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Álvaro De Benito
Álvaro De Benito

Álvaro de Benito has a degree in Journalism and Communication and a master's degree in Cultural Management. A cultural journalist and correspondent for Arte al Día International in Spain and Portugal since 2005, he has covered the evolution of Latin American art and its institutional fabric from different perspectives, publishing numerous articles, critical reviews, and interviews with its driving forces. He is also the editor of cultural projects focused on promoting linguistic heritage.

KUNSTHAUS ZÜRICH CHAMPIONS MARISOL WITH HER FIRST MAJOR EUROPEAN RETROSPECTIVE

The Swiss institution presents an extensive survey spanning five decades of the Venezuelan-born artist’s production, highlighting her ironic focus on power and mass culture.

By Álvaro De Benito
News

KUNSTHAUS ZÜRICH CHAMPIONS MARISOL WITH HER FIRST MAJOR EUROPEAN RETROSPECTIVE

By Álvaro De Benito

The Swiss institution presents an extensive survey spanning five decades of the Venezuelan-born artist’s production, highlighting her ironic focus on power and mass culture.

LA OFICINA REVISITS THE CRITICAL EVOLUTION OF REGINA SILVEIRA

The trajectory of Regina Silveira is presented in Madrid through her main conceptual frameworks, through which she questions reality and established social structures.

Galleries

LA OFICINA REVISITS THE CRITICAL EVOLUTION OF REGINA SILVEIRA

Until 05/09/2026
Madrid, Spain
GRACIELA ITURBIDE BRINGS HER MAJOR RETROSPECTIVE TO BERLIN

A major exhibition at C/O Berlin traces more than five decades of the Mexican photographer’s career, presenting over 250 works including her most iconic series.

By Álvaro De Benito
News

GRACIELA ITURBIDE BRINGS HER MAJOR RETROSPECTIVE TO BERLIN

By Álvaro De Benito

A major exhibition at C/O Berlin traces more than five decades of the Mexican photographer’s career, presenting over 250 works including her most iconic series.

JORGE VOLPI: "THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN LATIN AMERICA AND SPAIN IS REASON ENOUGH TO BE A PRIMARY FOCUS"

Jorge Volpi, after one year as Artistic Director of Contemporánea Condeduque, reflects on programming through a multidisciplinary narrative and how it fosters dialogue while giving Latin American art a central role in Madrid’s cultural scene.

By Álvaro De Benito
Interviews

JORGE VOLPI: "THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN LATIN AMERICA AND SPAIN IS REASON ENOUGH TO BE A PRIMARY FOCUS"

By Álvaro De Benito

Jorge Volpi, after one year as Artistic Director of Contemporánea Condeduque, reflects on programming through a multidisciplinary narrative and how it fosters dialogue while giving Latin American art a central role in Madrid’s cultural scene.

THE IMMA SHOWCASES THE DEEP REFLECTION OF CECILIA VICUÑA

The exhibition presented at the Irish institution showcases an artist who reflects on the interrelation between humanity and nature and advocates listening as a path toward transformation through memory and connection.

By Álvaro De Benito
News

THE IMMA SHOWCASES THE DEEP REFLECTION OF CECILIA VICUÑA

By Álvaro De Benito

The exhibition presented at the Irish institution showcases an artist who reflects on the interrelation between humanity and nature and advocates listening as a path toward transformation through memory and connection.

MEMORY, MOURNING AND REBELLION: BETTINI AT DA2

The first retrospective in Spain of Gabriela Bettini reflects on absence and the politics of forgetting through images that challenge official history.

By Álvaro De Benito
News

MEMORY, MOURNING AND REBELLION: BETTINI AT DA2

By Álvaro De Benito

The first retrospective in Spain of Gabriela Bettini reflects on absence and the politics of forgetting through images that challenge official history.

S.M.A.K. GHENT REVISITS GARCÍA AND NAVARRO’S PROPOSAL FOR THE 2022 VENICE BIENNALE

The exhibition, originally conceived to represent Chile at the Venice Biennale, reflects on memory and landscape through a dialogue between the Atacama Desert and Mars.

By Álvaro De Benito
News

S.M.A.K. GHENT REVISITS GARCÍA AND NAVARRO’S PROPOSAL FOR THE 2022 VENICE BIENNALE

By Álvaro De Benito

The exhibition, originally conceived to represent Chile at the Venice Biennale, reflects on memory and landscape through a dialogue between the Atacama Desert and Mars.

RE-READING THE CÍRCULO DE BELLAS ARTES AS SUBJECT AND CRITICAL AGENT

La lechuza de Minerva reflects on the power of cultural institutions in the contemporary context and creates a space where proposals by Dagoberto Rodríguez, Regina Silveira, and Los Carpinteros, among others, coexist in order to re-read the trajectory of the institution itself.

