Chus Martínez

Chus Martínez (* 1972 in Ponteceso , Province of A Coruña ) is a Spanish art historian , museum curator and author of numerous works on contemporary art . In March 2011 she took over the curatorial department of Documenta 13 in Kassel . Before she took over the management of the Art Institute at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) in Basel in 2014 , she was chief curator of the El Museo del Barrio in New York .

Career

Martínez studied art history and philosophy at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona . She then went to Germany and continued her studies at the University of Tübingen and the Free University of Berlin . In 1995 she worked at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin . In the USA, she attended Columbia University and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College New York, where she completed her Master of Arts . As a co-curator, she also organized the Art space Parkers box , an art center in Williamsburg (Brooklyn) from 1999 to 2001 . From 2001 to 2002 she was responsible for the Sala Montcada program at the Fundació la Caixa in Barcelona . She then curated projects in the Sala Rekalde , the center for contemporary art in Bilbao, until 2005 . In 2005 she was commissioner of the Cypriot pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale . At the beginning of 2006 she was appointed director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein as the successor to Nicolaus Schafhausen . As head of the Frankfurter Kunstverein, she curated solo exhibitions by u. a. Wilhelm Sasnal and several group exhibitions such as “Pensée Sauvage” and “The Great Game To Come”. In 2008 she switched to the Museu d'Art Contemporani (MACBA) in Barcelona as chief curator . During his time at MACBA, Martínez curated, among other things, the retrospective of Thomas Bayrle , a monographic show by the Otolith Group and the television exhibition “Are you ready for TV?”. In 2008 Martínez Deimantas curated Narkevičius ' retrospective “The Unanimous Life” at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, which was then shown in several important art museums in Europe.

In 2008 she was curatorial advisor for Carnegie International . She was also the founder of the “Deutsche Börse Residency Program” for international artists, art educators and curators. In 2010 Martínez was guest curator at the 29th São Paulo Biennale . She was a member of the jury for the 2011 National Gallery Prize for Young Art . In 2012 she headed the curatorial department of dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel and was a member of the agent core group of the same.

Act

Chus Martínez lectures regularly and publishes catalog texts and reviews for the Artforum and numerous other international magazines.

Together with Bettina Funcke she is responsible for the series “100 Notes - 100 Thoughts” .

From 2005 Martínez was on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art (IKT), from 2008 to 2011 as treasurer .

Curatorial work

MACBA

• 2011: Natascha Sadr Haghighian. De paso

• 2011: The Otolith Group - La forma del pensament
• 2011: Are you Ready for TV?
• 2010: # 01 Armando Andrade Tudela - ahir, demà
• 2009/10: The Malady of Writing
• 2009/10: Ray Johnson
• 2009: Thomas Bayrle, retro perspective, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore ; The Malady of Writing. A project on text and speculative imagination
• 2007/08: The MACBA at the Frankfurter Kunstverein

Reina Sofía Museum

• 2008: “The Unanimous Life”, retrospective by Deimantas Narkevicius

Frankfurter Kunstverein

• 2006: The Martha Rosler Library ; Whenever It Starts It Is The Right Time - Strategies for an Unsteady Future
• 2007: Tommy Støckel
• 2008: The Great Transformation - Art and Tactical Magic

