The patronato of the Fundación LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial has agreed this week to incorporate two new members into the scientific commission of the art center. They are Blanca de la Torre and Bartomeu Marí, two professionals in the field of cultural management, with «extensive national and international experience.»
As reported by the Principado in a press release, this commission, currently composed of María Castellanos, Iván Fernández Lobo, Roberta Bosco, Consuelo Vallina, Jorge Fernández León, and Ramón Rubio, is the highest advisory body of LABoral Centro de Arte, which is expected to play a leading role in the selection process of the new direction of the institution that will soon be opening.
A majority of the selection committee for this process will consist of members of the scientific commission or those proposed by it. Furthermore, this body will strengthen its role in the future. At this time, there is an ongoing modification of the foundation’s statutes that will ensure its function of advising and supporting the center’s management.
The guidelines for the call for the position of director of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial were approved this week by the foundation’s board. The process will unfold in three phases and will be supervised by the scientific commission.
BLANCA DE LA TORRE
Blanca de la Torre holds a Ph.D. in Fine Arts and a degree in Art History. She is currently the chief curator of the Helsinki Biennial (Finland) and the artistic director of ISLA. She was the chief curator of the 15th International Biennial of Cuenca in Ecuador and the co-artistic director of the Overview Effect Project at the MoCAB Museum in Belgrade.
From 2009 to 2014, she was a curator, conservator, and head of exhibitions and projects at ARTIUM, the Basque Museum of Contemporary Art (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain). She has curated exhibitions at international museums and art centers, including the Salzburger Kunstverein in Austria, EFA, Elisabeth Foundation Project Space in New York, Centro de las Artes de Monterrey, Museo Carrillo Gil in Mexico City, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Ex Convento del Carmen Guadalajara, NC-Arte in Bogotá, RAER in Italy, LAZNIA Center for Contemporary Art in Poland, Sala Alcalá 31, CentroCentro, and Fernán Gómez in Madrid, NGMA, National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, MUSAC, Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León, and 516 Contemporary Arts Museum in the United States, among others.
BARTOMEU MARÍ
Between 2008 and 2015, Bartomeu Marí was the director of MACBA in Barcelona. He has also served as the director of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) in Seoul, the Museum of Art in Lima (MALI), and the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, now known as Kunstinstituut Melly.
He graduated in philosophy from the University of Barcelona in 1989. He curated exhibitions at the Fondation pour l’Architecture in Brussels, now part of C.I.V.A., and was a conservator of exhibitions at the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) from 1993 to 1995.
He was the director of the International Center for Contemporary Culture project, the precursor to the current Tabakalera in Donostia-San Sebastián, and was part of the selection committee for the artistic director of Documenta 11 in Kassel. In 2002, he curated the Taipei Biennial in Taiwan.
From 2014 to 2016, he served as the president of the International Committee of Museums and Collections of Modern and Contemporary Art (CIMAM).
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