Special Project Curator
Placing the body at the center of experience to provide a different, strange look on everyday life.
Rivas stops to poeticize that moment prior to an event, a decision, to then analyze both its fragility and its power to change everything.
Florencia Battiti
Curator, art critic and teacher of Argentine and Latin American art. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and a Postgraduate Degree in Management and Cultural Communication from FLACSO Argentina (Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences). Since 2000 she has served as Chief Curator of the Parque de la Memoria, within the orbit of the Autonomous Government of the City of Buenos Aires, where she is in charge of the Public Art Program and the Visual Arts Program, being the one who promoted the first exhibitions of Bill Viola, Alfredo Jaar and Anish Kapoor within this space. She was selected through a Public and Open Contest as curator of the Argentine pavilion in the 58th Venice Biennale (2019).
She served as adjunct curator for Argentina for the first International Biennial of the End of the World, Tierra del Fuego (2007) and as curator of the exhibition of invited artists for the IV International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art, World Textile Art, Buenos Aires (2009).
She has curated editions of ArteBA Focus in 2017 and 2018 as well as the exhibition "Disruptions" within the framework of ArtBasel Miami Beach (2019).
She is currently a Professor in the Master of Art History and Curation at the National University of Tres de Febrero (UNTREF). Among her acknowledgments received, it is worth mentioning the awarding of the Trabucco Scholarship with a research project on the emergence of political memory in Argentine art during the nineties (2013) and the Prize for the Promotion of the Arts (Public Management Category) for her work as curator of the Park of Memory awarded by Radio France Internationale.
She is currently Vice President of the Argentine Association of Art Critics (AACA) and is part of the curatorial team of BIENALSUR, Biennial of Contemporary Art of South America, promoted by UNTREF.
