It is commonly assumed that exhibitions are “platforms” to present and see art. But what if exhibitions could be understood as spaces to understand the future of thinking? Thinking endangered by machines, unless we can find a correct form of coexisting with technology. We need spaces to train our senses and our minds in experiencing new horizons for collective relevance and regaining curiosity and motivation.
Born in Spain, Chus Martínez has a background in philosophy and art history. She is currently the Head of the Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW in Switzerland, and associate curator of TBA21 in Madrid/Venice.
She is board member of CIMAM (International Committee for Museums) and serves on the advisory boards of numerous international art institutions, including Castello di Rivoli, Turin and Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin. She has been the Chief Curator at El Museo Del Barrio, New York and dOCUMENTA (13) Head of Department. Previously she was Chief Curator at MACBA, Barcelona, Director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein. Martínez has organized numerous exhibitions and publications with contemporary artists. She lectures and writes regularly including numerous catalogue texts and critical essays, and is a regular contributor to international journals.
Her recent publications include:
The Complex Answer: On Art as a Non-Binary Intelligence, Sternberg Press 2023.
Like This: Natural Intelligence As Seen by Art, Hatje Cantz Verlag (2022).
Coding Care (edited together with Sabine Himmelsbach), Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2022.
Corona Tales. Let Life Happen to You, Lenz, (2021).
The Wild Book of Inventions, Sternberg Press (2020).
Upcoming exhibitions include:
Search for Life, TBA21 at Thyssen Museum, Madrid
Doblad mis Amores, Collegium February 2023
Living in Joy, Art Sonje March 2023
Mathilde Rossier, Fondation Pernod Ricard, May 2023.
*Portrait Image Credit: Gina Folly