Current Conservative Chief of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Castile and Leon (MUSAC), Maria Ines Rodriguez, will join the University Museum of Contemporary Art of Mexico (MUAC) as head curator in July this year.
Until June 30, Maria Ines Rodriguez will continue her work at the MUSAC, next to director Agustin Perez Rubio. On June 25, she will present as a commissioner three projects in MUSAC: the collective exhibition The Shout, co-commissioned by Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy; the first exhibition in Spain by French group Claire Fontaine, entitled P.I.G.S., and an exhibit in the Vitrinas Project, dedicated to Hungarian architect and theoretician Yona Friedman. In June, the second volume of the AAMUSAC Collection, directed by Rodriguez and dedicated to Yona Friedman, will be presented. In September, 2011, Rodriguez will return to MUSAC to present, also as part of the Vitrinas Project, the Capital exhibit, made and commissioned by Daniel Garcia Andujar.
Beginning July 1, Maria Ines Rodriguez will take over as head curator at University Museum of Contemporary Art of Mexico (MUAC), directed by Graciela de la Torre, in which she will join the curatorial program of that institution and will also head the academic committee and all artistic and documentary collections.
Maria Ines Rodriguez is co-director of RADAR, an art magazine put out by MUSAC and published by the AAMUSAC Art Collection. She’s curated the Satellite del Jeu de Paume Program in Paris, and is the publisher of French art magazine Point d'Ironie (founded in 1997 by Agnès B., Christian Boltanski and Hans-Ulrich Obrist). From 2006, she’s part of the Curatorial Artist forms a part of the Artist Pension Latin America Curatorial Committee and Trust.
Maria Ines Rodriguez was born in Colombia. He studied Fine Arts at the University of Los Andes in Bogota and earned a post-graduation degree in the École Supérieure D'Art Visuel in Geneva. She’s won scholarships from the Patiño Foundation, by Ville de Genève 1994, by the American Center Foundation in 2006, and a residence in Apex Art Center in New York in 2007, as well as the Andy Warhol Scholarship Foundation, together with Holly Block.
Source: Press release sent by Izaskun Sebastián
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