GUERRILLA GIRLS IN VENICE. Talk with Rosa Martínez

Guerrilla Girls in Venice is the title of the talk Rosa Martínez shall give, with the participation of the CGAC director, Santiago Olmo, to mark the exhibition hosted by the centre since March. Her speech will be about the participation of the Guerrilla Girls collective in the exhibition Always a Little Further curated by Rosa Martínez in the Arsenale di Venezia as part of the 51st International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.

The members of the Guerrilla Girls referred to that edition of the Venice Biennale as the ‘first feminist biennale in history;’ it was indeed the first edition in the 110-year history of the event with two women directors: María de Corral, manager of the Italian Pavilion, and Rosa Martínez, curator of the spaces of the Arsenale.

In her speech at the CGAC, Rosa Martínez will present the posters the Guerrilla Girls created specifically for the occasion, with comical designs and surprising statistics, and will talk about the activism of this collective as well as curatorial activism, which must always open frontiers for diversity and broaden horizons for equality.

ROSA MARTÍNEZ (Soria, Spain, 1955) is an art historian and independent curator. For two decades (1988-2007), she directed or curated international biennials in Barcelona, Rotterdam, Istanbul, Santa Fe (New Mexico), Busan, Moscow and São Paulo. In 2005, she was co-director of the 51st International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, where she presented Guerrilla Girls. She has collaborated with museums such as the Istanbul Modern, the Guggenheim in Bilbao, the National Museum of Sculpture in Valladolid (in 2015, with an exhibition on Saint Teresa of Jesus titled Nada temas, dice ella) or the Picasso Museum in Barcelona (with En el nombre del padre, in 2019). In 2020, she created the virtual exhibition Así también te cuidaré for The New York Times in Spanish and is currently working on a book about her curatorial experience.

TARGET GROUP

This activity is aimed at teachers, students, historians and anybody interested in art.

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