Welcome to CIMAM to Pilar Rubí Risco!
"Although the digital world has shortened distances in general, and today it is easier than ever to meet electronically, it is also true that in the post-pandemic world, the need to meet in person and create physical spaces where one can meet and be able to collectively discuss the issues that concern us and concern us, have become essential. Our activity within museums shares a common space and is crossed by the same problems that affect citizens from any part of our small world: the climate emergency, migratory movements, equal rights, war conflicts and the need for live dignified lives. From the imaginaries that art creates, we can contribute to thinking about how to move forward in the same direction, making institutional practices capable of generating the spaces of care that we need and working to make another model of contemporary art museum possible".
Pilar Rubí Risco, Head of Public Programs, Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani, Palma, Spain.
"For my professional development, it is very important to know how and where to explore contemporary societies to understand their needs, contribute to their development and see what discourses the new models of sustainable living will have to be based on, which museums will also go through. From the peripheries, feeling part of that work network that CIMAM seeks and shares, is a priority".
About Pilar
Pilar Rubí works as a curator, teacher and collaborator with the media. From 2017 to the present, she is responsible for Public Programs at Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani. She has been an associate professor of contemporary art and architecture in the Art History Degree (UIB) in 2016. Since 2014 she has taught courses related to plastic and visual creation and contemporary architecture in the Foundation's program. Sa Nostra" –Caixabank, with special emphasis on the gender perspective.
Graduated in Art History from the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) in 1999 and in Audiovisual Communication from the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) in 2015. At the same time, she has taken complementary training courses such as "Poscomisariado" cycle with Manuel Segade, Tania Pardo, Arakis, Peio Aguirre and David Armengol, among others.
Her career is also linked to the mass media. Between 2016 and 2022 she leads the weekly contemporary art section of the magazine "Els Entusiastes" of the regional public radio, IB3Ràdio. From March 2024, the collaboration continues in the program "La Gran Vida". Host the TЯA-TЯA podcast! on the relationship between music and contemporary art, on the same station.
About CIMAM
CIMAM – International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art – is an Affiliated Organization of ICOM.* Founded in 1962, CIMAM’s vision is a world where the contribution of museums, collections, and archives of modern and contemporary art to the cultural, social, and economic well-being of society is recognized and respected.
Join today, and take part in our network with over 900 contemporary art museum professionals from 90 countries.
Thank you, Pilar Rubí Risco, for becoming a member of CIMAM!