This is Jackalope is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the 
creation, 
dissemination and management of contemporary artistic practices founded and directed by Cristina Anglada and Gema Melgar. TIJ is conceived as a platform that aims to develop international action from which to produce 
cultural projects that experiment with 
formats and discourse and generates a place for exchange and dissemination between existing discourse in different artistic communities. It also seeks to promote 
partnerships and encounters between people, in order to produce and disseminate knowledge.
Cristina Anglada is an independent curator, cultural manager and a contemporary art writer. She has a bachelor degree in Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid (2002-2007) and a master degree in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture by the UCM and the National Art Museum of Reina Sofia (2010-2011). She was one of the founding members and directors of the online magazine of contemporary art nosotros for 5 years.
She also Works as an art advisor for the private collector club WeCollect.
She has lived in Berlin from 2008-2010. She has been the coordinator of exhibition projects as Casa Leibniz (February 2015; 2016) and publisher’s projects as the catalogue of ARCOmadrid (from 2013), ARCOlisboa (from 2016); the annual report of Ranchito 2014 (Matadero Madrid) or the manual of Spanish Contemporary Art directed by Rafa Doctor (2013). She has been the artistic director of the site-specific project Frágil from 2014 to 2016. She has worked as a director assistant at Michael Janssen gallery (ARCOmadrid 2011); Juliette Jongma (ARCOmadrid 2012) and Steve Turner (ARCOmadrid 2013).
Last year she has curated the group show: Adverbios Temporales (ARCOmadrid 2018 at CentroCentro Madrid) with the artists: Serafín Álvarez, Cécile B. Evans, Nora Barón, Nina Canell, Marian Garrido, Rubén Grilo, Camille Henrot, Hanne Lippard, Regina de Miguel, Jacopo Miliani, Shana Moulton, Mélodie Mousset, Julian Chàrriere and Laure Prouvost).
She has also curated exhibitions at galleries: Cosmic Morsel (F2, Madrid, 2015); Nicely Offensive (PONCE + ROBLES, Madrid, 2015); at festivals and cultural institutions: Lo que se sabe y lo que se intuye (pero realmente se desconoce) (Villamanuela, 2015, Conde Duque); Tangentes (Festival VillaManuela, IED, Madrid 2014); One out of one Thousand (Art Center South Florida, Miami, FL. EE.UU., 2014); Presente Continuo (together with Abraham Rivera at Conde Duque, Madrid para VillaManuela, 2013).
Gema Melgar is a cultural producer, curator and programmer. She graduated in Film and Media Studies at Universidad Carlos III and also holds an MA in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture awarded by the Reina Sofia Museum, Universidad Complutense and Universidad Autónoma. Since 2010, she has worked in the Art Programming Department of Matadero Madrid, a former slaughterhouse transformed into a multidisciplinary arts centre, where she focuses on visual arts production practices and the artists in residency programme. Prior to that, she lived in the UK where she worked for the International Exhibition at Liverpool Biennial between 2006 and 2009. Here, she was responsible for several artists’ new commissions in the public realm. Since 2010, she has also been a collaborator with Adaptive Actions, a project that serves as a reservoir which provides a voice for adaptive actions developed in specific social contexts. She has been part of its editorial committee for AA Madrid and Heteropolis publications. In addition, she has curated art projects independently and collaboratively in Spain, Canada and the UK. Among her curatorial interests are the potentialities of actions in heterogenous urban environments and how art functions in site-specific and contextual situations.
Issue #2 out now!
Hub27
Curating art shows for Hub27. This is Jackalope invites artists to show their work at the HUB27 events room, selecting proposals from national artists.