Luis Guerra Miranda

Biography

Luis Guerra Miranda is a visual artist and philosopher. He holds the Ramón y Cajal Senior Researcher position at the Institute of Philosophy - CSIC Spanish Council of Scientific Research. Former Senior Researcher at MIAS Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies, Casa de Velázquez and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and former Senior Researcher at the Research Institute at The University of the Arts in Helsinki, Finland. He co-organized the GOAP (Open Group of Political Art) at the Arts Santa Mónica Center in Barcelona (Feb - Dec 2024). Former Fellow Artist-Researcher at the Art & Theory program, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria 2022-2023, and former fellow researcher at the Postfoundational Thinking Research Group, University of Barcelona (2022-2023). He has also been a Kone Foundation Grantee 2020 and Resident Fellow 2021 at the Saastamoinen Foundation. From 2019 to 2020, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Artistic Research (CfAR) at the University of the Arts Helsinki. He also worked as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Barcelona. In 2017, he was a resident artist at La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, and he did a research residency at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía de Madrid from 2015 to 2016.

His current research at the Institute of Philosophy CSIC explores how art and design reparatory practices constitute pedagogical devices that create informal learning spaces where resilient methodologies and vulnerable knowledge can grow and compose sustainable ecologies of institutional activism. Understanding the reparatory perspective involves strengthening our contemporary conceptions of creation and sustainable culture in the public sphere that assumes and includes the need to respond to different global and local challenges through artistic and design methodologies that reflect the diversity and complexity of our societies, recognizing the historical and culturally diverse roots, languages and ways of life, as well as the urgency of current ecological changes.
The reparatory approach considers contemporary art and design practices from an inclusive and regenerative perspective as critical-cognitive, reflexive, and experimental forms. A reparatory approach will focus on the networks and relationships built between social communities, reparatory art and design practices, and their pedagogical potential in an informal and extended social and political context. My research focuses on initiatives already adopting a reparatory perspective, responding to material and immaterial social needs, and extending reparations towards the boundaries of social relations, emotional fields, communicative performativities, poetics of attention, and ecologies of collective affect.

In 2024, he published his third book, On Gestural Apparatuses for a Memory to Come, Academy of Fine Arts Press, University of the Arts Helsinki. In 2022, he published Wandering Echoes (Errant Bodies Press, Berlin). His art has been exhibited internationally at Kunstpavilion Innsbruck, Fabra I Coats Centre de Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Tàpies Foundation, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Chile, Fundación Matucana 100, Fundación Proa, among others. He has also participated in Liste Art Fair, Basel, ArteBO, Bogotá, ArteBA, Buenos Aires, Chaco Art Fair, SCL.