Biography
Historian, art critic and curator Agustin Pérez Rubio has curated more than 150 exhibitions at museums, art centres and biennials, mainly in Europe and Latin America. Currently an independent curator, Pérez Rubio is involved in projects that question issues related to language as well as research that attempts to delve into artists who create political discourse on gender.
Pérez Rubio is currently curator (with Maria Berios, Lisette Lagnado and Renata Cervetto) of the 11th Berlin Biennale (2020). Previously, he was curator of the Chilean Pavilion, 58th Venice Biennale (2019), and artistic director of the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) (2014–2018), where he developed a socio-political programme dedicated to female Latin American artists. He curated solo shows for artists such as Alexander Apóstol, Voluspa Jarpa, Jorge Macchi, Carlos Motta and Yoko Ono and the retrospective show for the collective General Idea at both MALBA (2016) and the Jumex Museum, Mexico City (2017). Earlier, he was chief curator and director of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), Spain (2003–2013), where he organised monographic exhibitions for artists such as Ana Laura Aláez, Lara Almarcegui, Elmgreen and Dragset, Harun Farocki, Dora García, Pierre Huyghe, Julie Mehretu, Pipiloti Rist, Sejima + Nishizawa / SANAA, Ugo Rondinone and Azucena Vietes. He has curated solo shows by artists such as Sophie Calle, Nestor Sanmiguel Diest, Carlos Garaicoa, Rosangela Rennó and SUPERFLEX and many group shows thematically related to gender, linguistics, architecture and politics.
Pérez Rubio is is a member of the board of the Istanbul Biennial and CIMAM (2017–2022). He is also a guest professor in the Institut für Kunst im Kontext, Universität der Künste Berlin (2019–2020). He has a degree in art history from the Universidad de Valencia, Spain 1995.
Born in 1972 in Valencia, Spain, he lives and works in Berlin.
SAF participation:
Production Programme 2020 (Jury)