Nuria Enguita

Day 1: Changing from the Inside: How should we Govern Ourselves?

Perspective
Nuria Enguita, Director, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain.

Enhancing governance in the cultural sector: the IVAM perspective

Many several institutions face the challenge of implementing new systems of governance that, from one side, ensure the active participation of a diversity of voices in the decision-making processes and, from the other, implement new institutional agendas toward the SDG as a shared blueprint for global peace and shared prosperity.

This presentation aims to share the IVAM experience. Since 2019 the institution is introducing a new governance approach that pursues to reinforce some of its historical institutional weaknesses, especially in all concerning the relationship with local communities.

BIOGRAPHY:

Graduate in History and Theory of Art from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She is currently director of IVAM, Valencia. Between 2015 and 2020 she was director of Bombas Gens Centre d'Art, Valencia, and between 1998 and 2008 artistic director of Fundació Antoni Tàpies. Between 2000 and 2014 member of the management team of the arteypensamiento program of the International University of Andalusia- UNIA and co-editor of Afterall Journal between 2007 and 2014.

Between 1991 and 1998 she was curator at IVAM-Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia. She has been co-curator of the 31st São Paulo Biennial, 2014; of Manifesta 4 in Frankfurt in 2002 and of the International Meeting of Medellin in 2011. She has lectured on art theory and art management in numerous centers and universities and has published numerous texts in catalogs and contemporary art magazines such as Parkett, Afterall and Concreta.