Cristina Anglada is an independent art curator and cultural manager. Her field of research explores different narrative strategies to outline modes of thinking in which desire, imagination, speculative pleasure, and magical thought challenge official stories. She is also interested in practices centered on community and mutual care. Since 2019, she has been an active member of Ses Milanes, a non-profit, self-managed association that experiments with radical pedagogy in nature, conceived and founded by Palestinian artist and researcher yasmine eid sabbagh. She is currently in charge of the Madrid 31 Visual Arts Program of the Community of Madrid, under the title To Tell is to Listen, a series of talks and workshops featuring artists Beatrice Gibson, Alex Reynolds, blanca arias, Patricia Esquivias, Violeta Gil, and Diego Delas.
She has been co-curator of Opening for ARCOmadrid in 2024 and 2025, together with Yina Jiménez Suriel and Anissa Touati, and will continue collaborating for Opening ARCOmadrid 2026. She serves as an advisor to the recently inaugurated Calparsoro Foundation, whose collection of more than one hundred works includes names such as Miriam Cahn, Glenn Ligon, Theaster Gates, Carrie Mae Weems, Nan Goldin, and Kara Walker, among others. Anglada also works as a guest lecturer in the Master’s in Art Business at CEU San Pablo University, Madrid (since 2022). She has served on juries for the Catalan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2026 and for the second edition of BKC in Rhodes, Greece. She has advised various private collections as well as the AC/E Program for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture (PICE).
She is currently working on several curatorial projects for Casal Solleric (Mallorca), Es Baluard (Mallorca), Abierto x Obras (Matadero, Madrid), and CA2M (Madrid). Among her most recent exhibitions are Una fascinación (solo show by Diego Delas); Procesionaria (solo show by Gabriel Pericás); Tales of Disorder (with Mercedes Azpilicueta, Sarah Bechter, and Inês Zenha); Broken Open (with Kirstin Wenzel, Álvaro Urbano, Leticia Ybarra, Alex Reynolds, among others); and Getting Lost into the Woods (with Pedro Torres, Mónica Mays, and Elena Bajo).
She holds a BA in Art History from the Complutense University of Madrid (2002–2007) and an MA in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture from UCM and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (2010–2011). In 2016, together with Gema Melgar, she founded the non-profit cultural association This is Jackalope, dedicated to the dissemination, production, and creation of contemporary artistic practices. It functions as a platform with an international vocation, fostering dialogue and collaboration. Among its projects are Un Rastro Involuntario (An Involuntary Trace), an annual exhibition cycle for La Casa Encendida; printed publications; and the production of special artist editions by creators such as Teresa Solar Abboud and David Bestué. The association is currently preparing an exhibition in collaboration with The Merode (Brussels) featuring artists Lucía Bayón, Nadia Barkate, Camille Tsvetoukhine, and Marie Zoliaman.