As an Argentinian who grew up between Germany and Latin America, the question of mediation between different cultures, traditions, expressions and approaches to the world is very important to me. In my journalistic work, as a filmmaker and co-festival director of a small film festival just outside Berlin, I have long been particularly interested in art's ability to take on other perspectives, intensify perception, and question and re-articulate models of explaining the world. In my work for ARCOmadrid in Spain, I also try to convey to Europe the enrichment that cultural production in non-European countries and exchanges with Latin America, Africa and Asia mean.

Architecturally and programmatically, the National Gallery is an exceptional, inviting place where a wide variety of cultures and social groups can come together. In times of increasing segregation, it is even more important to make the museum a truly open space for everyone and, especially through art, to awaken curiosity and understanding for other perspectives. I would like to contribute to maintaining and further developing the museum as a place of wonder, conversation and aesthetic joy, where a society can “constantly reformulate itself”.