Barbara Cueto is an independent curator, writer, and researcher based in Berlin. She has curated and commissioned projects for institutions worldwide, including LAS Art Foundation (Berlin), KANAL–Centre Pompidou (Brussels), C/O Berlin, Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), Fundación La Caixa (Barcelona), MMOMA for the 6th Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Asian Culture Centre (Gwangju), InterAccess (Toronto), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Impakt Festival (Utrecht), and de Appel arts centre (Amsterdam). Her forthcoming book White Papers on Dissent: Rethinking Art, Value, and Resistance through Blockchain will be published by MIT Press in summer 2026 She also co-edited Authenticity? Observations and Artistic Strategies in the Post-Digital Age (Valiz, 2017 with Bas Hendrikx.

Barbara Cueto holds a PhD in Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam, where her research examined decentralised ledger technologies as tools for radical imagination and social experimentation. She is an alumna of the de Appel Curatorial Programme (Amsterdam) and holds an MA in Arts Management from Maastricht University and a BA in Journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid.