CIMAM 2024 Travel Grant Beneficiaries

10 September 2024

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CIMAM's 2024 Travel Grant Beneficiaries

From top left to right: Alex Alonso Díaz, Santiago Avila Albuja, Teesa Bahana, Maria Consuelo Cabrera, Ramiro Camelo, Ilaria Conti, Douglas de Freitas, Aindrea Emelife, Karen Adriana Flores Suarez, Marie-Nour Hechaime, Fabiola Iza, Mayari Juracan, Martha Kazungu, Jina Kim, Deniz Kirkali, Erëmirë Krasniqi, Alejandra Labastida Escalante, Silja Leifsdottir, Christina Li, Milja Liimatainen, André Luiz Mesquita, Ingrid Orman, Esra Özkan, Fernanda Ramos Mena, Aditya Lingga Rohadi, Eva Rowson, Ana Ruiz Valencia, Irene Pernille Snarby, Patricia Sorroche Quesada, James Luigi Tana, Aprille Tijam, Armen Yesayants, Chahrazad Zahi, Larisa Luz Zmud.

CIMAM is pleased to announce the names of the 34 modern and contemporary art museum directors, artistic directors, curators, and researchers from 20 different countries who have been awarded travel grants to attend CIMAM's 56th Annual Conference, which will take place in Los Angeles from December 6-8, 2024.

This highly anticipated event will be jointly hosted and organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), the Hammer Museum at UCLA, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

This year's conference, entitled "Sustainable Futures: How? When? For Whom?", will engage colleagues at the forefront of the field who are thinking anew about the intersection of museological practice, climate/social change and contemporary art, and forging new models of sustainable practice in the cultural sector, to explore sustainability from an integrated and holistic perspective, beginning with our desire to respond to climate change by reassessing policies around collection care and conservation; rethinking the buildings we occupy and the cities we are part of; while also exploring innovative models for economic sustainability and community building.

"Every year, the trust and generosity of our funders are fundamental. Without them, the magnitude of these grants wouldn't be possible, nor would the broad international spectrum of these grants that produce relationships, collaborations, and dialogues between colleagues from different parts of the world, reinforcing their networks of contacts and knowledge exchanges." declares Agustin Pérez Rubio, CIMAM Board Member and Chair of the Travel Grant Program.

CIMAM is profoundly grateful to the institutions and individuals that have made possible this year's Travel Grant Program through the generous support of:

  • The Getty Foundation (Los Angeles)
  • Saastamoinen Foundation (Helsinki)
  • Mercedes Vilardell (London/Mallorca)
  • Aimée Labarrere de Servitje (Mexico City)
  • Eloisa Haudenschild (United States)
  • Fernando Zobel de Ayala (Manila)
  • OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway (Oslo)
  • SAHA (Istanbul)
  • Consulate General of Brazil (Los Angeles)
  • Byucksan Cultural Foundation (Seoul)

Learn more about who are CIMAM's 2024 Travel Grant Funders

CIMAM looks forward to welcoming these outstanding professionals and engaging in productive conversations that will help shape the sustainable future of museums around the world.

Check the list of the 34 CIMAM Travel Grant beneficiaries who will attend the Annual Conference:

The Getty Foundation (Los Angeles)

  • Santiago Ávila Albuja, Exhibitions and Public Programs Manager, Quito Contemporary Art Center, Quito, Ecuador.
  • Douglas de Freitas, Curatorial Coordinator, Inhotim Institute, Museum and Botanical Garden, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
  • Aindrea Emelife, Curator Modern and Contemporary Art, Museum of West African Art (MOWAA), Lagos, Nigeria.
  • Marie-Nour Hechaime, Curator, Nicolas Ibrahim Sursock Museum, Beirut, Lebanon.
  • Mayari Juracan, Director, Bienal en resistência, Santa Lucía Milpas Altas, Guatemala.
  • Erëmirë Krasniqi, Curator, National Pavilion of the Republic of Kosovo at the 60th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia, Pristina, Kosovo.
  • Alejandra Labastida Escalante, Curator, MUAC (Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo), Mexico City, Mexico.
  • Christina Li, Independent Curator, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
  • Ana Ruiz Valencia, Junior Curator, Medellin Museum of Modern Art, Medellin, Colombia.
  • Aprille Tijam, Associate Director and Head of Exhibitions and Collections, Ayala Museum, Makati City, Philippines.
  • Armen Yesayants, Director of Exhibitions, Cafesjian Center for the Arts/Cafesjian Museum Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia.
  • Chahrazad Zahi, Independent Curator and Researcher, Marrakech, Morocco.
  • Larisa Luz Zmud, Independent Curator, Coordinator and Curator of Contents for The Rolling Map of the Argentinian Contemporary Art Scene, Museo Moderno de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Saastamoinen Foundation (Helsinki)

  • Ramiro Camelo, Curator and Project Manager, Vantaa, Finland.
  • Milja Liimatainen, Curator, Changing Exhibitions, Helsinki Art Museum (HAM), Finland.
  • Ingrid Orman, Chief Curator of Exhibitions, Espoo Museum of Modern Art (EMMA), Helsinki, Finland.

Mercedes Vilardell (London/Mallorca)

  • Teesa Bahana, Director, 32° East, Kampala, Uganda.
  • Martha Kazungu, Founding Director, Njabala Foundation, Kampala, Uganda.

Aimée Labarrere de Servitje (Mexico City)

  • Karen Adriana Flores Suarez, Researcher, Colección CIAC, Mexico City, Mexico.
  • Fabiola Iza, Curator and Researcher, Mexico City, Mexico.
  • Fernanda Ramos Mena, Independent Curator, Mexico City, Mexico.

Eloisa Haudenschild (United States)

  • Ilaria Conti, Executive Director and Chief Curator, La Nueva Fábrica (LNF), Santa Ana Antigua, Guatemala.
  • Aditya Lingga Rohadi, Assistant Curator, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art di Nusantara (Museum MACAN), Jakarta Pusat, Indonesia.

Fernando Zobel de Ayala (Manila)

  • Maria Consuelo Cabrera, Instructor and Independent Curator, Department of Art Studies, College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines.
  • James Luigi Tana, Independent Curator, Arts Writer, Educator, Cultural Worker, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila, Philippines.

OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway (Oslo)

  • Silja Leifsdottir, Exhibition Curator, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway.
  • Irene Pernille Snarby, Ph.D. Candidate, Curator, The Arctic University of Norway (UiT), Tromsø, Norway.
  • Eva Rowson, Director Bergen Kjøtt, Bergen, Norway.

SAHA (Istanbul)

  • Deniz Kirkali, Curator and Co-Founder, Garp Sessions, topsoil, Istanbul, Türkiye.
  • Esra Özkan, Independent Curator, Istanbul, Türkiye.

Spanish Support (Spain)

  • Alex Alonso Díaz, Director, fluent, Santander, Spain.
  • Patricia Sorroche Quesada, Head of Exhibitions, Museu Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain.

Consulate General of Brazil (Los Angeles)

  • André Luiz Mesquita, Curator, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP), Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Byucksan Cultural Foundation (Seoul)

  • Jina Kim, Project Director, Space for Contemporary Art, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Read the Bios of CIMAM 2024 Travel Grant beneficiaries

About the Travel Grant Program

The aim of the CIMAM Travel Grant Program is to support the curatorial and research development of applicants through their attendance at the Annual Conference where the most current concerns on contemporary art practices are being discussed.

Awarded candidates benefit from unique networking opportunities through interaction and exchange with international museum directors and peers and become Members of CIMAM for the term they have been awarded. We look forward to meeting them in Los Angeles!

Read more bout the Travel Grant Program

CIMAM's 2024 Hosts and Supporters

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The 56th CIMAM Annual Conference is co-hosted by The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), the Hammer Museum at UCLA, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

Production of the 2024 Annual Conference is made possible thanks to the lead sponsorship from the Getty Foundation and the generous support from the Terra Foundation for American Art. Additional support for the conference is provided by the Perenchio Foundation and the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. Hauser & Wirth and East West Bank provide hosting sponsorship.

The post-conference tour to the desert is made possible through the support of Desert X, Sunnylands Center & Gardens, High Desert Test Sites, Visit Greater Palm Springs, and Palm Spring Art Museum.

CIMAM is eternally grateful to them for their generous support and strong commitment to sustainability in the field of modern and contemporary art museums.

Check the speakers' lineup.

Waiting list for CIMAM's 2024 Annual Conference

We have opened a waiting list for those still interested in attending. Sign up, and we will notify you if any spots become available no later than 30 September when the registration period offiicially closes.

Sign up today and don't miss the chance to join this meeting in Los Angeles!