Mery Cuesta
Director of MINV, teaches Comic Language and Visual Culture
She holds a PhD in Communication and is a cultural critic, exhibition curator, and educator. She has curated around thirty exhibitions on popular culture and outsider art, including “Quinquis de los 80: Cinema, Press, and Street” (La Casa Encendida, CCCB), “Balsam and Escape: Artistic Creation in the Penitentiary Institution” (CaixaForum), “Irreducible Art: Mirages of Art Brut” (Modelo Prison), and “Absurd Humor: A Constellation of Nonsense in Spain” (Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo).
She was the curator of the Catalan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2017. In 2019, she received the Gràffica Award for her “dedication to the critical dissemination of popular and underground visual culture,” in the jury’s words. Her most recent published essay is “Absurd Humor.”
“Concentration, an open mind, and the courage to take risks are key to making any learning process fruitful and profound. If we add a touch of experimentality to all this, the combination becomes unbeatable”.
