AppointmentSeptember 24, 2020
Paz Monge appointed the new director of the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design of Costa Rica
Costa Rican curator Paz Monge is the new director of the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design for the next five years, from September 16, 2020.
Monge has a BA in Film and Art History, Major in Philosophy of Art from American University in Washington DC, United States. She also holds a master’s degree in Contemporary Art from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art and another master’s degree in Art History from University College London. Both master’s degrees were obtained in London, UK.
“Even though I was working and studying abroad, I always had as a priority to stay rooted in the local and regional scene, that’s why I always tried, every time I returned, to get involved in a project or space and thus not disconnect,” Monge explains about her link with contemporary Costa Rican and regional art.
Monge has worked in various museums and private collections in New York and Europe, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the 58th Venice Biennale. In Costa Rica, she collaborated with TEOR / éTica; Despacio, curatorially assists the artist Federico Herrero and is the director and co-curator of the Bancarte award in the 2018 and 2020 editions. In addition, she directs her own curatorial practice focusing on contemporary Latin American art.
For curatorial management, the new director wants to make a diagnosis before forming her work team “… The appropriate thing is to know the Museum, its curatorial history, the collaborators, the trajectory of recent curatorial processes better to delineate the management of that area,” argued Monge.
Monge has a BA in Film and Art History, Major in Philosophy of Art from American University in Washington DC, United States. She also holds a master’s degree in Contemporary Art from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art and another master’s degree in Art History from University College London. Both master’s degrees were obtained in London, UK.
“Even though I was working and studying abroad, I always had as a priority to stay rooted in the local and regional scene, that’s why I always tried, every time I returned, to get involved in a project or space and thus not disconnect,” Monge explains about her link with contemporary Costa Rican and regional art.
Monge has worked in various museums and private collections in New York and Europe, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the 58th Venice Biennale. In Costa Rica, she collaborated with TEOR / éTica; Despacio, curatorially assists the artist Federico Herrero and is the director and co-curator of the Bancarte award in the 2018 and 2020 editions. In addition, she directs her own curatorial practice focusing on contemporary Latin American art.
For curatorial management, the new director wants to make a diagnosis before forming her work team “… The appropriate thing is to know the Museum, its curatorial history, the collaborators, the trajectory of recent curatorial processes better to delineate the management of that area,” argued Monge.
