As an independent curator, Rosa Martínez has organised some of the most outstanding and prestigious international exhibitions, including the 52nd Venice Biennale with "Always a Little Further" at the Arsenale (2005); the 5th International Istanbul Biennale On "Life, Beauty, Translations and other Difficulties" (1997) and the exhibition "Chacun à son gout", which celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum (2007).

She was co-curator of "TRA.Edge of Becoming", at the
Palazzo Fortuny Museum in Venice, from the 1rst of June through the 13th
November, 2010.

She has also curated remarkable solo shows of artists such as Jana Sterbak (La Caixa, Barcelona, 1992), Sam Taylor Wood (La Caixa, Barcelona, 1997), Nikos Navridis (La Caixa, Madrid, 2004) or Pilar Albarracín (Reales Atarazanas de Sevilla, 2004) as well as the site-specific intervention by Santiago Sierra at the Spanish Pavilion in Venice (2003).

As a curator her role encompasses:
* Defining the conceptual framework of exhibitions and art events;
* Investigating art trends and selecting the artists and their works;
* Mediating between the artists, the institution and the public.

“All the works displayed are propounded as centres for condensing meaning in order to transform the exhibition into a place for symbolic exchange between artists and the community. Helping to form critical and sensitive citizens and to promote new aesthetic and political dialogues are undoubtedly fundamental tasks for art exhibitions. Today, it is necessary to encourage new relations based on desire, to establish interchanges with people, objects or symbolic systems to favour the creation of that “transferential plasticity” that will help us increasing our knowledge and healing the world in which we live”.

Rosa Martínez, 2005