Christian Alonso

Christian Alonso is a researcher, curator, and teacher specializing in art and ecology. He is a lecturer in Contemporary Art History at the University of Lleida (professor lector / assistant professor) and Director of the artistic research project Hybrid Ecologies of the Llobregat Delta (https://ecodeltallobregat.org). He has previously served as Director of the Contemporary Art Center La Panera, Associate Lecturer at the University of Barcelona, Adjunct Professor at the School of Design ESDI–Ramon Llull University, Associate Lecturer at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Coordinator of the curatorial studies program On Mediation, and Project Coordinator of the research group Art, Globalization, Interculturality (University of Barcelona). He earned his BA in Art History and his MA in Advanced Studies in Art History at the University of Barcelona. He has received grants from the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Government of Spain) and from the Office for Cultural Initiative Support (OSIC), of the Department of Culture of the Government of Catalonia. He has been awarded curatorial calls at the Centre d’Art La Capella, the Centre d’Art Maristany, Can Felipa Arts Visuals, and the Sala d’Art Jove. He has extensive experience in research, teaching, management, coordination, production, and communication of curatorial, mediation, and artistic production projects. He is a member of the Catalan Association of Art Critics (ACCA) and of Càlam. Art, Education, Sustainability.

He holds a PhD in Art History (University of Barcelona), with International Mention (Utrecht University), with a dissertation that rethinks artistic practice through the ethico-aesthetic thought of philosopher Félix Guattari. His work is grounded in critical posthumanities and environmental humanities. His research interests include multispecies relations, queer ecologies and naturecultural extractivisms, and within these areas he has curated art exhibitions, published books and journals, coordinated academic activities, and directed artistic research projects. He has carried out research exchanges and stays at the University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University. He is currently involved in two funded research projects: “Visuality and Geo-Aesthetics in the Era of the Eco-Social Crisis” (VIGEO, PID2022-139211OB-I00), Faculty of Geography and History, University of Barcelona; and “Sense of Place and Socio-Spatial Inclusion in Vulnerable Neighborhoods” (SENSCLUSION, PID2021-123255OB-I00), Faculty of Arts, University of Lleida. He has previously participated in several projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spain and by the Agency for the Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR).

Among the group exhibitions he has curated are “Extractivisms. 13th Leandre Cristòfol Art Biennial” (2025); “Bodies of Water” (2024); “Queer Ecologies” (2023); “Sonic Affects” (2023) [Centre d’Art La Panera]; Multispecies Imaginaries [Centre d’Art La Capella, 2022]; Soil Politics [Centre d’Art Maristany, 2019]; Machinic Recompositions [Centre Cívic Can Felipa, 2017]; “The Great Illusion” [Sala d’Art Jove, 2015–2016]; “Barcelona Inspires” [Cercle Artístic Sant Lluc, 2014]; and “Documentary Practices in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization: Aesthetics and Politics” [Centre de Creació de Fotografia Documental, 2015]. His solo exhibitions include “Vicky Benítez. Migrant Plants” [Dr. Pius Font i Quer Arboretum – Botanical Garden of Lleida, 2025]; “Ignacio Acosta. From Mars to Venus” (2024); “Marc Herrero. The Terribility of Flesh” (2023); “Simon Contra. Technopop Mysticism” (2023) [Centre d’Art La Panera]; “Eulalia Valldosera. Plastic Mantra” [La Chinata, 2017]. He has also coordinated exhibitions such as “eye-framing=OM7” [Centre d’Art La Capella, 2021]; “Javier Peñafiel. Agency in the Future” [Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, 2017]; “Enésima intempestiva” [àngels barcelona – espai 2, 2016]; and “Tedium Vitae” [ADN Platform, 2015].

His academic publications include “Transversal Ethico-Aesthetics: Félix Guattari and the Heterogenesis of Being” [REGAC Journal of Global Studies and Contemporary Art, University of Barcelona, 2022]; Recomposicions maquíniques [Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2019]; and Mutating Ecologies in Contemporary Art [Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2019]. Some of his peer-reviewed journal articles include: “‘El arte último del siglo XX’ and ‘El arte en la era de lo global’: Two Key Texts for Understanding Contemporary Artistic Creation” (Nodo – Universidad Antonio Nariño); “Territories of Confluence: A Socio-Eco-Aesthetic Approach to the Ecologies of the Llobregat River Delta” (ANIAV–UPV, 2022); “Towards an Expanded Cultivation: The Botanical Occupations of Vicky Benítez and Other Ethico-Political Modes of Inhabiting” (Anales de Historia del Arte – UCM, 2021); “Artistic Practices, Discursive Contexts and Environmental Humanities in the Age of the Anthropocene” (Artnodes – UOC, 2015).

Recent book chapters include: “Program for a Political Ecology in Art Centers” (Ecological Assemblages – Bartlebooth, 2025); “Eduard Ruiz and the Movement of Birds” (Storks, Humans, Migrations, Housing, Waste, Toxins, Infrastructure and Heritage – La Panera / City Council of Lleida, 2024); “The Queer Perspective, an Antidote to the Heterosexist View of Nature” (Colors of Territory – Department of Labor, Social Affairs and Families, Government of Catalonia, 2024); “Sustainability Is Not a Theme, but a Method” (Mangrana Cultura Contemporània, 2023); “Generative Contaminations: Biohacking as a Method for Instituting a Politics of Life” (Deleuze, Guattari and Fascism – Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022); “Thinking with the Invasive Species: A Walk through the Natural Spaces of the Llobregat Delta” (CCCB, 2021); and “Care Is Not a Work of Art” (Centre d’Art Lo Pati, 2021, with Montserrat Rodríguez Garzo).

Among the conferences, symposia, seminars, and workshops he has organized are: “Contemporary Art & Extractivist Culture” [University of Lleida – University of Barcelona, 2025]; “Parlaments d’aigua: Terres de Lleida” [La Panera, 2024]; “Maria Hlavajova. Neither Hope Nor Despair” [La Capella, 2023]; “Onformative Studio: Art, Design and Technology” [ISEA International Symposium on Electronic Art, 2022]; “Mutating Ecologies in Contemporary Art” [MACBA / La Capella / University of Lleida, 2022; 2020; 2019; 2018; 2016]; “Indigenous Epistemologies and Artistic Imagination” [Institut Français – MACBA, 2019]; “Culture and Sustainability: 3 Days with T.J. Demos” [Fundació Tàpies – UB, 2018]; “Art and Speculative Futures” [CCCB, 2016]; and “Towards an Ecology of Knowledges” [MACBA – UB, 2016].

Website: https://christianalonso.net/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=wmSBOp8AAAAJ&hl=es

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-alonso-phd-693206209/

VIGEO: https://artglobalizationinterculturality.com/visuality-and-geoaesthetics-in-the-era-of-ecosocial-crisis-analytical-approaches/

SENSCLUSION: https://www.sensclusion.udl.cat/ca/

Hybrid Ecologies of the Llobregat Delta: https://ecodeltallobregat.org