Michy Marxuach

Michy Marxuach lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her curatorial practice establishes a forum for dialogue and camaraderie among artists, where projects are discussed and potentiated beyond traditional exhibition spaces. She is co-founder of Beta-Local, a non-for-profit organization that supports aesthetic practices and critical thinking, which she also co-directed from 2009–15. From 1999–2005, Marxuach founded and directed M&M Projects, an alternative non-profit space dedicated to strengthening the production of contemporary art in Puerto Rico and internationally. She was the creative director of the events Puerto Rico ’04 [Homenaje al Mensajero], Puerto Rico ’02 [En Ruta] and Puerto Rico ’00 [Paréntesis en la Ciudad]. Marxuach has organized exhibitions at Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico; Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo; Museum of Art of Puerto Rico, San Juan; and Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (TEA), Canary Islands.
Curator Michy Marxuach searches for another type of governance that isn't anthropocentric.
In 2008 Olga Casellas, Michy Marxuach, and Fernando Lloveras got together to brainstorm about the systems that sustain life on our islands. A unifying element that emerged in large scale and acted as a connective map was water. In the process of thinking of ways in which we could preserve and take care of our islands, we established a comparison between the road map (the built space) and the hydrographic (our geological space) map of Puerto Rico.

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