A project about recycling by Ana López, Anna Maria Hawa, Camilo Conde, David Rodríguez Iborra, David Fărcășan, Helena Peñalver i Guilleumes, Henry Alva, Iulia Girbaciu, Javiera Mayorga, Marie Lemme, Nadežda Pavlovic, and Noémie Huart. Produced by Alba Sarlé. Tutored by Jordà Ferré.
Mentors 2025
Meet the Mentors: Industry Leaders & Visionary Artists.
Get ready to learn from the best, collaborate with visionaries, and redefine what’s possible.
Learn from leading artists and industry professionals shaping today’s creative landscape.
At BASS, mentors don’t just teach—they collaborate. Through hands-on guidance, masterclasses, and real project development, they challenge participants to explore new ideas, take risks, and push their creative limits.
From film and music to performing arts, BASS becomes a space where knowledge is shared, ideas evolve, and bold projects come to life.
Alex Tentor
Sound Artist
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Carles Marigó
Pianist, Composer, and Improviser
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Mani Martínez
Production Designer, and Art Director
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Susana Egea Ruiz
Stage Director, Actress, and Performing Arts Researcher
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Nicolas Hermansen
Multidisciplinary Artist
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Adriana Vila
Filmmaker, Artist, and Anthropologist
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Ulla Winkler
Founder and Executive Producer of ActionTimeVision
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Alfonso Ferri
Multidisciplinary Artist
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Desilence (Tatiana Halbach & Søren Christensen)
Visual Art Studio
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Jordà Ferré
Performance Art Theatre
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Sound Artist
Alex Tentor
Alex Tentor is a sound artist specializing in transdisciplinary research through digital technology. His artistic work focuses on exploring information systems as spaces for creative expression, developing new interfaces for interaction between bodies and devices, and maintaining a commitment to accessibility and the ethical, conscious treatment of databases as potential alternative models of organization within data capitalism.
As a performer, he has directed his career toward new music, collaborating closely with prominent European ensembles and composers. He currently combines his artistic activities with teaching at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya.
Pianist, Composer, and Improviser
Carles Marigó
Carles Marigó is a pianist, composer, and improviser trained in both Barcelona (ESMUC) and Moscow (Tchaikovsky Conservatory). His work is rooted in the classical tradition but expands into hybrid languages that incorporate popular, contemporary, and experimental elements. Passionate about human connection through art, he sees artistic creation as a collective celebration and a meeting space for people, emotions, and cultures.
He has been an artist-in-residence at centers such as La Pedrera, La Marfà, Fabra i Coats, and ZAMUS in Cologne, where he has developed his own projects and collaborated with creators from various disciplines. He currently works on proposals where improvisation, scenography, the body, and technology engage in dialogue to create participatory artistic contexts — from sound installations to concerts open to audience interaction.
He teaches improvisation at ESMUC and is part of the teaching team for the IEM method (Emilio Molina), from which he promotes a vision of music as a living, collective language.
Production Designer, and Art Director
Mani Martínez
Mani Martínez is a Production Designer and Art Director with over 25 years of experience. Educated in Fine Arts in the UK, he has worked across all major areas of production design — from set dressing and props to costume and even directing. This broad background has allowed him to contribute to both independent productions and large-scale international films, developing a deep understanding of workflows and team dynamics within art departments.
Alongside his professional practice, he is also an educator, having led workshops and taught courses on art direction, props, and visual storytelling at institutions such as ESCAC, AFilm, and the now-closed CECC. His current focus merges classical design methodologies with emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence applied to visual planning and creative logistics.
He is the founder of Keynema, a software platform that supports departments such as art and costume (among others) in managing complex creative processes. Mani’s work emphasizes clarity in visual development, narrative coherence, and collaborative design thinking.
Stage Director, Actress, and Performing Arts Researcher
Susana Egea Ruiz
She has worked with directors and choreographers such as Adolfo Marsillach, Calixto Bieito, Hansel Cereza, Antonio Simón, Hasko Weber, Ricard Gázquez, Marta Almirall, Marta Carrasco, Malena Espinosa, and Ester Nadal, among others. Her credits include productions such as Bodas de sangre (Grec Festival, Teatro Romea), La vida es sueño (National Classical Theatre Company), Electra (Mérida Festival), Terra Baixa (Teatro Romea), and Sangre de Edipo (Mérida Festival).
