Jimena Galán

Biography

Jimena Galán (1997) is a Guatemalan feminist curator and researcher whose work engages with art as a tool to interrogate memory, power, and social transformation. Her curatorial practice is grounded in the conviction that art is not only a space of representation, but a critical means to document, contest, and reimagine social realities. She works from a situated, feminist, and historiographic perspective, deeply inspired by the writings of Andrea Giunta, to question dominant narratives and recognize the cultural production and agency of those historically marginalized or rendered invisible.

As co-founder of La Revuelta, a feminist collective developing context-sensitive methodologies for formative processes with women and dissident communities, she focuses on creating pedagogical and curatorial spaces that respond to specific territorial, social, and embodied realities. Over the past five years, she has co-curated exhibitions grounded in accessible archives and collective enunciation of social demands, while fostering care, autonomy, and the acknowledgment of diverse knowledge systems and practices. Her work centers collective authorship, ethical documentation, and everyday practices of care as foundations for cultural labor that honors the dignity, knowledge, and agency of its participants.

Currently, she serves as cultural manager at Amano Casa, a platform dedicated to process-based and context-responsive artistic practices, and as a member of the production team for the Bienal en Resistencia. In both spaces, she works through community-centered curatorial methodologies grounded in horizontal dialogue with artists, activists, and theorists. Her curatorial practice focuses on accompanying emerging artists as they consolidate their narratives and archives rooted in political and territorial contexts. By engaging public space and drawing on everyday elements that hold meaning for local communities, she fosters new ways of activating art as a site of critical reflection and collective agency.

Jimena Galán, Curator and Feminist Cultural Worker at La Revuelta in Guatemala City, Guatemala, has been awarded by Teresa Bulgheroni.