Chus Martínez

Chus Martinez is a curator, writer, and academic with a background in philosophy and art history. She is Head of the Institute Art Gender Nature at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW and Associate Curator at TBA21 (Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary) in Madrid and Venice. In 2025, she served as Artistic Director of the 36th Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts. Martínez is a board member of CIMAM and serves on advisory boards including Castello di Rivoli and the Deutsches Historisches Museum. Former roles include Chief Curator at El Museo del Barrio, Head of Department at dOCUMENTA (13), Chief Curator at MACBA, and Director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein. She is known for a critical and experimental curatorial practice, and for influential publications and exhibitions on art, ecology, and feminist thought, approaching art as a site of knowledge production and transformation.