International experts in the field of contemporary art and officials from the French Ministry of Culture and the city of Bordeaux have chosen María Inés Rodríguez Fernández as he new Director of the CAPC, Bordeaux's Museum of Contemporary Art.
María Inés, a native of Colombia, will take the post after working for the past two years as the main curator of the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico City, where she led programs, collections, and exhibitions and developed project with Nicolás Paris, Teresa Margolles, and Yona Friedman.
Prior to that, she was principal curator at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), in Spain, where her program dealt with the relationship between artistic production and historical, political, and social contexts, favoring dialog at the local and global levels.
María Inés Rodríguez Fernández is a graduate of the School of Fine Arts at Universidad de Los Andes, in Bogotá, and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (atelier Christian Boltanski), in Paris. She did postgraduate work at Geneva's Ecole supérieure des Beaux-Arts.
Rodríguez Fernández has worked as an independent curator in several exhibitions and research projects about strategies for the appropriation of public space in art, design, architecture, and urban planning. She will assume her post in late February, 2014.