AppointmentSeptember 20, 2019
Magalí Arriola, Director of Museo Tamayo
Mexico’s Secretariat of Culture, through its National Fine Arts and Literature Institute (INBAL, in its Spanish acronym), informed in an official press release that Mexican Curator Magalí Arriola will take office as Director of Museo Tamayo. With Arriola’s appointment, INBAL seeks to strengthen the museum’s international projection with programming that drives forward its founding vision and mission.
Among the new director’s goals are enhancing the visibility of the collection and of the founder’s work in interaction with contemporary production, and to continue enriching the collection with the work of new generations of Mexican and international artists.
As part of Museo Tamayo’s work plan, Magalí Arriola will seek to foster a space for active dialog, including as its main interlocutors both new visitors and artistic communities in Mexico and abroad. With this, the program will incorporate a proposal to broaden intergenerational exchanges and social inclusion.
The purpose is to integrate the museum into the discussion of the era’s most significant social issues, by means of contemporary art. Also, by promoting research and the production of exhibitions in Mexico, the museum will contribute to the study and circulation of contemporary artistic practices at the local and global levels.
Museo Tamayo will be linked to the Chapultepec Cultural Project and will seek collaborations with other local agents and institutions in the country, in order to expand the dialog and participate in Mexico’s National Museum Network. It also intends to project such exchanges onto a wider network of museums and institutions outside the country.
Magalí Arriola is an independent art curator and critic, with extensive experience at Museo Tamayo as well as in other local and international institutions, such as her stint as Kadist Lead Curator for Latin America, where she developed a program for the diffusion of contemporary art in the region. Prior to that, she was the curator for artist Pablo Vargas Lugo’s project Actos de Dios (Acts of God), presented in the Mexican Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. She was also curator at Museo Jumex (2011-2014), responsible for organizing exhibitions like, among others, “James Lee Byars: ½ an Autobiography” (curated in collaboration with Peter Eleey and MoMA PS1), “Guy de Cointet-Tempo Rubato”, and “Danh Vo ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿ [Wad al¿ayara]”, which contextualized the Jumex Collection.
Among the new director’s goals are enhancing the visibility of the collection and of the founder’s work in interaction with contemporary production, and to continue enriching the collection with the work of new generations of Mexican and international artists.
As part of Museo Tamayo’s work plan, Magalí Arriola will seek to foster a space for active dialog, including as its main interlocutors both new visitors and artistic communities in Mexico and abroad. With this, the program will incorporate a proposal to broaden intergenerational exchanges and social inclusion.
The purpose is to integrate the museum into the discussion of the era’s most significant social issues, by means of contemporary art. Also, by promoting research and the production of exhibitions in Mexico, the museum will contribute to the study and circulation of contemporary artistic practices at the local and global levels.
Museo Tamayo will be linked to the Chapultepec Cultural Project and will seek collaborations with other local agents and institutions in the country, in order to expand the dialog and participate in Mexico’s National Museum Network. It also intends to project such exchanges onto a wider network of museums and institutions outside the country.
Magalí Arriola is an independent art curator and critic, with extensive experience at Museo Tamayo as well as in other local and international institutions, such as her stint as Kadist Lead Curator for Latin America, where she developed a program for the diffusion of contemporary art in the region. Prior to that, she was the curator for artist Pablo Vargas Lugo’s project Actos de Dios (Acts of God), presented in the Mexican Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. She was also curator at Museo Jumex (2011-2014), responsible for organizing exhibitions like, among others, “James Lee Byars: ½ an Autobiography” (curated in collaboration with Peter Eleey and MoMA PS1), “Guy de Cointet-Tempo Rubato”, and “Danh Vo ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿ [Wad al¿ayara]”, which contextualized the Jumex Collection.
