Marian Garrido is a visual artist, cultural manager, and educator specializing in art, design, and critical narratives. Her artistic practice revolves around several intersecting axes: accelerated capitalism and its capacity for survival through adaptability—absorbing and reshaping discourses and ideologies—and science fiction as a speculative framework for contingency and possible futures.
With an established career, her work has been exhibited in leading institutions such as La Casa Encendida, CA2M, Matadero Madrid, Fabra i Coats, Sala Arte Joven, and Centro de Arte Conde Duque, as well as at international art fairs including ARCO, Art-O-Rama (Marseille), Material Art Fair (Mexico City), and Sunday Art Fair (London). She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including Generaciones 2017, the Premi Miquel Casablancas, and the Matadero Madrid Annual Creation Residency (2019).
In parallel to her artistic career, Garrido has played a key role in higher artistic education, leading academic programs in art and design. She has worked to position a leading design school strategically, fostering interdisciplinary knowledge, developing innovative pedagogical methodologies, and anticipating future educational scenarios.
She has directed and taught a wide range of seminars and lectures, including Postanarquismo: nomadismos e interzonas (offered over two years as part of the CortoCircuitos program at Universidad Complutense, Madrid), En las ruinas del futuro: el fantasma de la máquina (RAMPA, Madrid), Arte y mutaciones en la cultura del consumo actual (Medialab Prado, Madrid), Stop Making Sense (La Casa Encendida, Madrid), Imágenes en el mundo contemporáneo (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid), Cómo arriba es abajo, cómo abajo es arriba (Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo), and The Museum is Closed (MACBA, Barcelona), among others.
Her work explores the intersections of magic and science, seeking to recover lost knowledge and investigating the symbolic dimensions of narratives shaped by historical collapse and contingency. Through multiple converging narrative threads, she reflects on the relationship between technology and tools and how they transform culture through processes of aesthetic erosion.