She has also created and developed original performances, including the monologues La Candidata (La Cuina, Parliament of Catalonia) and A mi no m’afecta (Sala Muntaner). Holding a PhD in Performing Arts (UAB-Institut del Teatre), her dissertation Fundamentals for an Acting Technique for the Operatic Stage formed the basis for her subsequent publications. She is the author of La interpretación actoral en ópera: Análisis en torno a una especificidad, winner of the International Artez Blai Performing Arts Award (2012), and Stanislavski, Meyerhold, Chaliapin: La interpretación operística (2017), finalist for the Leandro Fernández de Moratín Prize for Theatre Studies (2018).
Specialized in acting training for opera singers, she has directed titles such as La clemenza di Tito (Liceu Auditorium), L'Orfeu (Terrassa Auditorium), Le nozze di Figaro (Teatre la Amistat, Premià de Mar), La voix humaine (No Chal People Company, Sala Musitekton), and original productions including O pazzo desire! @sketxoslíricos (Teatre Eòlia), Ópera y erótica (Reial Cercle Artístic de Barcelona, Palau Dalmasses), and La danza de Céfalo y Procris (Almagro International Classical Theatre Festival).
Multidisciplinary Artist
Nicolas Hermansen
Multidisciplinary artist (performance, sound art, visual arts). He is the author of various stage creations and installations, blending diverse languages in his scenographic work. In the field of education, he is a professor in the Department of Dramaturgy, Staging, and Choreography at the Institut del Teatre.
He is currently a PhD candidate in Theatre Studies at the UAB, holds a cum laude degree in Theatre Studies from the Università degli Studi di Bologna, and a Master's degree in Theory and Practice of Dramaturgy from Barcelona (UAB – Institut del Teatre – Pompeu Fabra University).
Filmmaker, Artist, and Anthropologist
Adriana Vila
Filmmaker, artist, and anthropologist dedicated to film creation and teaching. Her work embraces both the material and immaterial aspects of cinema, engaging with the medium in a reflective, intuitive, and responsible way. She navigates between photochemical analog formats and video, presenting her work as single-channel projections, film performances, or installations. Her practice is driven by an interest in the intersection of poetics and politics, and in cinema’s potential to channel and transform states of consciousness—tools for the times we live in and those to come.
She holds a PhD and Master’s degree in Anthropology and collaborates with national and international universities, film institutions, and art organizations. She teaches courses on experimental and non-fiction cinema, diverse approaches to anthropology and ethnographic methodologies for the arts, as well as experimental practices in photochemical lab work. In Spain, she collaborates with ESCAC, BAU, XCÈNTRIC, EQZE, UB, Conde Duque, UNED, UOC, Hangar, CSIC, among others. Over the past decade, she has focused on developing and sharing DIY processes for analog filmmaking through the creation of various collective lab projects.
She is currently working on her second feature film and on the design and founding of La Numinosa, a cultural platform focused on developing social and environmental awareness through the arts.
Her work has been screened at numerous film festivals and art spaces around the world, including IFFR Rotterdam Film Festival, Oberhausen IFF, Edinburgh International Film Festival, International Video Art Festival LOOP, Museo de Bellas Artes Caracas, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, FID Marseille, Margaret Mead Film Festival, Microscope Gallery NY, Crossroads SF MoMA, among others.
Founder and Executive Producer of ActionTimeVision
Ulla Winkler
A creative consultant and producer of exuberant live spectacles, specialising in immersive production at where art and technology meet. Ulla has tight knit collaborations with many creative and innovation directors next to comprehensive technical talent. Specialised in multi-disciplinary production and large scale installations, audacious live shows, real-time experiences and technical innovation - projects frequently use pioneering technologies or build-from-scratch prototypes - before propelling them into high-pressure live environments. Projects include Grammys performances with Lady Gaga, the NBA, Nike, Massive Attack... Ulla´s network of highly skilled and versatile specialists and technologies allow projects to be deployed fast, reliably and internationally. Successful productions see through the creative idea from a concise project scoping to its live implementation. Ulla has a track record of safely balancing high-risk projects and delivering them in profit, whilst pushing the boundaries of innovation and creativity for exceptional results.
Multidisciplinary Artist
Alfonso Ferri
Multidisciplinary artist specialized in stage design, audiovisual installations, and multimedia projects. He studied graphic and industrial design at the Escola d’Art i Superior de Disseny de València (EASD), and pursued complementary training including a workshop on public action and intervention led by Bartolomé Ferrando at the Faculty of Fine Arts (BBVA) of Valencia; an interactive scenography workshop and a mapping workshop with Telenoika (Barcelona); and a Processing course for artists at Hangar (Barcelona).
In the field of performing arts, he has collaborated with playwrights and stage directors such as Guillem Clua, Marc Chornet, Jordi Prat i Coll, Pau Miró, Oriol Broggi, Toni Casares, Magda Puyo, and Farres Brothers. His audiovisual creations and stage designs have been produced and performed in venues including the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, Teatre Lliure, Sala Beckett, Teatre Akademia, and Sala Muntaner, among others.
