Social Structures

Teresa Margolles

(Sinoloa/Mexico)

Margolles is an active member of the 'semefo' group, an acronym for Servico Medico Forense, the Forensic Medical Service, devoted to exploring the aesthetics and taboos of death.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2004 Teresa Margolles, curator Udo Kittelmann, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, Germany 2003 En el aire, curator Wolfgang Fetz, Vorarlberger Kunstverein, Bregenz; Teresa Margolles, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich; Das Leichentuch, curator Gerald Matt, Lucas Gehrmann, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna 2002 Fin, La Panaderia, Mexico City; Aire, Art Palace, Madrid 2001 Vaporización, ACE Gallery, Mexico City; El agua en la ciudad, curated by Eduardo Perez Soler, Sala 22, Barcelona 2000 Lengua, ACE Gallery, New York - Los Angeles 1998 Autorretratos en la morgue, curated by Gabriel Hörner, Queretaro City Museum, Mexico

Selected Group Exhibitions

2003 Outlook, curator Christos Joachimides, Athens, Greece; Mercosur, curator Edgardo Ganado Kim, Puerto Alegre, Brazil; Stretch, curator Eugenio Valdez Figueroa & Keith Wallace, The Power Plant, Toronto; Bankett, curator Peter Weibel a.o., ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany 2002 Mexiko-Stadt: Eine Ausstellung über den Tauschwert von Körpern und Werten, curator Klaus Biesenbach, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, & P.S.1, Long Island City, NY, USA; 20 Million Mexicans Can't be Wrong, curator Cuauhtémoc Medina, South London Gallery, London 2001 Escultura Mexicana, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City 2000 Extramuros, curator Taiyana Pimentel, Bienal de Habana, Havana, Cuba; Cinco continentes y una ciudad, curator Victor Zuñiga, Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City 1999 Baño María, curator Ximena Cuevas, Cineteca Nacional, Mexico City.

Selected Bibliography

Biesenbach, Klaus, 'Hunting men Hunting dogs, fear and loathing in Mexico city', Flash Art, Milano, vol. XXIV, no 225, 2002, pp 82-85 Crowley, Tom, 'Mexico City on the move', Tema Celeste, Milan, no. 97, May/June 2003, pp 22-25. Cuauhtémoc, Medina, 'Zones Tolérance/Conozca México', Parachute, Montreal, no 104, 2001, pp 31-52. Gallo, Rubén, 'Teresa Margolles', Cream 3, Phaidon Press Limited, London, 2003, pp 212-215. Hartmann, Alia Lira, 'Teresa Margolles exhibe "la niebla del horror" en Mex-Artes Berlin", La Jornada, México, 30 October 2003. Matt, Gerald, 'Teresa Margolles', Kunsthalle Wien, project Space, Vienna, 2003. Niklas, Maak, 'Minimal Mensch', Feuilleton, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, no 69, Frankfurt, 22 March, p 43. Romanini, Alessandro, 'A State of Mind, Mexiko Attacks', Art Nexus, Miami, No. 49, June-Aug. 2003, pp 153-155. Yehya, Naief, 'Mexico City. An Exhibition About the Exchange Rate of Bodies and Values', Art Nexus, no 46, October 2002, pp 156-158. Zaya, Antonio, "Puerto Rico OO (paréntesis en la ciudad)', Art Nexus, Colombia, no 39, 2001, pp 115-117.