Martin Germann is an independent curator and who lives and work in Cologne/Germany. Recently he co-curated Another Energy: Power to Continue Challenging – 16 Women Artists from around the World together with Mami Kataoka at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, and a comprehensive solo exhibition with Thomas Ruff at the National Museum of Fine Arts Taiwan, focusing on work produced after 1989.
Upcoming projects include a show with Oliver Laric at OCAT Shanghai, and the first solo museum presentation in Asia of Raoul De Keyser at M Woods in Beijing. Martin Germann serves as a Curatorial Advisor for the upcoming Aichi Triennale in 2022. From 2012-2019 he was leading the artistic department of S.M.A.K., the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent, Belgium, as senior curator. During his tenure could establish “From the Collection”, a permanent and dynamic format for collection presentations. He also worked on various major acquisitions, as well as numerous solo and thematic group shows. For Lili Dujourie: Folds in time (2015), he received an AICA award for Belgium’s best exhibition. In earlier stages he was curator at Kestner Gesellschaft Hanover (2008-2012). Before this, he worked for the 3rd Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (2003-2004), and directed the program of ‘Gagosian Gallery, Berlin’ for the 4th Berlin Biennial of Contemporary Art’ (2005-2006). He published many exhibition catalogues and monographies and his writing has appeared in magazines such as 032c, Frieze, or Mousse. He is an active board member of “Etablissement d’en Face” in Brussels and I-AC Villeurbanne’s acquisition committee.