Olga Subirós

Olga Subirós is a Barcelona-based architect, curator and researcher whose work explores the intersections of architecture, data, ecology and social transformation. For over two decades, she has been engaged in exhibition-making as a practice that embodies experience, but also questions and engages actively with contemporary art practice in order to create a sense of togetherness between the works and the visitor's journey through an exhibition. She is responsible for the spatial conceptualisation of The Oracle. Her curatorial approach centres on developing a practice of curating-and-displaying important questions related to the environment and the future of life. Three of her major exhibitions in this sense are Big Bang Data (2014–2018), Air (2021) and Matter Matters: Designing with the World (2025–2027).

Air was her proposal for the representation of Catalonia at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale. Through a complex and sensorial display, she examined air pollution and urban planning, using Barcelona as her case study. In her view, air is a common good essential to public health. Consequently, the politics of air and the changes in urban models to keep the air clean, are central to any future architecture. Following similar premises, her latest project, Matter Matters: Designing with the World, a long-term exhibition for the Disseny Hub Barcelona (DHub), examines the material foundations of design amid the climate emergency and planetary crises, advocating for a shift from extractivist practices towards regenerative design.

Olga Subirós is currently pursuing a practice-based PhD in Architecture and Design at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). She also lectures on the Master in Design and Data at Elisava and the MIAD Master programme at La Salle Campus Barcelona.