María Montero Sierra

María curated the symposium and live programme "Porous. Ports as Interspecies Dwelling“ (2025) at Villa Arson, Nice, and the performance festival with ”Adelita Husni Bey, Nandita Kumar & Carlos Casas" (2025) at Ocean Space, Venice.

The research project on the relationships between marine and human ecosystems from the perspective of food, “Fishing Fly” (2021–23), resulted in the homonymous short fiction texts series and the co-conception of the Convivial Tables program and the co-curation of its first edition.

Her curatorial projects include “Liquid Intelligence,” a group exhibition co-curated at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid (2023); “Becoming Fresh and Salty Drops (of water),” a festival at Ocean Space in Venice (2022); “Frequency Singular Plural,” a series of performances at CentroCentro in Madrid (2019), and the group exhibition “En los cantos nos diluimos” at the Sala de Arte Joven de la Comunidad de Madrid (2017). She has also collaborated on “Joan Jonas: Moving Off the Land” at the Tate Modern (2018) and accompanied the program The Current II-IV.

Monash Warwick Alliance Joint PhD Scholarship (2025–29).

Culturex Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte Gobierno de España (2015).

Fundación Botín Grant for Curatorial Studies (2011–13).

Ruth Lee Kennedy, Fulbright Program (2011).

Publications

Montero Sierra, M. (forthcoming, Autumn 2025) Porous.

Cuesta Fernández, E, Montero Sierra, M (forthcoming, Autumn 2025) “We Should say Abya Yala. Finding Common Ground”, S+T+ARTS Book (title tbc), Hatje Cantz.

Montero Sierra, M. (2022) Somos nuestros ancestros, Cristina Lucas (Cat. Exh.) España: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Helga de Alvear Cáceres and Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, pp. 53-67

Montero Sierra, M. (ed.) Fishing Fly (2021-2023). Four short fictional stories written by Amanda Choo Quan, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Veronica Stigger, and Karin Amimoto Ingersoll. Online publication: TBA21 and Ocean-Archive.

Montero Sierra, M. (ed) (2022) “Magical Fresch & Salty Conversations,” TBA21–Academy Radio (Podcast Series). TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary.

Montero Sierra, M. (ed.) (2020) El poso: transmisión, iteración, consciencia, Frecuencia Singular Plural (Cat. Exh). Madrid: CentroCentro, pp. 61-70.

María Salgado en conversación con María Montero «manteneos a distancia de voz». Concreta, 17, 202.

Montero Sierra, M. (2019) Interferences, Interferências, Interferencias II, Cartillas de la Escuela Perturbable 480+20. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Montero Sierra, M. (2018) Los jóvenes se hacen con el museo. Pedagogías del empoderamiento. I2 Investigación E Innovación En Arquitectura Y Territorio, 6(2).

Montero Sierra, M. (2017) Éramos los que éramos Anna Moreno, The Drowned Giant. Vinyl booklet

Montero Sierra, M. (ed.) (2017) En los cantos nos diluimos, En los cantos nos diluimos (Cat. Exh.) Madrid: Comunidad de Madrid, pp. 113-121

Talks:

Hidrocomunes. Listening session and conversation between María Montero Sierra, Noelia Billi, and la Sociedad de Amigos y Benefactores de las Artes de Cañada Rosquín. Programme Las Tres Ecologías. Museo Moderno, Buenos Aires (16 July 2025)

Quehaceres con los artistas. Formas curatoriales vivas para pensar desde la ecología, Programme Desplazamientos, Fundación Williams, Buenos Aires. Organised by CCBA. (17 July 2025)

Hosts & Guests: Metabolizing Ocean Literacy, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa PhD Digital Media Seminars. Guest Lecturer (2023)

Eating the Aquatic Time, “Walking with Water” MSUV, Novi Sad. Public Program, Serbian Pavillion. The Venice Biennale. Speaker (2022)

Entre eones y décadas: aprehender un tiempo más-que-humano. UCM MA Facultad de Bellas Artes. Guest Lecturer (2021)

«Interferences, Interferências, Interferencias II» Museo Reina Sofía, UCM. Public Programme. Speaker (2019)

Curatorial Practice:

Carlos Casas, LACUNAE, Ocean Space, November 2025. Curator

Florencia Rodríguez Giles. Visitaciones, San Carlos, Salta, Argentina. Curator

Solstice Festival. Adelita Husni Bey, Nandita Kumar & Carlos Casas, Ocean Space, Venice, June 2025. Live Exhibition: Curator. Organised by TBA21–Academy, supported by the European Initiative, S+T+ARTS4Water II

Porous. Ports as Interspecies Dwelling, Villa Arson, Nice, 7-8 June 2025. Symposium & Live Program. Curator. Organised by TBA21–Academy and Villa Arson, supported by the European Initiative, S+T+ARTS4Water II

Ocean Imagination and Ocean Action: Contemporary Art Institutions as Agents for Ocean Sustainability. TBA21–Academy Artist Film Program, UNOC3 Costa Rica, 2024, Nice, 2025. Curator

Liquid Intelligence, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, October 2023-January 2024. Exhibition. Co-curator. Organised by TBA21 and Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

Fana Fraser, nesting, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Pájaro, cómeme Sonia Levy, Creatures of the Line, st_age, online platform, 2021-2023. Art Commission Program. Curator.

Becoming Fresh & Salty Drops (of water) Ocean Space, Venice & Ocean Archive, June 2022. Symposium & Podcast Series. Curator and Editor at Large.

Convivial Tables. Entrée: The Pannier of the Venice Lagoon, Ocean Space, Venice, May-September 2022. Research Project, Public Program, and Online Publication. Co-curator, Author and Co-editor.

Fishing Fly, TBA21–Academy, 2021-2023. Research Project and Publication Series. Curator and Edit.

“Sense to Act: The Aquatic Observatory,” Critical Zones ZKM Karlsruhe, 2020-2021. Film Program part of the Exhibition. Co-curator.

Frecuencia Singular Plural (Frequency Singular Plural), CentroCentro, Madrid, 2019 Cycle of Performance, Exhibition, and Book. Curator, Author and Editor.

En los cantos nos diluimos (In the Edges, We dilute), Sala de Arte Joven, Madrid, 2017. Exhibition and Book. Curator, Author and Editor.

Are You In? Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College, NY, 2013. Exhibition. Thesis Show. Curator.