CIMAM Welcomes New Members - May 2026
We are pleased to welcome a new group of professionals from across the field of modern and contemporary art museums to CIMAM's international community. Their diverse institutional perspectives and strong commitment to the museum sector continue to strengthen CIMAM’s global network and foster the exchange of knowledge and practices across the field.
Melanie Roumiguière is a cultural worker and curator of Argentinian origin with a background in cultural studies. She currently heads the Visual Arts Department at the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, where she has curated exhibitions with artists including Iman Issa, Renée Green, Malgorzata Mirga-Tas and Patricia Belli. Previously, she worked as curator and exhibition director at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, where she contributed to the project Hello World. Revision of a Collection and curated exhibitions with artists such as Mariana Castillo Deball and Gülsün Karamustafa. She has also edited major monographs on contemporary artists and continues to contribute to advisory projects, juries and committees in the field of contemporary visual arts.
Andrea Viliani was appointed in March 2026 as Curator and Coordinator of the Digital Heritage Gateway Platform, a strategic initiative by the Italian Ministry of Culture focused on creating a museum “metaverse” to explore new ways of preserving, narrating and engaging with Italy’s cultural heritage. Previously, he served as curator and director of several leading Italian institutions, including MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna, Fondazione Galleria Civica, MADRE – Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Castello di Rivoli and Museum of Civilizations. He is also curator of the Pompeii Commitment. Materie Archeologiche / Archaeological Matters program, and his work focuses on fostering dialogue between cultural heritage and contemporary artistic practices through research, public programs and interdisciplinary projects.
Maria Eugenia Cordero is an Argentinian visual artist, educator and curator based in São Paulo, Brazil, whose transdisciplinary practice explores education, social issues, decolonial perspectives and gender studies. Trained at the National University of the Arts, she has over twenty years of experience teaching visual arts across institutional and independent spaces in Argentina and Brazil. She is co-founder and coordinator of the Barda del Desierto Artist Residency in Patagonia, Argentina, and has led and co-curated numerous projects focused on memory, violence, feminism and decolonial artistic practices, including Interjecciones SUR, geographies of violence and Territories of Memory, Choreographies of Denunciation. Her work has been presented in exhibitions, conferences and collaborative initiatives across Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Chile and Colombia, contributing to critical dialogues around gender equity, public space and contemporary art practices.
Luis Silva is a curator based in Lisbon, Portugal, and Co-Director of Kunsthalle Lissabon, the contemporary art institution he co-founded in 2009. His recent curatorial work includes solo exhibitions by artists such as Laure Prouvost, Sol Calero and Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, as well as group exhibitions at institutions including Extra City, David Roberts Art Foundation and MACE – Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas. In addition to his curatorial practice, he is a contributing editor of CURA. magazine and co-editor of the book series Performing the Institution(al), which explores contemporary institutional practices. He also curated the ZONA MACO SUR section in Mexico City and the Disegni section at Artissima, dedicated to recent developments in drawing.