Chus Martínez applies her academic interest in the intersection between art history and philosophy as the Chief Curator of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona.

Chus Martínez

Chus Martínez is Chief Curator at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) and a guest curator at the 29th São Paulo Biennial. Martínez recently curated The Malady of Writing at MACBA, a unique exhibition of books, pamphlets, ephemera, and single pages that represent an array of artists’ fiction that is often written, produced, and self-published out of necessity or compulsion. Previously, Martínez was the Director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Curator at Sala Rekalde in Bilbao, and Co-Director of Parker’s Box Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. She contributes to a number of journals and magazines, including Afterall and The Exhibitionist.

Born 1972 in Ponteceso, Spain.
Lives and works in Barcelona, Spain.