His current work explores new ways of conveying ideas and staging through the ongoing advancement of technology applied to the performing arts, always seeking a balance between technique, artwork, and concept. Over the course of his artistic career, he has also created video works and contributed to motion graphics, video installations, live visuals, music videos, video performances, and scenic environments for shows and exhibitions. He has exhibited and collaborated with other artists in museums, festivals, and art galleries such as IVAM (Valencia), MACBA (Barcelona), MACE (Eivissa), ARCO (Madrid), MMB (Barcelona), Observatori (Valencia), LEM (Barcelona), and Intramurs (Valencia).
He currently teaches at the Institut del Teatre as a professor of technology applied to performance for students in directing, stage design, and dance, as well as at CIFO Hospitalet in the MAVAE course.
Visual Art Studio
Desilence (Tatiana Halbach & Søren Christensen)
Tatiana Halbach (Barcelona) and Søren Christensen (Denmark) are the creative force behind Desilence, a visual art studio founded in 2005. Their work transforms spaces, emotions, and ideas into immersive visual experiences across formats like live shows, visual scenography, dance, and innovative installations. Blending painting, technology, and sensory storytelling, each project is a deep exploration of visual language. More than creating images, Desilence awakens hidden visual worlds — “desilencing” what was waiting to be felt — and turns each piece into a transformative journey.
Performance Art Theatre
Jordà Ferré
Antigua & Barbuda was founded in 2002 by Jordà Ferré with the aim of developing projects born from his experience across the various disciplines that have shaped his professional career, particularly within the fields of visual and performing arts, and especially in theatre.
Antigua & Barbuda thus emerged with a distinctly interdisciplinary nature, spanning from research to invention, from manipulation to construction, and from creation to staging. It brings to life an illusory world centered around machines understood as peculiar, absurd, and surreal artifacts.
A commitment to innovation and ongoing collaboration with professionals from diverse disciplines and companies—such as Royal de Luxe, Comediants, La Fura dels Baus, Colombaioni, Malpelo, Sol Picó, Metros, Zotal Teatre, Philippe Genty, Marduix, Escarlata Circus, La Machine, Carles Santos, Sergi López, Simona Levi, Los Galindos, and Teatre Lliure—has provided a unique opportunity for sharing knowledge, ideas, and projects, often resulting in original and surprising productions.
As a result of these collaborations, Antigua & Barbuda co-produced the permanent show El Gegant dels 7 Mars for the 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures with Escarlata Circus and La Machine. That same year, Jordà Ferré created Los Deméndez with Kike Salgado, bringing to life the daring and classic circus act El Hombre Bala (The Human Cannonball), which accompanied Sol Picó's dance show La Diva.
In 2006, Olatz de Andrés and Jordà Ferré founded Cia. Muda, opening new horizons in contemporary dance with pieces like Yo soy una cosa que dura and Zootropo—the latter co-produced by La Marató de l’Espectacle, where it premiered. Yo soy una cosa que dura was selected for the Young Creators Showcase in the Basque Country and went on to be presented across its three provinces.
The construction of the Catalonia National Awards trophies for the 2005–2006 editions exemplifies the aesthetic principles of Jordà Ferré’s creations, where beauty and mechanism hold equal weight. His approach is to reinvent what has already been invented—working with recycled materials to alter and breathe new life into them, sometimes granting them new functions.
In 2009, Oscar De Paz joined the company, contributing his expertise and further enriching the collective’s creative journey.Guests
Masterclass Guests: Artists Who Inspire
At BASS, creativity is fueled by direct collaboration with renowned industry professionals, visionary artists, and leading educators.
Mentors & Guests are award-winning filmmakers, composers, choreographers, and performers who challenge participants to push artistic boundaries and experiment beyond their disciplines.
Andoni Luis Aduriz
Chef
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Juan Antonio Bayona
Filmmaker
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Roger Bernat
Playwright
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Sol Picó
Choreographer, and Dancer
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Edi Pou
Musician, Journalist, and Cultural Activist
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Christian Checa
Content Coordinator at BASS
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Paco Plaza
Film Director
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Chef
Andoni Luis Aduriz
Andoni Luis Aduriz (San Sebastián, 1971) has led Mugaritz since 1998—a project he describes as a creative ecosystem where cuisine serves merely as a pretext for deep interdisciplinary experimentation. His groundbreaking approach has earned Mugaritz two Michelin stars and a place among the world’s top ten restaurants for 14 consecutive years, according to the prestigious World’s 50 Best Restaurants list. In 2023, Aduriz received the Icon Award from the same organization, recognizing his profound contribution and influence on global gastronomy. That same year, Forbes named him one of the 100 most creative people in the world.
