Open call for curators – Resutls: Puwerty Festival

The Puwerty curatorial call for 2025 and 2026 was open during the month of January 2025. The festival gives visibility to proposals from creators under 26 years of age in music and audiovisuals. The winner was Mireya Larriba (San Sebastián, 2000) who studied Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid, where she began to create artistic work based on humour and pop references under the alter ego of Tomasa Crucero.

She curated the end-of-degree group exhibition of her graduating year, thus beginning her professional career as a cultural manager, which, together with her interest in teamwork, led her to study the Master’s Degree in Cultural Management at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. The  programme reflects the experience of a generation shaped by digitalization and its own unique codes, while also being deeply engaged with manual processes, multidisciplinary creation, and formal and conceptual experimentation—embracing all available tools without being limited solely to what is traditionally considered artistic.

The curatorial approach focuses primarily on unique and innovative workshops and gatherings that, rooted in niche perspectives and specificity, offer a diverse and contemporary outlook on topics such as identity expression through sustainable fashion, performative use of social media, humor, the poetic power of the body in dance, and the symbolic role of objects in writing. The concerts and DJ feature music projects that transcend genres and stand out for their distinctive staging—incorporating and referencing other artistic fields, thereby providing cohesion and a strong sense of curatorial coherence throughout the entire festival.

More information: Programadores Puwerty 2024 | La Casa Encendida