CCCB Lab Head of Projects, curator in literary material and promotor of research and innovation in the cultural sphere.
Juan Insua, Director of CCCB_LAB, has been linked since 1993 to the CCCB where he has directed various projects.
He has conceived and has been the curator of the exhibition cycles “Cities and their Writers”: “James Joyce’s Dublin” (1995, FAD Prize in the category of “Espais efímers”), “The Lisbons of Pessoa” (1997, Laus’98 Prize for the best three dimensional communication), “The city of K. Franz Kafka and Prague” (1999) and “Borges y Buenos Aires” (2002, Ciudad de Barcelona Prize, 2003). He has also created and directed the exhibition cycle “Lighthouses of the Twentieth Century”. Since 2002, he has directed “Kosmopolis. International Literature Festival”. In 2005, he was appointed Director of the CCCB Cultural Activities Service, a stage in which he created projects for reflection and debate on current events experimenting with the formats: BCNmp7, NOW: Encounters in the present continuous, I+C+i. Research and innovation in the Cultural Sphere and NANO: The CCCB family programme. In 2008, he received the Fad Medal which is awarded annually by the Foment de les Arts i el Disseny (FAD) to individuals or organizations that have contributed to the social or cultural life of the country.