Audacity: or the Art to Invent a Future when it Looks like None | Chus Martinez

Audacity: or the Art to Invent a Future when it Looks like None

Audacity: or the Art to Invent a Future when it Looks like None
A curator talk by Chus Martinez
28 June 2024, 6pm
SAHA Studio

"Surprising ourselves is more and more difficult. Creating conditions to surprise the audience, motivate the artistic community, and make those suspicious of culture believe again, or to believe in us for the first time, is difficult. 

Can we do this? Is it still possible to regain a sense of enthusiasm and agency that seems more a part of the past than an element of our near future? Facing our fears and discussing our modest but significant visions collectively is a necessary step toward a big change. Curatorial and artistic practices are very dependent on past definitions, and the way to renew them is to identify and name new functions for them in the social. It may sound naive, but art is fundamental to defining the possible, avoiding implosion, and remaining free."

About Chus Martinez

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.