Ella Fontanals-Cisneros is a philanthropist, an entrepreneur, businesswoman, and a collector of contemporary art. She began collecting art in the 1970s and her collection has an international profile with emblematic figures of modern and contemporary art, with a focus on Latin American art. As the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection has grown and developed, its scope has broadened. There are four main areas of interest that have been systematically increasing in recent years: geometric abstraction from Latin America; contemporary international and Latin American art; contemporary video; and modern and contemporary photography. Today the collection has more than 2,500 works. In 2002, Ella Fontanals-Cisneros established the non-profit Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) to support and foster cultural understanding, and educational dialog among Latin American artists and global audiences. CIFO is a platform for emerging, mid-career and established Latin American artist through the Grants & Commissions Program, the CIFO Collection, and other related art and cultural projects in the United States of America and internationally.

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Laura Hakel is the Curator of the Collection and Artistic Projects at the Ama Amoedo Foundation and an ISLAA Curatorial Fellow at the New Museum, New York. Previously, she served as a Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, where she curated exhibitions such as Gabriel Chaile: Patricia (2017), Mercedes Azpilicueta: Cuerpos Pájaros (2018), Flavia Da Rin: ¿Quién es esa chica? (2019), and Andrés Aizicovich: Contacto (2019). She has published texts in Artishock and contributed to Phaidon's publications Prime: Art's Next Generation (2022) and Latin American Artist: From 1785 to Now (2023). She holds a Bachelor's degree in Arts from the University of Buenos Aires and a Master's degree in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York.

(Photo: Rosana Schoijett)

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Irene Gelfman

BA in Art History by the University of Buenos Aires (FFyL - UBA); She attended the Artists Program #11 at UTDT (Criticism and Curator). Winner of the New Curators Award of The AMALITA Collection and the Argentine Association of Art Critics. Gelfman works in curatorship, management and art criticism. She currently holds the position of Global Curator at Pinta Art and also writes texts for various media, publications and catalogues. With more than ten years of experience in different areas of cultural management, both public (national and local) and private (foundations and NGOs), where she coordinated and produced content. In addition, she put together the programming for different festivals, fairs and international events where Argentina was a guest country in areas such as theater, visuals and music. As well as producing large-scale events. She developed and coordinated an aid program to promote Argentine artists abroad (APEX - National Ministry of Culture) and was a strategic advisor for the Creative Barrios program.