Victoria Noorthoorn is the Director of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (Museo Moderno) since 2013. Under her leadership, this public museum, funded by the City Government of Buenos Aires, has undergone a deep process of growth and transformation. With an expanded budget, a team of 130 museum professionals, and exhibition spaces that have doubled in size, the museum has presented over 100 exhibitions, publishing over 50 bilingual publications, and created multiple education programs to involve 7000 teachers a year, while becoming a leading institution in the areas of mental health and accessibility.
Previously, Noorthoorn worked for MoMA’s International Program and The Drawing Center in New York (1998-2001), and Malba in Buenos Aires (2002-2004), and later, as an independent curator (2004-2012) she curated the Biennales in Pontevedra (2006), Mercosul (2009) and Lyon (2011), as well as the 41 Salón Nacional de Artistas in Cali (2008), among several other international exhibitions. At the Museo Moderno, she has curated exhibitions of León Ferrari, Marta Minujín, Marina De Caro, Ana Gallardo, Tracey Rose, Zanele Muholi, Bernardo Ortiz, Delcy Morelos, and Sergio De Loof, among many others, and group exhibitions such as A Tale of Two Worlds (2017-2018), presented at Museo Moderno and MMK in Frankfurt.
Since 2019, Noorthoorn is an active Board member of CIMAM (International Committee of Museums and Collections of Modern Art), where she serves in the Contents, Museum Watch, and Travel Grants Committees. On November 9-11, 2023, Museo
Moderno will host the 55th CIMAM Annual Conference to focus on the social dimension of museums of modern and contemporary art.
