Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá: primera pincelada, 1963-1965

Abstract

When it opened in 1963, the Bogota Museum of Modern Art – with the support of a Pan-American network of institutions – proposed guidelines for local art. In tracing the museum’s activities and collecting criteria between 1963 and 1965, this paper assesses how the space is formulated as a result of global reorganisation in the wake of World War II, a time when the circulation of modern art was shaped by institutions that adapted the model provided by New York’s Museum of Modern Art and supported paradigms of modernity focused on the universalisation of visual languages.