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Malba announces the appointment of Florencia Malbrán (Buenos Aires, 1979) as the new Curator of Public Programs and Special Projects. With her extensive academic career and her specialization in contemporary art, Malbrán will direct the programming of talks, lectures, symposia and programs in educational outreach which broaden understanding and participation for the Malba Collection and its temporary exhibitions. As curator, she will work with the artistic director on special projects.

Florencia Malbrán is a curator who specializes in contemporary art, with great expertise in the foreign and academic milieu. She has organized exhibitions in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Canada and the United States. She has worked on projects at the Guggenheim museums of New York, Bilbao and Venice. As a curator she has held residencies in France, Spain and Switzerland, and previously worked at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. For nine years she has been a professor at New York University  at its Buenos Aires center and several times was a visiting professor at Leuphana Universität in Germany. She has worked with Argentine and foreign artists such as Giovanni Anselmo, Ernesto Neto, Karin Sander, Alejandra Seeber and Pablo Siquier, and with younger artists, such as Nicanor Aráoz, Leyla Cárdenas, Luis Terán and Rosario Zorraquín. Her essays have been published in art journals and exhibition catalogs.

Gabriela Rangel, Artistic Director of Malba, says of her appointment:

“Florencia Malbran is joining an extremely professional team to collaborate on historiographic, comparative projects, which I would like to shape from an exhibitional model conceived from fragmentation."

In the words of Florencia Malbrán: “I am honored to be joining a fundamental museum which has been devoted to thinking, from the southern hemisphere, the art of Latin America. I will be putting a great deal of energy into contributing to this new phase at Malba, inviting the public to contemplate what it is that gives art meaning today."

With this appointment Malba strengthens its Public Programs with a central position for expanding its platform for activities in cultural outreach and education related to its exhibitions, in collaboration with film and literature departaments, which have been two of the museum's main pillars  since its founding. As of this week Florencia Malbrán will begin full-time work.