The MAMM Collection began with the founding of the Museum in 1978, when the institution’s founding members contributed works for its legal establishment. From then on, the collection grew, predominantly thanks to the generosity of artists and third parties. From its beginnings, the Museum’s focus was on the possibilities of promoting and circulating the discourses and artistic production of the moment, and it has only been with the passage of time that its Collection has become visible enough to raise questions about the need to outline a long-term acquisition and expansion plan.
With the inauguration of the Expansion building and the new spaces it provided -including exhibition and storage areas- a plan to reorganize the collection was launched to enable better management, conservation, cataloging, and research around the works. This has also allowed for a study of its contents, which is being used to develop an acquisitions policy to guide the collection’s growth in the coming years.
In this regard, and in line with the Museum’s policies of positioning itself as a Colombian institution, firmly rooted in the local context with an international vision, in recent years the priority has been to continue strengthening the core of Antioquian and Colombian art, while expanding the geographic boundaries of the collection. Recent acquisitions reflect the growing spirit of establishing dialogues with different geographies as well as the interests of the Museum’s programming line. It is from this line that the acquisition guidelines of the MAMM Collection largely derive.
Finally, the renewed commitment to the collection that came with the opening of exclusive galleries to exhibit it in the Expansion building also gave rise to a new way of researching, rotating, and displaying the Museum’s heritage holdings. Continuing the temporary exhibitions of the collection held until 2015, since then 6 exhibitions have been carried out as the result of as many research processes that now support longer installations in which the aim is, each time, to offer a different perspective, highlight an aspect of it, or attempt to link it with other moments and places relevant to the Museum and the city. These exhibitions are organized both by invited researchers and curators and by the Museum’s team.
In this section of the website you will find information about the artists included in the MAMM Collection and, in particular, about its recent exhibitions, held in the galleries on the 4th floor of the Museum. For information about previous exhibitions, please contact us.
