Fundación Ama Amoedo

Mission

Conceived with the mission of creating a lasting impact on the Latin American contemporary art ecosystem, Fundación Ama Amoedo was established by Amalia Amoedo to channel her philanthropic and patronage activities, which she had undertaken independently for more than twenty years.

Fundación Ama Amoedo operates through two non-profit civil organizations: one established in Uruguay in 2021, through which it develops programs, residencies, and initiatives with regional and international scope; and another established in Argentina in 2025, created to channel and strengthen support for artists, cultural spaces, publications, and art-related projects based in that country.

Across its programming, the Foundation seeks to encourage connections within the arts in Latin America and its global extensions, aiming to foster the presence of artists from the region and to amplify their visibility on the international scene.

Our Founder

Amalia Amoedo is a philanthropist, art collector, and patron. For over two decades, she has actively supported artists, cultural agents and numerous institutions independently, consolidating with the creation of the Fundación Ama Amoedo numerous years of accompaniment of the contemporary art scene.

She is currently a member of the Acquisitions Committee of the International Latin American Circle of the Pompidou Center (Paris), the Committee of the Latin American and Caribbean Art Fund of MoMA (New York), the International Committee and former president of the Fundación arteba (Buenos Aires), the Art Patrons Program and of the Acquisitions Committee of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, and the International Advisory Council of the Americas Society (New York).

In Uruguay, she was awarded the first Laetitia Philanthropy Prize by ESTE ARTE (2024), recognized by the Association of Argentinians in Uruguay (2022), and received the Manuel Oribe Prize for Culture (2021). In Argentina, she was named Distinguished Personality of the City of Buenos Aires in the field of Culture (2024) and received the arteba Award for Collecting (2024).

Team

Amalia Amoedo

(ella / she / her)

Founder Director

Verónica Flom

(ella / she / her)

Director

vflom@fundacionamaamoedo.org

Laura Hakel

(ella / she / her)

Curator of the Collection and Artistic Projects

lhakel@fundacionamaamoedo.org

Camila Pazos

(ella / she / her)

Programs Coordinator

cpazos@fundacionamaamoedo.org

María Eugenia Isgleas

(ella / she / her)

Programs Assistant

misgleas@fundacionamaamoedo.org

Valentín Demarchi

(el / he / him)

Design and Communication

vdemarchi@fundacionamaamoedo.org

Our Space

Fundación Ama Amoedo is based in Uruguay and it is from here that we seek to strengthen and give visibility to Latin American art. Our residencies take place in Casa Neptuna, a house specially commissioned to the Argentinian artist and designer Edgardo Giménez. With a playful external structure featuring vibrant colors, Casa Neptuna was conceived to incite creative thinking. Located in José Ignacio, Uruguay, it is surrounded by the natural oceanic environment and native forest.

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Website & Visual Identity

The graphic identity for Fundación Ama Amoedo is designed by Oficina Laura Escobar and is based on the architecture of Casa Neptuna, the rhythms of nature, and a deceleration of the creative process. The design was inspired by the lunar phases that can be observed from our residency location in José Ignacio, Uruguay. The graphical fluid label system behaves like a living organism that adapts and evolves through a real-time database based on the phases of the moon. The typeface was specially designed for the Foundation.

Collection

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For over 20 years, Amalia Amoedo has been building a contemporary art collection of Argentine and South American art. With approximately 450 works, ranging from the 1920s to the present, Ama Amoedo Collection encompasses a range of artistic manifestations that shaped the discourse of modern and contemporary art. With a strong commitment to a responsible and ethical practice, today the collection is expanding towards Latin American artists from across the region.

With a founding core of Argentine art, the collection includes important pieces of concrete and abstract art from the ‘40s, as well as emblematic works of pop art developed in the ‘60s around the mythical Instituto Di Tella in Buenos Aires. An in-depth focus in the collection is the art that emerged within a certain scene during the return of democracy in Argentina throughout the 1980s and 1990s. It includes artists that actively supported freedom and highlighted the political expression of the body and sexuality, opened alternative exhibition spaces, and brought non-traditional materials to the field of contemporary art.

The collection welcomes research requests and loan requests, and it frequently contributes to exhibitions around the world. It also cooperates with donations of works to art institutions to promote a wider vision of the South American, Central American, Caribbean and Latin American diaspora scene.

Enquires

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Marta Minujín. Untitled, 1973 - 1974. Acrylic on canvas, 49.21 x 49.21 in.

Marcelo Pombo.The Unfinished Spell], 2008. Enamel on panel, 27.55 x 39.37 in.

Juan Del Prete. Composition, 1948. Oil on board, 27,16 x 19,48 in.

La Chola Poblete, Untitled, 2021. Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper, 126 x 100 cm, Ed 3/3.

Juan Grela. Neuamati opopli, 1980. Pastel on paper, 24,80 x 18,11 in.

Marcia Schvartz. Trentesimosecondo Song - I Heard Them Tell Me "Tread Carefully", 2018. Oil with texture and impasto mixed with a porous material on canvas, 62.99 x 70.86 in.

Ana Gallardo. Untitled, 2015. Charcoal on paper, 59 x 74,8 in.

Delia Cancela & Pablo Mesejean. Girls with the Gardener, 1969. Ink, watercolor and pencil on paper, 14.96 x 10.82 in.

Germaine Derbecq. Composition 1, 1964. Oil on canvas, 31,10 x 44,88 in.

Eduardo Navarro. Light creates eye, eye creates distance, distance creates touch, touch creates affection, 2021. Chalk on black paper, 85,82 x 59 in.

Fernanda Laguna. Windows, 2020. Acrylic on canvas with cut- outs. 32 1/4 x 27 1/8 in.

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