ELVIRA DYANGANI OSE, NEW DIRECTOR OF THE MUSEU D’ART CONTEMPORANI DE BARCELONA
The General Council of the MACBA Consortium has appointed her as the new director, valuing her contribution of “an innovative look at the role of the museum on the local and international scene, also incorporating a clear desire to connect with contemporary debates on the role of art in this beginning of the century, without avoiding a clear commitment to the social problems that surround cultural institutions”.
Elvira Dyangani Ose was born in Córdoba, Spain, in 1974 and has a degree in Art History from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In addition, she obtained a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Architecture, History and Theory of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. She is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History and Visual Studies at Cornell University, New York and a Master of Arts, Sage Scholarship. Planned defense of the doctorate: summer 2021.
Since 2018 she is director and chief curator of The Showroom in London, as well as Professor of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, since 2014, and member of the board of the Thought Council, Fondazione Prada. She has been a curator of the Göteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art; Curator of International Art at the Tate Modern in London; artistic director of Rencontres Picha - Lubumbashi Biennial, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Curator of Contemporary Art at the Andalusian Center of Contemporary Art (CAAC) in Seville, Senior Curator at Creative Time and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Atlantic Center of Modern Art (CAAM) in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Elvira Dyangani Ose replaces Ferran Barenblit, who has been MACBA's director for the past six years. The contract that she signs is for senior management and contemplates a duration of five years, renewable with the explicit agreement of the General Council.
The jury was made up of representatives of the institutions and members of recognized experience from the international and local artistic sector: Joan Subirats, Deputy Mayor for Culture of the Barcelona City Council; Elsa Ibar, general director of Cultural Heritage of the Generalitat de Catalunya; AinhoaGrandes, president of the MACBA Foundation; María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco Carrillo de Albornoz, general director of Fine Arts of the Ministry of Culture; Chris Dercon, President of the Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais de Paris and member of the MACBA Advisory Commission; João Fernandes, artistic director of the Moreira Salles Institute in Rio de Janeiro; Ann-Sofi Noring, Chief Curator of the Moderna Museet, Vice Chancellor of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and Chair of the Swedish Committee for Art Grants, and a representative of the museum workers.
The incorporation of Dyangani coincides with a stage of great relevance for the history of MACBA, with an ongoing expansion process by the Catalan-Swiss team of Harquitectes and Christ & Gantenbein, which will consolidate MACBA as an inclusive and walkable museum and also as meeting point. This project will contribute to reinforcing its objective of convincingly representing the contemporary art scene and placing it firmly in the international context, as well as reaffirming its vocation as a public, inhabited, diverse, inclusive, close, accessible and transcendent museum.
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