Elvira Dyangani Ose, director of MACBA, will step down at the beginning of April, ahead of her contract’s original expiration date in late July. The move concludes a tense dialogue with the MACBA Consortium, which had ruled that her appointment as director of the forthcoming Abu Dhabi Public Art Biennial conflicted with her duties at the Barcelona museum. Dyangani Ose succeeded Ferran Barenblit as director in 2021, becoming the first woman and the first person of color to lead the contemporary art institution. Born in Córdoba in 1974 to a family from Equatorial Guinea, she trained as an art historian at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Cornell University in New York. Related Articles She held tenures at the Atlantic Center of Modern Art in Las Palmas (CAAM) and the Andalusian Center of Contemporary Art (CAAC) before joining the Tate Modern in 2011, where she worked with the African Acquisitions Committee. Her departure from MACBA coincides with the museum’s 30th anniversary and the closing of the exhibition “Projecting a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Pan-Africa,” which she …