Hello! My name is Carlota Mir, nice to meet you.
I’m an independent curator, researcher and translator currently based between Vienna and Madrid and working across Europe. I was born in 1991 in Granada, Southern Spain. Prior to Madrid, I have been based in Brighton (UK), Vienna, Stockholm, and Paris, all places that have shaped my vision and practice. Working across places, identities and cultural mindsets is part of my professional and personal identity.
I graduated in Art History and French at the University of Sussex in 2013/Paris Sorbonne IV (Erasmus). I have an MA in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/Museo Reina Sofía, 2016) and a postgraduate in Curating (Curatorlab, Konstfack, Stockholm, 2019).
I have 10 years’ experience working in the cultural sector across Europe. At present, I combine my PhD research at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with my independent curatorial and editorial practice and occasional university teaching. My research and curatorial practice centre an expanded notion of critical care coming from different socially engaged positions that intersect. Current interests and active curatorial research involve the fields of visual arts, health and disability, migration, feminist histories, social movements, cultural rights and new institutionalities.
I’m currently co-leading the project Cosmologías Vulnerables in collaboration Museo Reina Sofía, Project Art Works and Hablarenarte, which investigates the crossings between artistic practice, disability, neurodivergence and social systems, including art institutions. From 2020 to 2022, I was a member of the Artistic Team of the Danish refugee justice centre Trampoline House, a lumbung member at documenta fifteen.
I have been working independently since 2019: prior to that, I worked as Cultural Programmer for the Spanish Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden. Furthermore, I have 10 years’ experience in the arts field as a translator and editor. I consider translation as a fundamental part of my work – as essential care work in the field of culture, as self-support, and as a creative, valuable activity.
My PhD research revolves around collective feminist genealogies of knowledge production in post-dictatorial Spain and the current position of feminist histories and cultures at Museo Reina Sofía. I’m also a co-editor of the forthcoming volume ‘Propositions on Translocal Solidarity’ (Berlin: Archive Books, 2023), a manual for socially engaged artistic practices. My work has been published by Routledge and Sternbcerg Press, amongst others.