In 2019, Madrid-based designer Jorge Penadés founded Extraperlo, a nonprofit exhibition platform for unorthodox work and ideas. Its latest installment, “Curating Curators,” on view Feb. 18–20 at Penadés’s warehouse-like studio as part of this month’s Madrid Design Festival, upends the conventional approach of making exhibitions about objects and the designers who create them. Instead, Penadés, along with Milan-based curator Maria Cristina Didero, brought together 14 curators, journalists, and consultants from around the world to prove that those who support creativity behind the scenes are creative agents in their own right. “Designers, architects, and artists always have the spotlight,” Penadés says. “But we have a lot of people helping us [designers] make our work better. They deserve attention.”