Former Curatorial Assistant, Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art
Anna Burckhardt is a curator and writer from Bogotá, Colombia. As the former Curatorial Assistant at The Museum of Modern Art, she has co-organized with Paola Antonelli the exhibitions Neri Oxman: Material Ecology (2020) and Energy (2019). She was also part of the curatorial team that put together Items: Is Fashion Modern? (2017). Anna holds an MA in Visual Culture from New York University, and a Bachelor of Laws from the Universidad de los Andes.
Showing up in food, cosmetics, fuel, and medicine—and, by consequence, in much of the air we breathe—corn is a ubiquitous presence in our lives. Inspired by the first episode of MoMA’s Broken Nature Podcast, this text investigates how one single crop travels through our contemporary food system.
The exhibition Neri Oxman: Material Ecology shows the architect’s practice at the intersection of nature and computation. Her dynamic approach, though rooted in the modernist tradition, brings together material science, digital fabrication technologies, and organic design.
