Talk with Bartomeu Marí, director of MMCA in South Korea – Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

is an author and curator of international renown. Since 2015, he is an Director of National Museum of Modern Contemporary Art in Korea. He served as Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA) between 2008 and 2015, and previously was the Chief Curator and Head of the Exhibitions Department at MACBA from 2004 to 2008. He served as well as Director of Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, Holland, from 1996 to 2001; as Curator of Exhibitions at IVAM-Centre Julio González in Valencia, Spain from 1994 to 1996; and as Curator of Exhibitions at the Fondation pourl’Architecture in Brussels, Belgium from 1989 to 1995. In 2005 he was the curator of the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and in 2002 he co-curated the Taipei Biennale together with Chia chi Jason Wang. He is the author of numerous catalogues and monographs on contemporary art. Marí is currently the President of the International Committee of Museums and Collections of Modern and Contemporary Art (CIMAM), an international committee of ICOM.