Florencia Malbrán is appointed MALBA’s

The Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Malba) recently announced the appointment of Florencia Malbrán (Buenos Aires, 1979) as the new Curator of Public Programs and Special Projects. Malbrán will be responsible for organizing lectures, conferences, symposiums, and educational extension programs that will aim to expand the understanding and scope of the Malba Collection and its temporary exhibitions. She will also work as curator with the art department on special projects.Florencia Malbrán is a curator specializing in contemporary art with extensive experience in the academic and international fields. She has curated exhibitions in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Canada and the United States. She also worked on projects at the Guggenheim museums in New York, Bilbao, and Venice, as well as the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo jn Brazil and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires; and also completed residency programs in France, Spain, and Switzerland. For the past nine years, she has been teaching at New York University (both in New York and the Buenos Aires branch) and was visiting professor at Leuphana Universität in Germany on several occasions. Malbrán has worked with renowned artists, both Argentinean and foreign, such as Giovanni Anselmo, Ernesto Neto, Karin Sander, Alejandra Seeber, and Pablo Siquier; and with younger creators such as Nicanor Aráoz, Leyla Cárdenas, Luis Terán, and Rosario Zorraquín. Her essays have been published in specialized art magazines and exhibition catalogues.On the subject of her appointment, Gabriela Rangel, Artistic Director of Malba, remarked: "Florencia Malbran joins an extremely professional team to collaborate on comparative historiographic projects, which I want to approach with an exhibition model based on the concept of fragmentation."In the words of Florencia Malbrán: “I am honored to join a fundamental museum that has been dedicated to reflecting, from the South, about the art of Latin America. I will contribute with great energy to this new stage of Malba, inviting the public to contemplate that which makes art significant today.”For more information visit: https://malba.org.ar