Pep Subirós (Figueres, 1947), taught philosophy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1972-1979), was director of the magazines Transición and El Viejo Topo (1979-1982), coordinator of the Barcelona-New York Chair (1983-1985), co-director of the magazine Saber (1984-1986), and guest professor, among other universities, at the New York University, the School of Architecture of Barcelona at the Technical University of Catalonia, the Accademia di Architettura  de Mendrisio (Switzerland), as well as guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington D.C.. Between 1985 and 1991 he was coordinator of Culture for Barcelona City Council and chief executive officer of OCSA, the organisation responsible for the cultural programmes linked to the Barcelona'92 Olympic Games. Since 1992 he has combined his literary activity with research and teaching work in the field of contemporary urban development. Also, as a member of the "Gao lletres" team, he works as an adviser and organiser of artistic and cultural projects, with special emphasis on the African continent.

Exhibitions
Highlights among his work include the curatorship of several exhibitions (Barcelona, the city and the people (in collaboration with Josep Acebillo; Barcelona1988, 1990 and 1995); Miquel Barceló 1987-97 (MACBA 1998); Beacons of the 20th Century: Le Corbusier (in collaboration with Fernando Marzá; CCCB 2000); Africas: the artist and the city (CCCB 2001), Bamako 03. Contemporary African Photography (CCCB 2004), as well as the development of the museum project for the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Architecture of the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris (in collaboration with Fernando Marzá and Eulàlia Bosch; this project is currently in the execution phase). Curatorship of the exhibition Bamako 05: Other Worlds, Other Views (CCCB, Barcelona, 2007). Curatorship of the exhibition Johannesburg after Apartheid: Emerging/Diverging Metropolis (Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio, Switzerland, 2007). Conception and development of the exhibition project: Apartheid. The South African mirror, to be presented at the CCCB (September 07- January 08).

Publications
He is the author of, among other works, the books Mites i raons de la modernitat (Ed. 62, 1984), Full de dames (Ed. Destino, 1992), L'esquerra i la qüestió nacional i altres paradoxes (Ed. 62, 1992), La rosa del desierto (Muchnick Editores,1994), El vol de la fletxa. Barcelona'92: Crònica de la reinvenció de la ciutat (Ed. Electa-Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, 1994), Cita en Tombuctú (Premio Josep Pla 1996, Ed.Destino, 1996), Miquel Barceló, 1987-1997 (Ed. Actar/Macba, 1998), Breve historia del futuro (Ed. Destino, 1998), Africas, the artist and the city (Actar/CCCB, Barcelona 2001), Todas las aguas se comunican (Ediciones Laertes, Barcelona 2004), and Ara sé que és ella (Ed. 62, 2006).