Pedro Galilea
Guest Curator

After several years of close ties with Fundación´ace and Alicia Candiani, Pedro Galilea visits Buenos Aires for the first time in person to participate as a guest jury of the OPEN Buenos Aires: International Encounter of Emerging Printmakers. Within the OPEN Buenos Aires program, Galilea was part of the international selection jury for the 16 artists who were beneficiaries of the participation fellowships, was part of the international award jury that awarded 8 prizes to OPEN participating artists, was part of the panel about contemporary printmaking and contributed with the follow-up and mentoring of OPEN artists. In addition, Fundación CIEC, a space that Galilea directs and of which he is Vice President, offered two-month artistic residency awards to 2  selected artists.

Pedro Galilea has a degree in Geography and History with a specialty in Art History from the University of Salamanca, he has a Diplôme Universitaire d’Histoire de l’Art from the Faculty of History and School of Fine Arts of the University of Caen, Basse-Normandie (France), completed the Doctoral Courses The Representation of the Object at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Salamanca and a Master’s Degree in Museology at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid.

He has curated numerous exhibitions at a national level in Spain and internationally, standing out among them: the Jesús Núñez International Graphic Art Award convened by the Diputación de A Coruña (Galicia, 2006 to 2016 and 2021), the INCORUÑA Festival “The Next generation” (2013), Javier Jubera “Dame Caballo” (CIEC Foundation, 2014), “Jesús Núñez forms in the Cosmos” (Salamanca City of Culture Foundation, 2011), “Jesús Núñez, 60 years of creation” (Kiosko Alfonso de A Coruña, 2010), “Dalí-Dante, The Divine Comedy” (Caixanova Funds, 2008), “Le Corbusier, Le Poème de l’angle droit” (Brita Prinz Gallery–CIEC Foundation, 2007), “Unknown Picasso” (Fundación CIEC–Brita Prinz Gallery, 2006), “Antoní Clavé, 100 graphic works” CIEC Foundation 2003.

Pedro is currently Vice President and Director of the Fundación CIEC , the International Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Betanzos, A Coruña, a position he has held since 2005. Previously, he worked at the Brita Prinz Gallery in Madrid, specializing in graphic and printmaking works. In 1999 he receives a Research and Conservation Grant at the Prado Museum, being assigned to the department of Italian Renaissance painting.