Formerly director of the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Kunsthalle Bern, and the Paris Musée National des Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie, Jean-Hubert Martin knows a thing or two about art.
A veteran of the Venice and Russian biennale’s, it was the Artempo exhibition, which he curated with Mattjis Visser and Alex Vervoodt, that served as the grounding for his current work, Theatre of the World, at MONA. The New York Times labelled the mixture of archaeological materials, applied art, old, classical and modern art, married to contemporary installations, “a fabulously eclectic exhibition”, and also impressed MONA’s founder, David Walsh.
