Fes! Cultura Podcast with María José Pizarro

A two-way conversation between Colombia and Barcelona about the right to tell one’s own story and migration as an opportunity.

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In 2009, during her exile in Barcelona, María José Pizarro developed the exhibition “I’ll Be Back. Carlos Pizarro, Memory for Peace”, presented at Casa Amèrica Catalunya. For her, this project marked a reunion with her father after 18 years of absence: an exercise in memory, repair, and dialogue that signalled her debut as a curator and cultural manager in the diaspora.

Years later, she starred in and co-produced the documentary “Pizarro” (2015, dir. Simón Hernández), which reconstructs her father’s life from an intimate perspective: a personal journey to reconcile with his legacy, understand the causes of his assassination in 1990, and recover a chapter silenced by violence and fear.

These two experiences, developed in Barcelona’s Poble-sec neighbourhood, had a strong impact in Colombia, leading María José to join the Bogotá Department of Culture, the National Centre for Historical Memory, and to begin a political career as a Member of the House of Representatives and later as a Senator, a position she currently holds.

In this conversation, we will explore how these cultural projects were developed and the meaning they have had both in her life and in Colombia’s recent history: the right to one’s own narrative, the power of art to transform the personal into the collective, and memory as a tool for repair. We will also reflect on the role of migrant cultural agents: a Colombia that exists beyond its borders but continues to act as a force for change.

• Guest: María José Pizarro
• Host: Diego Salazar
• Duration: 60 minuts
• Format: Conversational
• Date: Thursday, January 15, 2026 · 7:00 pm
• Location: Sala Oasys. Passatge de Sant Antoni Abat, 2. Barcelona

The Fes! Cultura podcast is a space for conversation and reflection where artists, creators, and cultural agents share how their creative practices generate transformation in their lives, communities, and territories. From a diverse and committed perspective, the podcast highlights experiences that connect art and social change, showing how culture can be a tool to imagine and build more just, sustainable, and plural futures.

In collaboration with Fabra i Coats: Fàbrica de Creació y Sala Oasys Barcelona.

Cover photo: Gustavo Aguado