about the curator
International Artist-in-Residence
New Works: 11.2
Chus Martinez
dOCUMENTA (13) Agent, Member of Core Group, and Head of Department; and Associate Curator, Museu d'Art Contemporani Barc
From 2005 to 2008, Martínez was Director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein in Germany; and served as a curator and art critic at Sala Rekalde in Bilbao, Spain, from 2002 to 2005. She became Chief Curator of MACBA in 2008, organizing such exhibitions as The Malady of Writing and I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. She also curated Deimantas Narkevičius - The Unanimous Life, which was adapted for the Kunsthalle Bern by Philippe Pirotte. Martínez serves on the editorial board for The Exhibitionist, a curator magazine, and spoke alongside Jens Hoffmann, Tara McDowell, and Adriano Pedrosa at the launch of the first issue in February 2010.
