Martin Schulze
Martin Schulze (born June 1981, Osnabrück, Germany) is a German curator and art producer. He organizes public art projects and exhibitions and sell contemporary art.
In 2011 he founded Public Delivery, the only organization that produces public art projects throughout Asia while continuing to work in Europe, Australia and the Americas.
Since 2011, he has produced more than 70 projects and is responsible for the production of iconic works such as Asia's tallest mural in Busan, South Korea.
He is currently raising funds for Dear Burma, a school for Burmese migrant workers living in Bangkok, Thailand. After living in Switzerland and Hong Kong for several years, he relocated to Seoul, South Korea.
Early life and career
Born in Osnabrück, Germany, he studied Mass Media and Journalism as major and Psychology as minor at the Université de Fribourg and The Chinese University of Hong Kong and also worked at Sprüth Magers and the Berlin State Museum.
In Berlin he facilitated art projects for Barbara Kruger and many others.
Selected projects
- White Ambition (Performance and sculptural project with Phil America looking into how categories such as class, gender and ethnicity amplify each other.)
- Utopia Days (Video festival at one of Korea's leading art museums, the Total Museum of Contemporary Art, showing works by prominent artists from every continent.)
- Slum Vacation (A performance and sculptural project that takes place in public space and is followed by an exhibition in a non-commercial art space. The works focus on the 1/3 of the urban world living in slums.)
- Live At The Museum (An investigation into the collective and institutional affirmation given to culture, while also functioning as a digital archive to cache the contribution of its participants.)
- El Choco (The first major solo exhibition by Swiss-Bolivian artist Luciano Calderon, showing new works, ranging from installations to paintings.)