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 “Ya vuelvo. Carlos Pizarro, Memoria para la paz”, presented at Casa Amèrica Catalunya. For her, this project was a reunion with her father after 18 years of absence: an exercise in memory, repair, and dialogue that marked 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 search 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 and produced in the Poble Sec neighbourhood of Barcelona, had an impact in Colombia that led María José to join the Bogotá Secretariat of Culture, the National Centre for Historical Memory, and to begin a career as a Member of the House of Representatives and Senator of the Republic, a position she currently holds.
In this conversation with María José, we will explore how these cultural proposals were developed and the meaning they have had both in her life and in the recent history of Colombia: 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 discuss the role of migrant cultural activists: a Colombia that exists beyond its territory but continues to act as a driver of 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, through their creative practice, they generate transformations in their lives, communities, and territories. From a diverse and committed perspective, it 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 & Sala Oasys Barcelona.
Cover photo: Gustavo Aguado
