Inés Katzenstein

Inés Katzenstein is Curator of Latin American Art and Director of the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Institute for the Study of the Art of Latin America at MoMA.  

She received a masters degree from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York (2001). She has written extensively about contemporary art and curated exhibitions like Sur Moderno: Journeys of Abstraction (MoMA, 2019), Liliana Porter: Fotografía y ficción (Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, 2003), David Lamelas, Extranjero, Foreigner, Ètranger, Aüslander (Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico, 2005) Marcelo Pombo, un artista del pueblo (Collection Fortabat, Buenos Aires, 2015) and co-curated Televisión, El Di Tella y un episodio en la vida de la TV (Espacio Telefónica, Buenos Aires, 2010) and Aquella mañana… (Parque de la memoria, Buenos Aires, 2014). She was curator of the Argentine pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale, where she presented the project Guillermo Kuitca, si yo fuera el invierno mismo and was co-curator of Zona Franca, Mercosur Biennial, 2007. 

Among other books, she edited Listen, Here, Now! Argentine Art of the Sixties: Writings of the Avant-Garde, (The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2004.) 

From 2004 to 2008 she served as curator at Malba-Fundación Costantini in Buenos Aires, where among other programming projects she initiated the collection of contemporary Argentine art. Also in Buenos Aires, in 2008 she founded the Department of Art at the University Torcuato Di Tella, where she served as director of educational programs and exhibitions for 10 years.