Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
• Monitoring auctions and sales trends • Creating offer dossiers • Developing short- and long-term collection goals • Providing strategic guidance on collection development and progress in adherence with established goals • Identifying and evaluating acquisition opportunities • Conducting close and extensive provenance and literature research • Providing archive management guidance and assistance • Compiling market research surveys • Managing shipping logistics and insurance needs
Coursework included • History of Art • Contemporary Art and Market • Curatorial Practice • Medieval Art and Manuscripts (with practical instruction in handling and connoisseurship and field work) • Cultural Theory and Philosophy (with an emphasis on contemporary critical and theoretical landscape, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis). Conducted in-depth research projects on the work of Edward Ruscha; methodology of art history; Medieval art and the philosophy of Georges Bataille; international exhibitionary practices.
• Organised and coordinated large- and boutique-scale exhibitions for the country’s largest and oldest arts organisation with affiliates across the country and partnerships with the world’s leading institutions (among them the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Guggenheim Museum, the New Museum New York, and the Venice Biennale). • Raised public and private funds for international art projects. • Played key organisational function in creative formation, organisation, funding, coordination and logistical orchestration of exhibitions as part of the international public initiatives of the Year of France in Russia and the Year of Germany in Russia.
•Acted as a liaison with private and governmental cultural organizations in securing funding and cooperation, and launching of artistic collaborative efforts. •Established contacts within the international contemporary art community.