Director, producer and cultural essayist

Ingrid Guardiola

Ingrid Guardiola is Doctor of Humanities (Pompeu Fabra University). She is a lecturer at the University of Girona, essayist, audiovisual producer and cultural researcher. She was the Director of the Bòlit - Center of Contemporary Art of Girona from May 2021 until May 2025. Her work explores the socio-cultural relationships established between culture, technology and society, and addresses issues such as inequality and gender.

In the field of cultural management and production, she made contents and coordinated projects for the CCCB such as Soy Cámara, BCNmp7, Gandules, En Guerra, NANO, Canal Alfa de Kosmopolis, NOW o Xcèntric, from 2002 until 2020. She coordinated, the MINIPUT - Quality Television Festival (2002-2018), the Mercat Audiovisual de Catalunya-MAC (2005-2006) and the PrimaveraPro on Screen (year one, 2016).

She was a member of the executive committee of the Council of Culture of Barcelona City Council (2016-2021), a member of the Teatre Lliure Advisory Council (2019-2021) and member of the of the board of Hangar (2020-2021).

In 2017 she released her first documentary feature, Casa de ningú (Boogaloo Films, Open Society Foundations, CCCB). In 2018 she published her first essay, L’ull i la navalla: un assaig sobre el món com a interfície (Serra d’Or Critic’s Prize for Essay). She published her second essay written with Marta Segarra: Fils, un assaig sobre el confinament, la vigilància i l’anormalitat (Arcàdia, 2020). In 2025, she has published La servitud dels protocols (Arcàdia), in Catalan and Spanish.

She has co-curated or participated in the exhibitions "Vendrán las mujeres" (2025, with Mita Casacuberta and Anna Maria Iglesias, Museo Cabañas de Guadalajara, México), "Brutal/Feral: Arquitectures de supervivència" (2025, Bòlit, curatorial support to Andrés Hispano), "Forats per a fer un rèquiem" (2024, Bòlit), "Apories sobre l'aire" (2024, Bòlit, with Olga Subirós), "Com va obrint-se la pell sense un punyal" (2024, Embarrat), "Vessar l'ombra: Pep Aymerich" (2024, Canònica de Vilabertran), "Fer créixer plantes en l'obscuritat" (2023), "El meu cos coneix cants inaudits, la carn diu ver, soc carn espaiosa que canta" (2023, Bòlit, ACCA Awards finalist for best curatorship), "És a no dir: Mim Juncà i Alícia Voguel" (2023, Canònica de Vilabertran), "Parar taula: Tura Sanglas, Isabel Banal" (2022, Canònica de Vilabertran), "Insectòdrom" (2022, Bòlit), "Cap a les deus: una gramàtica fluvial" (2021, Bòlit, ACCA Awards finalist for best curatorship), "Radiomensió" (El Prat de Llobregat 2009, IDENSITAT project), "La dimensió poc coneguda: Pioneres del cinema" (Museu del Cinema, 2014) and "Terralab" (2016-2018, MUME, Museu de l’Empordà).


Has participated in

Xcèntric Archive