Executive Committee
Ilse Hughan | President
Translator (Universiteit van Amsterdam), film producer and president of the Dutch company Fortuna Films. She is a member of the selection committee of the Hubert Bals Fund (Netherlands) and co-director of the Buenos Aires Lab at BAFICI, the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival.
Cecilia Duhau | Treasurer
With a degree in Museology, she studied painting and drawing with Ernesto Deira, Luis Felipe Noé and Eduardo Stupía. Since 1987 she has held solo exhibitions in galleries such as Altos de Sarmiento, Van Riel, Cecilia Caballero and Del Paseo in Uruguay, as well as cultural centers like Recoleta, UCA and the Argentine Consulate in New York. She has participated in several group exhibitions in Buenos Aires and in fairs across the United States, including Mia Art Fair, Scope, and Art Palm Beach. From 2005 to 2008 she collaborated with the Argentine Embassy in London for the curatorship of an exhibition and the promotion of Argentine artists.
Gabriela Adamo | Secretary
With a degree in Journalism, she has been working for more than fifteen years in the publishing sector. She undertook postgraduate studies in Comparative Literature and Publishing in the United States. She was invited to professional programs in Frankfurt, Berlin and Paris. She is a professional translator. From 2004 to 2010 she directed the Literature programs of Fundación TyPA. Former Executive Director of Fundación El Libro, responsible for the organization of the Buenos Aires International Book Fair (2011-2014), and former Director of Fundación Filba, which organizes the flagship literary festival Filba Internacional. Currently teaches, translates and reads.
Staff
Américo Castilla | Director
Director and creator of Fundación TyPA. Secretary of Cultural Heritage of Argentina (2016), and previously National Director of Heritage and Museums (2003-2007). Director of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (2005-2007) where he succeeded in modifying its operating structure. He was the Director of the Cultural Program of Fundación Antorchas (1992-2003). Co-chair of the world conference: Museums and Libraries in an Era of Social Participation, Salzburg, 2011. As a visual artist he represented Argentina in biennials such as São Paulo and Paris, and received, among others, the First National and Municipal Awards on Etching. Since 2013 he is the academic director of the TyPA Lab on Museum Management and of Reimagining the Museum - Conference of the Americas. He is honorary professor of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester (UK). He directed the book El Museo en Escena. Política y Cultura en América Latina (Ed. Paidós, 2010).
Victoria López Zanuso / Museums Projects
With a degree in Art History and a postgraduate degree in Cultural Management (Universidad de San Andrés), and journalist, she has begun her career collaborating on projects for the Xul Solar Museum and Espigas Foundation. She has worked with different cultural organizations such as Augusto y León Ferrari Foundation, Casa Nacional del Bicentenario and Centro Cultural Kirchner, among others. Museums and their role in society is one of her main interests.
National Advisory Board
Barbara Russi
Anthropologist specialized in cultural management. She works as an advisor for the National Commission of Monuments and Historical Heritage and as a consultant in institutional development and financial strategy for public and private organizations in the field of culture. She currently leads the Creativity, Culture and Capital program of Fundación Compromiso.
Felisa Larivière
Graduated with a degree in Journalism from the Universidad Católica Argentina. She studied Literature at the Universidad del Salvador and was also a member of the Board of Directors of arteBA Fundación, responsible for the organization of the most important contemporary art fair for Argentine and Latin American art.
Gabriela Massuh
PhD in Philosophy and Literature (UBA). For years she directed the cultural program of the Goethe Institute in Buenos Aires. She is a freelance writer and editor.
Adriana Rosenberg
She studied and worked with Jorge Romero Brest, with whom she founded the Rosenberg-Rita publishing house. Since 1994 she has been President and General Director of Fundación Proa.
International Advisory Board
David Anderson
Former President of the UK Museums Association (2013-2015) and current Director of Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales. He is currently a member of the Boards of Creative and Cultural Skills, and the Royal Pavilion and Museums Trust. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee of British Council Wales.
Ticio Escobar Argaña
Professor and art theorist. Creator of the Museo del Barro and former Minister of Culture of Paraguay (2008-2012).
Néstor García Canclini
Professor and theorist of anthropology and culture. Director of the Urban Culture Studies Program at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de México.
Elaine Heumann Gurian
Senior consultant and museum theorist. Former Deputy Assistant Director for Museums at the Smithsonian Institution.
Andrés Roldán
Director of Parque Explora, Medellín, Colombia.
Janwillem Schrofer
Cultural projects consultant. Former Director of the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Netherlands (1982-2010).
Graciela de la Torre
She currently heads the Inés Amor International Chair in Cultural Management at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), where she was previously General Director of Visual Arts and of the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC).
Hortensia Voelckers
Artistic Director of Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Germany.
Jim Volkert
Senior museum consultant and former Associate Director of the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution (2001 - 2005).
