Iván de la Nuez

Son of the renowned Cuban caricaturist René de la Nuez.
He studied at the Faculty of History, Philosophy and Art History at the University of Havana, specializing in Philosophy.

After completing his degree, Iván began working at the Center for the Development of Visual Arts, a beautiful institution located in Old Havana, where he worked with great professionalism. It was a place that, due to its openness to the outside world and the arts, allowed the young specialist to redirect his intellectual work toward cultural issues.

Since 1993 he has resided in Barcelona where he is a university professor in Barcelona and Girona. Director of Virreina-Centro de la Imagen de Barcelona. Institute of Culture of Barcelona, Spain. He directed the publication of Cuba: la isla posible, in Barcelona. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana.

He regularly contributes to newspapers, magazines and exhibition catalogs in Europe, the United States and Latin America, including El País, Plural, Postmodern Notes, Lápiz, Ajoblanco, Lateral, Nouvelle Revue Française, and the supplement Libros of El Periódico de Catalunya. In 1995 he received the prestigious Rockefeller Fellowship for the Humanities. He has been Director of Exhibitions at the Virreina since 2000.

Works:
La balsa perpetua (soledad y conexiones de la cultura cubana)
La democracia cristiana en Chile.
Paisajes después del Muro
El mapa de sal
Fantasía Roja

He has compiled the following anthologies: Cuba: la isla posible (1995); Paisajes después del Muro (1999); and Cuba y el día después (2001).

He has curated more than one hundred exhibition projects. He has been curator or co-curator of exhibitions such as: La isla posible (1995); Inundaciones (1999); Parque humano (2002), Ciudad (solo exhibition by Sergio Belinchón) (2002), Soy la ciudad (solo exhibition by Alexander Apóstol) (2005) and Postcapital (2006).

He is a regular contributor to Babelia, the cultural supplement of El País, as well as to various newspapers and magazines in the United States, Europe and Latin America. In 1995, he received the Rockefeller Fellowship for the Humanities.