Garbiñe Ortega is a film curator, editor and producer. Her practice focuses on curatorship, education, building audiences, and the creation of specific frameworks that amplify collective cinematographic experience.
Her curatorial work has been programmed at the Film Society of Lincoln Center (New York), Tate Modern (London), Film Museum in Vienna, National Gallery of Art (Washington), and Pacific Film Archive (California), among many others.
She was co-director of programming for the Ambulante Documentary Festival (Mexico), artistic director of the Punto de Vista festival (2018-2021), and curator of Sala Z at the ARTIUM Museum of Contemporary Art (2021-2022). She was the programmer at the HIBRIDALAB (2022) and curator of the exhibition and editorial project “Somewhere From Here to Heaven,” producing new work by Ben Rivers, Ana Vaz, Eduardo Williams and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
She has been a teacher and advisor at film schools, film labs, and art centers such as Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Barcelona Film School (ESCAC), Tabakalera (NOKA mentoring program), Center for Contemporary Culture, Proimágenes Colombia, ARTE EDUCACION (France), Cinema Atalante (France), Institut d’Humanitats (Barcelona), Filmoteca de la Universidad Autónoma de México, Catholic University of Porto (Portugal), Cineteca de Monterrey (Mexico), and Campamento Audiovisual Itinerante (Mexico).
Garbiñe has produced films by Nicolás Pereda (“Mi piel, luminosa”, premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2019), Lois Patiño (“Samsara”, premiered at Berlinale 2022) and Matías Piñeiro (“tú me abrasas”, premiered at Berlinale 2023).
She has edited eight publications on film and music in several languages, three of which were published by La Fábrica Editorial. These include “Jonathan Schwartz: To Light, To Love, To Time” (2019), “Meditations on the Present: Ute Aurand, Helga Fanderl, Jeannette Muñoz, Renate Sami“ (2020, co-edited with María Palacios Cruz) or “Letters as Films” (2021, La Fábrica, selected by Brooklyn Rail as one of the 20 best art books of 2021) or ”Kaier Bat: Gorka Urbizu” (2024).
She currently combines editorial and curatorial projects with art mediation programs. She is the artistic director of Dirdira Lab and the artistic coordinator of the mediation program of the Biennial of Culture, Art and Though, Escuela de los Encuentros de Pamplona, where she is also part of the programming team.
