Benjamin Weil
Artistic Director of Centro Botín since January 2014, he has been Artistic Director of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Gijón) since July 2009. Weil graduated in 1989 from the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. Between 2006 and 2008, he was the executive director of Artists’ Space in New York. Among 2000 and 2006 he held the position of director of the Media Art Department at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA). At the same time he carried out the duty of chief curator at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center (New York, 2003-2005) and collaborator in the Villette Numérique festival (Paris, 2004). Weil was also the artistic director of the HBOX project (2006-11), a programme of commissioned videos and a travelling exhibition produced by Hermès. During 2009 he was an invited professor at the Faculty of Visual Arts (IUAV) in Venice and he has also been advisor to the Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte in Turin.
