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Rosa Martínez
Rosa Martínez (b. 1955, Soria, Spain) is an independent curator, art critic and international art advisor based in Barcelona, Spain. Career As an independent curator, Rosa Martínez has organised international exhibitions, including the 51st Venice Biennale with "Always a Little Further" at the Arsenale (2005). The title of this exhibition was taken from a Corto Maltese book written by the Venetian-writer Hugo Pratt. In her curatorial statement Martínez elaborates on this by stating: "Taking a fictional character as inspiration is a way of affirming that art is an imaginary construct and that fantasy helps us towards a better understanding of reality". Additionally, in 1997 she curated the 5th Istanbul Biennial, International Istanbul Biennial "On Life, Beauty, Translations and other Difficulties" and curated the exhibition "Chacun à son gout", which celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2007). As an art advisor, Rosa Martínez has broadened the colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soria
Soria () is a municipality and a Spanish city, located on the Douro river in the east of the autonomous community of Castile and León and capital of the province of Soria. Its population is 38,881 ( INE, 2017), 43.7% of the provincial population. The municipality has a surface area of 271,77 km2, with a density of 144.97 inhabitants/km2. Situated at about 1065 metres above sea level, Soria is the second highest provincial capital in Spain. Although there are remains of settlements from the Iron Age and Celtiberian times, Soria itself enters history with its repopulation between 1109 and 1114, by the Aragonese king Alfonso I the Battler. A strategic enclave due to the struggles for territory between the kingdoms of Castile, Navarre and Aragon, Soria became part of Castile definitively in 1134, during the reign of Alfonso VII. Alfonso VIII was born in Soria, and Alfonso X had his court established when he received the offer to the throne of the Holy Roman Empire. In Soria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hou Hanru
Hou Hanru ( zh, s=侯瀚如, t=侯瀚如, p=Hóu Hànrú; born 1963) is a Chinese-born art curator and art critic. He is based in San Francisco, Paris and Rome. He was artistic director of the National Museum MAXXI in Rome, Italy, from 2013 to 2023. Early life and education Hou Hanru was born in 1963, in Guangzhou, China (now People's Republic of China). He graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, and moved to Paris in 1990. Career Hou lived 16 years in France before moving to the United States in 2006. He worked at San Francisco Art Institute as Director of Exhibitions and Public Program and Chair of Exhibition and Museum Studies from 2006 to 2012. He is artistic director of MAXXI, National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome since 2013. Hou has curated numerous exhibitions including " Cities on the Move" (1997–1999), Shanghai Biennale (2000), Gwangju Biennale (2002), Venice Biennale (French Pavilion, 1999, Z.O.U. -- Zone Of Urgency, 2003, Chinese Pavili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleg Kulik
Oleg Borisovich Kulik (; born 1961 in KyivOleg Kulik on gif.ru on tvgallery.ru) is a Ukraine, Ukrainian-born Russian performance artist, sculptor, photographer and curator. He is best known for his controversial artistic performances in which he acted like a dog. Life and art Kulik was born in Kyiv, graduated from Shevchenko State Art School (1979) and Kiev Geological Survey College (1982). He has lived and worked in Moscow since 1986.As a sculptor he began to work under the influence of Alexander Archipenko, later developed his own style. Was awarded a scholarship by the Berlin Senate in 1996. For his performances, Kulik creates a symbolic set of parameters to define the envi ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirin Neshat
Shirin Neshat (; born March 26, 1957) is an Iranian photographer and visual artist who lives in New York City, known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. Her artwork centers on the contrasts between Islam and the West, femininity and masculinity, public life and private life, antiquity and modernity, and bridging the spaces between these subjects. Since the Islamic Revolution, she has said that she has "gravitated toward making art that is concerned with tyranny, dictatorship, oppression and political injustice. Although I don’t consider myself an activist, I believe my art – regardless of its nature – is an expression of protest, a cry for humanity.” Neshat has been recognized for winning the International Award of the XLVIII Venice Biennale in 1999, and the Silver Lion as the best director at the 66th Venice Film Festival in 2009, to being named Artist of the Decade by ''HuffPost'' critic G. Roger Denson.Denson, G. Roger"Shirin Neshat: Artist of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghada Amer
Ghada Amer (; May 22, 1963, in Cairo, Egypt) is a contemporary artist, much of her work deals with issues of gender and sexuality. Her most notable body of work involves highly layered embroidered paintings of women's bodies referencing pornographic imagery. Amer had previously emigrated from Egypt to France at the age of 11 and was educated in Paris and Nice. She is currently living and working in New York City. Early life and education Amer was born in Cairo, Egypt she has lived in France for twenty years, and doesn't consider herself singularly Egyptian, African or French. When she was growing up in Cairo, her mother, an agronomist, made business suits for herself, and local women would often gather to sew. Amer's father, Mohamed Amer, was a diplomat and moved the family many times, not only to France but to such countries as Libya, Morocco and Algeria. For her, this exposure to different cultures are ultimately the most important biographical details needed to understand he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum In Progress
museum in progress is a private art association based in Vienna. The non-profit art initiative was created in 1990 by Kathrin Messner and Josef Ortner († 2009) with the aim to develop new presentation forms for contemporary art. The projects are implemented in each case on the basis of co-operation between economy, art and media. Exhibition activity The exhibition activity of museum in progress concentrates on media and public spaces. For example, newspapers, magazines, billboards, building fronts, television and internet are used. The works of art exhibited by museum in progress are specifically created for the medium, dependent on the context, and temporary. This working technique enables museum in progress to overcome the distance between everyday life and places of art as well as to reach a far larger public than traditional museums. Projects * ''Art, Society and Media'' (1994–1996): Symposium with artists, art critics, philosophers and essayists about art, media ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Laura Aláez
