Prof. Dr. Martin Grossmann

Martin Grossmann is Full Professor of the School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo (USP) since 2006. His academic and cultural trajectory in this university started in 1985.

He is the co-creator and coordinator of Fórum Permanente, a critical platform specialised in analysing and discussing the relationship between contemporary art & culture and their spaces of social reception and interface, such as museums, cultural centres, virtual platforms, etc. He is the academic coordinator of USP's Art & Culture Chair, established at the Institute of Advanced Studies - IEA in 2015, where he was it’s director from 2012 to 2016. Before these positions he was the director of Centro Cultural São Paulo (2006-2010) and deputy director of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC-USP) in São Paulo, from 1998 to 2002.

Grossmann’s research discusses the contemporary museum but also the transition of material culture to a culture in virtuality; the relationship between contemporary art & culture, its agents and institutions; the processes of artistic and cultural mediation and the development and maintenance of information and operating systems for art and culture.