Ferran Barenblit (b. 1968, Buenos Aires) is a museum director with extensive curatorial
experience, having led three museums in the last twenty years.
Since 2015 he has been the Director of MACBA, where he leads the strategic plan that has taken the organization to a new era, expanded its exhibition spaces and created ambitious intellectual, academic, artistic and audience development initiatives.
Barenblit’s fields of research include: rethinking contemporary institutions under the notion of the “constituent museum”; contemporary art history, with a focus on the 1990s; the role of irony in culture; museum programming strategies; the relationship between art and
popular culture – including music and the punk movement. He has a deep interest in generating an intense dialogue among the European countries, and with his native Latin America. He has generated many projects that have travelled from Barcelona / Madrid to
Mexico City (MUAC, the university art museum) and Buenos Aires (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Fundación Proa).
His previous institutional experience includes CA2M, Madrid (Director, 2008-2015), CASM, Barcelona (Director, 2002-2008), Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (Curator, 1996-2001), and The New Museum, New York (Curatorial Assistant, 1994-1996).

Ferran Barenblit (b. 1968, Buenos Aires) is a museum director with extensive curatorial
experience, having led three museums in the last twenty years.
Since 2015 he has been the Director of MACBA, where he leads the strategic plan that has taken the organization to a new era, expanded its exhibition spaces and created ambitious intellectual, academic, artistic and audience development initiatives.
Barenblit’s fields of research include: rethinking contemporary institutions under the notion of the “constituent museum”; contemporary art history, with a focus on the 1990s; the role of irony in culture; museum programming strategies; the relationship between art and
popular culture – including music and the punk movement. He has a deep interest in generating an intense dialogue among the European countries, and with his native Latin America. He has generated many projects that have travelled from Barcelona / Madrid to
Mexico City (MUAC, the university art museum) and Buenos Aires (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Fundación Proa).
His previous institutional experience includes CA2M, Madrid (Director, 2008-2015), CASM, Barcelona (Director, 2002-2008), Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (Curator, 1996-2001), and The New Museum, New York (Curatorial Assistant, 1994-1996).