A passionate advocate for the stories behind flavor, for exploration as a guiding principle, and for the vast potential of gastronomy when it steps beyond its conventional boundaries, Aduriz is also an active educator and communicator. He shares knowledge that bridges food with neuroscience, health, nutrition, and culture, and has authored over a dozen books—many in collaboration with scientists and thinkers. His unique vision and critical voice are also expressed through his weekly opinion column in El País Semanal, which he has written since 2013.
Throughout his career, he has received numerous awards, including the National Gastronomy Award, the Chef’s Choice Award by S. Pellegrino, the Eckart Witzigmann Award, the Healthy Gastronomy Award from the Royal Academy of Gastronomy, and the National Hospitality Award for Best Chef-Entrepreneur from Hostelería España. He was recently appointed Goodwill Ambassador of Japanese Cuisine by Japan’s Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and won the Best Chef Science Award at the Best Chef Awards. In 2024, he received the Creativity Award from Fuera de Serie Gourmet and was named “Man of the Year” in the Gastronomy category by Esquire magazine.
Filmmaker
Juan Antonio Bayona
Juan Antonio Bayona is a visionary filmmaker known for his emotive storytelling, striking visual style, and mastery of genre-blending narratives. With a career spanning international blockbusters and critically acclaimed dramas, Bayona has established himself as one of the most influential directors of his generation.
His directorial debut, The Orphanage (2007), captivated audiences and critics alike, earning multiple Goya Awards and cementing his place in Spanish cinema. He continued his ascent with The Impossible (2012), a powerful survival drama starring Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor, which became a global box office success and garnered an Academy Award nomination for Watts.
Bayona’s passion for grand-scale storytelling led him to Hollywood, where he directed A Monster Calls (2016), a visually stunning and deeply moving fantasy drama, and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), which grossed over $1.3 billion worldwide. Most recently, he directed the highly anticipated Netflix film Society of the Snow (2023), further showcasing his ability to craft emotionally resonant, high-impact narratives.
As a mentor at BASS, Bayona brings his expertise in film direction, visual storytelling, and working with actors to inspire the next generation of artists. Participants will gain firsthand insight into his creative process, cinematic techniques, and approach to crafting emotionally powerful narratives.
Playwright
Roger Bernat
Roger Bernat / FFF works on cooperative theatrical projects that involve the body of the spectators. Although most of these projects have been realized in theatrical contexts, in the last decade they have been produced by institutions such as Documenta Kassel or the Sao Paulo Biennial.
Some of his works are Domini Públic (Teatre Lliure, Barcelona, 2008), La consagración de la primavera (Teatro Milagro, Mexico, 2010), Please, Continue: Hamlet (with Yan Duyvendak. Théâtre du Grütli, Geneva, 2011), Pendiente de voto (Centro Dramático Nacional, Madrid, 2012), Desplazamiento del Palacio de La Moneda (STML, Santiago de Chile, 2014), Numax-Fagor-plus (KunstenFestivalDesArts, Brussels, 2014), We need to talk (Temporada Alta, Girona, 2015), No se registran conversaciones de interés (MUCEM, Marseille, 2016-17), The place of the Thing (Documenta 14, Athens-Kassel, 2017), Flam (Festival Grec 2019), ENA (Teatre Lliure, 2020), Desnonissea (CASM, 2021), PIM PAM (34 Bienal de Sao Paulo, 2021), Terra Baixa (Teatre Lliure, 2022), Dormifestació (Fira Tàrrega, 2022) or La Scelta (Kilowatt Festival, Sansepolcro, 2023).
Choreographer, and Dancer
Sol Picó
Sol Picó is a choreographer and dancer born in Alcoi (Alicante), and the founder of the eponymous company she established in 1994. Her stage language is rooted in the hybridization of genres, blending contemporary dance, physical theatre, flamenco, and popular culture with refined technique, physical strength, and sharp humor.
Her creations are marked by a distinctive, irreverent, and dynamic style that blurs the boundaries between opposites: pointe shoes and flamenco, battle gear and femininity, large-scale scenography and organic movement. On stage, nothing is as it seems—the everyday is transformed into the extraordinary, offering the audience an experience that goes beyond mere representation.
Music, often performed live, plays a key role in reinforcing the fusion of styles and emotional registers. Her works construct a personal iconography where myth and memory—both individual and collective—intertwine.