Ana Laura Aláez (Bilbao, 1964) is a Basque artist. She is one of the most renowned contemporary artists in Spain. She defines herself as an "emotions architect", as she transforms all her life into art, depicting her feelings in her artworks. One of her first exhibitions took place in 1992, in Fundació Joan Miró's Espai 10, in Barcelona. Alberto Peral, another Basque artist, was also featured in this exhibition. Biography Aláez became popularly known in 1992, with an exhibition named ''Superficie'' ("surface"), held in Fundació Joan Miró's Espai 10. In this exhibition, Aláex showed three objects (''Catwoman'', ''Pantalón preservativo'', and ''Mujeres en zapatos de plataforma'') which were between pop art and gender critics, close to the performance art that became popular in the seventies. She created the interior design project ''Geometrical Life'', with César Rey and Daniel Holc. She is also ''Girls on Film''s singer, and works with a musician named Ascii.disko. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Elliott (curator)
David Stuart Elliott (born 29 April 1949) is a British art gallery and museum curator and writer on modern and contemporary art. He is also a Contributing Editor of '' Ran Dian'' magazine. Early life He was educated at Loughborough Grammar School. While studying Modern History at the University of Durham, he organised ''Germany in Ferment: Art and Society in Germany 1900–1933'' (1970), a group of art, photography and design exhibitions that also included film and performance programmes. After showing in Durham, this travelled to the Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, and the Leicester Museum and Art Gallery. He then worked as an Art Assistant at the Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, before studying History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Career Elliott worked as a regional art and exhibitions officer at the Arts Council of Great Britain, from 1973 to 1976 after which he served as director of the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford from 1976 to 1996. Elliott's programme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macedonian Museum Of Contemporary Art
Macedonian most often refers to someone or something from or related to Macedonia. Macedonian(s) may refer to: People Modern * Macedonians (ethnic group), a nation and a South Slavic ethnic group primarily associated with North Macedonia * Macedonians (Greeks), the Greek people inhabiting or originating from Macedonia, a geographic and administrative region of Greece * Macedonian Bulgarians, the Bulgarian people from the region of Macedonia * Macedo-Romanians (other), an outdated and rarely used term for the Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians, both being small Eastern Romance ethno-linguistic groups present in the region of Macedonia * Macedonians (obsolete terminology), an outdated and rarely used umbrella term to designate all the inhabitants of the region, regardless of their ethnic origin, as well as the local Slavs and Romance-speakers, as regional and ethnographic communities Ancient * Ancient Macedonians, an ancient Greek tribe associated with the ancient region an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Paulo Art Biennial
The São Paulo Art Biennial ( Portuguese: ''Bienal de São Paulo'') was founded in 1951 and has been held every two years since. It is the second oldest art biennial in the world after the Venice Biennale (in existence since 1895), which serves as its role model. History The Biennial was founded by the Italian-Brazilian industrialist Ciccillo Matarazzo (1898–1977). Since 1957, the São Paulo Biennial has been held in the Ciccillo Matarazzo pavilion in the Parque do Ibirapuera. The three-story pavilion was designed by a team led by architects Oscar Niemeyer and Hélio Uchôa, and provides an exhibition space of 30,000 m2. The São Paulo Bienal features Brazilian and international contemporary art and is one of South America's most important large-scale art exhibitions. After the completion of the 6th Biennial, the São Paulo Biennial Foundation was created to advance the exhibition, which until then had been organized by the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM-SP). Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Hans Ulrich Obrist (born 1968) is a Swiss art curator, critic, and art historian. He is artistic director at the Serpentine Galleries, London. Obrist is the author of ''The Interview Project'', an extensive ongoing project of interviews. He is also co-editor of the '' Cahiers d'Art'' review. He lives and works in London. Life and work Obrist was born in Weinfelden, Switzerland on May 24, 1968. His father worked in the construction industry finance areas and his mother was a teacher. Obrist grew up in the Alps near Lake Constance and says his interest in museums began when his parents took him to the library of a monastery at the age of 6. In his childhood Obrist was "building museums curated in my bedroom" by decorating his room with postcards. From 1985 to 1991 Obrist was travelling and visiting various European-based artists and their studios, often sleeping on the train to his next destination to save money. The first artist he first visited were Peter Fischli & David Weiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Bourriaud
Nicolas Bourriaud (born 1965) is a French curator and art critic, who has curated a great number of exhibitions and biennials all over the world. Career Bourriaud was the Paris correspondent for '' Flash Art'' (1987–1995) and the founder and director of the contemporary art magazine ''Documents sur l'art'' (1992–2000). He was also one of the 13 co-curators of the “Aperto” section of the 1993 Venice Biennale. With Jérôme Sans, Bourriaud cofounded the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, where he served as codirector from 1999 to 2006. During his time at Palais de Tokyo, he also served on the team behind the first and second editions of the Moscow Biennial, in 2005 and 2007, respectively. Bourriaud was the Gulbenkian curator of contemporary art from 2007 to 2010 at Tate Britain in London. In 2009 he curated the fourth Tate Triennial, titled Altermodern. École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 2007–2010 Bourriaud was the Director of the École Nationale Supérieure de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
