kurimanzutto is honored to represent Marta Minujín, one of the most influential artists from Latin America of the last 70 years. She was born in Buenos Aires in 1943 and her influential career began in the 1960s, making her one of the most celebrated artists of her native country.

Marta Minujín studied at the Manuel Belgrano School of Fine Arts and the Prilidiano Pueyrredón National School in Buenos Aires. In 1961, she received a scholarship to study in Paris and carried out her first performance: La destrucción in 1963. Upon returning to Buenos Aires in 1964, she was awarded the National Prize from the Torcuato Di Tella Institute for the work Revuélquese y viva, her first interactive installation. In 1965, she presented La menesunda at the Di Tella Institute alongside artist Rubén Santantonín, a multisensory experience using lights, colors, sounds, smells, and textures. In 1966, she received a Guggenheim fellowship and moved to New York, where she began working on two major projects related to media: Simultaneidad en Simultaneidad (1966) with Allan Kaprow in New York and Wolf Vostell in Berlinand Minuphone (1967).

"Easel painting is dead. Today man can no longer be satisfied with a static painting hanging on a wall. Life is too dynamic.” —Marta Minujín, 1966

During the 1970s she lived and worked between the United States and Argentina, exhibiting her work in important institutions and creating performances and events such as Interpenning (1972) and Kidnappening, both at the Museum of Modern Art (1973), followed by La academia del fracaso (1975) and Comunicando con tierra (1976), both at Centro de Arte y Comunicación, CAYC.

Among Minujín’s most famous works are the large-scale “monuments” to public participation developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including El obelisco acostado, Sao Paulo (1978), Carlos Gardel de fuego, Medellín (1981), El Partenón de libros, Buenos Aires and Kassel (1983 and 2017, respectively), Big Ben lying down, Manchester (2021). In 2023 she had two retrospectives: one at the Jewish Museum in New York and another at the Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo.

Her works are part of international public collections, such as those of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Art Museum of the Americas, Washington DC; Olympic Park, Seoul; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and MALBA, Buenos Aires; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

Minujín lives and works in Buenos Aires.

From April 25th to June 8th, kurimanzutto will host the solo exhibition Marta Minujin: Making a Presence at the New York gallery.

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