Design of Exhibitions at the European University of Madrid (UEM). Sureda has been trained as an art curator in New York, Salzburg and Berlin, where she worked as an independent curator. Olga Sureda is part of the research group of the platform Global Art Archive and since 2013 she is one of the coordinators of the training seminar ON MEDIATION_Theory and Curatorial Practices in the Global Art organized by the research Group Art Globalisation Interculturailty (AGI) from the University of Barcelona. She is the co-founder of Nectar, a rural center for artistic creation, production and research with an Artist in Residence Program (NectART) located at northeastern of Catalonia, inside Les Guilleries Natural Park.

Olga Sureda is a PhD candidate in the doctoral Program Society and Culture: History, Anthropology, Art, and Heritage at the University of Barcelona (UB), where she is also involved in the research project Visuality and Geo-Aesthetics in the Era of Eco-Social Crisis (VIGEO). Her academic interests focus on exploring how the ‘new ruralism’ redefines artistic theories and practices related to rurality through a translocal and transdisciplinary perspective, examining its aesthetic, social, and economic intersections in contemporary art between 2000 and 2025.