María Mercedes González

M.A in Media Studies from The New School, New York, specialist in Cultural Studies and B.A. in Political Science from Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. Cultural and Media attaché at the Colombian Embassy in Argentina between 2004 and 2008. From 2008 to 2010, advisor to the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and since October 2012, General Director of the Medellín Museum of Modern Art.

MAMM is a nonprofit organization founded in 1978 by a group of artists and citizens. Since its founding, MAMM has aspired to reconsider the notion of the traditional museum as site to collect and guard objects, and instead proposes the idea of a living museum with the capacity to generate experiences through distinct cultural and artistic manifestations.

MAMM has gathered an artistic patrimony, including representative works of Colombian and Latin American modern and contemporary art, with emphasis on the 20 th century while striving to present a temporary exhibitions program dedicated to contemporary art. Visitors can enjoy a full-blown film schedule and an ambitious public program with curatorial talks, laboratories, workshops, symposia, and academic gatherings. Additionally, the Museum houses a sound experimentation lab, with the capability to foster practices that incorporate sound.