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A Match Made in Buenos Aires

How a family of Swiss industrialists helped deepen and redefine Argentina’s premier art museum, years after their deaths.

Eduardo Costantini
MALBA, for its part, has grown out of Eduardo Costantini’s success as one of Argentina’s largest real estate developers and most prominent art collectors. Photo: Courtesy of MALBA
Marion Maneker
January 6, 2026

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When Rodrigo Moura joined MALBA, last March, he was excited to help Argentina’s 25-year-old museum of Latin American art expand from its strong modernist holdings to a more comprehensive collection, with strong examples of work made up to the present. Moura, who had joined the museum from El Museo del Barrio, started by making a wish list of a dozen representative, high-profile works by 12 different artists. Curatorially, it made a lot of sense. This core group of artists would have covered the bases in Latin American contemporary art and bought MALBA some time as it continued to expand.