Institute of Art, Basel

• 2019: I-Hood, Kunsthaus Baselland
• 2017: We bid you hope, Kunsthaus Baselland

Fonts

• (Ed.) Germany in autumn. Ursula Blickle Foundation, 2009, ISBN 978-3-930043-30-9 .
• The Great Transformation / print 1: art and tactical magic. Veenman Publishers, 2008, ISBN 978-90-8690-206-4 .
• Pensee Sauvage Of Freedom. Revolver, Frankfurt am Main, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86588-377-3 .
• Charo Garaigorta: airports. (with Carles Guerra). Sala de Exposiciones Rekalde, Bilbao, 2004, ISBN 84-88559-39-9 .
• Dora Garcia: 1101001000 Unodiezcienmilinfinito. Fundacion La Caixa de Pensiones, Barcelona, ​​2002, ISBN 84-7664-747-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Chus Martínez in the catalog of the German National Library
• Chus Martínez on kunstaspekte.de
• Short biography of Chus Martínez on the website of MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo
• Conversation between Chus Martínez and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev , in: Art - Das Kunstmagazin, January 21, 2011
• “We're not fun providers” - documenta curator Chus Martínez in conversation with Stefan Koldehoff . Deutschlandfunk , broadcast on June 24, 2012, audio-on-demand .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ documenta13: dOCUMENTA (13) - documenta13. In: d13.documenta.de. Retrieved August 27, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Prof. Chus Martínez. In: fhnw.ch. Retrieved March 13, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Chus Martínez to Resign from El Museo del Barrio - News - Art in America. In: www.artinamericamagazine.com. Retrieved August 27, 2016 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Chus Martínez. Short biography. In: marcovigo.com. Retrieved on August 23, 2019 . 
5. ^ Institut Ramon Llull: "Catalonia in Venice - SINGULARITY" at the Biennale di Venezia - A project by Albert Serra and Chus Martínez - News - Institut Ramon Llull - Catalan Language and culture abroad. In: www.llull.cat. Retrieved August 27, 2016 . 
6. ^ Art: Spaniard Martinez heads the Frankfurter Kunstverein. In: faz.net. September 13, 2005, accessed January 28, 2018 . 
7. ^ Frankfurter Kunstverein. In: www.fkv.de. Retrieved August 27, 2016 . 
8. ^ Frankfurter Kunstverein. In: www.fkv.de. Retrieved August 27, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Petra Bosetti ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : New job in Barcelona. In: Art - the art magazine. May 26, 2008. 
10. ^ Cv Chus Martinez. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 3, 2016 ; accessed on August 27, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ Archives. In: www.macba.cat. Retrieved August 27, 2016 . 
12. ^ Deimantas Narkevičius | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. In: www.museoreinasofia.es. Retrieved August 27, 2016 . 
13. ↑ Deimantas Narkevicius: The Unanimous Life. October 24 - December 6, 2009. In: kunsthalle-bern.ch. Archived from the original on August 27, 2016 ; accessed on January 20, 2020 . 
14. ↑ The Crew - Signals | Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International. In: ci08.cmoa.org. Retrieved August 27, 2016 . 
15. ^ FKV - Frankfurter Kunstverein - About the Deutsche Börse Residency Program. In: archivseite.fkv.de. Retrieved August 27, 2016 . 
16. ^ Latitudes: Deutsche Börse Residency Program, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany, August 2008. In: www.lttds.org. Retrieved August 27, 2016 . 
17. ↑ JCVA - Chus Martinez - Biography. In: www.jcva.org. Retrieved August 27, 2016 . 
18. ^ Prize 2011 - Association of Friends of the National Gallery. In: www.freunde-der-nationalgalerie.de. Retrieved August 27, 2016 . 
19. ↑ documenta13: dOCUMENTA (13) - documenta13. In: d13.documenta.de. Retrieved August 27, 2016 . 
20. ↑ Universes in Universe - Gerhard Haupt & Pat Binder: dOCUMENTA (13) core group of agents / agents. In: universes-in-universe.org. Retrieved August 27, 2016 . 
21. ↑ CV Chus Martínez. (No longer available online.) FHNW, archived from the original on April 3, 2016 ; accessed on August 27, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
22. ↑ Chus Martínes. In: d13.documenta.de. Retrieved on April 5, 2018 (Martínez on Documenta 13 page with links to text contributions). 
23. ↑ ICT Board History. In: iktsite.org. Retrieved January 17, 2020 (English). 
24. ^ Basler Zeitung, Tamedia Espace AG: From I to We . ISSN  1420-3006 ( bazonline.ch [accessed January 15, 2020]).
25. ↑ Kunsthaus Baselland. Retrieved January 15, 2020 .