Spanish historian, editor and curator Nuria Enguita is the new artistic director of the Museum of Contemporary Art – MAC/CCB, the Board of Directors of the Fundação Centro Cultural de Belém announced today.
Nuria Enguita, who until last month was director of the Valencia Institute of Modern Art (IVAM), in Valencia, Spain, a position from which she resigned, was chosen through an international competition and will begin her role in May.
She has a degree in Art History and Theory from the Autonomous University of Madrid (1990). He has taught art theory and management at numerous centers and universities, and published numerous texts in contemporary art catalogs and magazines, such as Parkett, Afterall and Concreta.
Since 1991, his professional experience has focused on the areas of art histories and curating, the latter developed in several art institutions. Its institutional practice is defined by direct work with collections and the social contexts in which they are generated and presented. His work seeks to make visible artistic practices usually relegated to the margins of official histories and canonical modernity.
The selection process, led by the CCB Board of Directors, opted for the project presented by Nuria Enguita, highlighting not only its consistency and sense of opportunity, for which her extensive curatorial and directorial experience at other institutions is relevant. , but also his knowledge of Portuguese reality. The qualities of historiographical rigor, museological competence and a comprehensive and transversal vision of the world of art materialized in the work proposal presented, reinforcing the idea of «common ground» that has been worked on at the CCB.
From May this year, Nuria Enguita will begin her role as Artistic Director of MAC/CCB for a period of 4 years, to program the Museum and direct the team, which includes Rita Lougares (Chief Curator for the Visual Arts) and Mariana Pestana (Chief Curator for Architecture).