Dr. Pilar Bonet

Period active: 2016 – 2021

Art historian and critic, professor of theory and history of contemporary art and design (UB, ESDI-URL, ELISAVA-UPF, IL3-UB).She teaches undergraduate and master’s degrees and seminars on the practice and history of contemporary art and design, culture urban, art criticism and curating, feminist theory, artist editions and the creativity of women mediums and visionaries of early 20th century. Since 2011 she has been working on the new readings on the visionary creativity of European women of the first half of the century XX, linked to mediumship and healing. She has participated in numerous activities related to the study on the gender stereotypes in museums, the production of women in the historical vanguards, the review of the historiographical narrative, the sexist nature of history, debates on gender and the forms of critical production in the domestic territory and laborcraft. As a public art critic in different media, she is interested in current international artistic production and the political turns of art. Member of the Catalan Association of Art Critics, ACCA, and AICA International. She gives lectures and participates in round tables on contemporary art, creativity and gender, museums and gender, artistic production processes, art and historical memory etc. Member of the management team of the Can Xalant Contemporary Thought and Production Center (Mataró), director of the Arts Coming, member of the ACM Association and president of the Josefa Tolrà Association (1880-1959).