Martha Rosler (artist, New York City / USA) and Miguel Robles-Durán (urbanist, New York City / USA)

The artist and theoretician Martha Rosler (born in 1943 in Brooklyn, NYC) lives and works in New York City, USA. Her photographs, installations, videos, and performances often deal with the relations between public and private social areas. Exhibitions (selection): CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2014); MOMA, New York (2012); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2012); 9th Shanghai Biennale (2012); Istanbul Biennale (2011); MUMOK, Vienna (2010); Sprengel Museum, Hanover (2009); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2007); Skulpturprojekte Münster (2007); Liverpool Biennale (2004); MACBA, Barcelona (1999).

Miguel Robles-Durán (born in 1972 in Mexico City, Mexico) works as an architect urbanism researcher in New York, USA. He is director of the graduate program for Urban Ecologies at New School/Parsons, NYC, Senior Fellow of Civic City, a postgraduate design and research program at the Haute École d’Art et de Design (HEAD) in Geneva and co-founder of Cohabitation Strategies, an international non-profit collaboration for socio-spatial development with offices in New York and Rotterdam. Currently, he is advisor for urbanization and area development in Ecuador. He is co-Editor of Urban Asymmetries: Studies and Projects on Neoliberal Urbanization.

Foto / Photo: Frank Egel