Paula Leu Fernández Álvarez is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), with support from the Spanish government’s Ministry of Universities. Her research focuses on the visuality of modern industrial architecture, urban planning, and landscape from spatial and objective perspectives, particularly in the study of the performativity of post-industrial ruin landscapes. She holds a bachelor’s degree in art history from the Complutense University of Madrid, with highest honors; a master’s degree in contemporary art history and visual culture from the Reina Sofía National Art Museum, the Complutense University of Madrid, and the Autonomous University of Madrid; and an intermediate-level music diploma from the Nalón Valley Professional Conservatory of Music.

She is a member of the Complutense University research group “Imaginaries. Cultural Processes in Contemporary Western Society” and has collaborated on the research project “The Just City: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Commons within an Urban Approach to Theories of Justice.” Previously, she was an Intro JAE researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). She has completed training stays at the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr University in Bochum, the Institute of Art History and Archaeology at the Sorbonne University in Paris, and the Performing Arts and Intermedia Arts Section of the Collections Department at the Reina Sofía National Art Museum. In the field of cultural management, she has cataloged the performing arts collections of the Collections Department at the Reina Sofía Museum; the contemporary design collections at the National Museum of Decorative Arts, thanks to a FormARTE fellowship in museology from the Spanish Ministry of Culture; and the university heritage of the Historical Heritage Management Unit at Complutense University.

You can find them in:

  • De-Industrial Heritage “Post-industrial ruins and fossil imaginaries. Worker memory, spaces and visual culture of coal extractivism” 15:25-23:05

LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulaleu/

Site institutionnel : https://www.ucm.es/historiadelarte/paula-fernandez-alvarez

Site personnel : https://paulaleu.art/

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3746-3722