THE RYDER PROJECTS ANNOUNCED NEW CURATORS
The curatorial duo Carmen Lael Hines and Roberto Majano will be the new Head Curators at The RYDER Projects. This represents a new stage in the gallery that succeeds the period led by Rafa Barber, who has held this position heretofore.
Carmen Lael Hines and Roberto Majano met in Venice in 2021 in the context of the Architecture Biennale, to which they both actively contributed. Together they have curated Bordering Plants at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, a concept which has framed the upcoming edited volume published by the Academy's series with Sternberg Press. The curatorial duo recently won the call for curators in the Sala de Arte Joven of Madrid for 2025 with the proposal Materia Afectiva, which will explore AI and aesthetics through the lens of feminist and queer theory.
Their first curated exhibition with The RYDER Projects will be Exhausted and Exuberant, the first solo show at the gallery by Barcelona-based artist Lúa Coderch, opening Saturday, 25 January 2025. Through a series of multi-media works, the exhibition will explore the boundaries between self-care and self-abuse in the post-industrial Information Age. Lúa Coderch investigates how language and images give shape and meaning to our lives. Her works questions the reality/fiction dichotomy by exploring situations and scenarios that transform abstract questions into experiences and sensations.
Carmen Lael Hines is a curator, writer, and researcher whose work explores the intersection of art, architecture, and design, with a focus on technology and new media theory. She served as a lecturer in the Department of Visual Culture at the Technical University of Vienna (2020–2024) and has taught at institutions such as HEAD – Genève, the University of Bologna, and Floating University Berlin. She is currently a project manager and faculty member at the Institute of Postnatural Studies in Madrid. Hines is co-editing two books: Dissident Practices (Bloomsbury) and Plantspace: Visual Cultures of the Vegetal (Sternberg Press). Her curatorial practice focuses on experimental exhibition design methods grounded in critical theory and contemporary philosophy. She is currently developing an exhibition at the Funkhaus, Austria's oldest broadcasting center, in collaboration with NEVER AT HOME.
Roberto Majano is an art historian, writer, and curator with academic training in Spain, Brazil, China, and Italy. He has held scholarships at prestigious institutions such as the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome. His professional experience includes roles in major cultural events like the Milan Universal Exhibition (2015) and the Venice Biennale (2017–2021). Until 2023, he served as registrar and communications manager at the Juana de Aizpuru gallery in Madrid. Majano’s work focuses on cultural communication and bridging high and low culture. He has contributed to publications like El Cultural, Exit Magazine, AD-Architectural Digest, and Adesk. As co-founder of CineSAUER, a neighborhood film club in Carabanchel, he connects audiovisual media with contextualized cultural proposals. His curatorial practice combines art history and contemporary art to explore new aesthetic languages that challenge and expand traditional narratives.
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The Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AECID) has collaborated in the preparation of the program, as well as the Spanish Cultural Centers in Montevideo, Paraguay and Costa Rica and, for the first time, the Atlantic Center of Modern Art-CAAM of Gran Canaria.
Visión y presencia will be held from January 22 to December 10, 2025 at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Paseo del Prado, 8, Madrid (Spain).