With a career spanning more than 30 productions, Sol Picó has built a unique universe that has firmly positioned her as a vital figure in the contemporary dance scene.
Musician, Journalist, and Cultural Activist
Edi Pou
Edi Pou is a musician, journalist, and cultural activist. He is a member of the bands ZA! and Los Sara Fontan, and co-founder of the improvisation and training project La Orquesta del Caballo Ganador. A passionate advocate of collective and shared creation, he actively seeks encounters between music and other disciplines such as dance, poetry, theater, performance, film, and more.
He has led improvisation workshops in cities such as Barcelona, Porto, Melbourne, Berlin, Maputo, Azpeitia, Lagos, the Azores, among others. He is the author of several podcasts focused on music and the underground community (MaracaLab, Vivalanumeración, Ràdio Cultura Viva, etc.).
He received the Ciutat de Barcelona Award in 2015 (with ZA!) and again in 2022 (with 4132314). Since 2009, he has been co-director of the record label and musical collective Gandula. He is also a member of the self-managed collective Atzavara.
Content Coordinator at BASS
Christian Checa
Christian Checa Bañuz holds a degree in Film and Audiovisual Media with a specialization in Directing from ESCAC, a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona (UB), a Master’s in Contemporary Film and Audiovisual Studies from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), and a PhD in Social Communication, also from UPF.
As an author, he has published No Trespassing with Shangri-La publishing house, written several articles for specialized journals, and contributed to collective volumes on film studies. Since 2013, he has been teaching various subjects at ESCAC, both in the undergraduate Film program and in its Master’s degrees.
He is currently Head of the Master’s and Postgraduate Department at ESCAC and Content Coordinator at BASS.
Film Director
Paco Plaza
Born in Valencia in 1973, Paco Plaza is one of Spain’s leading figures in genre cinema. He holds a degree in Information Sciences from the University of Valencia and a diploma in Film Directing from the Madrid Film School (ECAM). Early in his career, he directed several short films, notably Abuelitos, which was screened at numerous national and international festivals and received, among other awards, the Canal Plus Prize at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival and the Proyecto Corto Canal Plus Award at the San Sebastián Horror and Fantasy Film Festival; and Puzzles, which won the INJUVE Award for Best Experimental Short in Versión Española (TVE).
In 2002, he directed his first feature film, The Second Name, co-written with author Fernando Marías and based on a novel by Ramsey Campbell. The film won the Méliès d’Argent for Best European Feature at the Sitges Film Festival. That same year, alongside Jaume Balagueró, he co-directed the docufilm O.T. La Película. This was followed by Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt (2004) and the Tales to Keep You Awake TV episode A Christmas Tale.
Plaza achieved international acclaim with the [REC] saga, co-directed with Jaume Balagueró. The first installment (2007) and [REC]2 (2009) became unprecedented international successes. He later directed [REC]³: Genesis (2012) on his own, which was also a major hit in countries such as France, Mexico, and the UK.
His 2017 film Verónica earned seven Goya Award nominations and achieved both critical and commercial success worldwide. In 2019, Plaza released Eye for an Eye, which received three nominations from the Spanish Film Academy.
In 2022, he premiered The Grandmother, screened in the Official Selection of the San Sebastián Film Festival, winner of the Jury Prize at the Gérardmer Fantastic Film Festival, and topping the Spanish box office upon its theatrical release.
In 2023, he once again opened the Sitges Film Festival with Sister Death, a Netflix original film and prequel to Verónica.
In 2024, he returned to the San Sebastián Film Festival with his documentary MUGARITZ: NO BREAD, NO DESSERT, which won Best Film in the Culinary Cinema section.
LA SUERTE, co-created with Pablo Guerrero, is his first television series.BASS Festival
A Celebration of Creative Disruption
On the weekend of July 12–13, step into the vibrant world of BASS as we unveil the ten groundbreaking projects developed by our selected creators. More than a showcase, the BASS Festival is a bold statement of what happens when disciplines collide, boundaries dissolve, and imagination leads. Discover a new wave of artistic expression shaped in the heart of Barcelona – and be part of a moment where creativity has no limits.
10.30h
Sin título
• Fòrum
12.30h
What(er)?
• Torre de les Aigües
15.00h
Biodiversity
• Barcelona XRLab
16.00h
Nameless cities
• Barcelona XRLab
17.30h
Metamorfosi
• Castell de Montjuïc
10.45h
Limbus Infantium
• La Model
16.30h
Free-volution. A composition in three movements
• DHUB
17.00h
A través
• DHUB
17.30h
omen.exe
• DHUB
18.00h
Tryground
• DHUB
19.00h
Closing Party
• DHUB