Luján is a journalist and curator who is specialized in Latin American Crafts and Design.

 

She graduated in journalism at the Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación, Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires and did her Master's degree – with a Thesis on the social aspects of design – in Communicational Design at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. 

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Over the past 30 years, she has been publishing in magazines and newspaper as well as participating in TV broadcastings.  

She was editor for more than 20 years of the M2 supplement of the newspaper Página 12, of Barzón magazine, and currently edits articles in Experimenta in Spain and AD Latin America.

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As a curator, she has put together exhibitions for the Mad Museum and Wanted Design in New York, the V&A Museum and the London Design Fair in London, the Saint Etienne Biennale in France, the Malba Museum in Buenos Aires and the Museu da Casa Brasileira and Casa do Objeto Brasileiro in Sao Paulo.

This year (2026), she is opening "The Soul of Objects. Applied Arts from Latin America" at the Grassi Museum, Germany.

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She is also the author of El Alma de los Objetos. Una Mirada Antropológica del Diseño. (engl.: The Soul of Objects, An Anthropological View of Design) edited by Paidós and Mastercraft. La Importancia de Trabajar con las Manos (engl.: Mastercraft. The Importance of Working with your Hands) edited by Penguin Random House.

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She is a jury member for numerous design competitions: Andreu World and Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño (Spain) and  iF Design Award, Germany).

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She is the Craft Expert of Latin America at the Homo Faber Biennial (Venice 2026).

 

She currently lives and works in Berlin.

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