Javi Cruz (Madrid, 1985) studied at universities in Madrid (UCM), Granada (UGR), Utrecht (HKU) and Oxford (Oxford University). He was part of the programming team at the Teatro Pradillo and co-directs the Bosque Real platform.
He collaborates on stage productions with artists such as Cris Blanco, María Jerez, Nyamnyam, Óscar Bueno, Laura Ramírez Ashbaugh, Paz Rojo and Cuqui Jerez, presenting pieces on the national and European circuit.
In recent years, she has been present on the Madrid circuit, with the solo exhibition Trémula at the CA2M (curated by Manuel Segade and Tania Pardo in 2021), where she has also participated in the group exhibitions Flor Hispania (curated by David Bestué in 2025), Querer parecer noche (Carlos Fernández Pello and Beatriz Alonso in 2019) and Picnic Sessions (Bwelkeke in 2022), Flor de mayo (the duo with David Horvitz at La Casa Encendida, curated by This is Jackalope in 2021), La colina rota (with José Venditti) at the Reina Sofía Museum Reina Sofía and with the intervention Fina hoja de metal (curated by Javier Martín Jiménez in 2023) in a courtyard at Conde Duque. In 2022, he began representing the Galería Luis Adelantado in Valencia, where he showed his Kobold project, and has collaborated with other galleries such as Espacio Mínimo and Belmonte, where the Andrés Izquierdo dialogue was founded, which reaches Amuleto.
He was part of the team that represented Spain at the last Quadrennial of Scenography in Prague and has collaborated with institutions such as Fabra i Coats, Mercat de les Flors, the Patio Herreriano Museum and Artium.
In 2025, he is artist in residence at La Caldera (Barcelona) and is preparing his participation in Europalia as curator and artist at MuHKA (Antwerp).
