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    Bartomeu Mari
    About Bartomeu Mari

    Bartomeu Mari is appointed co-curator of the 2002 Taipei Biennial, which is opened at Taipei Fine Art Museum in November, 2002.

    Bartomeu Mari was born in Eivissa, Spain, in 1966. He has previously served as independent curator and writer, a regular contributor to several newspapers and art magazines in Barcelona (1988-1989). He worked as exhibition curator at Fondation pour l'Architecture in Brussels (1989-1993) and as curator at IVAM-Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia (1993-1995); and between 1996-2001, he was the director of Witte de With, center for contemporary art in Rotterdam. He was the member of the selection committee for the artistic director of documenta 11 in Kassel; and the author of the Policy Plan for MARCO (Museo de Arte Contemporaneo) VIGO to open in October 2002. He is currently the project leader for the constitution of the International Center for Contemporary Culture in Donostia-San Sebastian.


    Selected exhibitions he curated since 1991:1991 Young Architects from Moscow (Fondation pour l'Architecture)1992 Like Nothing Else in Tennessee Serpentine Gallery, London, England. (Works by Jurgen Albrecht, Siah Armajani, Ludger Gerdes, Dan Graham, Marin Kasimir, Hubert Kieckol, Langlands & Bell, Matt Mullican, Maria Nordman, Julian Opie, Thomas Schutte).
    1993 Judith Barry:The work of the Forest Installation. (Produced by Fondation pour l'Architecture, Ecole regionale d'art de Dunkerque and D.R.A.C. Centre, France). Toured to Ecole regionale d'art de Dunkerque, France; Palais Jacques Coeur, Bourges, France; Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam; MOPU, Madrid, Spain; Centre d'Art Contemporain de Marne-la-Vallee, France; Biennale de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1995.1994 Landscape Architecture of the XXth Century Jean Cannel-Claes, Rene Pechee, Jacques Wirtz. Fondation pour l'Architecture, Brussels, Belgium. Toured to Etablissement Public du Grand Louvre, Tuilleries Gardens, Paris.
    1995 Raoul Hausmann: 1886-1971 IVAM-Centre Julio Gonzalez,Valencia, Spain, in co-production with the Muse d'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France and the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin.1996 Voices (curated by Christopher Phillips, In co-production with Fundacion Joan Miro Barcelona, Spain; Le Fresnoy - Studion National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France,1998)1999 Stimuli (Witte de With, Roterdam);2000 Eulalia Valldosera (Witte de With, Roterdam and Fundacion Antoni Tapies, Barcelona)2001 The People’s Art / A Arte do Povo (Central Electrica do Freixo, Porto and Witte de With,Roterdam).