Roles in Archive: Artist, Performer, Speaker
Chus Martinez is the chief curator at Museu d'Art Contemporani in Barcelona (MACBA) since 2008. She was the curator at La Caixa Foundation’s Sala Montcada in Barcelona between 2001 and 2002, and at the Sala Rekalde in Bilbao, Spain, between 2002 and 2005. From 2005 to 2008, she was the director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein. Ms. Martinez holds a degree in Philosophy and Art History from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Freie Universität in Berlin, as well as an M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies from Bard College in New York. Her doctoral thesis discussed the interface between esthetics and art philosophy. Ms. Martinez curated, among others, “The Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds”, 2005, at Cypriot Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale, 2005, and “The Unanimous Life – Deimantas Narkevicius” exhibition at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.