Santiago Sierra is a Spanish artist and director born in Madrid in 1966.

Over the past twenty years, he has exhibited extensively in Europe and America, and has been the subject of numerous one-man shows in museums and galleries, including the Tate Modern in London; Rufino Tamayo Museum of Mexico; Konsthallen in Stockholm; Kestnergesellschaft in Hannover; Kunsthaus Bergenz in Austria; and at Kunst Werke in Berlin. He represented Spain at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. His work reflects his views on capitalism, work and exploitation. Sierra’s works show, for example, a group of paid workers moving a heavy stone from point A to point B and vice versa. He caused controversy by covering ten Iraqi immigrants with insulating polyurethane foam and waiting for it to harden. Another of his best-known projects is a mud room in Hannover, Germany, which commemorates the origin of the Maschsee job creation measure. In 2006, he sparked controversy by installing his «245 cubic meter» gas chamber created inside a former synagogue in Pulheim, Germany. Most of Santiago Sierra’s projects have been shot on film.

Jorge Galindo is a Spanish painter and artist of abstract style, born in Madrid in 1965. Since 1999 he lives and works in Borox, Toledo.

From his first works, exhibited in the mid-eighties, Jorge Galindo interspersed painting with photographic collages. Galindo’s work is close to gestural abstraction, giving special relevance to the interventions of chance and material aspects. Photomontages in which he uses images from the illustrated media in the 1950s and 1960s and in which he expresses a critique of consumer society date from the 1990s. His first exhibition takes place at the Galería Víctor Martín (Madrid, 1989). Since 1993 he has introduced words and texts into his work. Galindo’s work has been developed through series with a clear thematic unit, although expressed with stylistic resources of complex variety. In his work, the mixture between photography and painting produces exacerbated visual ensembles, which at times are close to kitsch. Among his most important series are Animal Painting, La vie des bêtes, exhibited at Espacio Uno of the MNCARS. During the years 1996-98 Jorge Galindo made the least spread of his series, the Patchwork.1

His work has been exhibited in galleries in the US, Mexico, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Belgium.