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Marta Arzak is a freelance curator specialised in food and interested in exploring the links between art, food, and cooking. She is also art adviser at Restaurant Arzak in San Sebastián. Marta collaborated with chef Ferran Adrià’s and elBulli’s project for documenta12 (2007) , curated the exhibition Frying Water in Espacio Marzana in Bilbao (2008) and Fundación Pilar i Joan Miró in Palma de Mallorca (2010) – which aimed to metaphorically provide insight into how chefs do culinary research –, and took part in the residency program The Politics of Food at Delfina Foundation in London (2015) conducting research on and curating the event On Commensality: The Act of Eating Together. Crisis or Transformation? She has organised and participated in diverse education and public programs focused on art and food and has published several texts on such topic.

Marta studied Art History at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and she is Associate Director of Digital Education at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.