Andrea Rodríguez Novoa (Gijón, ES) is a curator, architect and writer based in Spain and France. She is a member of IKT, International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art and C-E-A, Commissaires d’Exposition Associés (France). She was part of the acquisition committee for FRAC Normandie, France (2017-2021).
She reflects in an expanded way on space and time, image, narration and storytelling. She develops curatorial projects and writes from and about affection to talk about art. She is interested in the forms and formats of production, dissemination and transmission of contemporary art, in the "exhibition architectures" as tools for building discourse in the public, social, and political realm.
Since February 2022 Andrea Rodriguez Novoa is Co-Director and Head of the Professional Program of Barcelona Gallery Weekend (www.barcelonagalleryweekend.com). Together with Veronica Valentini, she directs, curates and teaches at BAR project (www.barproject.net / @hola.barproject), a residency and a training program in visual arts that she co-founded in Barcelona in 2012. In 2020 she co-founded in Barcelona together with the architect Magdalena Ostornol the project MIA (Meta-Industrial Architectures, @mia_architectures), in which they develop architectures that address energetic, environmental, economic and social sustainability. Since 2018 she collaborates with Leopold Banchini Architects (www.leopoldbanchini.com) in Geneva.
She has carried out curatorial projects with numerous collaborators such as : Lyon Biennale, Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Institut Français (Barcelona), Casa Velázquez (Madrid), STROOM (The Hague), SOMA Mexico (CDMX), 18th St. Art Center (Los Angeles), Bienal de Gwangju (South Korea), École de Beaux Arts Quimper (France), CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux (France), Sandberg Instituut (Amsterdam), HEAD Haute École d’art et Design (Geneva), etc. Some of her projects include : ' Slow Gala', Sixty Eight Art Institute, Copenhaguen, 2022; 'Just Because. In the blink of an eye', Bombon Projects gallery for Barcelona Gallery Weekend, 2021 ; 'A guided visit', Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, 2018; 'Whenever you do(not) feel like, keep going', Plataforma Révolver, Lisboa, 2017 ; 'Unveiling (Reflections on scape)', Primo Piano, Paris, 2017; 'One Night Stand: At- homeness despite it all', MAK Center for Art and Architecture, L. A., 2016; 'Plagiarizing the future', Hangar, Lisbon, 2015 ; 'Promenade architecturale', Centro de Arte Fort du Bruissin, Lyon, 2014, etc.