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‘The Translator’s Voice’, by Martin Waldmeier. MARCO/FRAC Lorraine/SFKM Award for Young Curators Winning Project

‘The Translator’s Voice’, by Martin Waldmeier. MARCO/FRAC Lorraine/SFKM Award for Young Curators Winning Project

Dates: 
17 June 2014 - 1 January 2015
gether and simultaneously, the three institutions in charge of the organisation of the Award for
Young Curators: MARCO Vigo, FRAC Lorraine (Fonds régional d’art contemporain de Lorraine) Metz,
France, and SFKM (Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum) Førde, Norway, the latter being the first time in
the project, announce their decision on the winning proposal of the 6th edition of the award for
young curators (2014). The winning project, titled Translator’s Voice (working title), belongs to
the very young curator Martin Waldmeier.
The jury —composed by Beatrice Josse, director of FRAC Lorraine, Ingrid Norum, curator of SFKM
and Iñaki Martínez Antelo, director of MARCO— made its decision after having analysed 118
proposals from over 34 different countries. These proposals were analysed regarding their quality,
viability and adequacy to the characteristics of the three different exhibition spaces. Each member of
the jury prepared a list of their ten best candidacies, which were discussed in a later meeting and
narrowed down to just two finalists. After talking to both candidates the choice fell unanimously on
Martin Waldmeier. His project hit a nerve in all the three different institution’s field of interest.
Vigo, June 17 2014
MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo
FUNDACIÓN MARCO: Concello de Vigo, Xunta de Galicia, Ministerio de Cultura
Príncipe 54. 36202 Vigo. Tel: 986 113900. Fax 986 11 39 01 info@marcovigo.com www.marcovigo.com
Martin Waldmeier (Basel, Switzerland, 1984) is a curator and researcher. He studied History of
contemporary art and of media, and obtained a Fulbright Award to pursue critical visual studies in
the United States at the Arts Institute in Chicago. He is currently pursuing doctoral studies in visual
cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London; his dissertation is entitled “The Artist Translator.”
Martin has worked as assistant curator and residency coordinator at PROGR Center for Cultural
Production and as curator and interim director at Stadtgalerie (both in Bern, Switzerland). He has
also recently been the winner of Apexart's Unsolicited Proposal Program in New York with the
exhibition Death of a Cameraman.
Waldmeier’s proposal for the award for young curators, Translator’s Voice (working title), explores
the changing relationships between language and identity in the context of globalisation. His project
examines how the growing need for translation at every level of social, cultural, and economic life
may be considered no only a challenge or a threat but also a source of creativity and experience, or,
at the same time, a place of subversive, critical activity.

Together and simultaneously, the three institutions in charge of the organisation of the Award for Young Curators: MARCO Vigo, FRAC Lorraine (Fonds régional d’art contemporain de Lorraine) Metz,France, and SFKM (Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum) Førde, Norway, the latter being the first time inthe project, announce their decision on the winning proposal of the 6th edition of the award foryoung curators (2014). The winning project, titled The Translator’s Voice (working title), belongs tothe very young curator Martin Waldmeier.

The jury —composed by Beatrice Josse, director of FRAC Lorraine, Ingrid Norum, curator of SFKMand Iñaki Martínez Antelo, director of MARCO— made its decision after having analysed 118proposals from over 34 different countries. These proposals were analysed regarding their quality,viability and adequacy to the characteristics of the three different exhibition spaces. Each member ofthe jury prepared a list of their ten best candidacies, which were discussed in a later meeting andnarrowed down to just two finalists. After talking to both candidates the choice fell unanimously onMartin Waldmeier. His project hit a nerve in all the three different institution’s field of interest.

Martin Waldmeier (Basel, Switzerland, 1984) is a curator and researcher. He studied History ofcontemporary art and of media, and obtained a Fulbright Award to pursue critical visual studies inthe United States at the Arts Institute in Chicago. He is currently pursuing doctoral studies in visualcultures at Goldsmiths, University of London; his dissertation is entitled “The Artist Translator.”Martin has worked as assistant curator and residency coordinator at PROGR Center for CulturalProduction and as curator and interim director at Stadtgalerie (both in Bern, Switzerland). He hasalso recently been the winner of Apexart's Unsolicited Proposal Program in New York with theexhibition Death of a Cameraman.

Waldmeier’s proposal for the award for young curators,The Translator’s Voice (working title), exploresthe changing relationships between language and identity in the context of globalisation. His projectexamines how the growing need for translation at every level of social, cultural, and economic lifemay be considered no only a challenge or a threat but also a source of creativity and experience, or,at the same time, a place of subversive, critical activity.