CV (short)

Martin Fritz is a freelance curator, consultant and writer in Vienna

Martin Fritz, born 1963, has studied law in Vienna from 1981 to 1986. Since then he has worked in the field of contemporary art production in Vienna, New York, Germany and other countries. Starting with independent projects in theatre, visual arts and film in the 1980ies, he has specialized on producing and conceiving visual arts projects in collaboration with curators and institutions, with a special emphasis on project-management and art-production in the public space.Among many other assignments he has worked as Director of Operations for the re-opening of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York, General Co-ordinator of Manifesta 4 – European Biennial of Contemporary Art in Frankfurt (Main) and Managing Director of In Between - The Art Project of EXPO 2000 in Hanover. Recently he has worked as a consultant on structural and organizational issues for art-funding initiatives such as relations - a project initiated by the German Federal Cultural Foundation in Berlin and Erste Bank Foundation in Vienna. His curatorial work includes art-projects for the Hospital in Meran / Merano, Italy and art-projects for the University in Klagenfurt, Austria. From 2001 to 2007 he was a member of the Board of the International Foundation Manifesta. From 2004 to 2009 he was the Director of the Festival of Regions a Biennial for site-specific art and culture in the Austrian province of Upper Austria.