Rosa Olivares
Publisher, writer, journalist, art critic an independent curator, Rosa Olivares (Madrid, 1955) is since year 2000 publisher and director of EXIT Imagen & Cultura, a quarterly publication devoted to the photographic image in contemporary art. Exit BOOK was fist published in December 2002, a magazine on visual culture and contemporary artistic publications. In February 2004, she brought Exit EXPRESS to light, a monthly newspaper of information and debate on current art. In 1982 she was co-founder of the magazine LÁPIZ. Revista de Arte Internacional, where she worked as editor in chief then becoming vice-director and director until 1999.
As independent curator focusing on the field of contemporary photography she has organized , among others, the following exhibitions: ‘Einsamkeit, un sentimiento alemán' (Fundació La Caixa, Madrid and Barcelona, 1992); ‘Entre la Pasión y el Silencio, nueva imagen de la fotografía española' (25º Anniversaire des Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d'Arlés, France; Fototeca de La Habana; Palacio de Revillagigedo, Asturias, 1994); ‘Mujeres: 10 Fotógrafas/50 Retratos' (Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, 1994); ‘Los géneros de la pintura. Fotografía contemporánea y su relación con la pintura' (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid; CAAM de Canarias; Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, 1995); ‘Diálogos: Andrés Serrano/Leonel Moura' (MEIAC, Badajoz, 1996); ‘La Imagen del Poder: 100 años de retratos de políticos españoles' (Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, 1998; Instituto Cervantes, Rome and Munich, 2000; Milan, 2001); ‘El Enigma de lo Cotidiano' (Casa de América, Madrid, 2000); ‘Miradas impúdicas', (Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona, 2000); 2004 ‘Axel Hütte: Terra Incognita' (Palacio de Velázquez-MNCARS, Madrid, 2004) and ‘Rafael Navarro: Cuerpos iluminados' (Lonja de Zaragoza e MEIAC de Badajoz, 2006).
Rosa Olivares has also organized or taken place in courses, seminars and encounters on art in various universities and cultural institutions in Spain, Germany, Italy, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Portugal, and she has written texts for numerous books and exhibition catalogues of art centres and museums all over the world.
