Leire Vergara

Leire Vergara (Bilbao, 1973) is an independent curator and a member of Bulegoa z/b. She is currently Co-Artistic Director of the DAI Roaming Academy Master’s Programme in Artistic Practice. She has curated numerous public programmes and exhibitions, including In qualche luogo lontano: Roma at the Spanish Academy in Rome (2021); Las imágenes recurrentes. Sobre las condiciones materiales de su retorno (Recurring Images: On the Material Conditions of Their Return, with Pablo Martínez), MACBA, Barcelona (2017); and Dispositivos del tocar: Imaginación curatorial en los tiempos de las fronteras expandidas (Devices of Touch: Curatorial Imagination in Times of Expanded Borders), Trankat, Tétouan (2015). Between 2006 and 2009, she served as Chief Curator of Sala Rekalde in Bilbao, and between 2002 and 2005 she was Co-Director of D.A.E. She holds a PhD in Visual Cultures (Curatorial/Knowledge) from Goldsmiths, University of London.