By Álvaro De Benito
Reviews

RE-READING THE CÍRCULO DE BELLAS ARTES AS SUBJECT AND CRITICAL AGENT

By Álvaro De Benito

La lechuza de Minerva reflects on the power of cultural institutions in the contemporary context and creates a space where proposals by Dagoberto Rodríguez, Regina Silveira, and Los Carpinteros, among others, coexist in order to re-read the trajectory of the institution itself.

April 10, 2026
THE TRANSFORMATIVE SOUND, ACCORDING TO BENGOLEA, AT C3A

The exhibition brings together works created ad hoc by the artist in the city. Through them, she reinterprets craft and tradition from a contemporary perspective and invites the audience to understand sound as a language that redefines our relationship with the environment.

By Álvaro De Benito
News

THE TRANSFORMATIVE SOUND, ACCORDING TO BENGOLEA, AT C3A

By Álvaro De Benito

The exhibition brings together works created ad hoc by the artist in the city. Through them, she reinterprets craft and tradition from a contemporary perspective and invites the audience to understand sound as a language that redefines our relationship with the environment.

QUESTIONING POWER AND COLONIAL STRUCTURES: CINTHIA MARCELLE INTERVENES AT SERRALVES

beginning, middle, beginning presents an installation by Brazilian artist Cinthia Marcelle, conceived specifically for the Central Gallery of the Serralves Museum. The work questions the linear conception of time and its relationship to colonial structures.

By Álvaro De Benito
News

QUESTIONING POWER AND COLONIAL STRUCTURES: CINTHIA MARCELLE INTERVENES AT SERRALVES

By Álvaro De Benito

beginning, middle, beginning presents an installation by Brazilian artist Cinthia Marcelle, conceived specifically for the Central Gallery of the Serralves Museum. The work questions the linear conception of time and its relationship to colonial structures.

AFFECTIVE CARTOGRAPHIES AND ARCHITECTURES BY SOFÍA SALAZAR AT C3A

The exhibition by the Ecuadorian artist, featuring works created specifically for the Córdoba space, proposes a journey in which the viewer is invited to explore concepts such as migration, memory, and colonialism by moving through a space that brings together history and displacement.

By Álvaro De Benito
News

AFFECTIVE CARTOGRAPHIES AND ARCHITECTURES BY SOFÍA SALAZAR AT C3A

By Álvaro De Benito

The exhibition by the Ecuadorian artist, featuring works created specifically for the Córdoba space, proposes a journey in which the viewer is invited to explore concepts such as migration, memory, and colonialism by moving through a space that brings together history and displacement.

EQUELECÚA, A GROUP EXHIBITION OF PUERTO RICAN RESONANCES

Embajada presents in Madrid a group exhibition that traces a panorama of artistic practices from a Caribbean context exploring languages, identities, and cultural forms.

Galleries

EQUELECÚA, A GROUP EXHIBITION OF PUERTO RICAN RESONANCES

Until 05/01/2026
Madrid, Spain
STILL LIFE AS PICTORIAL REINVENTION IN ANA PRATA

The Brazilian artist’s work starts from still life to reinterpret pictorial concepts, integrating references from art history into a distinctive visual language.

Galleries

STILL LIFE AS PICTORIAL REINVENTION IN ANA PRATA

Until 05/09/2026
Madrid, Spain
ELLITSGAARD DIALOGUES WITH THE GEOGRAPHIES OF TEXTILE IN MEMORIA

The textile work of Trine Ellitsgaard emerges between her Scandinavian origins and Mexican craft traditions, where materials and techniques construct a dialogue between memory, territory, and form. 

Galleries

ELLITSGAARD DIALOGUES WITH THE GEOGRAPHIES OF TEXTILE IN MEMORIA

Until 05/02/2026
Madrid, Spain
EDUARDO PONJUÁN: DEFENDING ART AGAINST COMMODIFICATION AT EL APARTAMENTO

The Cuban employs the metaphor of chess to reflect on the tensions within the art industry, examining, from a postmodern perspective, originality, the commodification of aesthetics, and its impact on the artist.

Galleries

EDUARDO PONJUÁN: DEFENDING ART AGAINST COMMODIFICATION AT EL APARTAMENTO

Until 05/01/2026
Madrid, Spain
THE REINA SOFÍA REVIVES ALBERTO GRECO’S LIVING ART
By Álvaro De Benito
News

THE REINA SOFÍA REVIVES ALBERTO GRECO’S LIVING ART

By Álvaro De Benito
JAVIER MARÍN: SCULPTURE AS A SYSTEM AT HILARIO GALGUERA

Javier Marín’s first solo exhibition at Hilario Galguera in Madrid brings together nearly thirty works that investigate and rethink contemporary sculpture as a dialogue between technique, material, and technology.

