Vivian Galban (Buenos Aires, 1969) graduated in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Buenos Aires in 1993. From the beginning of her career, she has combined art, technological exploration, and knowledge production.
She founded MediaLab Argentina, the first interactive multimedia development agency, with offices in Buenos Aires and Mexico City (1996–2012), as well as Buenos Aires’ first 3D modeling and architectural model center (1994–1996).
Her academic and teaching activities are an integral part of her artistic research. She created and directs the Chair of Aesthetics, Art, and Contemporary Culture.
Internationally, she presented her solo performance Exposition en Temps Réel at Paris Photo (Paris, 2023), curated by Ana Planas; the Yosemite series in the group exhibition Reimagining Likeness and Landscape at Penumbra Foundation (New York, 2022), curated by Joni Sternbach; and Análogos at the Les Rencontres de la Photographie festival (Arles, France, 2021), curated by Andrea Giunta.
In Argentina, her exhibitions include Arquitectura de la imagen, en tiempo real, a performance at Centro Cultural San Martín (2024), curated by Máximo Jacoby; Tiempo Real at Fundación Larivière (2024), curated by Raúl Flores; the group exhibition Pensar todo de nuevo at Rolf Art (2020), curated by Andrea Giunta; and the solo exhibitions Exposición en Tiempo Real, a photographic installation and performance at Rolf Art (2019), curated by Alfredo Aracil and Leandro Villaró, and at BAphoto (2019). Other solo exhibitions include Valley of the Yosemite, from the Rocky Ford, 1872 at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires (MACBA, 2016), curated by Teresa Riccardi, and Chroma: exterior noche / interior día at Centro Cultural Recoleta (2015), curated by Graciela Taquini.
In 2022, she published a book documenting her project Exposición en Tiempo Real, supported by the Cultural Patronage Program of the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires. Presented at the Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat Art Collection, the book features an introductory text by Leandro Villaró, director of Penumbra Foundation, New York.