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| Natalia Majluf | |
|---|---|
| Name | Natalia Majluf |
| Birth date | 1962 |
| Birth place | Lima, Peru |
| Nationality | Peruvian |
| Occupation | Art historian, curator, museum director |
| Known for | Director of Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI) |
Natalia Majluf is a Peruvian art historian, curator, and museum director noted for her leadership of major cultural institutions in Peru and contributions to research on Peruvian and Latin American art. Her work encompasses curatorial practice, scholarship on visual culture, and institutional development with links to national and international museums, universities, and cultural foundations. She has built collaborations across Latin America, Europe, and North America, engaging with artists, critics, and policymakers.
Majluf was born in Lima and studied art history and cultural studies at institutions including Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, University of Cambridge, and later undertook postgraduate research connected to archives and collections associated with Museo de Arte de Lima, National Library of Peru, and international repositories such as British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Courtauld Institute of Art. Her education brought her into contact with scholars and curators from Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, University of Oxford, and research networks tied to Getty Research Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Smithsonian Institution. Early mentors and collaborators included figures linked to Instituto Nacional de Cultura (Peru), Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Museo de Arte Moderno (Bogotá), and curatorial projects with institutions like Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and Museo del Prado.
Majluf held academic and curatorial roles at Peruvian and international institutions, working with faculty and curators from Universidad de San Marcos, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Universidad de Lima, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and collaborative projects with Columbia University, New York University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Toronto, and Duke University. She curated exhibitions and contributed scholarship in partnership with curators from Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Tate Modern, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Brooklyn Museum, and Latin American sites such as Museo Rufino Tamayo, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, and Museo de Arte de São Paulo (MASP). Majluf participated in symposia and advisory boards tied to International Council of Museums (ICOM), Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Association of Art Historians, Inter-American Development Bank cultural programs, and philanthropic foundations including Ford Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Rockefeller Foundation.
As director of Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Majluf oversaw institutional strategy, conservation, exhibition programming, and public engagement linking MALI to municipal and national cultural authorities such as Municipality of Lima, Ministry of Culture (Peru), and international partners like Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima, Centro Cultural de España en Lima, and British Council. She led capital campaigns and refurbishment projects with architects and conservators associated with offices that have collaborated with Foster + Partners, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, and conservation networks tied to ICCROM and ICOMOS. Under her leadership MALI expanded loans and curatorial exchanges with Museo Nacional de Antropología, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Museo Tamayo, and institutions in the United States and Europe such as The Frick Collection and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires).
Majluf curated and organized exhibitions that foregrounded Peruvian art histories and transnational dialogues, collaborating with artists and institutions including Fernando de Szyszlo, Tilsa Tsuchiya, Martín Chambi, Mario Testino, Julio Ramón Ribeyro (literary collaborations), Hugo Orellana Bonilla, and contemporary artists connected to galleries like Polígrafa, Galería Del Infinito, and museums such as Museo MATE. Projects under her direction included thematic exhibitions on colonial visual culture with loans from Museo Larco, archaeology-linked displays with Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú, and modernist retrospectives linked to collections from Museo de Arte Moderno de São Paulo, Instituto Italo-Latino Americano, and university museums like Dumbarton Oaks and Peabody Essex Museum. She facilitated traveling exhibitions between Lima and cities such as Madrid, London, New York, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City.
Majluf authored and edited catalogues, essays, and articles published in collaboration with publishers and journals tied to Thames & Hudson, Routledge, Duke University Press, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Third Text, Res, and exhibition catalogues produced with partners including Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Museo de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), and university presses at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Press. Her scholarship addressed topics such as colonial portraiture, modernist aesthetics, curatorial praxis, and museum histories, engaging dialogues with scholars associated with Natalia Majluf, Aline Helg, T.J. Clark, Hal Foster, Griselda Pollock, and researchers from Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Majluf received recognitions and participated in boards and committees affiliated with institutions such as ICOM, Getty Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Prince Claus Fund, Cultural Institute of Peru, Asociación Peruana de Artistas Visuales, and academic committees at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and Universidad de San Marcos. She has been invited to juries and advisory panels for awards and fellowships including those administered by Fundación BBVA, Bienal de São Paulo, Venice Biennale national selection processes, and regional networks like Mercosur Cultural.
Category:Peruvian art historians Category:People from Lima Category:Museum directors