Eduardo Costantini

Eduardo Francisco Costantini (born September 17, 1946) is an Argentine real estate developer and businessman and the founder and chairman of the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA).

It stretches over 1,700 hectares, has a population of 35,000, with two medical centers, five schools, a mall with over 100 stores and five movie theaters, a sports club, an 18-hole golf course designed by Jack Nicklaus, several restaurants, two gas stations and a five-star hotel.

In 2010 Consultatio SA developed Puertos in Escobar, Buenos Aires province, conceived as an ecological urbanization project of 1,400 hectares with its own biological corridor with native species of plants and animals.

This is a private non-profit institution with over 600 works on exhibit by modern and contemporary artists of the region, such as Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Remedios Varo, Tarsila do Amaral, Wifredo Lam, Xul Solar, Joaquín Torres-García, Emilio Pettorutti, Cándido Portinari and Antonio Berni.

[14] In 2008, he received the Konex Award, merit diploma as “Media and service businessman” and MALBA was recognized as the best cultural entity of the last decade.

[17] That same year he received the award for the best 2014 developer for his Catalinas Norte project in Puerto Madero from the Association of Professors and Directors of Real Estate (APPI).

Facade of the MALBA