Agustin Pérez Rubío

Curator

Biography

Agustín Pérez Rubio (Valencia, Spain, 1972) is a historian, academic, researcher, museum director, and exhibition curator, with extensive curatorial experience with more than two hundred exhibitions in major museums and institutions in Latin America and Europe. He was the artistic director of MALBA, the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires (2014-2018), and Chief Curator and Director of MUSAC, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León (2003-2013); curator of the Spanish Pavilion of the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia with the project Pinacoteca Migrante by the Peruvian artist Sandra Gamarra Heshiki (2024).

Previously, he was a curator —along with María Berríos, Lisette Lagnado, and Renata Cervetto— of the 11th Berlin Biennale (2018-2020). In addition, he was the curator of the Chile Pavilion with the project Miradas Alteradas by artist Voluspa Jarpa for the 58th International Art Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia (2019). He has been a member of the Istanbul Biennial Council for several years (2017-2022) and continues actively working as a member of the board of CIMAM, International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (2016-present). He has been part of important curatorial committees for museum collections such as Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin; TATE, London; MALBA, Buenos Aires; CA2M, Madrid; FRAC Piemonte, Turin; MALÍ, Lima, or MUSAC, León, among others. He has been honored as a visiting professor at the Institut für Kunst im Kontext (Universität der Künste Berlin, 2019-2020) and at other universities and international study centers.