

ISABEL PINIELLA
bio

I am cultural analyst and postdoctoral researcher at the Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent of the Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique in Paris. Previously I conducted my doctoral research at the Institute of History of the University of Bern as a member of the Global Studies Program. I obtained both my master and bachelor degrees in Barcelona, where I already focused on history, philosophy, and aesthetics. I have been awarded with scholarships from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst for pursuing research at the Iberoamerikanisches Institut in Berlin, and from the Dr. Joséphine de Karman Foundation. I am currently enrolled in the Master Cultural Critique, Curatorial Studies at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, following my interest in re-readings of history through art practices and the format of the essay-exhibition. My research foci follow my interest in historiographic practices, especially objects crossed by transculturation processes, deterioration, memory and affect.
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Besides my scientific research, I have been involved in several cultural projects. Between 2007 and 2014 I was a student at the Conservatorio Municipal de Música de Barcelona majoring in saxophone with Víctor Béjar and Miquell Bofill. I attended masterclasses by Rodrigo Pérez Vila, Rupert Stelzer, Barbara Schickbichler, Michael Krenn, and Sascha Ambruster, among others. In addition, I participated in the Academy of Contemporary Music at the HSLU and performed as guest saxophonist at festivals such as Wege der Wahrnehmung and New Music Days. As a result of my interest in interdisciplinary art, I developed various projects as artist in residence or guest at performance series, as well as curator of concert staging. Since 2020 I have been closely collaborating with SoundTrieb, a collective I support as cultural manager. I am also co-founder of the network Ko-Operator!, an interdisciplinary artistic platform active since 2019.
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agenda
Roundtable Algo deja quien se va. Políticas estatales de la memoria
In the context of the exhibition from Reynier Leyva Novo curated by Inés Plasencia Camps
Together with the artist, the curator, and Rubén de la Nuez
March 6, 2025 / 12h
El Apartamento (Main Room)
Calle de la Puebla 4, 28004, Madrid
Annual Study Days IRN HISTEMAL
Memoria(s), emociones y mediaciones en el espacio público iberoamericano
Casa de Velázquez, CSIC
Organizer together with Frédérique Langue (HISTEMAL, IHTP, CNRS), Miriam Hernández Reyna (EHEHI, Casa de Velázquez), Fernanda Celis González (EHEHI, Casa de Velázquez), Javier Moscoso Sarabia, (CCHS, CSIC)
June 4-5, 2025
Madrid
latest publications

"Ruinas del presente", Trópico Absoluto, Dec. 2024.

"Weighing history: material rhetoric and commemoration in Cuba," Sculpture Journal, vol. 33, 2, 2024.

​"Becerros de oro: Pensar la desmonumentalización en América Latina," Revista de filosofía Diánoia, vol. 69, n. 93, 2024.

"Héroes de culto: Usos y abusos de la memoria colectiva en Cuba y Venezuela" in Itinerarios y desafíos de la historia del tiempo presente. Un diálogo transatlántico, Frédérique Langue (Ed.), Rosario: Prohistoria, 2024.

"The Act of Looking at, the Art of Staring at," Sousveillance: Staring at the Bin, Meriel Price. Lucerne: Verein SoundTrieb, 2023.
