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Visual artsKatya García-AntónFrom 2002 to 2011, Katya García-Antón directed the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva, one of the most prestigious Swiss centres of contemporary art. She had previously been responsible for Le Magasin in Grenoble. She has worked for major international institutions, such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS); the Museu de Arte Moderna in Sao Paulo; the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in London; and IKON in Birmingham. She curated one of the sections of the 2nd Prague Biennial and the Spanish represen- tation at the 26th Sao Paulo Biennial and at the 52nd Venice Biennale. Throughout her long career she has organised andcurated more than fifty exhibitions, both of artists who played a key role in the history of 20th-century art, such as Tony Cragg, On Kawara, Yves Klein and Joan Jonas, and of newer artists like Francis Alys, Ernesto Neto, Jean-Luc Moulène, Fernando Sánchez Castillo and Gillian Wearing. She was part of the first advisory council of the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Huarte in Navarro and of the editorial committee of Third Text, a magazine on art in developing countries. She has also worked as an art critic for the BBC World Service, in addition to contributing to many catalogues and monographs.34Results ‘14