Tanja Grass

She holds a degree in German, English, and Spanish philology from the University of Cologne, Germany, and is a consecutive translator and interpreter, with a diploma from the UAB.

She grew up in Formentera, as the daughter of a painter and an art historian, and is the niece, cousin, and granddaughter of painters and sculptors, surrounded by artists and intellectuals. She has been active in the cultural world of Barcelona and the Balearic Islands for over 30 years.

In the 90s, she worked as an interpreter in the business and political world, as a translator in the editorial and comic book industry (Icària and Virus publishers, Makoki, Víbora, Comic Salon), and as a cultural manager and curator in the art world. She participated in the underground movement of the 90s in Barcelona, collaborating in organizing events such as Paleopoesia Urbana de Poble, and working on projects with Accidents Polipoètics, Rosa Pera, Joan Casellas, Xavier Sabater, among others.

In 1995, she founded the association Drap-Art with 13 other founding members, and has been dedicated to its management since then. Since 2019, she has been a member of the Cultural Council of the Balearic Government, and since 2022, she has been the curator of the Tardor d’Art de Formentera. In addition to her professional activity, she dedicates herself to the conservation, cataloging, and exhibition of the artistic-architectural heritage of her family, organizing, among other things, retrospectives of the work of her father, Hans Grass.