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Jordi Costa

Head of Exhibitions at CCCB

(Barcelona, 1966) Jordi Costa is, from 2019, head of the Exhibition Department at the CCCB.
Author of the books Mondo Bulldog (1999), Vida Mostrenca (2002), Todd Solondz: En los suburbios de la felicidad (2005) and Cómo acabar con la Contracultura (2018), among others.
He has curated the exhibitions Trash culture. The Potholes of Taste, J. G. Ballard. Autopsy of the new millennium(both at CCCB), “Ficciones en serie” and “Ficciones en serie. Segunda temporada” (SOS 4.8) and “Plagiarism”(La Casa Encendida), the latter with Álex Mendíbil. He has also curated the adaptation of the "Stanley Kubrick" exhibition at the CCCB.
As a filmmaker he has directed the films Piccolo Grande Amore and La lava en los labios (both from 2013) and has participated as an actor in Mia Hansen-Løve's Bergman Island.

Update: 9 July 2021

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Publications

Suburbia

The construction of the american dream

Metamorphosis

Fantasy Visions in Starewitch, Švankmajer and the Quay Brothers

J. G. Ballard

Autòpsia del nou mil·lenni / Autopsia del nuevo milenio / An Autopsy of the New Millenium

Has participated in

«William Kentridge» & «Bioscope» for teachers

Visit to the exhibition and presentation of the documentary animation film workshop

Presentation of "William Kentridge. That Which is not Drawn"

With Jordi Costa

Lucía Lijtmaer and Jordi Costa

Personal Genealogy of the Videogame

Kosmopolis 2019

10th Amplified Literature Fest

Primera Persona 2015

Autobiographic live sessions: pop music concerts, stand-up comedy, theatre and narrative

A Story of Marginality

Where is the periphery? Creation, Obsession, Subversion with Dora García, Enrique Vila-Matas and Jordi Costa

The Mask Never Lies

Stanley Kubrick

J. G. Ballard. Autopsy of the new millennium

Trash culture. The Potholes of Taste