Valencia, October 2025. In the HDH 2025 (Ad Cognoscendum, agendum vel operandum, University of Valencia) we have two long papers that put into the open part of the work we have been doing in Complexhibit: using data, graphs and critical curatorship to understand how the networks of the exhibition ecosystem in Spain are configured -and who benefits from them-.

The first contribution, «Intertwined Cartographies: Modelling Transnationality in the Spanish Exhibition Ecosystem (2000-2023) through Network Analysis»maps flows of artists and institutions to identify transnational circuits and their key nodes. The aim is to measure with evidence where and how symbolic capital is concentrated in transnational contexts.

The second, «Ni están ni están todas las que son ni son todas las que están. Structures, margins and women artists in the Andalusian exhibition system».», examines structural biases and visibility metrics to understand who enters, who is left out and under what logics in the Andalusian context.

Both papers, signed by Bárbara Romero Ferrón and Nuria Rodríguez Ortega, are based on the OntoExhibit ontology and reinforce the connection between Digital Humanities and exhibition practices. We move from intuition to comparable indicators (2000-2023) on transnationality and gender gaps, providing useful evidence for more inclusive curatorial policies, programming and archival strategies. Our approach is clear: data in context. Graphs tell stories, but it is critical curatorship that allows us to interpret them and transform them into decisions.

Materials: slides and/or preprints will be shared soon. If you would like to collaborate or reuse our metrics with OntoExhibit, please write to us.