SPEAKERS 2025

Ainhoa Resano is a visual artist. She has a degree in audiovisual communication and a master's degree in contemporary photography. She lives in Bilbao, where she has developed most of her personal work, her career as a professional photographer and her artistic practice. The focus of her projects is the questioning of identity from a gender perspective. She has participated in various exhibitions and since 2016 has been immersed in “ELLAS”, a multidisciplinary project that seeks to expose and highlight the life stories of women through their domestic photographs and their own stories.

Alberto García-Alix, photographer, audiovisual creator, writer and editor. He has exhibited at the Reina Sofía National Art Museum, Les Rencontres Internationales d'Arlès, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, the Moscow House of Photography Museum and the Prado National Museum, among others. His works can be found in art collections around the world, such as the German Deutshe Börse and the French National Contemporary Art Fund. He has won the National Photography Award, the Community of Madrid Photography Award and the PHotoEspaña Award. The most recent award for his career was granted by the Enaire Foundation (2022). In 2012, he was named “Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France” and received the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts from Spain in 2019. He is the director and founder of the cult magazine El Canto de la Tripulación and co-founder of the publishing house Cabeza de Chorlito (2011-2023), where he has published some of his works: El paraíso de los Creyentes (The Believers' Paradise), 2011; Diaporamas, 2012; MOTO, 2015; the Motorcycle Family Circus magazine trilogy (2016-2021) and Archivo Nómada I and II (Nomadic Archive I and II) (2023, 2024), and La ausencia como estímulo (Absence as Stimulus) (2024).

Alexandre Chaize graduate of the École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg, he is an independent publisher. Since 2013, with Éditions du livre, he has been publishing children’s artist books with a geometric, minimalist, and colorful aesthetic. Whether game books or wordless picture books, each work explores a specific material aspect of the book: printing, handling, etc. In keeping with Bruno Munari’s publishing experiments, Éditions du livre upholds a clear principle: the form of the book is its content.

Antonio Garrido is the coordinator and one of the founders, alongside Cinta Arribas, of Asalto Gráfico, the illustration and self-publishing fair that every year turns the Patio Herreriano into the epicentre of independent design. At the same time, he is the creator of a more intimate space for reflection and debate through ‘Los diálogos del sr. Boliche’ (The Dialogues of Mr Boliche). This series of meetings brings together leading figures from the world of comics in a friendly and relaxed format. His role as a cultural manager culminates in his work as editor at Ediciones T&T, alongside Luis Madorrán, a publishing house that promotes risky and personal projects within the fantasy, horror and science fiction genres.

‘Ata’ is the pseudonym of Juan Lasalle, who worked as a publicist for 15 years while also creating comics, a task he has continued to this day. Born in Santander and a leading figure in the Alava comic scene, in 2008 he moved with his family to Llubí (Mallorca) and from there he continues his monthly collaboration with TMEO and also publishes his wild humour cartoons in magazines such as El Jueves and Mongolia, as well as producing illustrations for magazines such as GQ, Visual and Cáñamo. In 2012, he founded the publishing house Autsaider Comics, where, in addition to somewhat underground comics, he also publishes narrative and essays that follow the same line as his comics, which are extraordinary, unique, crude or sophisticated, inviting readers to think differently and which, precisely for that reason, no one else wants to publish.

Another Press is a project launched in 2016 by Begoña Cubería and Itxaso Lafuente. They are the first risography studio in the Basque Country. They offer riso printing services, experiment and give workshops and training courses. Having survived the end of the world more times than they can remember, and with countless fires extinguished behind them, they can claim to be experts in solving problems. Since 2023, they have been editing graphic projects that excite them. They are passionate about spreading (riso) graphic culture and supporting artists who tell stories, convey emotions and connect with the world.

Casper Clausen, is a danish musician, front man of illustrious band Efterklang and adjacent project Liima unveils his debut solo album “Better Way”. On this first sole venture he exhibits a new sense of ingenuity and musical exploration, unrestricted by formats, genres and collective goals. He presents a kaleidoscopic album journeying new terrain, twisting dense textures and swirls of sound into tales of the two alpha and omegas: Alienation and Love.

Chris is a designer and children's book author. He has been a freelance illustrator for 18 years. His interest in fair trade drew him into working with a number of non-profit projects and in 2007 He was listed in Time Magazine's DESIGN 100 for the design work He has been doing for People Tree. Since then he has also begun writing children's books, his first book A BIT LOST has been translated into 35 languages and has won awards in 12 countries including the Dutch Picture Book of the Year. OH NO GEORGE! came out in 2012   SHH! We have a plan in 2014, Goodnight Everyone (2016), Don't Worry, Little Crab (2019), Maybe (2021) and Well Done, Mummy Penguin (2022) . His first app, HAT MONKEY was released in September 2014. His VR experience LITTLE EARTH was released in 2017. While living in Nepal in 2010/2011 he co-founded Pecha Kucha Kathmandu with Sujan Chitrakar. He co-founded NODE a fair trade social business based in Nepal with Akshay Sthapit in 2012. We had an exhibition and collection for the DESIGN MUSEUM in London in 2012, selling 18 limited edition rugs through the Design Museum Shop.