Javier Peña — Ibáñez (1985, Logroño), an architect based in Madrid, is a curator, researcher, teacher and consultant in architecture, design and the city. He is the Director of Concéntrico, the Logroño International Festival of Design and Architecture, and focuses on the management, curation and dissemination of cultural projects.

 

He trained in architecture at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, Universidad Politécnica, and founded Concéntrico in 2015, a festival that combines the realisation of other projects in the context of architecture and the city. Peña — Ibáñez led the artistic direction of TAC! Festival de Arquitectura Urbana in Granada (2022), co-curated the exhibition Madrid Diversa at CentroCentro (2022), curated the exhibition “A vision from Spain – New European Bauhaus” in Brussels (2022), and curated “La hoja” at Matadero Madrid. He created an intervention in the space of FAHR 021. 3 (2021 - 2023), directed the documentary “Punto de Inflexión” (2020), curated the urban section of the Biennial La Forêt Monumentale in Rouen – France (2019), as well as the Experimenta Pontevedra at the Festival de Diseño Urbano (2018) and the architecture program at the Biennial of Contemporary Art of Maia – Portugal (2019)

 

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