Sana López Abellán, Amsterdam 1981, is a Dutch/Spanish curator, artist and anthropologist based in Spain. Her work is centred around transcending disciplines, oscillating between theory and practice and between the tactile and the symbolic.

She has been involved in a variety of exhibition projects in The Netherlands, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Cyprus and Spain as well as coordinating public art commissions for contemporary artists in the United States. Trained in curating at EINA, Barcelona and the Node Centre for Curatorial Studies, Berlin, she brings her background in anthropology and material culture from Leiden University, The Netherlands, specialising in the relationship between the body and indigenous textiles in the Ecuadorian Andes. 

Selected projects include curating the 4th Larnaca Biennale (Cyprus, 2025), Along Lines and Traces. In 2025, she was awarded a research grant by the City of Girona for the project He is a very good person, which explores connections between line, textile, and belonging within a contemporary art context. She is also the recipient of a research grant from TXIMIST / Última Vèrtebra for an artistic research project focused on territory.

Other recent highlights include curating the annual exhibition of Bòlit, Centre d’Art Contemporani de Girona at La Canonica de Vilabertran, as well as the solo exhibitions Bamboo Planet by Laurent Martin Lo at Fundación Museo Evaristo Valle (Gijón) and Jour et Nuit by Madeleine Spierer at Villa Dutoit (Geneva). Alongside her independent practice, she has been running Alzueta Gallery’s contemporary art hub, Palau de Casavells, in the Catalan countryside for two seasons.

Her ongoing curatorial–artistic project I SEE investigates the relationship between curating and divination, exploring how practices of reading, interpretation, and intuition operate as forms of knowledge production within contemporary art.

Image: Portrait by Judit Bou Comas