The Ministry of Culture, the Museum of Modern Art (MAM) and the Organizing Committee of the 27th Biennial of the Visual Arts have announced that Chus Martinez, Quisqueya Henriquez and Bingene Armenteros are the three jurors who will be responsible for choosing the works that will compete in the biennial. They will review entries in painting, sculpture, drawing, graphic arts, video, ceramics, installations and performance art.
Chus Martinez is from La Coruna, Spain. She is the chief curator at the El Museo del Barrio in New York City. For the last three years she has worked for Documenta (13), the quinquennial exhibition in Kassel, Germany. While helping to organize Documenta, Martinez was also chief curator at MACBA, Barcelona until 2011. In 2010, she was guest curator and advisor to the 29th Bienal de Sao Paulo, and in 2008 she was guest curator for SITE Santa Fe’s Seventh International Biennial. Previously, she was director of the Frankfurt Art Association’s art museum, the Frankfurter Kunstverein in Germany (2001-2005). She teaches art at the University.
Quisqueya Henriquez was born in Havana, Cuba but has lived in the Dominican Republic for most of her life. She studied art in Havana and at the UASD. Regarded as one of the country’s most talented young artists, she has had a prolific international career exhibiting at Morris-Healy Gallery in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, el Gallery, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, and Ninart Centro de Cultura in Mexico. She has participated in collective exhibitions at the South Florida Cultural Consortium, Miami Art Museum, and the Lehmann Maupin Gallery in New York.
Bingene Armenteros was born in the Dominican Republic. She is a graduate in marketing and management from Wharton University (Pennsylvania). She took a course in History of the Arts and discovered her great passion. In 2001 she completed a masters in history of art and the art markets at Christie’s Education. She is a frequent contributor to local arts publications. She is director of the Goiena Foundation and Arte Berri.
The Museum of Modern Art also announces that it will close from Friday 19 July through 15 August to install the biennial. The 27th Biennial opens on Friday, 16 August at 7pm. The Museum of Modern Art is located at Av. Pedro Henriquez Urena, at the Plaza de la Cultura Juan Pablo Duarte in Santo Domingo.