Marielsa Castro Vizcarra, New Chief Curator of MAMM
The Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín is pleased to announce the appointment of Marielsa Castro Vizcarra as new chief curator, who will assume her position in early June 2025.
The selection of Marielsa was the result of a rigorous process that began with the reception of 60 applications, of which 11 met the required profile. These individuals, residing in countries such as Colombia, Germany, the United States, Peru, and Mexico, were interviewed by the Museum. From this group, four candidates advanced to a second round of interviews with an external jury, and subsequently two finalists were interviewed again by the Museum and its board of directors.
Marielsa has 15 years of experience in cultural institutions and has worked in Colombia, Mexico, and the United States. From 2021 to 2025, she was associate curator at the Museo Jumex in Mexico City, where she curated multiple exhibitions and led the academic public program and the community program, “Museos en común.” She organized solo projects and exhibitions by artists such as Amalia Pica, Carolina Fusilier, and Minerva Cuevas, as well as group exhibitions featuring works by Ana Mendieta, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Minia Biabiany, Nohemí Pérez, Vivian Caccuri, and Vivian Suter. Also in 2022, she co-organized with MAMM the exhibition Rodrigo Hernández. El espejo.
Her practice has focused on mediation between curatorship and pedagogy; between 2017 and 2019, she directed the public services and education area of the Art and Other Collections Unit at the Banco de la República in Bogotá, where she led exhibition and pedagogical projects focused on connecting the institution with communities traditionally distant from museums. Also, between 2012 and 2015, she directed the exhibition project LIGA | Espacio para arquitectura | DF, with the purpose of promoting the exchange of ideas and research on Latin American architecture.
Marielsa Castro Vizcarra (1984) is Mexican, an architect from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, and holds an MDes. in Art, Design, and the Public Domain from Harvard University.
With her arrival at MAMM, Marielsa will continue strengthening the Museum’s artistic program, driving the production of knowledge from the collection, and generating new connections with the art scene in Medellín. In her words, “I envision for the museum a curatorial program that honors the work previously done; I will include local and regional proposals that listen and respond to the needs and interests of the public, the artists, and the institution.”
Welcome, Marielsa! We look forward to seeing you very soon in Medellín and at MAMM.