Elvira Dyangani Ose appointed Director of MACBA
Elvira Dyangani Ose is currently Director and Chief Curator of The Showroom in London. Photo: Josep Lago.
BARCELONA
.- Elvira Dyangani Ose (Córdoba, 1974) will be the first woman to hold the position of Director of the Museu dArt Contemporani de Barcelona. She is currently Director and Chief Curator of The Showroom in London, as well as Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a member of the Thought Council, Fondazione Prada. She has previously been Curator of the Göteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art; Curator of International Art at Tate Modern, London; Artistic Director of Rencontres Picha - Lubumbashi Biennial, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Curator of Contemporary Art at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Seville; Senior Curator at Creative Time in New York; and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM) in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria.
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