Galleries

JAVIER MARÍN: SCULPTURE AS A SYSTEM AT HILARIO GALGUERA

Until 04/10/2026
Madrid, Spain
30 años de irreverencia y visión en la Colección Fuentes Angarita. Foto Álvaro de Benito

La Neomudéjar presents over 130 works from the Fuentes Angarita Collection, mapping three decades of Latin American political art through themes of identity, gender, diaspora, and the memory of the body.

By Álvaro De Benito
News

A REINTERPRETATION OF THE FUENTES ANGARITA COLLECTION AT LA NEOMUDÉJAR

By Álvaro De Benito

La Neomudéjar presents over 130 works from the Fuentes Angarita Collection, mapping three decades of Latin American political art through themes of identity, gender, diaspora, and the memory of the body.

CARDOSO AND THE AESTHETIC SCIENCE OF NATURAL BEHAVIOR AT LA COMETA

María Fernanda Cardoso explores, through macro photography and video, the performative dimension of the behavior of spiders of the genus Maratus in a body of work that connects science, chromaticism, and aesthetics through naturalistic observation.

Galleries

CARDOSO AND THE AESTHETIC SCIENCE OF NATURAL BEHAVIOR AT LA COMETA

Until 04/25/2026
Madrid, Spain
MODERN MEXICO CITY IN JUAN GUZMÁN’S PHOTOGRAPHS, AT ICME

The exhibition dedicated to the German-born photojournalist, featuring a selection from his archive—now safeguarded by the Fundación Televisa—focuses on documenting the transformation and growth of Mexico City in the mid-20th century, highlighting its social and urban contrasts.

By Álvaro De Benito
News

MODERN MEXICO CITY IN JUAN GUZMÁN’S PHOTOGRAPHS, AT ICME

By Álvaro De Benito

The exhibition dedicated to the German-born photojournalist, featuring a selection from his archive—now safeguarded by the Fundación Televisa—focuses on documenting the transformation and growth of Mexico City in the mid-20th century, highlighting its social and urban contrasts.

GARAICOA AND IBARRA FEATURED IN CAAM’S INAUGURAL GROUP SHOW

The CAAM opens its new season with an exhibition showcasing five recent acquisitions, highlighting works by Carlos Garaicoa and Karlo Andrei Ibarra that explore memory, space, and transformation.

By Álvaro De Benito
News

GARAICOA AND IBARRA FEATURED IN CAAM’S INAUGURAL GROUP SHOW

By Álvaro De Benito

The CAAM opens its new season with an exhibition showcasing five recent acquisitions, highlighting works by Carlos Garaicoa and Karlo Andrei Ibarra that explore memory, space, and transformation.

DIALOGUES WITH THE LEGACY OF BURLE MARX, AT MAC/CCB

Lugar de estar: o legado Burle Marx (A Place to Be: The Legacy of Burle Marx) is the exhibition presented by Lisbon’s MAC/CCB – Museum of Contemporary Art and Architecture Center, showcasing an extensive selection of landscape projects for public spaces developed by Roberto Burle Marx (São Paulo, Brazil, 1909 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1994) and his collaborators over nearly seventy years.

By Álvaro De Benito
News

DIALOGUES WITH THE LEGACY OF BURLE MARX, AT MAC/CCB

By Álvaro De Benito

Lugar de estar: o legado Burle Marx (A Place to Be: The Legacy of Burle Marx) is the exhibition presented by Lisbon’s MAC/CCB – Museum of Contemporary Art and Architecture Center, showcasing an extensive selection of landscape projects for public spaces developed by Roberto Burle Marx (São Paulo, Brazil, 1909 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1994) and his collaborators over nearly seventy years.

WALTER OTERO: “A TROPICAL GALLERIST IS ONE WHO IS NOT AFRAID OF ANYTHING”

Walter Otero is recognized for his unconventional approach to artist management and the Puerto Rican art ecosystem. His career is now compiled in Walter Otero. A Tropical Gallerist, a book in which he reviews his career and reflects on changes in the sector.

By Álvaro De Benito
Interviews

WALTER OTERO: “A TROPICAL GALLERIST IS ONE WHO IS NOT AFRAID OF ANYTHING”

By Álvaro De Benito

Walter Otero is recognized for his unconventional approach to artist management and the Puerto Rican art ecosystem. His career is now compiled in Walter Otero. A Tropical Gallerist, a book in which he reviews his career and reflects on changes in the sector.

GLENDA LEÓN: A RITUAL SPACE IN THE SEARCH FOR MEANING

Glenda León creates a space where art, sound, and dance engage in dialogue in the face of the erosion of traditional systems of belief, through symbols that allow us to rethink the meaning of the contemporary from a ritual perspective.

Galleries

GLENDA LEÓN: A RITUAL SPACE IN THE SEARCH FOR MEANING

Until 04/11/2026
Madrid, Spain
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