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MAC ADVISORY BOARD
Marcelo MATTOS Araújo
Ph.D., Director, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil
Marcelo Mattos Araujo holds a Ph.D. from the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo. Since 2002 he has been Director of the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil. He was previously the director of the Museu Lasar Segall, also in São Paulo. Araujo regularly acts as an advisor to several museums and cultural institutions in Brazil and is currently the acting advisor of the Fundação Cultural Ema Gordon Klabin in São Paulo. He teaches in the Museology Program of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo. He was President of the Association of Museologists of Sao Paulo (1987) and of the Regional Council of Musicology of Sao Paulo (1989), and is also a member of the Board of the Brazilian ICOM Committee.
Manuel Borja-Villel
Ph.D., Director, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Spain
Manuel J. Borja-Villel completed his Ph.D. in History of Art at the Graduate Center, City University of New York in 1989. From 1990 to 1998, Borja-Villel served as the first director of the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona, where he organized exhibitions such as Els límits del museu and La ciutat de la gent, in addition to solo shows devoted to the artists Louise Bourgeois, Brassaï, Marcel Broodthaers, Lygia Clark, Hans Haacke and Krzysztof Wodiczko, among others. Since July 1998 he has been director of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA). At MACBA he has programmed solo shows devoted of William Kentridge, Perejaume, Gerhard Richter, El Lissitzky, Raymond Hains, Martha Rosler, Luís Gordillo, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Oyvind Fahlström, Dieter Roth, Raymond Pettibon, David Goldblatt, Blinky Palermo, Richard Hamilton and Robert Filliou. Recent group shows include Force fields: An essay on the Kinetic; Antagonisms; and The Onnasch Collection.
PHOTO: © documenta archiv / Gitty DarugarGitty Darugar: Catherine David, artistic director of the documenta 10, Inventory Number: docA, MS, d10, 10050966
Catherine David
Ph.D., Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Fellow 2005-2006
Catherine David studied Linguistics and History of Art at the Université de la Sorbonne and Ecole du Louvre in Paris. From 1982 to 1990 she was Curator at the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, and from 1990 to 1994 she was curator at Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, where she organized several monographs and group exhibitions including: Lothar Baumgarten; Passages de L’Image; Stan Douglas: Monodramas and Television Spots; Marcel Broodthaers; Helio Oiticica; Robert Gober; and Chantal Ackerman: D’Est, among others. From 1994 to 1997 David served as Artistic Director for documenta X in Kassel, Germany, and since 1998 she has been director of the long-term project Contemporary Arab Representations produced by Tàpies Foundation in Barcelona. In 2000 she organized The State of Things for Kunst Werke, Berlin. Between 2002 and 2004 David was Director of the Witte de With Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
PHOTO: ©Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Neil E. Kelley
John Rajchman
Ph.D., Professor and Director of MA Programs (in association with the Whitney Museum), Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, New York.
John Rajchman has taught in Paris and the United States. He is the author of a number of books in philosophy and aesthetics, most recently The Deleuze Connections and Constructions (both MIT Press), as well as many journal essays published in the United States and abroad. A former editor of the journal October, he also sat on the board of directors of ANY, a ten-year long project in architecture and urbanism with yearly published colloquia and a monthly paper journal. He is currently a contributing editor at Artforum and visiting professor in the School of Architecture at Princeton University.
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