Biography
Paulo Herkenhoff is Director of the recently opened Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. From 2003–2006, he was Director of the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro. Previously Herkenhoff served as Adjunct Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (1999–2002), and Chief Curator of Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (1985– 1990). He was also artistic director of the 1998 São Paulo Biennale, Brazil (1997–1999), and curator of the Brazilian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Italy, in 1997. Herkenhoff recently co-curated Brasil: desFocos (O Olho de Fora), Paço das Artes, São Paulo (2008), and contributed to the publication Psycho Buildings: Artists Take on Architecture (Hayward Publishing, London, UK, 2008). Herkenhoff has also published texts on artists such as Raul Mourão (2007), Guillermo Kuitca (2006), Rebecca Horn (2005), Julião Sarmento (2004), and Louise Bourgeois (2003).