Victoria Noorthoorn took over as Director of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (MAMBA) last year, the city’s major public institution dedicated to modern and contemporary art. Her Curator’s Perspective talk will focus on her long-term commitment to fostering risk-taking and a flexible approach in art and museum practices, which in turn has motivated a thorough re-thinking of MAMBA as a civic center for artists, and for the public at large.

Victoria Noorthoorn is Director of the Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires. She has acted as Projects Coordinator of the International Program at MoMA, New York; Assistant Curator of Contemporary Exhibitions at The Drawing Center, New York; and Curator of Malba-Fundación Costantini, Buenos Aires. Noorthoorn has worked independently on various curatorial projects in Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Sao Paulo, Galicia, New York, Cali, and Porto Alegre. She was the Curator of the 2011 Lyon Biennial; has conceived and installed the permanent collection of the new branch of the National Museum of Fine Arts Neuquén (2004); was Chief Curator of the 29th Pontevedra Art Biennial in Spain (2006); collaborated on the presentation of Argentine artist León Ferrari at the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007); and curatedBeginning With A Bang! From Confrontation to Intimacy: An Exhibition of Argentine Contemporary Artists 1960 / 2007 at the Americas Society, New York. In 2008, she co-curated the 41 Salón Nacional in Cali, Colombia, an event that included 17 exhibitions by local curators and three major international exhibitions. Noorthoorn won the international competition to the Artistic Direction of the7th Mercosul Biennial (Porto Alegre, 2009)––with artist and curator Camilo Yáñez––and together, they invited eight Latin American artists to organize seven exhibitions, and the education, editorial, and radio programs. She received an MA in Art History from the University of Buenos Aires, and an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies in Bard College, New York.

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