Schedule for CIMAM 2023
Wednesday, 8 November
13.00–19.00 Registration opens at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (Museo Moderno), Avenida San Juan 350, San Telmo.
All visitors are welcome to visit the Museo Moderno’s ten exhibitions currently on view. The Museum’s curators will be on hand to provide any guidance and curatorial insight.
Thursday, 9 November
7.15 Minibuses leave CIMAM hotels for the Museo Moderno.
8.00 Registration at the Museo Moderno.
8.00–8.45 Welcome Breakfast for Travel Grantees, Arthaus Fellows, Travel Grant Funders and Board Members.
9.00 55th CIMAM Annual Conference begins.
9.00–9.40 Welcome speeches by:
- Victoria Noorthoorn, Director, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (Host): Introduction to the Conference, the speakers and today’s moderator, CIMAM Board Member Chus Martínez.
- Felipe Miguel, Head of Cabinet of Ministers, Buenos Aires City Government (GCBA).
- Enrique Avogadro, Minister of Culture, GCBA.
- Suhanya Raffel, CIMAM President and Director, M+, Hong Kong.
- Welcome speech of Emma Nardi, President of ICOM, read by Suhanya Raffel.
9.40–10.00 Elvira Espejo Ayca, Artist and Director, Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore, La Paz, Bolivia.
10.00–10.20 Pablo Lafuente, Artistic Director, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
10.20–10.40 Simon Njami, Independent Writer and Curator, Paris, France.
10.40–11.00 Coffee.
11.00–11.20 Nicolás Testoni, Director, Ferrowhite – museo taller, Bahía Blanca, Argentina.
11.20–11.40 Coco Fusco, Artist, and Professor, Cooper Union, Brooklyn, USA.
11.40–13.00 Conversation moderated by CIMAM Board Member Chus Martínez, Director, Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel, Switzerland.
Food and drink will be available outside the Auditorium throughout the morning.
13.00 Minibusses depart from the Museo Moderno for the Visits Programme.
13.30 Visits Programme begins.
13.30 Arrival at Fundación Proa (55th CIMAM Annual Conference Host) in the nearby neighbourhood of La Boca, where an Informal Lunch will be served. Visit current exhibitions.
14.30–17.30 Historic and Artistic Centre Visits Programme, including a diversity of foundations, galleries, artists’ residencies, and artist-run spaces in the neighbourhoods of La Boca and San Telmo. Minibuses will depart from Fundación Proa.
17.30–18.30 Informal Reception (cocktails) at the last venue on today’s Visits Programme, ahead of the opera performance at the Teatro Colón.
18.30–18.45 Departure to the Teatro Colón.
19.15 Arrival at the Teatro Colón.
20.00–23.00 Madama Butterfly, directed by renowned Brazilian director, Livia Sabag, at the Teatro Colón. No attendees will be allowed into the Opera House after the start of the performance.
23.00 Minibuses leave the Teatro Colón for CIMAM hotels.
Friday, 10 November
7.30 Minibuses leave CIMAM hotels for the Museo Moderno.
8.00–8.45 Welcome and Coffee at the Museo Moderno.
9.00 55th CIMAM Annual Conference begins and a welcome speech by Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, Mayor of the City of Buenos Aires.
9.00–9.10 Introduction by today’s moderator, CIMAM Board Member Amanda de la Garza, Director, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City.
9.10–9.30 Luis Camnitzer, Artist, Great Neck, USA.
9.30–9.50 Daina Leyton, Cultural Accessibility Consultant, Moreira Salles Institute, São Paulo, Brazil.
9.50–10.10 Marie Hélène Pereira, Curatorial Advisor, RAW Material Company, Dakar, Senegal, Senior Curator (performative practices), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
10.10–10.20 Trailer of the film presented by Marie Hélène Pereira.
10.20–10.40 Coffee.
10.40–11.00 teresa cisneros, Senior Practice Manager, Culture Equity Diversity Inclusion, Wellcome Trust, London, UK.
11.00–11.20 Ana Gallardo, Artist, Mexico City, Mexico.
11.20–12.30 Conversation moderated by Amanda de la Garza, Director, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City.
Food and drink will be available outside the Auditorium throughout the morning.
12.30 Visits Programme begins.
12.30-13.30 Visit all ten current exhibitions at the Museo Moderno.
13.30 Buses depart for an Informal Lunch at MALBA.
14.00-15.00 Arrival at MALBA (Host to the 55th CIMAM Annual Conference), in the Palermo neighbourhood, where an Informal Lunch will be served. Visit the current exhibitions.
15.00–19.00 The Visits Programme offers two circuits:
Circuit 1: A minibus or walking tour around Palermo Park, the Museo Sívori, the Bemberg Collection galleries at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, and the modern and contemporary art galleries around Avenida Alvear and Calle Arroyo. (November is a joyful time of year to stroll along the Museum Mile, with the jacarandas in full bloom!)
Circuit 2: A minibus tour around Buenos Aires Downtown, the exhibitions at Arthaus, the Narcisa Hirsch exhibition at the Centro Cultural Kirchner and the MUNTREF Centro de Arte Contemporáneo.
19.30 Cocktails at the Colección Amalita (Co-Host to the 55th CIMAM Annual Conference, with the Fundación Ama Amoedo), in the Puerto Madero neighbourhood, where there will be an Informal Reception and Drinks. Visit the current exhibitions.
22.00 Minibuses leave for late-night Tango Milongas, for those with extra energy to burn!
Saturday, November 11
7.30 Minibuses leave CIMAM hotels for the Museo Moderno.
8.00–8.45 Welcome and Coffee at the Museo Moderno.
9.00 55th CIMAM Annual Conference begins.
9.00–9.10 Introduction by today’s moderators, CIMAM Board Members Yu Jin Seng, Deputy Director (Curatorial & Research), National Gallery Singapore, Singapore, and Malgorzata Ludwisiak, Artistic Director, The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland.
9.10–9.30 Marian Pastor Roces, Curator, and Principal Partner, TAOINC, Metropolitan Manila, Philippines.
9.30-9.50 Luma Hamdan, Director, Darat al Funun – The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman, Jordan.
9.50-10.10 Yto Barrada, Artist, NY/Tangier, Morocco/France.
10.10–10.30 Coffee.
10.30–11.10 A conversation between María Belén Correa, Director and Founder, Archivo de la Memoria Trans Argentina, Hanover, Germany, and Sidhi Vhisatya, Curator, Queer Indonesia Archive (QIA), Jimbaran, Bali, Indonesia.
11.10-11.30 Claudia Zaldívar, Director, Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile.
11.30–13.00 Conversation moderated by CIMAM Board members Malgorzata Ludwisiak, Artistic Director, The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland, and Yu Jin Seng, Deputy Director (Curatorial & Research), National Gallery Singapore, Singapore.
Food and drink will be available outside the Auditorium throughout the morning.
13.00 Informal Lunch served at the Museo Moderno. (Farewell lunch in a space reserved for Grantees, Board Members & Travel Grant Funders to interact.)
14.00–18.30 Personalized Visits Programme to the Argentinian scene begins. Minibuses depart on tailor-made routes, and cars leave for delegates’ appointments and visits.
19.00–20.00 General Assembly, Museo Moderno Auditorium.
20.00–24.00 Farewell Dinner and Party at the Museo Moderno for all Conference Delegates and Attendees, plus Representatives of the Local Scene hosting programme visits. (With genre-bending DJs to light up the celebrations!)
After Dinner, minibuses will be available for transit to CIMAM hotels.