Menene Gras has been the Director of Culture and Exhibitions at Casa Asia (Barcelona and Madrid) since 2003. With a PhD from the University of Barcelona, Menene Gras is an art critic, curator and former professor. Before that, she was Director of Culture and Exhibitions at the Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana (now Casa America de Catalunya) and she is also the current Director of the Asian Film Festival. Author of essays, catalogues, anthologies and four books of poetry, she was the Art Correspondent for Art Forum for more than twelve years and wrote for some of the most important Spanish newspapers.

Recent highlights of her professional career include exhibitions and publications such as Is that Beauty? (2016-2017), The House and the Labyrinth (2015), El Jardín japonés: Topografías del vacío (2014), Chiharu Shiota. The hand lines (2014) and Beijing times (2011).

In 2015, she was awarded by ACCA for the Video Art Project ‘Languages and Aesthetics of Spanish Video Art’ as the best Spanish exhibition made abroad. She currently lives and works in Barcelona.