Martin Germann

Martin Germann is a curator who lives and works in Cologne/Germany. In 2021, he has been appointed as Adjunct Curator for Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, where he recently organized “Our Ecology: Toward A Planetary Living” (2023), the second group exhibition for the museum’s 20th anniversary. He also co-curated “World Classroom”, an exhibition devoted to the role of contemporary art as a tool for learning (2023), and organized MAM Screen 017: Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson (2022), and  served as Curatorial Advisor at Aichi Triennale 2022.

Other recent projects include Oliver Laric: Exoskeleton (OCAT Shanghai), 2022, Thomas Ruff: after.images at NTMoFA Taichung, Taiwan (2021), as well as Another Energy: Power to Continue Challenging – 16 Women Artists from around the World at Mori Art Museum, together with Mami Kataoka (2021). Together with Carla Donauer he also curates and ongoing sequence of exhibitions entitled “July August September“ (Cologne, 2021), and “November” (Tokyo, 2024).

From 2012-2019 he was leading the artistic department at S.M.A.K. (Ghent, Belgium) where he organized numerous collection and thematic presentations as well as solo shows with Raoul De Keyser, Zhang Peili, Hiwa K, Gerhard Richter, Michael E. Smith, James Welling, Nairy Baghramian, Lee Kit, Kasper Bosmans, Michael Buthe, Jordan Wolfson, Rachel Harrison, among others. Earlier he was curator of Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover (2008-2012) and directed the program of the “Gagosian Gallery, Berlin” for the 4th Berlin Biennale (2005-2006), before he was studying Cultural Sciences, Social Sciences and Arts Management in Berlin and Potsdam.

He has published numerous exhibition catalogues and monographs, his texts have appeared in magazines such as 032c, Frieze and Mousse. For Lili Dujourie: Folds in Time he received an AICA award for Belgium’s best exhibition in 2016.

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